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Volatile budgets and evolution in porphyry-related magma systems, determined using apatite (2024)
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Lormand, C., Humphreys, M. C., Colby, D. J., Coumans, J. P., Chelle-Michou, C., & Li, W. (2024). Volatile budgets and evolution in porphyry-related magma systems, determined using apatite. Lithos, 480-481, Article 107623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107623

Volatile-bearing minerals, such as apatite, Ca5(PO4)3(OH,F,Cl), can record changes in dissolved magmatic volatile species during differentiation and, unlike melt inclusions, are sensitive to the presence of an exsolved fluid phase. Populations of apa... Read More about Volatile budgets and evolution in porphyry-related magma systems, determined using apatite.

Permeability of packs of polydisperse hard spheres (2021)
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Vasseur, J., Wadsworth, F. B., Coumans, J. P., & Dingwell, D. B. (2021). Permeability of packs of polydisperse hard spheres. Physical Review E, 103(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.103.062613

The permeability of packs of spheres is important in a wide range of physical scenarios. Here, we create numerically generated random periodic domains of spheres that are polydisperse in size and use lattice-Boltzmann simulations of fluid flow to det... Read More about Permeability of packs of polydisperse hard spheres.

Quantifying Microstructural Evolution in Moving Magma (2020)
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Dobson, K. J., Allabar, A., Bretagne, E., Coumans, J., Cassidy, M., Cimarelli, C., …Wanelik, K. (2020). Quantifying Microstructural Evolution in Moving Magma. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00287

Many of the grand challenges in volcanic and magmatic research are focused on understanding the dynamics of highly heterogeneous systems and the critical conditions that enable magmas to move or eruptions to initiate. From the formation and developme... Read More about Quantifying Microstructural Evolution in Moving Magma.

An experimentally validated numerical model for bubble growth in magma (2020)
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Coumans, J., Llewellin, E., Wadsworth, F., Humphreys, M., Mathias, S., Yelverton, B., & Gardner, J. (2020). An experimentally validated numerical model for bubble growth in magma. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 402, Article 107002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107002

Volcanic eruptions are driven by the growth of gas bubbles in magma. The timing and rate of bubble growth are important because they determine whether enough gas pressure can develop to fragment the melt. Bubbles grow in response to decompression and... Read More about An experimentally validated numerical model for bubble growth in magma.

An experimentally-validated numerical model of diffusion and speciation of water in rhyolitic silicate melt (2020)
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Coumans, J. P., Llewellin, E. W., Humphreys, M. C., Nowak, M., Brooker, R. A., Mathias, S. A., & McIntosh, I. M. (2020). An experimentally-validated numerical model of diffusion and speciation of water in rhyolitic silicate melt. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 276, 219-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.02.026

The diffusion of water through silicate melts is a key process in volcanic systems. Diffusion controls the growth of the bubbles that drive volcanic eruptions and determines the evolution of the spatial distribution of dissolved water during and afte... Read More about An experimentally-validated numerical model of diffusion and speciation of water in rhyolitic silicate melt.