Gas release rates from pyroclastic flows: a assessment of the role of fluidisation in their emplacement
Gas release rates from pyroclastic flows: a assessment of the role of fluidisation in their emplacement
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火山碎屑流的气体释放速率:流化在其就位中的作用的评估
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1978
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R. S. J. Sparks
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R. S. J. Sparks
Estimates are presented for the rates of release of dissolved water from the particles in a pyroclastic flow by diffusion. Velocities of gas escaping from pyroclastic flows of different thicknesses are calculated. For quite small residual gas contents (0.2 to 0.8% H2O), gas velocities of 10 to over 100 cm/sec during the first 103 sec of release are estimated for flows of thickness 1 to 20 m, which experimental studies demonstrate are the velocities required to fluidise fine to medium ash. Flows with high residual gas contents or large volume (thick flows) are likely to be substantially fluidised by exsolving gas. 30% to over 60% of the particles in such flows are predicted to be fluidised. Fluidisation is thus believed to be an important mechanism in the flow and in determining the mobility of the large magnitude, prehistoric pyroclastic flows which formed extensive ignimbrite sheets. Small pyroclastic flows, however, of the magnitude observed in several historic eruptions are not believed to be fluidised, because of their low residual gas contents, small volume, and the substantial amount of cooling that occurs during their emplacement.