Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings (2020)
Journal Article
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.

Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wiltshire, R., Halama, R., Boyce, A., Petrone, C., Nazzareni, S., Gertisser, R., Tranne, C., Sulpizio, R., & Lucchi, F. Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2020

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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... Read More about Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure.

Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Petrone, C. M., Di Stefano, F., Gertisser, R., Mollo, S., Tommasini, S., Del Bello, E., Andronico, D., Scarlato, P., Giacomoni, P., & Coltorti, M. Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2020

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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... Read More about Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals..

Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Daly, J. S., Hepworth, L., O'Driscoll, B., Johnson, C., Gertisser, R., & Emeleus, C. H. Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2020

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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, Scotlan... Read More about Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion.

Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems (2020)
Journal Article
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.