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Reply to: Sensitivity of Santorini eruption model predictions to input conditions

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replying to R. J. Walker et al. Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01268-2 (2023)

We thank Walker et al.1 for their interest in our Article2. We refer interested readers to an earlier version of this exchange3,4. Walker et al.1 agree with our main conclusion that most of Santorini’s eruptions for the considered period occurred during low sea level. They have also reproduced our numerical model, thereby supporting its mathematical correctness, but have concerns with some of the boundary, geometric and loading conditions. We argue that in the new numerical models provided by Walker et al.1 the loading conditions are incorrect, the suggested geometry is inappropriate and the boundary conditions are less realistic than in our model. We conclude that that their ‘sensitivity analysis’ and model with an added ‘mantle analogue’ (which assumes constant sea level) are neither applicable to our study nor the volcanotectonic processes that our model explains through sea-level changes.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK

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  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  3. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK

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Gudmundsson, A., Bazargan, M. & Satow, C. Reply to: Sensitivity of Santorini eruption model predictions to input conditions. Nat. Geosci. 16, 854–855 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01269-1

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