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ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS, 62, 2, VO216, 2019; doi: 10.4401/ag-7859

“ADVANCES IN THE RHEOLOGY OF NATURAL MULTIPHASE SILICATE MELTS: IMPORTANCE FOR MAGMA TRANSPORT AND LAVA FLOW 
EMPLACEMENT„ 
Daniele Giordano*,1,2,3 

(1) Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Torino, Italy 
(2) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia−Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy 
(3) Institute of Geoscience and Earth Resources (IGG−CNR), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy

1. INTRODUCTION 
 

The transport of magmas and volcanic materials is 
characterized by very dynamic, interdependent and com−
plex, physical and chemical processes that all are affected 
by and affect the materials physical properties. Under−
standing the dynamic processes operating during magma 
ascent and eruption and the timescales and mechanisms 
of emplacement, welding and remobilization of frag−
mental or massive volcanic deposits, constitutes one of 
the main challenges in the Earth sciences [Dingwell, 
1996; Papale, 1999; Sparks, 2004; Russell and Quane, 
2005; Giordano et al., 2005]. Accurate description of 
these processes requires the characterization of a wide 
range of transport and thermodynamic properties for the 
melt or magma (e.g. viscosity, density, enthalpy, entropy, 
heat capacity, thermal conductivity, solubility of volatile 
phases). These properties play crucial roles at micro− to 

macroscopic scale and many are correlated, in a non−lin−
ear manner [e.g. Richet et al., 1984; Giordano et al., 
2008a; Russell and Giordano, 2017].  

Lava flow dynamics are strongly governed by sub−
surface buoyancy forces, resulting from the density con−
trast with the host rock, which push the magma toward 
the surface [e.g. Wilson and Head, 2016a; Wieczorek et al., 
2001] and by the evolving internal and external frictional 
forces (e.g. with dyke, conduit wall and topography) that 
oppose to the movement of magmas and lavas [e.g. 
Nemeth, 2010; Cañón−Tapia, 2016, Dragoni, 1993; Drag−
oni et al., 2005; Giordano et al., 2007; Cashman et al., 
2013; Kolzenburg et al., 2016a,b; 2018a,b; Hulme, 1974; 
Hiesinger et al., 2007; Chevrel et al., 2013, 2015; Cas−
truccio et al., 2014]. 

The rheological properties of magmas undergo 
tremendous changes from transport in the subsurface to 
eruption or emplacement at the surface and to final de−

Article history 
Receveid July 17, 2018; accepted March 18, 2019. 
Subject classification: 
Multicomponent and Multiphase silicate melts; Rheology.

ABSTRACT 
A review of recent advances in the field of rheology of multicomponent silicate melts and multiphase silicate melt and multiphase silicate 

melt and analogue material suspensions is presented. is presented here. The advances include the development of new experimental de−

vices and field and remote sensing methods for measuring the rheological properties of natural melts and magmas as well as new mod−

elling strategies. These promising approaches combine laboratory experiments, theoretical models, numerical simulations and remote sens−

ing data derived from ground, airborne and satellite−based tools. Each of these sub−disciplines has evolved rapidly in recent years and 

the growing range of complementary data appears now to provide an opportunity for the development of multi−disciplinary research. Ul−

timately, these multidisciplinary initiatives seek to provide near−real−time forecasting of hazardous volcanic processes such as lava flow 

field evolution. The results and approaches described here focus on multiphase (i.e. melts, bubbles, crystals) rheology of natural systems 

and are pertinent to the effusive emplacement of lavas, dykes and sills, as well as, to the eruption dynamics attending explosive eruptions.



position and cooling. These changes are caused domi−
nantly by the evolving of thermo−chemical and defor−
mational conditions, imposing phase transitions and 
therewith heterogeneous textural and morphological 
variations of the magmatic and volcanic suspensions 
which evolve in space and time. The complex rheologi−
cal evolution of lava flows can tentatively be constrained 
by carrying out laboratory measurements under con−
trolled conditions, simulating natural systems, and by 
monitoring flow emplacement at the field−scale and via 
satellite−based platforms. In parallel with this, the so−
phistication of physical models of lava flows and domes 
have improved significantly and are capable of provid−
ing fast simulations [see, amongst the others, Costa and 
Macedonio, 2003, 2005; Del Negro et al., 2008, 2013, 
2016; Melnik and Sparks, 1999, 2005; Melnik et al., 
2009; Kilburn 2015 for reviews on this topic]. These 
models are increasingly informed by, or validated by, 
satellite−derived parameters such as lava flow discharge 
rate or periodic updates on flow advance/geometry. To−
gether these capabilities represent an emergent strategy 
that may provide timely reliable projections of lava flow 
field evolution and derive information for hazard assess−
ment and mitigation measures. Yet, to date they do not 
always provide coherent results reproduced in nature. 

This highlights the necessity to estimate the rheolog−
ical properties of magmas and volcanic materials at con−
ditions pertinent to nature and to investigate the effect of 
each variable over the range of relevant environmental 
conditions (e.g. pressure, temperature, volatile contents) 
during varying thermodynamic (equilibrium and non−
equilibrium) conditions, and deformation regimes. 

Our understanding of the single− and multi−phase 
(liquid+crystals+bubbles) rheology of magmas and vol−
canic products has greatly improved in the last two 
decades. This can largely be attributed to the growing 
availability of empirical data from the following sources 
(each of which will be reviewed in detail below):  

1) laboratory experimentation on natural and simpli−
fied silicate melts. These data support the creation 
of robust models for predicting the Newtonian vis−
cosity of pure liquid natural melts as a function of 
temperature (T), pressure (P) composition (X), 
volatile content (Xv) and structural features (see 
Chapter 2).  

2) the rheological experimentation and modelling of 
non−reactive multiphase suspensions (liquid+bub−
bles; liquid+crystal and liquids+bubbles+crystals) 
constituted by analogue materials or simplified or 

natural silicate melts mixtures (Chapter 4);  
3) dynamic cooling rheological measurements on nat−

ural multiphase suspensions at non−isothermal and 
non−equilibrium conditions to explore the interde−
pendent effects of composition, cooling−rate, shear−
rate and oxygen fugacity acting during magma 
and lava transport in nature (Chapter 5); 

4) rheological measurements of actively flowing lava. 
These represent snapshots of actual lava flow rheol−
ogy at specific conditions and provide data that helps 
to constrain the conditions required to be reproduced 
in systematic laboratory studies (Chapter 6). 

5) studies on the 3D and 4D evolution of lava flows at 
increasing spatial and temporal resolution and con−
temporary estimates of effusion rate and flow de−
velopment from satellite data. These provide data 
for cross correlation and benchmarking of labora−
tory measurements (Appendix A1) and to re−visit 
long standing methods for deriving rheological pa−
rameters from morphologic data (Chapter 6). 

