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Lava dome cycles reveal rise and fall of magma column at Popocatépetl volcano

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Valade,  Sébastien
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Coppola,  Diego
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Campion,  Robin
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Ley,  Andreas
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Boulesteix,  Thomas
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Taquet,  Noémie
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Legrand,  Denis
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Laiolo,  Marco
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Walter,  Thomas
2.1 Physics of Earthquakes and Volcanoes, 2.0 Geophysics, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

De la Cruz-Reyna,  Servando
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Valade, S., Coppola, D., Campion, R., Ley, A., Boulesteix, T., Taquet, N., Legrand, D., Laiolo, M., Walter, T., De la Cruz-Reyna, S. (2023): Lava dome cycles reveal rise and fall of magma column at Popocatépetl volcano. - Nature Communications, 14, 3254.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38386-9


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5024403
Abstract
Lava domes exhibit highly unpredictable and hazardous behavior, which is why imaging their morphological evolution to decipher the underlying governing mechanisms remains a major challenge. Using high-resolution satellite radar imagery enhanced with deep-learning, we image the repetitive dome construction-subsidence cycles at Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico) with very high temporal and spatial resolution. We show that these cycles resemble gas-driven rise and fall of the upper magma column, where buoyant bubble-rich magma is extruded from the conduit (in ~hours-days), and successively drained back (in ~days-months) as magma degasses and crystallizes. These cycles are superimposed on a progressive decadal crater deepening, accompanied by heat and gas flux decrease, which could be partially explained by gas depletion within the magma plumbing system. Results reinforce the idea that gas retention and escape from the magma column play a key role in the short- and long-term morphological evolution of low-viscosity lava domes and their associated hazards.