Strombolian eruption
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The tephra typically glows red when leaving the vent, but its surface cools and assumes a dark to black colour and may significantly solidify before impact. The tephra accumulates in the vicinity of the vent, forming a cinder cone. Cinder is the most common product; the amount of volcanic ash is typically rather minor.
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Instead the gas coalesces into bubbles, called gas slugs, that grow large enough to rise through the magma column, bursting near the top due to the decrease in pressure and throwing magma into the air. Each episode thus releases volcanic gases, sometimes as frequently as a few minutes apart. Gas slugs can form as deep as 3 kilometers, making them difficult to predict.[2][3]
Strombolian eruptive activity can be very long-lasting because the conduit system is not strongly affected by the eruptive activity, so that the eruptive system can repeatedly reset itself.
Monogenetic cones usually erupt in the Strombolian style. For example, the Parícutin volcano erupted continuously between 1943–1952, Mount Erebus, Antarctica has produced Strombolian eruptions for at least many decades, and Stromboli itself has been producing Strombolian eruptions for over two thousand years. The Romans referred to Stromboli as the "Lighthouse of the Mediterranean".
Violent Strombolian
The most energetic Strombolian eruptions are sometimes termed "Violent Strombolian" by volcanologists.[2] Such eruptions are associated with higher magma gas content, leading to a turbulent churn flow regime in the conduit, producing stronger and much more frequent explosions.[4]
Violent Strombolian eruptions are more explosive in nature than their regular counterparts (up to VEI 3),[5] and may produce sustained lava fountains,[4] long distance lava flows,[6] eruption columns several kilometres in height,[2] and heavy ash fallout.[7] Rarely, Violent Strombolian eruptions may transition into Subplinian eruptions.[8]
Examples of Violent Strombolian activity include the paroxysms of Mt. Etna,[9] the 1943-1952 eruption of Parícutin,[2] the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption,[7] and various eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius between 1631 and 1944.[10]
See also
References
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External links
- explanation with photos on academic site
- comparison of volcanic blast types
- USGS Photo Glossary
- Modelling of Volcano for CG/CFD Papers with abstracts, images, and PDFs of modelling of Strombolian (explosive) volcano for computer graphics (CG) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The main entrance page is here.