Mount St. Helens Volcano - a natural laboratory paradise for petrologists.
The iconic eruption of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades Range of the western USA on 18th May, 1980, heralded a global upsurge in volcano-related research. Over the last four decades, Mount St. Helens itself has proven to be a remarkable natural petrology laboratory, affording insights into the underground accumulation, crystallisation and migration of hydrous, silica-rich magmas, typical of subduction-related magmatism worldwide. In this talk I will describe the petrology of Mount St. Helens in the context of transcrustal magmatic systems and discuss the implications for eruption dynamics and volcano monitoring.
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Mount St. Helens Volcano - a natural laboratory paradise for petrologists.
Abstract
The iconic eruption of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades Range of the western USA on 18th May, 1980, heralded a global upsurge in volcano-related research. Over the last four decades, Mount St. Helens itself has proven to be a remarkable natural petrology laboratory, affording insights into the underground accumulation, crystallisation and migration of hydrous, silica-rich magmas, typical of subduction-related magmatism worldwide. In this talk I will describe the petrology of Mount St. Helens in the context of transcrustal magmatic systems and discuss the implications for eruption dynamics and volcano monitoring.
