Boring Vs Explosions -- a Tale of Two Kinds of Volcanoes (IMAGE)

University of Johannesburg

Boring Vs Explosions -- a Tale of Two Kinds of Volcanoes

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Why a big volcanic blow-up at the popular travel destimation Santorini 3200 years ago, but just a few hundred kilometers away, no drama at the volcanoes on Aegina , Methana and Poros islands? At Santorini, the explosion was so intense, the volcano collapsed into a caldera and filled up with ocean. But the other islands have had no such drama. How can volcanoes so close in geological time and space behave so differently? Research from the University of Johannesburg uses lava 'fingerprints' and more to find out why.

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Prof Marlina A. Elburg, University of Johannesburg

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