The build-up and triggers of volcanic eruptions

L Caricchi, M Townsend, E Rivalta… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
More than 800 million people live in proximity to active volcanoes and could be directly
impacted by potential eruptions. Mitigation of future volcanic hazards requires adequate …

Tectonic controls on the origin and segmentation of the Cascade Arc, USA

ED Humphreys, AL Grunder - Bulletin of Volcanology, 2022 - Springer
The magmatic response above subducting ocean lithosphere can range from weak to
vigorous and from a narrow zone to widely distributed. The small and young Cascade Arc …

Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles

SP Hicks, L Bie, CA Rychert, N Harmon, S Goes… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Volatiles expelled from subducted plates promote melting of the overlying warm mantle,
feeding arc volcanism. However, debates continue over the factors controlling melt …

Linking surface deformation to thermal and mechanical magma chamber processes

M Townsend - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface deformation at active volcanoes reflects a wide variety of magmatic and crustal
processes, and the typical kinematic models employed to interpret these geodetic data are …

Eruptive dynamics reflect crustal structure and mantle productivity beneath volcanoes

O Higgins, L Caricchi - Geology, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Volcanoes exhibit a wide range of eruptive and geochemical behavior, which has significant
implications for their associated risk. The suggested first-order drivers of intervolcanic …

Amphibious surface-wave phase-velocity measurements of the Cascadia subduction zone

HA Janiszewski, JB Gaherty, GA Abers… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY A new amphibious seismic data set from the Cascadia subduction zone is used
to characterize the lithosphere structure from the Juan de Fuca ridge to the Cascades …

The magmatic origin of the Columbia River Gorge, USA

N Klema, L Karlstrom, C Cannon, C Jiang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Along subduction zones, high-relief topography is associated with sustained volcanism
parallel to the plate margin. However, the relationship between magmatism and mountain …

Long-lived partial melt beneath Cascade Range volcanoes

G Pang, GA Abers, SC Moran, WA Thelen - Nature Geoscience, 2025 - nature.com
Quantitative estimates of magma storage are fundamental to evaluating volcanic dynamics
and hazards. Yet our understanding of subvolcanic magmatic plumbing systems and their …

A global assessment of the controls on the fractionation of arc magmas

BZ Klein, O Jagoutz, MW Schmidt… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During the differentiation of arc magmas, fractionating liquids follow a series of cotectics,
where the co‐crystallization of multiple minerals control the melt compositional trajectories …

Segmentation and radial anisotropy of the deep crustal magmatic system beneath the Cascades arc

C Jiang, B Schmandt, GA Abers… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Volcanic arcs consist of many distinct vents that are ultimately fueled by the common melting
processes in the subduction zone mantle wedge. Seismic imaging of crustal‐scale …