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SUBMITTER: Jones TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6707319 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20190823 1
Determining whether magma fragments during eruption remains a seminal challenge in volcanology. There is a robust paradigm for fragmentation of high viscosity, silicic magmas, however little is known about the fragmentation behaviour of lower viscosity systems-the most abundant form of volcanism on Earth and on other planetary bodies and satellites. Here we provide a quantitative model, based on experiments, for the non-brittle, fluid dynamic induced fragmentation of low viscosity melts. We defi ...[more]