It seems that variations in the quantity and ratios of gas can predict the eruption of volcanoes. The data gathered in the weeks leading up to the eruption revealed that the magma degassing occurred in three phases. Phase 1 was labeled the background degassing phase, where the gas ratio between carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide was relatively low. The second phase, starting on 26 January, included wildly fluctuating gas concentrations. Phase 3 exhibited elevated degassing from 6 February until the eruption. Over the three phases, the gas composition coming from the lake became richer in carbon dioxide.
With the interest in Yellowstone currently, this study may be important even though the volcano studied was not as complex as a super volcano would likely be due to drastic differences in the magma pools.
1 posted on
06/19/2017 1:25:15 PM PDT by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
To: JimSEA
Seems like common sense...
3 posted on
06/19/2017 1:29:19 PM PDT by
Crucial
To: JimSEA
Can Volcanic Gas Levels Predict an Eruption? Well...it certainly can at my house. Especially on chili night.
4 posted on
06/19/2017 1:40:43 PM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are...)
To: JimSEA
6 posted on
06/19/2017 1:45:46 PM PDT by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
To: JimSEA
Campi Flegrei. This is the one to watch.
Yellowstone? Nope. Unless there comes a earthquake over 7 in that basin. That might unzip the thing.
7 posted on
06/19/2017 1:46:47 PM PDT by
crz
To: JimSEA
8 posted on
06/19/2017 1:49:54 PM PDT by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: JimSEA
I don’t know about volcanic gas but it works with me.
10 posted on
06/19/2017 3:22:47 PM PDT by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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