These studies document that the effective viscosity of 
natural silicate melts and magmas can span more than 15 
orders of magnitude (10 1 – 1014 Pa s), primarily in re−
sponse to variations in melt composition (X), dissolved 
volatile content (Xv), temperature (T), pressure (P), as well 
as the proportions, size, and shape distributions of sus−
pended solid and/or exsolved fluid phases (i.e. crystals and 
bubbles). The deformation rate, which in nature would 
depend on the discharge rate will determine whether 
flow behavior will be Newtonian (i.e. one for which there 
is a linear relationship between stress and strain rate; or 
spatial variation of velocity) or non−Newtonian [e.g. 
Caricchi et al., 2007, 2008; Costa et al., 2007a, 2009; Vona 
et al., 2011; Hess et al., 2009]. Deformation rate also ex−
erts an influence on the crystallization kinetics [Vona et 
al., 2013; Kouchi, 1986; Kolzenburg, 2018]. It may fur−
ther determine whether the melt will deform viscously or 
elastically and, therewith, whether or not it will eventu−
ally fracture giving origin to effusive rather than explo−
sive eruptive styles [Dingwell, 1996]. Combined the above 
experimental data and computational models form a ba−
sis from which to understand the flow behavior of nat−
ural magmatic and volcanic suspensions.  

In the following I present a review of the research ad−
vances in the rheological characterization of pure silicate 
melts and multiphase silicate mixtures (i.e. lavas and 
magmas) achieved in the past decades. I follow the struc−
ture of points 1−5 outlined above to group the individ−
ual fields. In the Appendices (A1−A3) I summarize the 

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most commonly employed experimental devices and 
technological advances to measure the single and mul−
tiphase silicate melts also reporting the most common 
equations used to describe the viscosity variation as a 
function of P, T, X (Appendix A1) as well as suspended 
solids phase and/or porosity (Appendices A2 and A3). I 
conclude with a discussion on how new laboratory de−
velopments together with the growth in complementary 
datasets (e.g. remote−sensing; drone technology; high−
speed calculation facility) is providing greater under−
standing of magma and lava transport on Earth.  

 
 

2. PURE LIQUID MELT NEWTONIAN VISCOSITY 
EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS 
 
2.1 T – DEPENDENT MODELS FOR PREDICTING MELT 

VISCOSITY 
The first step toward characterizing multiphase rhe−

ology of natural silicate melts mixture is the knowledge 
of multicomponent viscosity of pure liquids as a function 
of their composition (including dissolved volatile species 
such as H2O, C and S –species, F, Cl) temperature (T) and 
pressure (P). Early models for predicting the viscosity of 
silicate melts were developed using data that spanned rel−
atively small ranges of temperature (T) and viscosity (η). 
These experimental data, restricted to superliquidus tem−
peratures and a narrow compositional range, showed a 
nearly linear trend of viscosity in reciprocal temperature 
space. Thus, early models adopted an Arrhenian formu−
lation of the temperature−viscosity relationship [Shaw, 

1972; Bottinga and Weill, 1972]. Expansion of the melt 
viscometry database over a wider range of compositions 
and temperatures exposed the limitations of Arrhenian 
models. With the emergence of viscometry data closer to 
the glass transition temperature (Tg) (i.e. the temperature 
of transition between a liquid−like and a solid−like be−
havior) [e.g. Angell, 1991, Giordano et al., 2005], the Ar−
rhenian models proved unsuitable to describe the tem−
perature dependence of silicate melt viscosity. These 
measurements were enabled by experimental devices that 
allow very small displacements to be monitored (e.g. 
Linear Voltage Displacement Transducers) and, the pro−
duction of quenched glasses, freezing in the crystal free 
melt structure. In these experiments, supercooled glasses 
are reheated above Tg, where the “relaxed melt” viscos−
ity [e.g. Angell, 1991; Scherer, 1984] could then be mea−
sured. These experiments are performed at timescales 
shorter than phase transitions timescale, therewith al−
lowing anhydrous and hydrous pure liquid viscosity 
measurements [Angell, 1991; Scherer, 1984; Giordano et 
al., 2008b]. 

Based on the large number of experimental studies 
[e.g. Richet et al., 1995, 1996; Hess and Dingwell, 1996; 
Whittington et al., 2000, 2001; Giordano et al., 2009 
amongst the others], models of melt viscosity were de−
veloped [e.g. Avramov, 1998; Angell, 1991; Russell et al., 
2003; Giordano and Dingwell, 2003a, b; Russell and 
Giordano, 2005; Giordano and Russell, 2007; Hui and 
Zhang, 2007; Giordano et al., 2006, 2008a,b; Ardia et al., 
2008; Mauro et al., 2009], also accounting for the non−
Arrhenian viscosity behaviour [e.g. Vogel, 1921, Fulcher, 

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FIGURE 1. The figure shows the variation of viscosity as a function of the reverse of temperature for the anhydrous melts (a) and, 
per comparison, the anhydrous and hydrous melts (b) as reported by Giordano et al. (2008). The curves in a) represent 
the most Arrhenian (continuous line in a))(strong) and the least Arrhenian (dashed curve in a)) (fragile) melts amongst 
those reported in panel of Figure 1a. The effect of water is that of significantly reducing viscosity and the fragility (de−
viation from Arrhenian behavior) of the melts [details in Giordano et al., 2008]. 



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1925; Tammann and Hess, 1926; Adam and Gibbs, 1965]. 
These models describe the P−T−X dependence of the 
viscosity of silicate melts. Some of the most relevant em−
pirical and theoretical formulations describing the T−
dependence of silicate melts and the relationships between 
constitutive parameters are reported in Appendix A2. 

The growing database and the new models show that 
silicate melts display various degrees of non−Arrhenian 
behavior, from strong to fragile [Angell, 1991; Russell et 
al., 2002, 2003], which depend on composition and dis−
solved volatile content (Figure 1).  

All these models provide viscosity predictions based on 
composition commonly expressed in terms of oxide 
abundances or combination of oxides and a range of ad−
justable parameters. Of the various models only the HZ 
model [Hui and Zhang, 2007] and the GRD model [Gior−
dano et al., 2008a] accounts for the effects of dissolved 
volatile species (H2O, F). The GRD model is based on the 
well−known VFT (Vogel−Fulcher−Tammann) equation, 
such that: 

log [η (Pa s)] = AVFT+BVFT/(T−CVFT)          (1) 

where AVFT is the pre−exponential factor, BVFT is the pseu−
do−activation energy and CVFT is the VFT−temperature. 
In contrast the HZ model uses a purely empirical T−de−
pendent viscosity formulation of non straightforward cor−
relation with thermo−physical amounts. The GRD mod−
el has gained support due to its simplicity and direct cor−
relation of constitutive parameters (i.e. Appendix A2) to 
others important physical and structural properties such 
as the glass transition (Tg), the fragility (m) (i.e. the rate 
at which viscosity varies with temperature, that is an in−
dication of melts capacity to store energy), the calorimetric 
properties (configurational entropy, Sconf and the config−
urational heat capacity Cp

conf; see Equation A2.4) [e.g. Gior−
dano and Dingwell, 2003a; Giordano et al., 2008b; 
Chevrel et al., 2013; Giordano and Russell, 2017; Russell 
and Giordano, 2017] and the structural properties (e.g. Qn−
species and Raman Ratio) [i.e. Le Losq and Neuville, 2017; 
Giordano and Russell, 2018; Giordano et al., 2019]. These 
models show that, to a first approximation, the viscosi−
ty of silicate melts and the descriptive parameters of Equa−
tion 1) can be correlated at constant temperature to em−
pirical, composition−based pseudo−structural parameter 
(i.e. the SM − structural modifiers − and the NBO/T − i.e. 
the Non Bridging Oxygen over Tetrahedra − parameters). 
The NBO/T and SM parameters are commonly assumed as 
proxies for the degree of polymerization of silicate melts 

and glasses [e.g Giordano and Dingwell, 2003a, b; Gior− 
dano and Russell, 2018; Giordano et al., 2019] (Figures 2,3). 
Compositions with low values of the SM−parameter (or 
low NBO/T values) are associated to strong (Arrhenian− 
like) rheological behavior, i.e. a linear behavior in the logη− 
1/T space, and more polymerized melts. On the other hand 
high values of SM (or high NBO/Ts) are related to more 
depolymerized melts which show fragile rheological be− 
havior (i.e. the logη vs 1/T paths are significantly non− 
linear) [e.g. Angell, 1991; Giordano and Dingwell, 2003] 
(Figures 1,2). Russell et al. [2003], in agreement with ear− 
ly theoretical studies [e.g. Angell, 1991 amongst others], 
showed that the pre−exponential factor of the VFT and 
AG formulations, i.e. the viscosity at infinite temperature 
(Appendix A2), is a constant independent of compositions 
[Russell et al., 2003; Giordano et al., 2008a]. In addition, 
approximately 1 logunit distinguishes the AVFT and the 
AAG values. The current models are applicable within the 

compositional space that they are based upon, but some 
compositional regions (e.g. peralkaline compositions) 
still remain unmapped and the models struggle to repro− 
duce measured viscosity values [Giordano et al., 2006, 
2008a, Di Genova et al., 2017]. Those formulations also 
put in evidence that the role of water (H2O) dissolved in 

the melt is counterintuitive being opposite to that of net−
work modifier cations. In fact, although dissolved H2O 

strongly decreases the viscosity of silicate melts (Figure 
1b), the parameters describing the T−dependence of vis−
cosity (e.g. BVFT and CVFT in Equation 1) are differently af− 
fected by H2O and by the most common structure mod− 
ifiers (Figure 2).  

2.2 P – DEPENDENT MODELS FOR PREDICTING MELT 
VISCOSITY 
Measuring the effect of pressure (P) on the viscosity 

of melts is a complex experimental task and, as a result, 
has not been investigated extensively. A short summa−
ry of applied techniques and technological advances is 
reported in Appendix A1, together with some of the main 
results. Largely, and oppositely to silica−rich melts, the 
viscosity of silica−poor melts increases as pressure in−
creases [Liebske et al., 2005; Ardia et al., 2008 and ref−
erences therein]. However, the available data suggest that 
the effect of P is negligible at near surface conditions per−
tinent to explosive and effusive volcanism. As a con−
sequence this effect will not be discussed any further in 
this contribution. Figure A2.1 shows for the Ab−Di sys−
tem what is the effect of P which changing composition 
in the binary system, by using fitting procedure as adopt−



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ed by Ardia et al. [2008]. This system is considered to 
show what is the effect of P on polymerized (Ab) to de−
polymerized (Di) synthetic compositions from low to high 
P. Similar behaviours is expected for natural composi−
tions, but, as shown by previous authors [e.g. Giordano 
et al., 2008b; Chevrel et al., 2013; Whittington et al., 
2009], simplified systems (e.g. An, Di, Ab) should not be 
considered as proxies for natural compositions. 

 
2.3 TOWARD A STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR GEOLOGICAL 

MELTS 
More recently, Le Losq and Neuville [2017], Giordano 

and Russell [2018] and Giordano et al. [2019], following 

different approaches, showed that the viscosity of sim−
ple and multicomponent anhydrous silicate melts over a 
temperature interval of ~ 700 to 1600°C, can be predicted 
from the Raman spectra obtained from the correspond−
ing glasses (i.e. fast quenched melts). These methods 
prove to be very promising methods for in situ rheolog−
ical investigations and may have great importance for 
planetary sciences studies [Angel et al., 2012; Giordano 
and Russell, 2018]. Le Losq and Neuville [2017] developed 
a 13 − parameters model for melt viscosity in the simple 
system SiO2−Na2O−K2O which connects the transport 
and thermodynamic properties of these simple melts ex−
plicitly to the structural state of the melt expressed via the 

FIGURE 2. Relationships between constitutive parameters of the GRD model (Giordano et al., 2008), based on the VFT formulation 
(Equation 1), as a function of the modified SM (Structure Modifiers) parameter (Giordano and Dingwell, 2003). The role 
of increasing SM on the constitutive parameters of anhydrous melts (black symbols) is that of decreasing BVFT  and in−
creasing CVFT (Figure 2a, b) while increasing the fragility (m) (Figure 2e). On the other hand adding H2O to the melt struc−
ture (gray symbols) results in decreasing BVFT  while decreasing CVFT , the glass transition temperature Tg (as taken at a 
viscosity of 1012 Pas) (Figure 2d) and the fragility (m). This observation put in evidence that the structural role of H2O 
is different from that of those cations which simply modify silicate melts structure (Giordano et al., 2008, 2009). 



abundances of Qn −species recovered from Raman spec−
tral analysis of the glasses. Giordano and Russell [2018] 
first and Giordano et al. [2019], later, the presented a first 
order model predicting the viscosity of multicomponent 
natural melts by the employment of the so−called Raman 
ratio (R) [Giordano and Russell, 2018] and normalized Ra−

man ratio (Rn) [Giordano et al., 2019] derived by Raman 
spectra measured on the corresponding glasses as defined 
by Mercier et al. [2009, 2010]. As shown in Figure 3 a 
strong relationship exists between BVFT and CVFT param−
eters and R which allows the viscosity of anhydrous 
multicomponent natural melts to be predicted with a 
great accuracy. Although, the model requires expansion 
to use of the structural information of volatile−bearing 
melts, it allows accurate description of the viscosity of 
anhydrous melts by the employment of a simple equa−
tion with 6 adjustable parameters and the measured R. 
Also the SM and NBO/T parameters, calculated from 
compositions, are shown to be strongly correlated with R. 

 
 

3. FROM PURE LIQUIDS TO MULTIPHASE ANA-
LOGUES AND MAGMAS: ADVANTAGES AND 
DISADVANTAGES OF THE DIFFERENT EXPER-
IMENTAL APPROACHES 
 
Being magmas and volcanic materials complex, 

texturally evolving (reactive) mixtures of crystals and 
vesicles suspended in a silicate melt phase which 
evolve as a function of the evolving P, T and compo−
sitional variations and dynamic regimes, the descrip−
tion of effect of suspended phases on the viscosity of 
these natural suspensions has followed different ap−
proaches. The early models devoted to describe the 
multiphase rheology were historically based on the in−
vestigation of analogue materials [e.g. Einstein, 1906; 
Einstein and Roscoe, 1952]. More recently, the basis for 
the description of natural multiphase suspensions has 
been largely developed using natural and simplified 
silicate melts mixtures at experimental conditions at 
around thermodynamic equilibrium [e.g. Campagnola 
et al., 2016; Chevrel et al., 2015; Robert et al., 2014; 
Sehlke et al., 2014; Soldati et al., 2016; Vona and Ro−
mano, 2013; Vona et al., 2011, 2013]. As such, their ap−
plication to natural environments requires extrapola−
tion into the thermal and deformational disequilibrium 
state at which magmatic and volcanic processes com−
monly operate. This is only possible to a limited ex−
tent, as natural magmatic and volcanic processes of−
ten operate quite far from equilibrium. Recent studies 
on the disequilibrium rheology of crystallizing natu−
ral silicate melts have documented that deformation−
rate and cooling−rate may significantly affect the 
phase transitions of magmatic mixtures so to forcing 
the material toward a thermal and mechanical dise−

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FIGURE3. Model VFT parameters BVFT (R)(A) and CVFT (R)(B) as 
defined by Giordano and Russell (2018) (panels A, B) 
and relationships between pseudo−structural parame−
ters (SM, NBO/T)(C), as a function of the Raman ratio 
(R). According to the above mentioned authors: 
BVFT (R) = b1R

b2 and CVFT (R)=c1R
c2+c3 where b1, b2, 

c1, c2, c3 are adjustable parameters.  



quilibrium state [e.g. Giordano et al., 2007; Kolzenburg 
et al., 2016, 2017a, b; 2018a,b; Arzilli and Carroll, 
2013].  

Following, the experimental efforts aimed at re−
trieving information of the multiphase rheology of 
natural silicate mixtures have been broadly summa−
rized by subdividing it into, experiments on non reac−
tive materials (Chapter 4) or reactive silicate melts 
mixtures undergoing variable thermal or deforma−
tional variation (Chapter 5). These kinds of experiments 
can be further subdivided into three main categories: 
a) experimentation on analogue materials; b) experi−
ments on simplified silicate mixtures and c) experi−
ments on natural volcanic products. Each of these ex−
perimental approaches has different 
advantages/disadvantages which are listed below. 

 
3.1 ANALOGUE MATERIALS 

Multiphase analogue materials are commonly con−
stituted by non−reactive mixtures of mono− or poly−
disperse particles and/or bubbles, with varying content 
and shape and size distributions, immersed in some 
Newtonian synthetic fluid (e.g. silicon oil, syrup, liq−
uid paraffin), which can be investigated at room tem−
perature. These multiphase mixtures can normally be 
investigated at room temperature conditions and 
therefore their rheological characterization is simpli−
fied as it does not involve the need for high tempera−
ture or pressure equipment and the sample texture 
can readily be controlled (e.g. the solid/bubble pro−
portion or variation). These kinds of experiments are 
commonly performed on transparent multiphase mix−
tures and therefore allow observing and characteriz−
ing strain partitioning processes occurring amongst the 
phases during the deformation. The main disadvantage 
of this kind of experimentation is that it cannot re−
produce neither the transient disequilibrium processes 
occurring in natural mixtures (e.g. crystallization or 
degassing stages) nor the natural dynamic physical 
properties of silicate melts (e.g. viscous and cohesive 
forces between the natural residual melt and sus−
pended particles and bubbles). The largest part of these 
studies investigate two phase suspensions of either 
liquid and solid particles (simulating crystal bearing 
magma) or liquid and bubbles or vesicles (simulating 
the exsolution of volatile gases). 

 
3.2 MULTIPHASE SILICATE MELT SUSPENSIONS 

The experiments of categories b) and c), above men−

tioned, require significantly more complex experimental 
infrastructure and are substantially more complex to be 
characterized in terms of textural parameters (crystal and 
bubble content; crystals and bubbles size and shape dis−
tributions) but they offer the opportunity to perform 
measurements on materials with direct application to 
the Earth Sciences. The inherent inhomogeneity of geo−
materials and the large variations of the size– and 
shape−distributions found in natural products can, to 
date, not be captured in a satisfactory manner by the 
available theoretical or empirical models. Experiments 
on natural materials at controlled conditions have the 
advantage of being representative of natural scenar−
ios and, in most cases, they allow retrieving, at least, 
the final stage of textural evolution as a function of the 
imposed environmental conditions (i.e. isothermal; 
non−isothermal; isobaric; non−isobaric) as well as 
varying deformation regimes (i.e. constant or varying 
stress and/or strain rate). This allows the reconstruc−
tion of the rheological parameters in a tightly con−
strained parameter space, however it requires unique 
experimental characterization for each studied sce−
nario. When volatile free samples are investigated, 
this kind of experiments can be performed, using a va−
riety of experimental techniques (e.g. rotational con−
centric cylinder/Patterson deformation rig and uniax−
ial compression and/or micropenetration and parallel 
plates techniques; see Appendix A1 for details), over 
the entire temperature−viscosity interval from super− 
to sub−liquidus conditions that are characteristic of 
natural environments. For volatile−bearing natural 
melts and suspensions, this becomes more complex as 
limited experimental infrastructures exist to date to 
measure at the elevated pressures required to maintain 
volatiles in solution. There have been some recent ad−
vances which take advantage of the metastable liquid 
state close to Tg or by using devices which allow the 
sample to be pressurized [Paterson, 1978; Paterson 
and Olgaard, 2000; Caricchi et al., 2007; 2008; Ardia 
et al., 2008; Robert et al., 2008a, b; Piermarini et al., 
1978]. A further advancement is the 4D characteriza−
tion of the sub liquidus evolution of natural melts is 
represented by experiments within synchrotron facil−
ities which allow real time monitoring of the textural 
evolution of samples of volcanological interest during 
crystallization and/or degassing [e.g. Ohtani et al., 
2005; Pistone et al., 2015; Pleše et al., 2018; Polacci et 
al., 2018; Polacci et al., 2010; Song et al., 2001]. These 
techniques are starting to be coupled with devices for 

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rheometry, which may in the future allow for in situ es−
timates of both the crystallization kinetics and the rhe−
ological response of evolving natural systems [Coats 
et al., 2017; Dobson et al., 2015; Dobson et al., 2016; 
Raterron and Merkel, 2009]. The results of experi−
mental campaigns and modelling of the multiphase 
rheology of natural magmatic suspensions performed 
on natural or analogue silicate melts at high temper−
atures will be presented in Section 4.2. 

 
 

4. EXPERIMENTS AND MODELS OF NON-RE-
ACTIVE MULTIPHASE MIXTURES 
Following the results obtained on isothermal bub−

ble−bearing or particle−bearing suspensions rheology 
of analogue materials, simplified silicate melt mixtures 
and natural melts and magmas are here first intro−
duced. Finally I summarize what is known on the ef−
fect of the presence of bubbles+crystals on suspension 
rheology measurements performed at constant tem−
perature. 

 
4.1 MODELS OF BUBBLE SUSPENSION RHE-

OLOGY 
Early studies estimating the effect of void spaces 

within natural and simplified silicate melts [e.g. Bag−
dassarov and Dingwell, 1992, 1993; Lejeunne et al., 
1999; Vona et al., 2016; Ryan et al., 2019] or synthetic 
analogues [e.g. Manga et al., 1998; Llewellin et al., 
2002a, b; Llewellin and Manga, 2005] has been car−
ried out by several authors. Those investigations 
showed, largely, that, two end member cases can be 
considered: 1) bubbles behave as rigid objects (capil−
lary number Ca<1); 2) bubble are deformed (Ca>1) 
[Llewellin et al., 2002a,b]. For the different regimes 
various empirical equations were proposed [Bagdas−
sarov and Dingwell, 1992; Lejeunne et al., 1999; 
Llewellin et al., 2002; Llewellin and Manga, 2005] 
(details in Appendix A3) which suggested that, dur−
ing steady flow: a) an increase in relative viscosity 
in the case of the first end−member (Ca<1) and b) a 
decrease of the relative viscosity in the case of sec−
ond end member condition (Ca>1) can be observed. 
Additional complexities are introduced, as discussed 
in Appendix A3, for non−steady flow for which the 
definition of a dynamic capillary number (Cd) is re−
quired. The same authors [e.g. Lejeune and Richet, 
1996; Bagdassarov and Pinkerton, 2004, Llewellin et 
al., 2002, Llewellin and Manga, 2005] also provided 

important attainments concerning the understanding 
of the effect of closed and opened voids on liquid 
viscosity [e.g. Lejeune et al., 1999; Bagdassarov and 
Dingwell, 1992; Quane and Russell, 2004; Llewellin 
et al., 2002a, b; Llewellin and Manga, 2005; Mader 
et al., 2013; Vona et al., 2016; Ryan et al., 2019]. A 
summary of recent formulations and works related to 
both crystal bearing and bubble bearing rheological 
studies is reported in Appendix A3. 

