09-01-2017, 08:22 PM
Just a little more from this "janitor" that can't read:
http://the-earth-story.com/post/12521518...C4%ABlauea
"Eruption frequencies between the two volcanoes appear linked in an opposite sort of way: when one is active (Kilauea at present), the other is dormant, and vice versa. Investigating these reciprocal eruptive cycles, researchers from Rice University, the University of Hawaii, Carnegie Institute and the USGS modeled the magma storage and transport system beneath the volcanoes. The results show that these two sister volcanos are indeed connected by a partially molten layer at about 50 km depth. This depth places this magma reservoir well into the earth’s mantle underlying Hawaii."
The article also links to a Civil Beat article:
http://www.civilbeat.org/2012/10/study-m...ths-upper/
"We’ve always known both Mauna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes are fed by the same hot spot. But new research shows the two volcanoes are connected, 50 miles below the earth’s surface. The discovery, researchers say, offers the “first plausible model that can explain both the opposing long-term eruptive patterns at Mauna Loa and Kilauea — when one is active the other is quiet, and vice-versa…”
The study, which appears in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, was a joint research project between the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Rice University, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Carnegie Institute of Washington."
Note that these all refer to one of the studies I posted above, the reference is Gonnermann, H.M., Nature Geoscience 5, 826–829, 2012, "Coupling at Mauna Loa and Kilauea by stress transfer in an asthenospheric melt layer".
http://the-earth-story.com/post/12521518...C4%ABlauea
"Eruption frequencies between the two volcanoes appear linked in an opposite sort of way: when one is active (Kilauea at present), the other is dormant, and vice versa. Investigating these reciprocal eruptive cycles, researchers from Rice University, the University of Hawaii, Carnegie Institute and the USGS modeled the magma storage and transport system beneath the volcanoes. The results show that these two sister volcanos are indeed connected by a partially molten layer at about 50 km depth. This depth places this magma reservoir well into the earth’s mantle underlying Hawaii."
The article also links to a Civil Beat article:
http://www.civilbeat.org/2012/10/study-m...ths-upper/
"We’ve always known both Mauna Loa and Kilauea volcanoes are fed by the same hot spot. But new research shows the two volcanoes are connected, 50 miles below the earth’s surface. The discovery, researchers say, offers the “first plausible model that can explain both the opposing long-term eruptive patterns at Mauna Loa and Kilauea — when one is active the other is quiet, and vice-versa…”
The study, which appears in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, was a joint research project between the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Rice University, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Carnegie Institute of Washington."
Note that these all refer to one of the studies I posted above, the reference is Gonnermann, H.M., Nature Geoscience 5, 826–829, 2012, "Coupling at Mauna Loa and Kilauea by stress transfer in an asthenospheric melt layer".