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Y. K. Sohn 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1995,56(8):660-674
Detailed mapping of Tok Island, located in the middle of the East Sea (Sea of Japan), along with lithofacies analysis and K-Ar age determinations reveal that the island is of early to late Pliocene age and comprises eight rock units: Trachyte I, Unit P-I, Unit P-II, Trachyandesite (2.7±0.1 Ma), Unit P-III, Trachyte II (2.7±0.1 Ma), Trachyte III (2.5±0.1 Ma) and dikes in ascending stratigraphic order. Trachyte I is a mixture of coherent trachytic lavas and breccias that are interpreted to be subaqueous lavas and related hyaloclastites. Unit P-I comprises massive and inversely graded basaltic breccias which resulted from subaerial gain flows and subaqueous debris flows. A basalt clast from the unit, derived from below Trachyte I, has an age of 4.6±0.4 Ma. Unit P-II is composed of graded and stratified lapilli tuffs with the characteristics of proximal pyroclastic surge deposits. The Trachyandesite is a massive subaerial lava ponded in a volcano-tectonic depression, probably a summit crater. A pyroclastic sequence containing flattened scoria clasts (Unit P-III) and a small volume subaerial lava (Trachyte II) occur above the Trachyandesite, suggesting resumption of pyroclastic activity and lava effusion. Afterwards, shallow intrusion of magma occurred, producing Trachyte III and trachyte dikes.The eight rock units provide an example of the changing eruptive and depositional processes and resultant succession of lithofacies as a seamount builds up above sea level to form an island volcano: Trachyte I represents a wholly subaqueous and effusive stage; Units P-I and P-II represent Surtseyan and Taalian eruptive phases during an explosive transitional (subaqueous to emergent) stage; and the other rock units represent later subaerial effusive and explosive stages. Reconstruction of volcano morphology suggests that the island is a remnant of the south-western crater rim of a volcano the vent of which lies several hundred meters to the north-east. 相似文献
2.
Pliocene–Recent volcanic outcrops at Seal Nunataks and Beethoven Peninsula (Antarctic Peninsula) are remnants of several
monogenetic volcanoes formed by eruption of vesiculating basaltic magma into shallow water, in an englacial environment. The
diversity of sedimentary and volcanic lithofacies present in the Antarctic Peninsula outcrops provides a clear illustration
of the wide range of eruptive, transportational and depositional processes which are associated with englacial Surtseyan volcanism.
Early-formed pillow lava and glassy breccia, representing a pillow volcano stage of construction, are draped by tephra erupted
explosively during a tuff cone stage. The tephra was resedimented around the volcano flanks, mainly by coarse-grained sediment
gravity flows. Fine-grained lithofacies are rare, and fine material probably bypassed the main volcanic edifice, accumulating
in the surrounding englacial basin. The pattern of sedimentation records variations in eruption dynamics. Products of continuous-uprush
eruptions are thought to be represented by stacks of poorly bedded gravelly sandstone, whereas better bedded, lithologically
more diverse sequences accumulated during periods of quiescence or effusive activity. Evidence for volcano flank failure is
common. In Seal Nunataks, subaerial lithofacies (mainly lavas and cinder cone deposits) are volumetrically minor and occur
at a similar stratigraphical position to pillow lava, suggesting that glacial lake drainage may have occurred prior to or
during deposition of the subaerial lithofacies. By contrast, voluminous subaerial effusion in Beethoven Peninsula led to the
development of laterally extensive stratified glassy breccias representing progradation of hyaloclastite deltas.
Received: 5 February 1996 / Accepted: 17 January 1997 相似文献
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Causes and consequences of bimodal grain-size distribution of tephra fall deposited during the August 2006 Tungurahua eruption (Ecuador) 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Julia Eychenne Jean-Luc Le Pennec Liliana Troncoso Mathieu Gouhier Jean-Marie Nedelec 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2012,74(1):187-205
The violent August 16–17, 2006 Tungurahua eruption in Ecuador witnessed the emplacement of numerous scoria flows and the deposition
of a widespread tephra layer west of the volcano. We assess the size of the eruption by determining a bulk tephra volume in
the range 42–57 × 106 m3, which supports a Volcanic Explosivity Index 3 event, consistent with calculated column height of 16–18 km above the vent
and making it the strongest eruptive phase since the volcano’s magmatic reactivation in 1999. Isopachs west of the volcano
are sub-bilobate in shape, while sieve and laser diffraction grain-size analyses of tephra samples reveal strongly bimodal
distributions. Based on a new grain-size deconvolution algorithm and extended sampling area, we propose here a mechanism to
account for the bimodal grain-size distribution. The deconvolution procedure allows us to identify two particle subpopulations
in the deposit with distinct characteristics that indicate dissimilar transport-depositional processes. The log-normal coarse-grained
subpopulation is typical of particles transported downwind by the main volcanic plume. The positively skewed, fine-grained
subpopulation in the tephra fall layer shares close similarities with the elutriated co-pyroclastic flow ash cloud layers
preserved on top of the scoria flow deposits. The area with the higher fine particle content in the tephra layer coincides
with the downwind prolongation of the pyroclastic flow deposits. These results indicate that the bimodal distribution of grain
size in the Tungurahua fall deposit results from synchronous deposition of lapilli from the main plume and fine ash elutriated
from scoria flows emplaced on the western flank of the volcano. Our study also reveals that inappropriate grain-size data
processing may produce misleading determination of eruptive type. 相似文献
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Christopher F. Waythomas 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1999,61(3):141-161
Akutan Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian arc, but until recently little was known about its history
and eruptive character. Following a brief but sustained period of intense seismic activity in March 1996, the Alaska Volcano
Observatory began investigating the geology of the volcano and evaluating potential volcanic hazards that could affect residents
of Akutan Island. During these studies new information was obtained about the Holocene eruptive history of the volcano on
the basis of stratigraphic studies of volcaniclastic deposits and radiocarbon dating of associated buried soils and peat.
A black, scoria-bearing, lapilli tephra, informally named the "Akutan tephra," is up to 2 m thick and is found over most of
the island, primarily east of the volcano summit. Six radiocarbon ages on the humic fraction of soil A-horizons beneath the
tephra indicate that the Akutan tephra was erupted approximately 1611 years B.P. At several locations the Akutan tephra is
within a conformable stratigraphic sequence of pyroclastic-flow and lahar deposits that are all part of the same eruptive
sequence. The thickness, widespread distribution, and conformable stratigraphic association with overlying pyroclastic-flow
and lahar deposits indicate that the Akutan tephra likely records a major eruption of Akutan Volcano that may have formed
the present summit caldera. Noncohesive lahar and pyroclastic-flow deposits that predate the Akutan tephra occur in the major
valleys that head on the volcano and are evidence for six to eight earlier Holocene eruptions. These eruptions were strombolian
to subplinian events that generated limited amounts of tephra and small pyroclastic flows that extended only a few kilometers
from the vent. The pyroclastic flows melted snow and ice on the volcano flanks and formed lahars that traveled several kilometers
down broad, formerly glaciated valleys, reaching the coast as thin, watery, hyperconcentrated flows or water floods. Slightly
cohesive lahars in Hot Springs valley and Long valley could have formed from minor flank collapses of hydrothermally altered
volcanic bedrock. These lahars may be unrelated to eruptive activity.
Received: 31 August 1998 / Accepted: 30 January 1999 相似文献
5.
R. Sulpizio R. Bonasia P. Dellino D. Mele M. A. Di Vito L. La Volpe 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2010,72(5):559-577
Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) generated during the Plinian eruption of the Pomici di Avellino (PdA) of Somma–Vesuvius
were investigated through field and laboratory studies, which allowed the detailed reconstruction of their eruptive and transportation
dynamics and the calculation of key physical parameters of the currents. PDCs were generated during all the three phases that
characterised the eruption, with eruptive dynamics driven by both magmatic and phreatomagmatic fragmentation. Flows generated
during phases 1 and 2 (EU1 and EU3pf, magmatic fragmentation) have small dispersal areas and affected only part of the volcano
slopes. Lithofacies analysis demonstrates that the flow-boundary zones were dominated by granular-flow regimes, which sometimes
show transitions to traction regimes. PDCs generated during eruptive phase 3 (EU5, phreatomagmatic fragmentation) were the
most voluminous and widespread in the whole of Somma–Vesuvius’ eruptive history, and affected a wide area around the volcano
with deposit thicknesses of a few centimetres up to more than 25 km from source. Lithofacies analysis shows that the flow-boundary
zones of EU5 PDCs were dominated by granular flows and traction regimes. Deposits of EU5 PDC show strong lithofacies variation
northwards, from proximally thick, massive to stratified beds towards dominantly alternating beds of coarse and fine ash in
distal reaches. The EU5 lithofacies also show strong lateral variability in proximal areas, passing from the western and northern
to the eastern and southern volcano slopes, where the deposits are stacked beds of massive, accretionary lapilli-bearing fine
ash. The sedimentological model developed for the PDCs of the PdA eruption explains these strong lithofacies variations in
the light of the volcano’s morphology at the time of the eruption. In particular, the EU5 PDCs survived to pass over the break
in slope between the volcano sides and the surrounding volcaniclastic apron–alluvial plain, with development of new flows
from the previously suspended load. Pulses were developed within individual currents, leading to stepwise deposition on both
the volcano slopes and the surrounding volcaniclastic apron and alluvial plain. Physical parameters including velocity, density
and concentration profile with height were calculated for a flow of the phreatomagmatic phase of the eruption by applying
a sedimentological method, and the values of the dynamic pressure were derived. Some hazard considerations are summarised
on the assumption that, although not very probable, similar PDCs could develop during future eruptions of Somma–Vesuvius. 相似文献
6.