 
4.2 FROM SHEAR-RATE INDEPENDENT TO SHEAR-

RATE DEPENDENT PARTICLE SUSPENSION RHE-
OLOGY MODELS OF ANALOGUE MATERIALS 

Early studies on the rheological behavior of mul−
tiphase suspensions [e.g. Einstein, 1906; Roscoe, 
1952; Krieger and Dougherty, 1959; Gay et al., 1969; 
Pinkerton and Stevenson, 1992] suggested a thresh−
old in solid fraction, the so−called crystal maximum 
packing fraction (φc), that separates a liquid domi−
nated rheology from a solid−dominated rheology. 
For dilute suspensions of solid mono−disperse spher−
ical particles (φ < 3 vol%) Einstein [1906] proposed that 
the relative viscosity ηr (i.e. the ratio between the vis−
cosity of the particle−bearing suspension and that of 
the particule−free melts) could be calculated as: ηr = 
(1+ Bφ), where B is a constant depending on object ge−
ometrical features (B=2.5 for spheres). Roscoe [1952] 
extended Einstein’s expression to higher concentration 
of spheres, by first defining the maximum crystal 
packing fraction (φm) and providing for the relative 
viscosity the following expression: ηr = (1 + φ/φm)

−2.5. 
Different φm values were proposed by different authors 
depending on crystal geometry (see appendix A3 for 
more details). Later, Krieger and Daugherty [1959] 
generalized the previous expressions as it follows: ηr 
= (1 + φ/φm)

−Beφm where Be is a constant called the 
Einstein coefficient (KD model). Others similar ex−
pressions were formulated for which different value of 
the Be coefficients were determined (see appendix A3). 
Although widely applied, a limitation of those empir−
ical or semi−empirical laws is that they do not account 
for neither the strain−rate dependence nor the exis−
tence of, although still debated, yield strength [Moitra 
and Gonnermann, 2015] of multiphase mixtures typ−
ical of non−Newtonian fluid (see appendix A3 for 
more details). For a review on the two phase rheology 
of particle bearing analogue suspensions the reader can 
refer to Mader et al. [2013], who presented a compre−
hensive review on this topic 

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4.3 NON-NEWTONIAN MODELS FOR PARTICLE SUS-
PENSION RHEOLOGY OF SIMPLIFIED SILICATE MIX-
TURES 
Concerning magma−equivalent suspensions, more 

recently, Caricchi et al. [2007], Costa et al. [2007a, 2009], 
based on the available experimental data obtained at 
constant temperature, presented models describing the 
non−Newtonian strain−rate−dependent rheological ef−
fects of crystals in the range of solid fractions from 0 to 
0.8 and over. These models cover the transition from the 
regime where the deformation behavior is controlled by 
melt viscosity up to the beginning of the regime where 
the deformation behavior is controlled by a solid frame−
work of interlocking particles. The most detailed and 
comprehensive model to date proposed by Costa et al. 
[2009] model (CM) (Eqs. A3.3−A3.4.), describes the rel−
ative viscosity ηr (i.e. the viscosity of a crystal melt mix−
ture (ηmix) divided by the viscosity of the melt phase 
(ηr)). The CM model is the result of the combined math−
ematical and experimental efforts condensed in the 
works of Costa [2005], Costa et al. [2007a] that was used 
by Caricchi et al. [2007] to describe their experimental 
data. Compared to previous models [e.g., Einstein−
Roscoe, 1952; Costa, 2005; Caricchi et al., 2007], the CM 
model accounts for the strain−rate dependent changes 
in the rheology of liquid+crystal mixtures. The model in 
particular shows that the strain rate dependence of the 
relative viscosity at varying crystal volume fractions 
follows a sigmoid curve with exponential increase above 
a critical solid fraction (φc ~ 0.3−0.4) which is also a 
function of strain rate and crystal shape. This model is 
consistent with the early Einstein−Roscoe equation [Ein−
stein, 1906; Roscoe, 1952] for crystal fractions in the 
range of 0 to 0.1−0.3 depending on crystal shape and 
size [e.g. Cimarelli et al., 2011]. A summary of the main 
results obtained by the employment of the CM and a 
summary of its original formulation are reported in 
Appendix A3. Extension of CM devoted to characterize 
the effect of crystal size and shape distribution and sus−
pended particle ratio and particle roughness are dis−
cussed in Appendix A3. 

 
4.4 NON-NEWTONIAN STRAIN-RATE DEPENDENT MOD-

ELS FOR PARTICLE SUSPENSION RHEOLOGY OF 
NATURAL MIXTURES 
 The fermenting production of studies [Shaw et al., 

1968; Lejeune and Richet, 1995; Giordano et al., 2007; 
Caricchi et al., 2007, 2008; Ishibashi, 2009; Vetere et al., 
2010, 2017; Vona et al., 2011; Pistone et al., 2012, 2016; 

Chevrel et al., 2015, 2017; Campagnola et al., 2016] de−
voted to the characterization of the isothermal viscos−
ity evolution of silicate melts at subliquidus tempera−
ture as a function of presence and size and shape 
distributions of crystals and bubbles and deformation 
regimes of the last twenty years has permitted extraor−
dinary advances that are condensed in empirical and 
theoretical models of suspension rheology [Saar et al., 
2001; Caricchi et al., 2007; Costa et al., 2009; Mueller et 
al., 2011; Vona et al., 2011; Moitra and Gonnermann, 
2015]. According to the comprehensive model of Costa 
et al. [2009] (CM) (see Section 3.1), inspired by the pre−
vious work of Costa [2005], Costa et al. [2007a] and Car−
icchi et al. [2007], the relative viscosity of two−phase 
mixture increases following a sigmoid curve with ex−
ponential increase above a critical solid fraction (φc) 
corresponding to the first (phi~0.3−0.4) inflection point. 
A second inflection point (φm) at phi ~0.6−0.7 is deter−
mined by the beginning of crystal dominated rheology 
(Figure A3.3). 

Since the seminal contributions of Caricchi et al. 
[2007] and Costa et al. [2009], numerous scientists pro−
vided new and more complete formulation of the crit−
ical crystal fraction (φc) for the natural variability in of 
crystal size and shape distribution which would also ac−
count for new variables (e.g. crystal surface roughness) 
[e.g. Mueller et al., 2011; Klein et al., 2018]. The em−
ployment of these critical contributions have allowed 
interpreting, based on model calculations, the effect of 
rheological constraints on eruptive behavior. 

