More than 300 million cubic metres of material were accumulated during El Hierro submarine eruption
A group of researchers from the Faculty of Geology of the UB and from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) have published a scientific work that describes the morphology evolution and the volume of emitted material during the submarine volcanic eruption that started on October 2011 in the Canary Island of El Hierro. The study, published on the journal Geology, edited by the Geological Society of America, focuses on the construction and evolution of volcanic islands and constitutes a new reference to study eruptions which are similar to the ones occurred in the Canary Islands and other volcanic islands.
A group of researchers from the Faculty of Geology of the UB and from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) have published a scientific work that describes the morphology evolution and the volume of emitted material during the submarine volcanic eruption that started on October 2011 in the Canary Island of El Hierro. The study, published on the journal Geology, edited by the Geological Society of America, focuses on the construction and evolution of volcanic islands and constitutes a new reference to study eruptions which are similar to the ones occurred in the Canary Islands and other volcanic islands.
The experts who participated in the study are: Miquel Canals, Galderic Lastras, Aaron Micallef and David Amblàs, from the Consolidated Research Group (CRG) on Marine Geosciences of the UB; and Jesús Rivera, Juan Acosta, Beatriz Arrese, Núria Hermida and Olvido Tello, from the group of Geology and Geophysics of the IEO, a public research institution that belongs to the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation of the Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness.