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SUBMITTER: Geiger H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5054387 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geiger Harri H Barker Abigail K AK Troll Valentin R VR
Scientific reports 20161007
Mt. Cameroon is one of the most active volcanoes in Africa and poses a possible threat to about half a million people in the area, yet knowledge of the volcano's underlying magma supply system is sparse. To characterize Mt. Cameroon's magma plumbing system, we employed mineral-melt equilibrium thermobarometry on the products of the volcano's two most recent eruptions of 1999 and 2000. Our results suggest pre-eruptive magma storage between 20 and 39 km beneath Mt. Cameroon, which corresponds to t ...[more]