 
4.5 MODELS FOR PARTICLES AND BUBBLES SUSPEN-

SION RHEOLOGY 
Complex three−phase suspensions (i.e. liquid+bub−

bles+crystals) have been investigated in only a few 
studies [Cordonnier et al., 2009; Robert et al., 2008a, b; 
Lavalleé et al., 2007, 2008; Vona et al., 2013, 2017; 
Campagnola et al., 2016; Pistone et al., 2012, 2015, 
2016]. Given their complexity only a fewer studies have 
provided preliminary models describing the complex 
rheology of three−phase mixtures [Pistone et al., 2012, 
2013, 2015, 2016]. The viscosity data presented in those 
studies are the same as those presented in Pistone et al 
[2012], but the authors apply their results to different 
geological context by showing that size− and shape−
distributions of crystals and bubbles may significantly 
vary while undergoing certain stress−strain regimes. 
The experiments by Pistone et al. [2012] were per−
formed at pressurized and isothermal temperature con−

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ditions in a Paterson device (Appendix A1) on samples 
for which the liquid+crystal rheology was characterized 
by Caricchi et al. [2007]. They show that bubbles 
strongly affect the rheological properties of crystal−
rich mushes. By presenting a comprehensive review of 
existing literature and performing new measurements, 
they estimated that a decrease of up to 4 orders of 
magnitude is observed by the addition of only 9 vol% 
of bubbles to a liquid+crystals suspension containing 70 
vol% of crystals. They also established that two non−
Newtonian deformation regimes originate as a conse−
quence of the bubble and crystal interaction: i) a shear 
thinning behavior result of the crystal size reduction and 
shear banding due to strain localization [also observed 
by Caricchi et al., 2008] which is typical of magmas 
which are transported and emplaced in Earth’s crust and 
may feed eruptions; ii) a shear thickening behavior 
which is the consequence of crystal interlock and flow 
blockage which they argue locks plutonic rocks in the 
lower and upper crust, inhibiting eruptions. More details 
of the results obtained by the works of Pistone and 
coauthors are provided in Appendix A3.3. 

 
 

5. NON-ISOTHERMAL COOLING-RATE AND 
STRAIN-RATE DEPENDENT RHEOLOGY OF 
VOLCANIC MATERIALS 

 
Efforts to systematically describe and predict magma 

migration and lava flow behavior rely heavily on these 
experimental measurements to derive empirical models. 
However, during migration and transport of silicate melts 
in the Earth’s crust and at its surface magma/lava can ex−
perience varying cooling and deformation conditions 
which may drastically influence its thermorheological 
evolution; see for example Rhéty et al. [2017] and Robert 
et al. [2014]. As a consequence, data intended for appli−
cation to the natural environment will have to account for 
the disequilibrium behavior of natural magmatic sus−
pensions. Cooling rates of basaltic lavas, measured at the 
surface and within active lava channels during emplace−
ment range from ~0.01 to 15 C/min [Cashman et al., 1999; 
Flynn and Mouginis−Mark, 1992; Hon et al., 1994; Wit−
ter and Harris, 2007; Kolzenburg et al., 2017]. These val−
ues are largely representative for the exterior part of 
lava flows or for the initial cooling of newly emplaced 
dikes. They can, therefore, be taken as maximum cool−
ing rates that are expected to be lower in the interior of 
the lava flow or a cooling dike. The importance of vary−

ing thermal conditions on the crystallization kinetics and 
textural development of silicate melts has been recognized 
for decades and inspired disequilibrium experimentation 
in petrology and volcanology [e.g. Walker et al., 1976; 
Arzilli and Carroll, 2013; Coish and Taylor, 1979; Gam−
ble and Taylor, 1980; Hammer, 2006; Lofgren, 1980; 
Long and Wood, 1986; Pinkerton and Sparks, 1978; 
Giordano et al., 2007; Vetere et al., 2013]. These studies 
highlight that significant differences in textures and par−
agenesis emerge when moving from equilibrium to dis−
equilibrium conditions that can, in turn, affect the flow 
behavior. Albeit a growing experimental disequilibrium 
database is becoming available no models for the dise−
quilibrium phase dynamics of natural silicate melts have 
been developed to date. 

Understanding the rheological evolution of crystalliz−
ing melts, magmas and volcanic products requires direct 
measurement of the flow properties of investigated ma−
terials at such disequilibrium conditions in the field or in 
the laboratory. In such environments, the studied mate−
rials are degassed and undergoes transient increases in 
viscosity as it is increasingly undercooling until a “rhe−
ological cut−off temperature” [Giordano et al., 2007; 
Kolzenburg et al., 2016, 2017, 2018a, b, c; 2019] is reached 
and the lava rheologically solidifies. This transient rhe−
ological gradient, which occurs in all natural, non−
isothermal environments, governs the lavas emplacement 
style. In recent years, the first sets of measurements were 
presented that constrain the rheological evolution of 
natural silicate melts under temperature− and deforma−
tion−conditions pertinent to the transport of silicate melts 
on the earth’s surface and in shallow magma plumbing 
systems. The recovered data show a strong dependence of 
composition [Kolzenburg et al., 2017, 2018a], cooling−rate 
[Giordano et al., 2007; Kolzenburg et al., 2016, 2017], 
oxygen fugacity [Kolzenburg et al., 2018a] and shear−rate 
[Kolzenburg et al., 2018] on the thermorheological evo−
lution of natural silicate melts. They represent the first 
contributions to a growing database of lava rheology un−
der natural conditions. However, significant experimen−
tal effort in this field is required to expand the range of 
available data to cover the most relevant compositions 
and to experimentally map the range of parameters per−
tinent to flow of natural silicate melts under disequilib−
rium. Such a database would then allow deducing the un−
derlying processess and expanding these into a theoretical 
description of the flow behavior of magma and lava. So 
far, the main limitation of this kind of studies is the dif−
ficulty to monitor, and therefore extend, the results to 

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non−degassed materials and therefore the application to 
intra−crustal magmatic or explosive volcanic processes. 
According to previous authors [e.g. Melnik and Sparks, 
1999, 2005; Costa and Macedonio, 2003, 2005; Costa et 
al., 2007b; Hess et al., 2008; Cordonnier et al., 2012] an 
additional complexity could be due to the effects of non−
linear thermal effects, potentially generated by viscous 
dissipation and loss by conduction at the contact between 
the molten material and the hosting rock, in conduits, and 
channels or tunnels after eruption to the surface. The 
nonlinear behaviour of thermal effect are mainly gov−
erned by specific non−dimensional numbers (Graetz; 
Nahme; Prandtl; Reynolds regimes), which according to 
Costa et al. [2007b], amongst the others above mentioned, 
may determine the necessity to distinguish between three 
main regimes − a conductive−heat−loss−dominated 
regime, an intermediate regime and a viscous−heating−
dominated − may have significant effects for the defini−
tion of the rheological behaviour and emplacement dy−
namics of lava flows and lava domes. 

Figure 4 shows a summary of rheological data recov−
ered using a variety of experimental methods on Etna 
melts. The melt compositions, albeit stemming from dif−

ferent eruptions, are similar for most major oxides with 
the exception of the sample from Vona et al. [2017], that 
is more rich in silica and poor in iron and, as a result, 
more viscous than the samples in Vona et al. [2011] and 
Kolzenburg [2018]. 

