Recent publications from the Lancaster volcanology group

2006

Ball, M., James, M. R., Pinkerton, H. & Tych, W. Time-series analysis of gas attenuation effects in thermal images of lava flows, Bull. Volc., in review.

Ball, M., Pinkerton, H. An assessment of the usefulness of thermal imaging cameras in volcanology. J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Burrell, R., Pinkerton, H., Beven, K. Stochastic Back Analysis of the Mount St Helens May 18, 1980 Sector Collapse. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., in review.

Burrell, R.V., Pinkerton, H., and Binley, A., Stochastic methods for analysing slope instability. Geotechnica, in review.

Head JW, Wilson L, Dickson J, Neukum G (2006) The Huygens-Hellas giant dike system on Mars: Implications for Late Noachian-Early Hesperian volcanic resurfacing and climatic evolution. Geology 34, 285-288.

James, M. R., Pinkerton, H. & Robson, S. Image-based measurement of flux variation in distal regions of active lava flows, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., in review.

James, M. R., Robson, S., Pinkerton, H. & Ball, M. Oblique photogrammetry with visible and thermal images of active lava flows. Bull. Volc. 69, 105–108, doi: 10.1007/s00445-006-0062-9.

James, M. R., Lane, S. J. and Chouet, B. A. (2006), Gas slug ascent through changes in conduit diameter: Laboratory insights into a volcano-seismic source process in low-viscosity magmas, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B05201, doi:10.1029/2005JB003718

Leask, H. J., Wilson, L. and Mitchell, K. L. (2006) Formation of Ravi Vallis outflow channel, Mars: Morphological development, and water discharge and duration estimates. J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Macdonald, R. & Scaillet, B. The central Kenya peralkaline province: insights into the evolution of peralkaline salic magmas. Lithos (in press).

Macfarlane DG, Wadge G, Robertson DA, James MR, Pinkerton H (2006) Use of a portable topographic mapping millimetre wave radar at an active lava flow. Geophys Res Letters 33(3):Art. No. L03301.

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.

Muller, J.-P., Denis, M.-A., Dundas, R. D., Mitchell, K. L., Naud, C. and Mannstein, H. (2006) Stereo cloud-top heights and cloud fraction retrieval from ATSR2. Int. J. Remote Sens.

Ren, M., Omenda, P.A., Anthony, E.A., White, J.C., Macdonald, R. & Bailey, D.K. Application of the QUILF thermobarometer to the peralkaline trachytes and pantellerites of the Eburru volcanic complex, East African Rift, Kenya. Lithos (in press)

Ridolfi, F., Renzulli, A., Macdonald, R. & Upton, B.G.J. Peralkaline syenite autoliths from Kilombe volcano, Kenya Rift Valley; evidence for subvolcanic interaction with carbonatitic fluids. Lithos (in press).

Rogers, N.W., Thomas, L.E., Macdonald, R., Hawkesworth, C.J. & Mokadem, F. 238U-230Th disequilibrium in recent basalts and dynamic melting beneath the Kenya Rift. Chemical Geology (in press).

Scaillet, B. & Macdonald, R. (2006) Experimental constraints on pre-eruption conditions of pantelleritic magmas: evidence from the Eburru complex, Kenya Rift. Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.010 press).

Scaillet, B. & Macdonald, R. Petrological constraints on the sulphur yield of silicic flood eruptions. Journal of Petrology 47 (7): 1413-1437.

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. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 152, 359-377.

Stevenson J, McGarvie DW, Smellie J, Gilbert JS. (2006) Subglacial and ice-contact volcanism at Vatnafjöll, Öraefajökull, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology, 68, 737-752, DOI:10.1007/s00445-005-0047-0.

Stewart S F., H. Pinkerton, A.G. Blackburn, M.T. Gudmundsson. Mapping thermal anomalies using Airborne Thematic Mapper imagery for the Grímsvötn caldera, Vatnajökull, Iceland. Geol. Soc. London, in review.

Stewart SF, Pinkerton H, Blackburn GA (2006) Monitoring active subglacial volcanoes: a case study using airborne remote sensing images of Grímsvötn, Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology, in review.

Toothill, J., Williams, C.A., Macdonald, R., Turner, S.P., Hawkesworth, C.J., Rogers, N.W., Jerram, D.A., Ottley, C.J. & Tindle, A.G. Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks from St Kitts, Lessser Antilles volcanic arc. Journal of Petrology (in press).

Tuffen, H. Models of ice melting and edifice growth during subglacial basaltic eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.

Tuffen, H., McGarvie, D.W. and Gilbert J.S. Will subglacial eruptions be explosive or intrusive? Some insights from analytical models. Annals of Glaciology, 45, in press.

Tuffen, H., McGarvie, D.W., Gilbert, J.S., Brooker R. An explosive-intrusive subglacial rhyolite eruption at Dalakvísl, Rauðufossafjöll, Iceland. Bull. Volcanol., in review.