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Montagne Pelée (Martinique)

Montagne Pelée volcano is famous for its 1902 eruption that killed 28,000 people, but other more powerful eruptions have occurred in the past.

Our research aims at reconstructing past eruptions from the analysis of their deposits and archaeological field data. (i.e., AMROCAM project).

Few results:

Dynamics of Plinian eruption P1 (Carazzo et al., 2012), P2 (Carazzo et al., 2019) and P3 (Carazzo et al., 2020)

Past eruptive history (25-10 ka) of Montagne Pelée (Michaud-Dubuy et al., 2023)

Fragmentation of recent eruptive products of Montagne Pelée (Huebsch et al., 2023)

European Catalogue of Volcanoes : Montagne Pelée

Funding:

RAVEX - French National Research Agency (FR)

PREST - Interreg Caraïbes (EU)

TELLUS / ARTÉMIS - CNRS-INSU (FR)

BAYFRANCE - Franco-Bavarian University cooperation center (GER)

Veiðivötn (Iceland)

The explosive basaltic eruption of Veiðivötn in 1477 produced a considerable volume of tephra emplaced over half of Iceland.

Our research, carried out in close collaboration with The University of Iceland as part of M. Payet--Clerc's thesis, aims at understanding the source conditions of this powerful eruption.

The current project is based on both a detailed study of field deposits and a physical modeling of the volcanic plume.

Funding:

JULES VERNE - Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (FR) and Ministry for Higher Education and Research (FR)

RANNIS - Icelandic Research Fund (IS)

TELLUS - CNRS-INSU (FR)