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SUBMITTER: Costa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811558 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180213 1
Explosive super-eruptions can erupt up to thousands of km<sup>3</sup> of magma with extremely high mass flow rates (MFR). The plume dynamics of these super-eruptions are still poorly understood. To understand the processes operating in these plumes we used a fluid-dynamical model to simulate what happens at a range of MFR, from values generating intense Plinian columns, as did the 1991 Pinatubo eruption, to upper end-members resulting in co-ignimbrite plumes like Toba super-eruption. Here, we sh ...[more]