Why don’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?
Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous...
My research interests focus on how and where magmas evolve, from their mantle origins to explosive eruptions. My past research includes: an investigation of cinder cone plumbing systems and the differentiation and degassing of their magmas over time; storage, evolution, and gas fluxes of voluminous rhyolitic magmas in New Zealand; and subduction recycling as recorded by arc basalts in Mexico and the Cascade arc.
Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous...