Volcanic sulphur in the balance

Michael R. Carroll ()
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Michael R. Carroll: Bristol University

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6651, 543-544

Abstract: Emissions of sulphur from volcanoes can cause climate cooling. They can be injected high into the stratosphere, where the sulphur reacts to produce sulphuric acid aerosols which backscatter and absorb solar radiation, and thus affect climate change. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines, was one such sulphur-rich event. A theory of the nature of this eruption invokes magma mixing as the cause of the large emissions of gaseous sulphur, and could help in identifying similar cases in the geological record.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/39180

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