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Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings (2020)
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Gertisser, R. (2020). Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106911

One of the best known places on Earth where volcanology meets archaeology and history is the volcanic island of Santorini (Thíra), Greece. It is famous for the cataclysmic Late Bronze Age (Minoan) Plinian eruption which destroyed the Minoan culture t... Read More about Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings.

Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion (2020)
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Daly, J. S., Hepworth, L., O'Driscoll, B., Johnson, C., Gertisser, R., & Emeleus, C. H. (2020). Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20272

<p>In order to test whether the crystal mushes that form layered mafic intrusions can behave as open systems, we investigated mineral-scale textural, chemical and Sr isotopic heterogeneity in the c. 60 Ma Rum intrusion, Scotland. Withi... Read More about Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion.

Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals. (2020)
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Petrone, C. M., Di Stefano, F., Gertisser, R., Mollo, S., Tommasini, S., Del Bello, E., …Coltorti, M. (2020). Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18109

<p>Steady-state volcanic activity implies equilibrium between the rate of magma replenishment and eruption of compositionally homogeneous magmas, lasting for tens to thousands of years in an open conduit system. The Present-day activit... Read More about Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals..

Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure (2020)
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Wiltshire, R., Halama, R., Boyce, A., Petrone, C., Nazzareni, S., Gertisser, R., …Lucchi, F. (2020). Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13433

<p>The presently active La Fossa cone, Vulcano, widely considered the most hazardous volcano in the Aeolian Islands, is characterised by alternating periods of Vulcanian to subplinian explosive events and lava flow effusion. It has for... Read More about Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure.

Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia) (2020)
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Halama, R., Gertisser, R., Whitley, S., Preece, K., Deegan, F., & Troll, V. (2020). Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia). Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa048

Magma-carbonate interaction is an increasingly recognised process occurring at active volcanoes worldwide, with implications for the magmatic evolution of the host volcanic systems, their eruptive behaviour, volcanic CO2 budgets, and economic mineral... Read More about Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia).

Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems (2020)
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Gertisser, Hepworth, L. N., Daly, J. S., Gertisser, R., Johnson, C. G., Emeleus, C. H., & O’Driscoll, B. (2020). Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems. Nature Geoscience, 13(5), 375–381. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0568-3

The solidified remnants of mafic magmatic systems host the greatest concentrations of platinum-group metals in the Earth’s crust. Our understanding of precious-metal mineralization in these intrusive bodies is underpinned by a traditional view of mag... Read More about Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems.

Braided peridotite sills and metasomatism in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland (2020)
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Gertisser, R. (2020). Braided peridotite sills and metasomatism in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1652-9

The Rum Eastern Layered Intrusion (ELI; Scotland) is an open-system layered intrusion constructed of 16 macro-rhythmic units. Each of the macro-rhythmic units consists of a peridotite base and a troctolite (+/- gabbro) top, previously attributed to t... Read More about Braided peridotite sills and metasomatism in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland.