Zircon geochronology and composition - magmatic processes.
Geochronology and mineral chemistry - characterisation of volcano past behavior, including mineral residence times, sub-volcanic magma reservoir processes, to establish potential future eruptive scenarios and permit development of planning strategies.
Important methodologies for volcanic risk mitigation planning is dating and compositional characterisation of the mineral zircon to delimit the ages, sources and processes such as magma reservoir differentiation. Obtaining information about magma storage conditions and magmatic systems, for example, the relationship between effusive and explosive volcanic activity can be used to consider future behavior and therefore potential short and longer term risks.
Understanding past behavior of volcanoes informs prediction of their future behavior, being an important tool for volcanic risk mitigation planning.
