Events at Stanford
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22:47 Jan 13, 2022
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom Meeting (see login details in Description) Nathalie Feuillet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Title: "Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion" Volcanic eruptions shape Earth’s surface and provide a window into deep Earth processes. How the primary asthenospheric melts form, pond and ascend through the lithosphere is, however, still poorly understood. Since 10 May 2018, magmatic activity has occurred offshore eastern Mayotte (North Mozambique channel), associated with large surface displacements, very-low-frequency earthquakes and exceptionally deep earthquake swarms. Here we present geophysical and marine data from the MAYOBS1 cruise, which reveal that by May 2019, this activity formed an 820-m-tall, ~6km³ volcanic edifice on the seafloor. This is the largest active submarine eruption ever documented. Seismic and deformation data indicate that deep (>55 km depth) magma reservoirs were rapidly drain...