Recent Publications

Gonnermann, H.M. and Mukhopadhyay, S., Preserving noble gases in a convecting mantle, Nature, Nature, 459, 560-564 (2009). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M. and Manga, M., Modeling Volcanic Processes, in: The Physics and Mathematics of Volcanism, Cambridge University Press, in review.

Houghton, B.F. and Gonnermann, H.M., Basaltic explosive volcanism: Constraints from deposits and models, Chem. Erde - Geochem., 68, 117-140 (2008). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M. and Mukhopadhyay, S., Non-equilibrium degassing and a primordial source for helium in ocean-island volcanism, Nature, 449, 1037-1040 (2007). Download pdf.

Gonnermann, H.M. and Manga, M., The fluid mechanics of volcanic eruptions, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 39, 321-356 (2007). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M. and Manga, M., Nonequilibrium magma degassing: Results from modeling of the ca. 1340 A.D. eruption of Mono Craters, California, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 238, 1-16 (2005). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M. and Manga, M., Flow banding in obsidian: A record of evolving textural heterogeneity during magma deformation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 236, 135-147 (2005). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M., Jellinek, A.M., Richards, M.A. and Manga, M., Modulation of mantle plumes and heat flow at the core mantle boundary by plate-scale flow: results from laboratory experiments, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 226, 53-67 (2004). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M. and Manga, M., Explosive volcanism may not be an inevitable consequence of magma fragmentation, Nature 426, 432-435 (2003). PDF.

Gonnermann, H.M., Manga, M. and Jellinek, A.M., Dynamics and longevity of an initially stratified mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, 10.1029/2002GL014851 (2002). PDF.

Jellinek, A.M., Gonnermann, H.M. and Richards, M.A., Plume capture by divergent plate motions: Implications for the distribution of hotspots, geochemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalts, and estimates of the heat flux at the core-mantle boundary, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 205, 361-378 (2002). PDF.