Contrasting mechanisms of magma fragmentation during coeval magmatic and hydromagmatic activity: the Hverfjall Fires fissure eruption, Iceland

• Main Authors: Liu, EJ, Cashman, KV, Rust, AC, Höskuldsson, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2017
• Subjects: Magma fragmentation; Hverfjall Fires; Phreatomagmatism; Hverfjall; Iceland
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270039; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.12267

Growing evidence for significant magmatic vesiculation prior to magma-water interaction (MWI) has brought into question the use of ‘diagnostic’ features, such as low vesicularities and blocky morphologies, to identify hydromagmatic pyroclasts. We address this question by quantifying co-variations in...