Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism? (2015)
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Baldini, J., Brown, R., & McElwaine, J. (2015). Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism?. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 17442. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17442

The mechanisms responsible for millennial scale climate change within glacial time intervals are equivocal. Here we show that all eight known radiometrically-dated Tambora-sized or larger NH eruptions over the interval 30 to 80 ka BP are associated w... Read More about Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism?.

Disruption of Tephra Fall Deposits Caused by Lava Flows during Basaltic Eruptions (2015)
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Brown, R., Thordarson, T., Self, S., & Blake, S. (2015). Disruption of Tephra Fall Deposits Caused by Lava Flows during Basaltic Eruptions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(10), Article 90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-015-0974-3

Observations in the USA, Iceland and Tenerife, Canary Islands reveal how processes occurring during basaltic eruptions can result in complex physical and stratigraphic relationships between lava and proximal tephra fall deposits around vents. Observa... Read More about Disruption of Tephra Fall Deposits Caused by Lava Flows during Basaltic Eruptions.

Rootless cone eruption processes informed by dissected tephra deposits and conduits (2015)
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Reynolds, P., Brown, R., Thordarson, T., Llewellin, E., & Fielding, K. (2015). Rootless cone eruption processes informed by dissected tephra deposits and conduits. Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(9), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-015-0958-3

Rootless cones result from the explosive interaction between lava flows and underlying water-saturated sediment or volcaniclastic deposits. Rootless explosions can represent a significant far-field hazard during basaltic eruptions, but there are few... Read More about Rootless cone eruption processes informed by dissected tephra deposits and conduits.

Petrology, geochemistry and low-temperature alteration of lavas and pyroclastic rocks of the kimberlitic Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania. (2015)
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Willcox, A., Buisman, I., Sparks, R., Brown, R., Manya, S., Schumacher, J., & Tuffen, H. (2015). Petrology, geochemistry and low-temperature alteration of lavas and pyroclastic rocks of the kimberlitic Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania. Chemical Geology, 405, 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.04.012

Geochemical data are presented for the kimberlitic Holocene Igwisi Hills volcanoes (IHV), Tanzania, which preserve extra-crater lavas and pyroclastic rocks. Their young age and exceptional preservation enable investigation of kimberlite magma composi... Read More about Petrology, geochemistry and low-temperature alteration of lavas and pyroclastic rocks of the kimberlitic Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania..