GSA Connects 2022 meeting in Denver, Colorado

Session No. 178
Tuesday, 11 October 2022: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Mile High Ballroom 2AB/3AB (Colorado Convention Center)

From the Mantle to the Mesosphere: Diversified Approaches Toward Understanding the Cataclysmic January 2022 Eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai Volcano

GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA Geology and Society Division

 

Melissa Scruggs and Frank J. Spera, Chairs
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
TELESEISMIC SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF EPISODIC MAGMA HAMMERS IN THE RECENT CATACLYSMIC HTHH ERUPTION
ZHENG, Yingcai1, HU, Hao1, SPERA, Frank2, SCRUGGS, Melissa2, THOMPSON, Glenn3, JIN, Yuesu1, LAPEN, Thomas J.1, MCNUTT, Stephen3, MANDLI, Kyle4, PENG, Zhigang5 and YUEN, Dave A.4, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, (2)Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (3)University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, (4)Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, (5)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
2:05 PM
A HIGH-RESOLUTION TSUNAMI SQUARES SIMULATION OF THE 2022 HUNGA-TONGA HUNGA-HA'APAI TSUNAMI
PURKIS, Sam1, WARD, Steven2, FITZPATRICK, Nathan1, GARVIN, James3 and CRONIN, Shane J.4, (1)Department of Marine Geoscience, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, (3)NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (4)School of the Environment, University of Auckland, Palmerston North, 11222, New Zealand
2:35 PM
ESTIMATES OF THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN THE HUNGA TONGA-HUNGA HA’APAI PLUME
MCNUTT, Stephen, School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, 30504 USF Holly Dr, Tampa, FL 33620, WILLIAMS, Earle, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, SCRUGGS, Melissa, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, FL 93106 and SPERA, Frank, Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
3:05 PM
THE 2021-22 HUNGA TONGA-HUNGA HA’APAI ERUPTION: INVOLVEMENT OF TWO HIGHLY DEPLETED MAGMAS IN A VEI 6 ERUPTION
RAMOS, Frank1, SHANE, Phil2, UKSTINS, Ingrid2, ADAMS, David T.2, WU, Jei2, PAREDES MARINO, Joali2, CRONIN, Shane J.2, BRENNA, Marco3, HELINA LATU'ILA, Folauhola4 and KULA, Taaniela4, (1)Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, 1255 N. Horseshoe Dr., Las Cruces, NM 88003, (2)School of the Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand, (3)Department of Geology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand, (4)Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Kuku'alofa, Tonga
3:35 PM
THERE’S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: A VIDEO ABOUT TWO ATTEMPTS TO MAP THE HUNGA TONGA-HUNGA HA’APAI CALDERA AFTER THE JAN. 15 2022 ERUPTION
STERN, Robert1, DE RONDE, Cornel1 and CRONIN, Shane J.2, (1)University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, (2)School of the Environment, University of Auckland, Palmerston North, 11222, New Zealand
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