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Experimental Evidence of Primary Permeability at Very Low Gas Content in Crystal-Rich Silicic Magma

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Eruptive dynamics is influenced by gas escape from the ascending magma. Gas pathways form in the magma via bubble coalescence, leading to gas channeling. Magmatic crystals play a key role in gas channel formation. This work constrains experimentally decompression-induced coalescence in high-crystallinity silicic magmas without external deformation, focusing on low gas content and bimodal crystal size (microlites and phenocrysts). All percolating samples have permeabilities of 10−14 m2 at bulk porosities of 7-10 vol% and bulk crystallinities up to 75 vol%. Our results demonstrate the possibility of coalescence-related outgassing at high pressure (120-350 MPa) and without external strain, which corresponds to magma stagnating deep in a volcanic conduit. Channeling at such low gas content implies that bimodal crystallinity favors effusive over explosive volcanic behavior. It may also be the missing physical mechanism explaining gas transfer across magmatic systems despite high melt viscosity and low or absent magma extrusion.
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insu-04647671 , version 1 (15-07-2024)

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Anna Theurel, Marielle Collombet, Alain Burgisser, Caroline Martel, Caroline Martel, et al.. Experimental Evidence of Primary Permeability at Very Low Gas Content in Crystal-Rich Silicic Magma. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, 51, ⟨10.1029/2024GL108389⟩. ⟨insu-04647671⟩
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