Alexander T. Bearden

Petrological, Textural, and Volatile Constraints on the Architecture of Mauna Loa’s Magmatic System over 170 years (1852–2022)

Mauna Loa’s reawakening in 2022 highlighted the limited availability of petrological constraints characterizing the geometry and dynamics of pre-eruptive storage at this volcano. In particular, there has been relatively little prior work constraining pre-eruptive volatile budgets, mineral zoning and textures. To addr...