For the investigated degassed materials these data 
summary highlights a number of effects acting during the 
transport of magma and lava at sub liquidus conditions. 
Comparison of the pure liquid viscosity of the remelted 
bulk rock and the separated groundmass [Vona et al., 
2017]; triangles documents that, for basaltic melts, crys−
tallization induced changes in melt composition result in 
relatively small changes in the viscosity of the liquid 
phase of the evolving suspension. 

Therefore, the variations of the flow behavior of crys−
tallizing basalts are controlled by variations in the vol−
umetric fractions of crystals and bubbles. These data also 
reflect the measurement limits of the respective methods 
that are described in more detail in Kolzenburg et al. 
[2016a]. Concentric cylinder suspension viscometry for 
these Etnean lavas is confined to <104 Pa s and shows that 
the measured viscosities at constant temperature (i.e. at 
or near thermodynamic and textural equilibrium) are 
commonly higher than non−isothermal measurements 
at the same temperature. This is due to the fact that un−
der dynamic thermal conditions, the crystal nucleation 
and growth kinetics lag behind the equilibrium state and 
commonly produce lower crystal contents. The non−
isothermal viscosity data from Kolzenburg et al. [2018c] 
document that both cooling−rate (blue circles vs. red 
squares) and shear rate (open vs. filled symbols) exert a 
modulating effect on the disequilibrium rheology of the 
Etna melt. Measurements beyond the mechanical limit of 
concentric cylinder (CC) viscometry were presented in 
Vona et al. [2017] who employed parallel plate (PP) vis−
cometry via unconfined uniaxial deformation (open black 
stars) to measure the viscosity of three phase magmatic 
suspensions. The data form an apparent continuing trend 
with respect to the concentric cylinder viscometry mea−
surements but document lower lava viscosities than ex−
trapolation from the two phase measurements would 
suggest. This is likely a result of the differences in sam−
ple texture, where all CC data are restricted to bubble free 
two phase suspensions of crystals and melt, whereas the 
PP data are measured on three phase (i.e. crystal and bub−
ble bearing) suspensions. 

In summary, the rheological evolution of lava at sub−
liquidus conditions can be reconstructed neatly by com−
bination of datasets from differing sources. This is also 

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FIGURE 4. Summary of available melt and crystal−suspension vis−
cosity data on remelted Etnean lava as a function of 
temperature. Melt viscosity measurements (open black 
diamonds, black circles and black triangles) were per−
formed via concentric cylinder viscometry, micro 
penetration and differential scanning calorimetry; 
Sub liquidus viscosity measurements were preformed 
using 1) concentric cylinder viscometry at constant tem−
perature (black circles), 2) concentric cylinder viscometry 
at varying cooling− and shear−rates (open and filled 
red squared and blue diamonds) and 3) parallel plate 
viscometry via unconfined uniaxial deformation (open 
black stars). K&' 18; V& '11 and V& '17 refer to work 
published by Kolzenburg et al (2018), Vona et al. (2011) 
and Vona et al (2017).



shown in Figure 3 in Kolzenburg et al., [2019, this issue], 
where laboratory and field estimates of lava rheology at 
emplacement conditions are compared and the respective 
data fall within a range of similar values. This highlights 
the potential of cross correlation of data from different 
experimental and field sources and the need to expand the 
available experimental database in order to generate a 
holistic view of the dynamics of magma and lava trans−
port. 

 
 

6. ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF RETRIEVING RHEO-
LOGICAL INFORMATION FROM REMOTE 
SENSING GROUND- OR SATELLITE-BASED 
TECHNIQUES 
 
Besides laboratory viscometry (i.e. the direct mea−

surement of melt / suspension viscosity under controlled 
conditions) there are several other sources of rheological 
information that are useful to place the laboratory mea−
surements in context of the natural environment. This 
kind of information is important as it allows accounting 
for the multiphase nature of lava bodies and can serve to 
place the laboratory measurements within the framework 
of conditions relevant in natural scenarios. However, to 
date such data only represents a very limited source of in−
formation of the rheological evolution of lava flows, in 
space and time. This is largely due to large logistical and 
financial efforts required for some of these measurements 
and to the uncertainties associated. Broadly these ap−
proaches can be separated into: 

1. Direct measurement of viscosity on active lava flows 
via penetration− or rotational−viscometry [Einars−
son, 1949; Gauthier, 1973; Panov et al., 1988; Pinker−
ton and Sparks, 1978; Belousov et al., 2015; Belousov 
and Belousova, 2018; Shaw et al., 1968; Pinkerton 
and Norton, 1995; Pinkerton and Wilson, 1994; 
Chevrel et al., 2018]. These represent snapshots of 
actual lava flow rheology at specific conditions and 
provide data that help to constrain the conditions re−
quired to be reproduced in systematic laboratory 
studies. However, such measurements are quite dif−
ficult and require significant logistical effort and 
manpower. Further, the available devices [e.g. Be−
lousov and Belousova, 2018; Chevrel et al., 2018] for 
such measurements are only slowly advancing to be 
able to measure all relevant parameters sufficient−
ly well to recover high quality viscosity data (Ap−
pendix, A1.5). 

2. Calculation of the apparent viscosity based on Jef−
freys’ equations [e.g. Jeffrey, 1925; Hulme, 1974] (Ap−
pendix 4, SMO) using flow rate measurements of ac−
tive lavas in channelized flows [Naboko, 1938; 
Nichols, 1939; Minakami, 1951; Einarsson, 1966; 
Walker, 1967; Gautier, 1973; Moore, 1978; Andreev, 
1978; Fink and Zimbelman, 1986; Vande−Kirkov, 
1987; Panov, 1988; Soldati, 2016; Belusov and Be−
lousova, 2018]. Such data are still few due to the dif−
ficulty of accessing active lava flows. However, the 
development of affordable unmanned aerial vehi−
cles (UAV’s) in recent years appears to be promis−
ing making this method widely applicable with the 
opportune considerations. In fact, the above men−
tioned approach has strong limitations as it is based 
on the assumption of parabolic velocity profile that 
is not generally valid because of thermal effects [e.g. 
Costa and Macedonio, 2003, 2005; Costa et al., 2007b; 
Filippucci et al., 2013 and Filippucci et al., 2019, this 
issue] (details at Section 3.1.2). Such aspect is still 
never considered to describe the nonlinear dynam−
ic of lava flows and lava domes rheology [Melnik 
and Sparks, 1999, 2005; Melnik et al., 2009]. To an 
adequate analysis of this contribution for specific cas−
es, it is recommended to refer, for instance, to the 
above mentioned works and e.g. Filippucci et al. 
[2019, this issue].  

