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  1. Geochemical characterisation of shallow pre-eruptive magma degassing at Marapi Volcano, Sumatra (Indonesia)

    Article • Bulletin of Volcanology, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  2. A repository-hosted dataset of volcanic ash particle images and features

    Article • Scientific Data, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  3. Coupling magma ascent models with volatile diffusion chronometry

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fidel Costa

  4. Kinetics of mafic magma transfer and destabilization of the deep plumbing system in monogenetic volcanic provinces (Chaîne des Puys, France).

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fidel Costa

  5. The making of a Volcanic Ash DataBase (VolcAshDB) and its exploitation with machine learning

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fidel Costa

  6. Transcrustal, interconnected, or isolated magma reservoirs, can we tell the difference?

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fidel Costa

  7. Insights on Source Lithology and Pressure‐Temperature Conditions of Basalt Generation Using Machine Learning

    Article • Earth and Space Science, July 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  8. SEATANI: hazards from seamounts in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (eastern India)

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, April 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fidel Costa

  9. The role of magma ascent rates and viscosity in explosive and dome eruptions (Kelud volcano, Indonesia)

    Article • Bulletin of Volcanology, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  10. Using Wavelet Coherence to Aid the Retrieval of Volcanic SO2 from UV Spectra

    Article • Remote Sensing, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Fidel Costa

  11. Global volcanic rock classification of Holocene volcanoes

    Article • Scientific Data, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  12. Wind Speed as a Dominant Source of Periodicities in Reported Emission Rates of Volcanic SO2

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, December 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  13. The Role of an Excess Fluid Phase in Controlling Eruption Styles and Ascent Rates in Basaltic Andesite Magmas

    Article • October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Fidel Costa

  14. The Role of Magma Storage Conditions and Excess Fluids in the Effusive to Explosive Eruption Styles

    Article • September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Fidel Costa

  15. A petrological and conceptual model of Mayon volcano (Philippines) as an example of an open-vent volcano

    Article • Bulletin of Volcanology, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  16. From Explosive Vent Opening to Effusive Outpouring: Mineral Constraints on Magma Dynamics and Timescales at Paricutin Monogenetic Volcano

    Article • Journal of Petrology, January 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  17. Multicomponent diffusion of F, Cl and OH in apatite with application to magma ascent rates

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  18. Diffusion chronometry and the timescales of magmatic processes

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  19. WOVOdat – the global volcano unrest database aimed at improving eruption forecasts

    Article • Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, November 2019, Emerald

    Dr Fidel Costa

  20. A thermodynamic model for F-Cl-OH partitioning between silicate melts and apatite including non-ideal mixing with application to constraining melt volatile budgets

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  21. Magma interactions, crystal mush formation, timescales, and unrest during caldera collapse and lateral eruption at ocean island basaltic volcanoes (Piton de la Fournaise, La Réunion)

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  22. Necking and fracking may explain stationary seismicity and full degassing in volcanic silicic spine extrusion

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  23. Lithium diffusion in olivine records magmatic priming of explosive basaltic eruptions

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  24. Multiple timescale constraints for high-flux magma chamber assembly prior to the Late Bronze Age eruption of Santorini (Greece)

    Article • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  25. Crystal and melt inclusion timescales reveal the evolution of magma migration before eruption

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  26. Petrochronologic perspective on rhyolite volcano unrest at Laguna del Maule, Chile

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  27. CEmin: A MATLAB-Based Software for Computational Phenocryst Extraction and Statistical Petrology

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa, Linran Zeng

  28. Response to Comment on “Rapid cooling and cold storage in a silicic magma reservoir recorded in individual crystals”

    Article • Science, December 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Fidel Costa

  29. Storage and Eruption of Silicic Magma across the Transition from Dominantly Effusive to Caldera-forming States at an Arc Volcano (Santorini, Greece)

    Article • Journal of Petrology, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  30. WOVOdat – An online, growing library of worldwide volcanic unrest

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  31. Unraveling the presence of multiple plagioclase populations and identification of representative two-dimensional sections using a statistical and numerical approach

    Article • American Mineralogist, September 2017, Mineralogical Society of America

    Dr Fidel Costa

  32. Timescales of mixing and storage for Keanakāko‘i Tephra magmas (1500–1820 C.E.), Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i

    Article • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  33. Rapid cooling and cold storage in a silicic magma reservoir recorded in individual crystals

    Article • Science, June 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Fidel Costa

  34. Metasomatic Reaction Phenomena from Entrainment to Surface Cooling: Evidence from Mantle Peridotite Xenoliths from Bulgaria

    Article • Journal of Petrology, March 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  35. Evaluation of the effects of 3D diffusion, crystal geometry, and initial conditions on retrieved time-scales from Fe–Mg zoning in natural oriented orthopyroxene crystals

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  36. The timing of compositionally-zoned magma reservoirs and mafic ‘priming’ weeks before the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai rhyolite eruption

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  37. How do olivines record magmatic events? Insights from major and trace element zoning

    Article • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  38. Corrigendum to: ‘Constraints on the Nature and Evolution of the Magma Plumbing System of Mt. Etna Volcano (1991–2008) from a Combined Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modelling of the Compositional Record of Minerals’

    Article • Journal of Petrology, March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  39. Years to weeks of seismic unrest and magmatic intrusions precede monogenetic eruptions

    Article • Geology, February 2016, Geological Society of America

    Dr Fidel Costa

  40. Degassing during quiescence as a trigger of magma ascent and volcanic eruptions

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2015, Nature

    Dr Fidel Costa

  41. Accuracy of timescales retrieved from diffusion modeling in olivine: A 3D perspective

    Article • American Mineralogist, October 2015, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fidel Costa

