Courtesy of Flickr. Volcan Llaima is one of Chile's most active volcanoes, producing a minimum of 54 discrete eruptive events in the last 375 years. A recent surge in geochemical studies of these historical eruptions have provided a solid model to explain the complexities preserved in the eruptive products. This provides us with an excellent starting off point for testing the current model for Volcan Llaima's volcanic storage and conduit system. The goal of this project is to fit timescale information to this detailed petrographic information for samples that currently connect with a larger magmatic framework.
I will mostly be focusing on the 1751 and 1780 eruptions, in not only understanding eruption triggers and the timing between recharge events, mixing, and eruption, but as well as evidence for incomplete evacuation of storage regions or alternative triggering mechanisms.
I will mostly be focusing on the 1751 and 1780 eruptions, in not only understanding eruption triggers and the timing between recharge events, mixing, and eruption, but as well as evidence for incomplete evacuation of storage regions or alternative triggering mechanisms.
