Frank J. Spera

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Best Publications

• New constraints on the pyroclastic eruptive history of the Campanian volcanic Plain (Italy)

  B. De Vivo;G. Rolandi;P. B. Gans;A. Calvert

  867
  Citations

• Energy-constrained open-system magmatic processes I : General model and energy-constrained assimilation and fractional crystallization (EC-AFC) formulation

  F. J. Spera

  476
  Citations

• Long-term volumetric eruption rates and magma budgets

  Scott M. White;Joy A. Crisp;Frank J. Spera

  455
  Citations

• Energy-Constrained Open-System Magmatic Processes II: Application of Energy-Constrained Assimilation–Fractional Crystallization (EC-AFC) Model to Magmatic Systems

  Wendy A. Bohrson;Frank J. Spera

  331
  Citations

• Carbon dioxide in petrogenesis III: role of volatiles in the ascent of alkaline magma with special reference to xenolith-bearing mafic lavas

  Frank J. Spera

  287
  Citations

• Under the Surface: Pressure-Induced Planetary-Scale Waves, Volcanic Lightning, and Gaseous Clouds Caused by the Submarine Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano Provide an Excellent Research Opportunity

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  271
  Citations

• Case studies on the origin of basalt: II. The transition from tholeiitic to alkalic volcanism on Kohala volcano, Hawaii

  Mark D. Feigenson;Albrecht W. Hofmann;Frank J. Spera

  254
  Citations

• High-temperature properties of silicate liquids: applications to the equilibration and ascent of basic magma

  Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael;J. Nicholls;F. J. Spera;Bernard John Wood

  221
  Citations

• Co-mingling of acid and basic magma with implications for the origin of mafic I-type xenoliths: Field and petrochemical relations of an unusual dike complex at eagle lake, Sequoia National Park, California, U.S.A.

  Tanya Furman;Frank J. Spera

  203
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• Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Silicate Melts and Magma

  Charles E. Lesher;Charles E. Lesher;Frank J. Spera

  184
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• Rheology and microstructure of magmatic emulsions : theory and experiments

  Daniel J. Stein;Frank J. Spera

  173
  Citations

• Dynamic mixing in magma bodies - Theory, simulations, and implications

  Curtis M. Oldenburg;Frank J. Spera;David A. Yuen;Granville Sewell

  171
  Citations

• Thermodynamic Model for Energy-Constrained Open-System Evolution of Crustal Magma Bodies Undergoing Simultaneous Recharge, Assimilation and Crystallization: the Magma Chamber Simulator

  Wendy A. Bohrson;Frank J. Spera;Mark S. Ghiorso;Guy A. Brown

  161
  Citations

• Thermal evolution of plutons: a parameterized approach.

  Frank Spera

  152
  Citations

• Eruption volume, periodicity, and caldera area: Relationships and inferences on development of compositional zonation in silicic magma chambers

  Frank J. Spera;Joy A. Crisp

  150
  Citations

• Lunar magma transport phenomena

  Frank J. Spera

  148
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• Rheology of melts and magmatic suspensions: 1. Design and calibration of concentric cylinder viscometer with application to rhyolitic magma

  Frank J. Spera;Andrea Borgia;James Strimple;Mark Feigenson

  147
  Citations

• Open-System Magma Chamber Evolution: an Energy-constrained Geochemical Model Incorporating the Effects of Concurrent Eruption, Recharge, Variable Assimilation and Fractional Crystallization (EC-E'RA FC)

  Frank J. Spera;Wendy A. Bohrson

  142
  Citations

• Molecular dynamics of liquid SiO2 under high pressure

  James R. Rustad;David A. Yuen;Frank J. Spera

  134
  Citations

• Some Numerical Experiments on the Withdrawal of Magma from Crustal Reservoirs

  Frank J. Spera

  133
  Citations

• Thermal boundary layer convection in silicic magma chambers: Effects of temperature‐dependent rheology and implications for thermogravitational chemical fractionation

  Frank J. Spera;David A. Yuen;Stephen J. Kirschvink

  125
  Citations

• Carbon Dioxide in igneous petrogenesis: I

  Frank J. Spera;Steven C. Bergman

  122
  Citations