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Hugh Tuffen is a researcher affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics. Additional subfields of expertise include Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, and Paleontology.

The main research topics covered by Hugh Tuffen's work encompass Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Rock Mechanics and Modeling, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Recent publications provide insight into the scientific contributions made by Hugh Tuffen. These include:

  • Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering, 2020, Science Advances
  • A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding, 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • A reappraisal of explosive-effusive silicic eruption dynamics: syn-eruptive assembly of lava from the products of cryptic fragmentation, 2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Silicic conduits as supersized tuffisites: Clastogenic influences on shifting eruption styles at Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile), 2021, Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Thermal Liability of Hyaloclastite in the Krafla Geothermal Reservoir, Iceland: The Impact of Phyllosilicates on Permeability and Rock Strength, 2020, Geofluids

Hugh Tuffen frequently publishes in several scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Volcanica
  • Nature Communications

Collaborative work is a notable aspect of Tuffen's research activities, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Fabian B. Wadsworth
  • Jonathan M. Castro
  • C. Ian Schipper
  • Ben Kennedy
  • Holly E. Unwin

Best Publications

  • Repeated fracture and healing of silicic magma generate flow banding and earthquakes

    Hugh Tuffen;Donald B. Dingwell;Harry Pinkerton

  • The trigger mechanism of low-frequency earthquakes on Montserrat

    Juergen W Neuberg;Hugh Tuffen;Lindsey Collier;David Green

  • Fault textures in volcanic conduits: evidence for seismic trigger mechanisms during silicic eruptions

    Hugh Tuffen;Don Dingwell

  • The role of melt-fracture degassing in defusing explosive rhyolite eruptions at volcan Chaiten

    Jonathan M. Castro;Benoit Cordonnier;Hugh Tuffen;Mark J. Tobin

  • Shallow vent architecture during hybrid explosive–effusive activity at Cordón Caulle (Chile, 2011–12): Evidence from direct observations and pyroclast textures

    C. Ian Schipper;C. Ian Schipper;Jonathan M. Castro;Hugh Tuffen;Mike R. James

  • Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma

    Hugh Tuffen;Hugh Tuffen;Rosanna Smith;Peter R. Sammonds

  • Exceptional mobility of an advancing rhyolitic obsidian flow at Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile

    Hugh Tuffen;Mike R. James;Jonathan M. Castro;C. Ian Schipper

  • Explosive origin of silicic lava: Textural and δD–H2O evidence for pyroclastic degassing during rhyolite effusion

    Jonathan M. Castro;Ilya N. Bindeman;Hugh Tuffen;C. Ian Schipper

  • The formation of Helgafell, southwest Iceland, a monogenetic subglacial hyaloclastite ridge: Sedimentology, hydrology and volcano–ice interaction

    Herdís H. Schopka;Herdís H. Schopka;Magnús T. Gudmundsson;Hugh Tuffen

  • The emplacement of an obsidian dyke through thin ice: Hrafntinnuhryggur, Krafla Iceland

    Hugh Tuffen;Jonathan M. Castro

  • Timescales of spherulite crystallization in obsidian inferred from water concentration profiles

    Jonathan M. Castro;Pierre Beck;Hugh Tuffen;Alexander R. L. Nichols

  • Rapid laccolith intrusion driven by explosive volcanic eruption.

    Jonathan M. Castro;Benoit Cordonnier;Benoit Cordonnier;C. Ian Schipper;Hugh Tuffen

  • Products of an effusive subglacial rhyolite eruption: Blahnukur, Torfajokull, Iceland.

    Hugh Tuffen;Hugh Tuffen;Jennie Gilbert;Dave McGarvie

  • How will melting of ice affect volcanic hazards in the twenty-first century?

    Hugh Tuffen

  • Advances in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of natural glasses: From sample preparation to data analysis

    F.W. von Aulock;F.W. von Aulock;B.M. Kennedy;C.I. Schipper;J.M. Castro

  • The hydration and alteration of perlite and rhyolite

    Jo S. Denton;Hugh Tuffen;Jennie S. Gilbert;N Odling

  • Magma degassing during subglacial eruptions and its use to reconstruct palaeo-ice thicknesses

    Hugh Tuffen;Jacqueline Owen;Joanna Denton

  • Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering.

    Fabian B. Wadsworth;Edward W. Llewellin;Jérémie Vasseur;James E. Gardner

  • Volcano-ice interactions at Prestahnúkur, Iceland: Rhyolite eruption during the last interglacial-glacial transition

    David W. McGarvie;John A. Stevenson;R. Burgess;Hugh Tuffen

  • Physical volcanology of a subglacial-to-emergent rhyolitic tuya at Rauðufossafjöll, Torfajökull, Iceland

    Hugh Tuffen;David W. McGarvie;Jennie S. Gilbert;Harry Pinkerton

  • Conduit dynamics in transitional rhyolitic activity recorded by tuffisite vein textures from the 2008-2009 Chaitén eruption

    Elodie Saubin;Hugh Tuffen;Lucia Gurioli;Jacqueline Owen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Castro
Jonathan M. Castro Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Mike R. James
Mike R. James Lancaster University
Fabian B. Wadsworth
Fabian B. Wadsworth Durham University
Harry Pinkerton
Harry Pinkerton Lancaster University
Donald B. Dingwell
Donald B. Dingwell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter Sammonds
Peter Sammonds University College London
Ben Kennedy
Ben Kennedy University of Canterbury
Philip G. Meredith
Philip G. Meredith University College London
Yan Lavallée
Yan Lavallée Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kai-Uwe Hess
Kai-Uwe Hess Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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