AGU Update 0.1

I don’t know if the live-blogging AGU will work out, but we’ll see. However, I did find out today that Chaiten was a compositionally zoned eruption. Good times!

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I don’t know if the live-blogging AGU will work out, but we’ll see.

However, I did find out today that Chaiten was a compositionally zoned eruption. Good times!

Volcanologist, Denison University

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