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Kari M. Cooper
Professor, University of California Davis
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Coordinating Science During an Eruption With Scientific Advisory Committees: How Can We Improve?
VOLCANO SCIENCE AND VOLCANO CRISES: SUCCESS STORIES AND BALANCING ACTS I ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2023
Kari M. Cooper, Kyle R. Anderson, Katharine V. Cas...
Well-observed volcanic eruptions provide opportunities to collect data and samples that are not otherwise available, which can lead to significant inc...
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What’s My Age Again? Improving the Accuracy of (238U)/(230Th) Bulk Crystallization Ages of Major Phase Silicate Minerals in Volcanic Rocks
A JACK OF SMALL TRADES: ZOOMING IN ON THE NANO- AND MICROSCALE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND MAGMATIC PROCESSES II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 13 december 2023
Elizabeth Grant, Kari M. Cooper, Darren M. Gravley...
It has been documented for years that petrographic data can record complex interactions within magma reservoirs. Multi-phase glomerocrysts, reactions ...
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Cold or Warm Storage of Magmas in the Crust? Moving From “Either/or” to “Yes, and”
NORMAN L. BOWEN AWARD LECTURE
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2023
Kari M. Cooper
Processes in crustal magma reservoirs set the stage for whether and how most volcanic eruptions happen. In particular, the thermal conditions of store...
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The Buildup to a Supereruption: Application of a Dual ID-TIMS and ID-ICPMS U-230Th-Pb Zircon Dating Technique to the 340 ka Whakamaru Supereruption, Central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
CHEMISTRY, MECHANICS, GEOPHYSICS, AND TIMESCALES OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES II ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2022
Christine F Chan, Noah M. McLean, Darren M. Gravle...
The ~340 ka Whakamaru group ignimbrites were deposited as a result of one of the largest caldera-forming eruptions in the central Taupo Volcanic Zone ...
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TITLE: TRACKING MAGMA EVOLUTION AT YELLOWSTONE PLATEAU VOLCANIC FIELD USING THE PB ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF SANIDINE CRYSTALS
THE DYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC PLUMBING SYSTEMS I ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 17 december 2021
Katherine Hewitt, Kari M. Cooper, Mark E. Stelten
The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field is defensibly one of the best places on Earth to study a caldera-forming magma system because of its protracted...
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Does accumulation of large volumes of silicic magma require prolonged heating?
SOME LIKE IT VISCOUS: INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING SILICIC MELT EVOLUTION, STORAGE, AND ERUPTION I ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 15 december 2021
Tyler Schlieder, Kari M. Cooper, Adam J. Kent, Cha...
The mechanisms driving the production, accumulation, and eruption of large volumes of silicic magma within crustal reservoirs have been a topic of int...
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A Preliminary Framework for Magmatism in Modern Continental Back‐Arc Basins and Its Application to the Triassic‐Jurassic Tectonic Evolution of the Caucasus
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
25 may 2021
Dylan A. Vasey, Eric Cowgill, Kari M. Cooper
Extension within a continental back‐arc basin initiates within continental rather than oceanic lithosphere, and the geochemical characteristi...
What makes volcanoes erupt?
SZ4D: HOW DO PROCESSES WITHIN TRANSCRUSTAL MAGMA SYSTEMS INITIATE ERUPTIONS AT ARC VOLCANOES? II POSTERS
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 14 december 2020
Adam J. Kent, Christy B. Till, Kari M. Cooper
One key aspect of volcanic eruptions are the mechanisms by which magmas go from stable storage within the crust, to ascent and eventual eruption; desc...
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