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Gareth Fabbro

Vulcanology, igneous petrology and geochemistry of silicic calderas

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Email: gareth.fabbro@cantab.net

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Scopus Author ID: 55044004000

How big will a volcano’s next eruption be? I study the magmatic processes that occurred prior to previous eruptions in an attempt to answer that question.

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Paguican, E.M.R., Fabbro, G.N., O’Hara, D., Grosse, P., van Wees, R., Kervyn, M., 2023. Insights into volcano degradation from analogue modelling: interactions between basin development and morphology through time. Download
Polo-Sánchez, A., Flaherty, T., Hervé, G., Druitt, T., Fabbro, G.N., Nomikou, P., Balcone-Boissard, H., 2023. Tracking timescales of magma reservoir recharge through caldera cycles at Santorini (Greece). Emphasis on an explosive eruption of Kameni Volcano. Frontiers in Earth Science 11, 1128083. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1128083 Download
Fabbro, G.N., McKee, C.O., Sindang, M.E., Oalmann, J.A., Bouvet de Maisonneuve, C., 2021. Tracking reservoir dynamics across a complete caldera cycle at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13867