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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2016

Slow-moving and far-travelled dense pyroclastic flows during the Peach Spring super-eruption

Olivier Roche
D. C. C Buesch
  • Fonction : Auteur
G. A. A Valentine
  • Fonction : Auteur

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Explosive volcanic super-eruptions of several hundred cubic kilometres or more generate long run-out pyroclastic density currents the dynamics of which are poorly understood and controversial. Deposits of one such event in the southwestern USA, the 18.8 Ma Peach Spring Tuff, were formed by pyroclastic flows that travelled 4170 km from the eruptive centre and entrained blocks up to B70–90 cm diameter from the substrates along the flow paths. Here we combine these data with new experimental results to show that the flow's base had high-particle concentration and relatively modest speeds of B5–20 m s À 1 , fed by an eruption discharging magma at rates up to B10 7 –10 8 m 3 s À 1 for a minimum of 2.5–10 h. We conclude that sustained high-eruption discharge and long-lived high-pore pressure in dense granular dispersion can be more important than large initial velocity and turbulent transport with dilute suspension in promoting long pyroclastic flow distance.

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Volcanologie
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hal-01637183 , version 1 (17-11-2017)

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Olivier Roche, D. C. C Buesch, G. A. A Valentine. Slow-moving and far-travelled dense pyroclastic flows during the Peach Spring super-eruption. Nature Communications, 2016, 7, ⟨10.1038/ncomms10890⟩. ⟨hal-01637183⟩
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