Corbetti Concerns

Caldera resurgence is either exceptionally boring or unbearably interesting. The slow crawl of the Lazufre system stands in contrast with the dramatic reawakening of Kita-Ioto. Some systems however straddle these lines, not up there with the scariest volcanoes but it wouldn’t be right to put them in the “boring’ territory. I can’t think of a…

The Missing Piece Part 1

Big intrusions = Big bangs? With mafic systems hogging all the attention, as a felsic guy, I feel compelled to represent my magma type. Large felsic systems are a slow burn, they spend plenty of time accumulating magma and give frequent small eruptions before releasing huge amounts of material in one eruption. These systems usually…