Viscosities of natural magmas.

(a) Comparison between the pre-eruptive viscosity of volcanic products from

the literature27 67 68 (squares) and those of hybrids (blue stars) shown on Figs
, ,

5, 6, 7. Colour code indicates the compositional range. Open squares

correspond to erupted products bearing no evidence of mixing. (b) For those
which have such evidence, the type of mixing texture is shown on panel (b)
for each erupted product. The horizontal grey thick line gives the empirical
upper viscosity limit beyond which no magma is apparently erupted.