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Alberto Caracciolo
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Postdoctoral researcher in geochemistry and petrology! 🌋

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6/6 After the 2021 eruption, magma accumulated and fractionated at near-Moho depths. In 2022–2023, a looser mush network enabled faster magma assembly. Diffusion modelling, barometry, and geophysical data show dikes started propagating ~1 month before eruption, then breached the upper crust in days.
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
5/6 Plg timescales in 2022–23 record mush erosion over months to years, progressively shortening with time, suggesting a loosened mush and faster response to deep melt input. Ol timescales (days-weeks) reflect timing and duration of dike ascent from near-Moho depths, correlating with pre-seismicity
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
4/6 The 2021–2023 Fagradalsfjall eruptions were sourced from a persistent near-Moho magma domain. However, cpx–melt barometry suggests that in 2022–2023, magmas stalled at mid-crustal levels or ascended more slowly, unlike in the 2021 eruption.
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
3/6 Unlike 2021, the 2022–2023 Fagradalsfjall lavas show limited geochemical variability, likely sourced from a single, well-mixed reservoir. Trace element ratios and isotopes lie along 2021 mixing trends, suggesting little changes in melt compositions over three years.
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
2/6 In 2022–2023, olivine (ol) and clinopyroxene (cpx) are phenocrysts, while plagioclase (plg) crystals are antecrysts eroded from crystal mushes. This contrasts with 2021, when all crystals had antecrystic origins, suggesting two distinct crystal populations in the 2022-2023 eruptions.
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
1/6 We investigate the 2022–2023 Fagradalsfjall eruptions to track short-term changes in magmatic processes and timescales beneath the volcano. Our petrological and geochemical data are integrated with published data from the 2021 eruption (Halldórsson et al. 2022; Kahl 2023; Marshall 2024).
June 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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@albertocaracciolo.bsky.social talks about their Rannís (Icelandic Research Fund) project on hazard implications of the ongoing eruptive cycle at the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland rdcu.be/eqQAx
Hazard implications of the ongoing eruptive cycle at the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment interviewed Alberto Caracciolo about their project investigating the petrology and paleomagnetism of Holocene...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Thank you! I am actually not familiar at all. Hopefully I can edit it now
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 PM