Hugh Tuffen publications

Updated 30th October 2007

Refereed papers


1. Tuffen, H. (2007) Models of ice melting and edifice growth during subglacial basaltic eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, B03203, doi:10.1029/2006JB004523. [pdf]
2. Tuffen, H., McGarvie, D.W., Pinkerton, H., Gilbert, J.S., Brooker R. (2007) An explosive-intrusive subglacial rhyolite eruption at Dalakvísl, Torfajökull, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology, DOI:10.1007/s00445-007-0174-x. [pdf]
3. Tuffen, H., Gilbert J.S. and McGarvie, D.W. (2007) Will subglacial rhyolite eruptions be explosive or intrusive? Some insights from analytical models. Annals of Glaciology, 45, 87-94. [pdf]
4. McGarvie, D.W., Stevenson, J.A, Burgess, R., Tuffen, H. and Tindle, A. (2007) Volcano-ice interactions at Prestahnúkur, Iceland: rhyolite eruption during the last interglacial-glacial transition. Annals of Glaciology, 45, 38-47. [pdf]
5. Mee, K., Tuffen, H., Gilbert, J.S. (2006) Snow-contact volcanic facies at Nevados de Chillan volcano, Chile, and implications for reconstructing past eruptive environments. Bulletin of Volcanology, 68, 363-376. [pdf]
6. Neuberg J.W., Tuffen, H., Collier L., Green D., Powell T. and Dingwell D.B. (2006) The trigger mechanism of low-frequency earthquakes on Montserrat. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 153, 37–50. [pdf]
7. Schopka, H.H., Guðmundsson, M.T., Tuffen, H (2006) The formation of Helgafell, SW-Iceland, a monogenetic subglacial hyaloclastite ridge: Sedimentology, hydrology and ice-volcano interaction. Journal of Volcanology and Geophysical Research, 152, 359-377. [pdf]
8. McGarvie, D.W., Burgess, R., Tindle, A.J., Tuffen, H. and Stevenson, J.A. (2006). Pleistocene rhyolitic volcanism at the Torfajökull central volcano, Iceland: eruption ages, glaciovolcanism, and geochemical evolution. Jökull 56, 57-75.
9. Tuffen, H., Dingwell, D.B. (2005) Fault textures in volcanic conduits: evidence for seismic trigger mechanisms during silicic eruptions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 67, 370–387. [pdf]
10. Tuffen, H., Dingwell, D.B., and Pinkerton, H. (2003) Repeated fracture and healing of silicic magma generate flow banding and earthquakes? Geology 31, 1089-1092. [pdf]
11. Tuffen, H., McGarvie D.W., Gilbert J.S., Pinkerton H. (2002) Physical volcanology of a subglacial-to-emergent rhyolitic tuya at Rauðufossafjöll, Torfajökull, Iceland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 202, 213-236.
12. Tuffen, H., Pinkerton H., Gilbert J.S., McGarvie D.W. (2002) Melting of the glacier base during a small-volume subglacial rhyolite eruption: evidence from Bláhnúkur, Iceland. Sedimentary Geology 149, 183-198. [pdf]
13. Tuffen, H., Gilbert J.S., McGarvie D.W. (2001) Products of an effusive subglacial rhyolite eruption: Bláhnúkur, Torfajökull, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology 63, 179-190. [pdf]

Theses and field guides
1. Tuffen, H (2001) Subglacial rhyolite volcanism at Torfajokull, Iceland. PhD thesis, Open University, UK, 381 pp.
2. Tuffen, H (1998) L'origine des cristaux dans la chambre magmatic Minoenne [The origin of crystals in the Minoan magma chamber]. DEA thesis, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 45 pp.
3. Tuffen, H (1997) Magma-water interaction in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, English Lake District. BA dissertation, University of Cambridge, UK.
4. Tuffen H (2003) Field guide to Iceland. Cumberland Geological Society field guide, 51 pp.
5. SP Jakobsson, MT Guðmundsson, K Langley, D McGarvie, H Tuffen (2000) Field guide for excursion to the Eastern and Western Volcanic Zones, Iceland. Volcano-ice interaction on Earth and Mars conference fieldtrip, August 2000, 23 pp.

Selected conference presentations


Hugh Tuffen, Dave McGarvie, Jennie Gilbert (2004) Explosive or intrusive subglacial eruptions? IAVCEI General Assembly, Pucon, Chile.
Hugh Tuffen, Susan Sturton, Donald Dingwell (2004) Creep-slip and stick-slip mechanisms in silicic magma: textural evidence, numerical models and implications for eruption dynamics IAVCEI General Assembly, Pucon, Chile.
Tuffen H, Sturton S, Dingwell DB (2004) Insights into earthquake nucleation and fault evolution within magma. Invited talk, Special session in seismology, AGU Spring meeting 2004.
Tuffen H, Dingwell DB (2003) Fault textures in a volcanic conduit. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V51B-03, 2003
Neuberg J, Tuffen H, Jolly A, Green D (2003) A trigger mechanism for volcanic low-frequency seismic events on Montserrat. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V31B-01, 2003
Tuffen, H, Dingwell, D.B., Pinkerton H (2003) Repetitive fracture and healing of rising viscoelastic magma as a non-destructive trigger mechanism for hybrid earthquakes. Invited talk, IUGG XXIII General Assembly, Sapporo, Japan, JSV04/02P/A07-005
Tuffen H, Dingwell D.B., Pinkerton H, Davison B (2002) Multiple generations of tuffisite veins record repetitive ductile-brittle deformation of rhyolitic magma rising within an effusive vent: a source of flow banding in silicic lavas and repetitive seismic signals? Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V12A-1416.
Tuffen H, McGarvie, DW, Gilbert, JS, Pinkerton H (2002) Magma-water interactions during subglacial rhyolite eruptions. AGU Chapman conference on Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism, January 2002, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Tuffen H, Gilbert, JS, McGarvie, DW (2000) Bláhnúkur: an englacial rhyolite volcano at Torfajökull, Iceland. Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group 2000 conference, Lancaster University, UK.

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