  42. Constraints on the Nature and Evolution of the Magma Plumbing System of Mt. Etna Volcano (1991–2008) from a Combined Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modelling of the Compositional Record of Minerals

    Article • Journal of Petrology, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  43. Timing of Magmatic Processes and Unrest Associated with Mafic Historical Monogenetic Eruptions in Tenerife Island

    Article • Journal of Petrology, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  44. Volcaniclastic stratigraphy of Gede Volcano, West Java, Indonesia: How it erupted and when

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, August 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  45. A 5000-year record of multiple highly explosive mafic eruptions from Gunung Agung (Bali, Indonesia): implications for eruption frequency and volcanic hazards

    Article • Bulletin of Volcanology, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  46. Fractal degassing from Erebus and Mayon volcanoes revealed by a new method to monitor H2 O emission cycles

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  47. Mafic magma replenishment, unrest and eruption in a caldera setting: insights from the 2006 eruption of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2015, Geological Society

    Dr Fidel Costa

  48. On depressurization of volcanic magma reservoirs by passive degassing

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, December 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  49. Primitive melt replenishment and crystal-mush disaggregation in the weeks preceding the 2005–2006 eruption

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  50. Erratum to “Locating magma reservoirs using InSAR and petrology before and during the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle silicic eruption” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 395 (2014) 254–266]

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  51. An analysis of the issuance of volcanic alert levels during volcanic crises

    Article • Journal of Applied Volcanology, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  52. Locating magma reservoirs using InSAR and petrology before and during the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle silicic eruption

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  53. Magmatic Processes and Associated Timescales Leading to the January 1835 Eruption of Cosiguina Volcano, Nicaragua

    Article • Journal of Petrology, May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  54. Petrogenesis of tholeiitic basalts from the Central Atlantic magmatic province as revealed by mineral major and trace elements and Sr isotopes

    Article • Lithos, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  55. Petrological insights into the storage conditions, and magmatic processes that yielded the centennial 2010 Merapi explosive eruption

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  56. Storage conditions and eruptive dynamics of central versus flank eruptions in volcanic islands: The case of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  57. Correlation of Magma Evolution and Geophysical Monitoring during the 2011-2012 El Hierro (Canary Islands) Submarine Eruption

    Article • Journal of Petrology, April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  58. Software program to model diffusion of multiple elements in olivine

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, February 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  59. Compositionally zoned crystals and real-time degassing data reveal changes in magma transfer dynamics during the 2006 summit eruptive episodes of Mt. Etna

    Article • Bulletin of Volcanology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Viccaro, Dr Fidel Costa

  60. The 2010 explosive eruption of Java's Merapi volcano—A ‘100-year’ event

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  61. Decadal to monthly timescales of magma transfer and reservoir growth at a caldera volcano

    Article • Nature, February 2012, Nature

    Dr Fidel Costa

  62. Dynamic plumbing system beneath volcanoes revealed by kinetic modeling, and the connection to monitoring data: An example from Mt. Etna

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, August 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  63. Magma storage conditions of the last eruption of Teide volcano (Canary Islands, Spain)

    Article • Bulletin of Volcanology, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  64. The time scales of magma mixing and mingling involving primitive melts and melt–mush interaction at mid-ocean ridges

    Article • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fidel Costa

  65. Experimental constraints on pre-eruptive conditions of phonolitic magma from the caldera-forming El Abrigo eruption, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

    Article • Chemical Geology, December 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  66. Assessing the potential for future explosive activity from Teide–Pico Viejo stratovolcanoes (Tenerife, Canary Islands)

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, December 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  67. Time Scales of Magmatic Processes from Modeling the Zoning Patterns of Crystals

    Article • Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, January 2008, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fidel Costa

  68. The effect of water on Si and O diffusion rates in olivine and implications for transport properties and processes in the upper mantle

    Article • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  69. Chapter 1 Residence Times of Silicic Magmas Associated with Calderas

    Article • Developments in Volcanology, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  70. Equilibration Scales in Silicic to Intermediate Magmas Implications for Experimental Studies

    Article • Journal of Petrology, September 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  71. Measuring Timescales of Magmatic Evolution

    Article • Elements, August 2007, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Fidel Costa

  72. Short time scales of magmatic assimilation from diffusion modeling of multiple elements in olivine

    Article • Geology, January 2005, Geological Society of America

    Dr Fidel Costa

  73. Decadal time gaps between mafic intrusion and silicic eruption obtained from chemical zoning patterns in olivine

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  74. Petrological and Experimental Constraints on the Pre-eruption Conditions of Holocene Dacite from Volcan San Pedro (36 S, Chilean Andes) and the Importance of Sulphur in Silicic Subduction-related Magmas

    Article • Journal of Petrology, April 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  75. Diffusion coupling between trace and major elements and a model for calculation of magma residence times using plagioclase

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, June 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Fidel Costa

  76. Massive atmospheric sulfur loading of the AD 1600 Huaynaputina eruption and implications for petrologic sulfur estimates

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  77. Evolution of Holocene Dacite and Compositionally Zoned Magma, Volcan San Pedro, Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile

    Article • Journal of Petrology, August 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  78. Hornblende- and Phlogopite-Bearing Gabbroic Xenoliths from Volcan San Pedro (36degreesS), Chilean Andes: Evidence for Melt and Fluid Migration and Reactions in Subduction-Related Plutons

    Article • Journal of Petrology, February 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fidel Costa

  79. Magmatic Na-rich phlogopite in a suite of gabbroic crustal xenoliths from Volcán San Pedro, Chilean Andes: Evidence for a solvus relation between phlogopite and aspidolite

    Article • American Mineralogist, January 2001, Mineralogical Society of America

    Dr Fidel Costa