3. Ties between lava flow geometry and viscosity. Mor−
phological−derived rheological parameters (i.e. vis−
cosity and yield strength) are commonly obtained 
in planetary sciences [Heisinger et al., 2007; Cas−
truccio et al., 2010 and Chevrel et al., 2015] provide 
excellent reviews of the employed equations and re−
sults). Rheological information is obtained by re−
trieving, in the field or remotely also from satellites, 
length, width, thickness and slope of emplacement 
of lava flows. This methodology has also been ap−
plied based remote sensing data collected during ac−
tive flow emplacement [James et al., 2015; Farquarson 
et al., 2015; Kolzenburg et al., 2018a]. Also in this 
case, the emplacement of lava flows is commonly 
modelled using a single rheological parameter (ap−
parent viscosity or apparent yield strength) calcu−
lated from morphological dimensions using Jeffreys’ 
and Hulme’s [Jeffrey and Acrivos, 1976; Hulme, 1974] 
equations. The rheological parameters are then 
typically further interpreted in terms of the nature 
and chemical composition of the lava (e.g., mafic or 
felsic). Chevrel et al. [2013, 2015] employing this 

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methodology has shown that providing an unique 
factor to describe rheology of lava flows is definitely 
far from being representative of the real emplace−
ment dynamics of lava flows. As above mentioned 
(Point 2), given the nonlinear dynamics of lava flows 
and domes, which may determine significant ther−
mal effects, significant limitations may be observed 
and should be carefully considered before applying 
to any natural context [e.g. Costa and Macedonio, 
2003, 2005; Costa et al., 2007b; Filippucci et al., 2013 
and Filippucci et al., 2019, this issue]. 

4. Ties between the intensity of thermal anomalies 
generated by actively flowing lava and its silica 
content and therewith discharge rate of lavas [e.g. 
Coppola et al., 2013, 2017]. This approach takes ad−
vantage of the fact that low viscosity lavas are 
readily able to spread into thin sheets during flow, 
whereas high viscosity lavas usually retain low−
er aspect ratios. Since the heat loss of a lava is 
largely governed by its surface to volume ratio, its 
spreading ability (i.e. viscosity) can, empirically, 
be correlated to the measured heat loss. Over the 
last decades such satellite−based remote sensing 
and data processing techniques have proved well 
suited to complement field observations and to al−
low timely eruption detection, as well as for flow 
tracking.  

 
 

7. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND OUTLOOK 
 
The present review shows the extraordinary improved 

knowledge of rheological properties of multicomponent 
and multiphase silicate melts occurring in the last twenty 
years. Such knowledge advancement has been due to the 
necessity of constraining natural processes and parallel 
the development of new technological advances, fre−
quently obtained to face specific problems. It has been 
observed that the continuously evolving rheology of 
magmas and eruptive products during their ascent, erup−
tion and emplacement can be described with increasing 
accuracy and specifically applied to geological issues 
with improved confidence. The observed transition be−
tween Newtonian to strongly non−Newtonian rheologi−
cal behaviour is typical of both simple liquids and/or 
multiphase natural mixtures. These transitions govern the 
observed eruption dynamics and the eruption dynamic 
transitions, potentially determining also whether an erup−
tion will be effusive or explosive.  

The employment of the rheological flow laws for mul−
ticomponent and multiphase silicate melts find a very 
promising application to constraining the advancement 
and halting of lava flows. For these superficial phenom−
ena, the opportunity of monitoring important variables 
such as the discharge rate and the topography of em−
placement provide fundamental advantage for the em−
ployment of numerical simulations tools. These have al−
lowed showing that more accurate estimates of the effects 
of crystals and bubbles during lava flow emplacement can 
be obtained only by real−time monitoring of lava flows 
through field and remote sensing methods paralleled by 
a proper experimental campaign, which in particular 
would account and would be related to the non−equilib−
rium, non−isothermal rheology of multiphase mixtures. 

This progress in understanding the mechanisms of ad−
vancement and emplacement of lava flows and domes has 
also been made possible recently thanks to the recent em−
placement of large long−lasting silicic to basaltic effusive 
eruptions. Prior to 2008, for instance, no rhyolite lava 
flow−forming eruptive event was observed or docu−
mented. Hence, the real−time observations of active rhy−
olitic flow and dome emplacement at the Chilean volca−
noes of Chaitén [Carn et al., 2009; Lara 2009; Bernstein 
et al., 2013; Pallister et al., 2013] and Puyehue−Cordón 
Caulle significantly developed our knowledge of rhyolitic 
lava emplacement [Castro et al., 2013; Schipper et al., 
2013; Tuffen et al., 2013; Bertin et al., 2015; Farquhar−
son et al., 2015; Magnall et al., 2017]. Analogously the 
long lasting 2014−2015 basaltic eruption at Holuhraun, 
Bardarbunga system, Iceland [e.g. Pedersen et al., 2017], 
offered the opportunity to establish/calibrate, through the 
contemporaneous employment of field work, remote 
sensing techniques [Kolzenburg et al., 2018a] and labo−
ratory experimentation [Kolzenburg et al., 2017], which 
allow retrieving thermal properties, estimates of effusion 
rate [Coppola et al., 2013, 2017] and evaluate the effect 
of bubbles by comparison with experimental campaign on 
liquid+ crystals material as collected during eruption 
[Kolzenburg et al., 2017, 2018 a,b]. Worth mentioning is 
also the integrated field, remote sensing, physical prop−
erties and physical modelling and numerical simulations 
studies performed in the recent years for intermediate 
compositions producing effusive activities [Chevrel et 
al., 2013 a,b; 2015]. For andesitic domes huge progresses 
in understanding the non−linear thermal effects which 
determine non−linear eruption dynamics has been made 
by previous authors [e.g. Costa et al., 2007b; Melnik and 
Sparks, 1999, 2005; Melnik et al., 2009]. Although the 

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purposes of this paper is to mostly describe the develop−
ment of rheological properties in relationship to the em−
placement of lavas, most of the general results obtained 
here, and in particular those related to the effect of crys−
tals and vesicle on multiphase rheology, can be extended 
to eruption dynamics of explosive phases. 

Some of the main results deduced by application of 
the existing rheological models and experimental stud−
ies, supported by petrological analysis and field work, al−
lowed to unequivocally show that lava flow emplace−
ment may be a long lasting process also for silicic 
magmas and that flow may continued also unrooted 
from the vent for long times [e.g. Farquarson et al., 
2015] and that extremely voluminous silicic lava flows 
may be emplaced in relatively short time without giv−
ing origin to significant explosive stages [Tuffen et al., 
2013; Farquarson et al., 2015; Giordano et al., 2017; Polo 
et al., 2018a, b]. In addition, Kolzenburg et al [2016, 2017, 
2018] showed that disequilibrium, cooling− and shear−
rate controlled rheological properties may have funda−
mental influence in determining the effective length of 
basaltic lava flows. 

Although the results evidenced by performing non−
equilibrium, non−isothermal, transient rheology of 
basaltic lava flows, are promising and provided a first 
understanding of lava flow rheology under natural con−
ditions, it is possible to anticipate that future studies will 
require performing this kind of experiments also to a 
wider range of effusive products.  

 
 

 I would like to thank Stephan Kolzen-
burg and Kelly Russell for sharing ideas and help in the reor-
ganization of the manuscript. Fabio Arzilli and an anonymous 
reviewer are also acknowledged for the careful revision of the 
manuscript. Daniele Giordano acknowledges the University of 
Turin for support provided by the local research funds 
(2017/2020). 
 
 
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*CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Daniele GIORDANO, 

Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra 

Torino, Italy 

 

email: daniele.giordano@unito.it 

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>> setdistillerparams
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  /HWResolution [2400 2400]
  /PageSize [595.000 842.000]
>> setpagedevice