Civil Thinking

Stages of Gas Behavior

  • Gases start out dissolved (like soda)
  • •Vesiculation, or *exsollution of gas occurs because of:
    • Cooling of magma
    • Magma ascent (depressurization)
    • Crystallization of magma

*Exsollution is the opposite of dissolution

Many vesicles

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