The Onano explosive eruption of the Latera Volcanic Complex (Vulsini Volcanoes, Quaternary potassic Roman Comagmatic Region, Italy) provides an interesting example of multiple changes of eruptive style that were concomitant with a late phase of collapse of the polygenetic Latera Caldera. This paper reports a reconstruction of the event based on field analysis, laboratory studies of grain size and density of juvenile clasts, and re-interpretation of available subsurface geology data. The Onano eruption took place in a structurally weak area, corresponding to a carbonate substrate high bordered by the pre-existing Latera caldera and Bolsena volcano-tectonic depression, which controlled the ascent and eruption of a shoshonitic-phonotephritic magma through intersecting rim fault systems. Temporal changes of magma vesiculation, fragmentation and discharge rate, and consequent eruptive dynamics, were strongly controlled by pressure evolution in the magma chamber and changing vent geometry. Initially, pumice-rich pyroclastic flows were emplaced, followed by spatter- and lithic-rich flows and fallout from energetic fire-fountaining. The decline of magma pressure due to the partial evacuation of the magma chamber induced trapdoor collapse of the chamber roof, which involved part of the pre-existing caldera and external volcano slopes and eventually led to the present-day caldera. The widening of the vent system and the emplacement of the main pyroclastic flow and associated co-ignimbrite lag breccia marked the eruption climax. A sudden drop of the confining pressure, which is attributed to a pseudo-rigid behaviour of the magma chamber wall rocks during a phase of rapid magma drainage, led to extensive magma vesiculation and fragmentation. The disruption of the magma chamber roof and waning magma pressure in the late eruption stage favoured the explosive interaction of residual magma with groundwater from the confined carbonate aquifer. Pulsating hydrostatic and magma pressures produced alternating hydromagmatic pyroclastic surges, strombolian fallout and spatter flows. 相似文献
7.
Donald R. Mullineaux 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1986,48(1):17-26
Mount St. Helens has been a prolific source of tephra-fall deposits for about 40 000 years. These tephra deposits (1) record numerous explosive eruptions, (2) form important regional time-stratigraphic marker beds, and (3) record repeated changes in composition within and between eruptive periods.Recognized tephra strata record more than 100 explosive eruptive events at Mount St. Helens; those tephra strata are classified as beds, layers, and sets. Tephra sets, each of which consists of a group of beds and layers, define in part the nine eruptive periods recognized at the volcano. Individual tephra sets are distinguished from stratigraphically adjacent sets by differences in composition or by evidence of clapsed time.Several tephra units from Mount St. Helens form important marker beds at distances of hundreds of kilometers downwind from the volcano. Cummingtonite phenocrysts, which are known in ejecta from only Mount St. Helens in the Pacific Northwest, characterize some marker beds and readily identify their source.The tephra sequence also records eruption of the mafic andesites that mark the appearance of the modern Mount St. Helens and numerous changes in composition among dacite, basalt, and andesite since that time. 相似文献
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Hetu C. Sheth Jyotiranjan S. Ray Rajneesh Bhutani Alok Kumar R. S. Smitha 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2009,71(9):1021-1039
Barren Island (India) is a relatively little studied, little known active volcano in the Andaman Sea, and the northernmost
active volcano of the great Indonesian arc. The volcano is built of prehistoric (possibly late Pleistocene) lava flows (dominantly
basalt and basaltic andesite, with minor andesite) intercalated with volcaniclastic deposits (tuff breccias, and ash beds
deposited by pyroclastic falls and surges), which are exposed along a roughly circular caldera wall. There are indications
of a complete phreatomagmatic tephra ring around the exposed base of the volcano. A polygenetic cinder cone has existed at
the centre of the caldera and produced basalt-basaltic andesite aa and blocky aa lava flows, as well as tephra, during historic
eruptions (1787–1832) and three recent eruptions (1991, 1994–95, 2005–06). The recent aa flows include a toothpaste aa flow,
with tilted and overturned crustal slabs carried atop an aa core, as well as locally developed tumuli-like elliptical uplifts
having corrugated crusts. Based on various evidence we infer that it belongs to either the 1991 or the 1994–95 eruptions.
The volcano has recently (2008) begun yet another eruption, so far only of tephra. We make significantly different interpretations
of several features of the volcano than previous workers. This study of the volcanology and eruptive styles of the Barren
Island volcano lays the ground for detailed geochemical-isotopic and petrogenetic work, and provides clues to what the volcano
can be expected to do in the future. 相似文献
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At Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador, rhyolitic and andesitic bimodal magmatism has occurred periodically during the past 0.5 Ma.
The sequential eruption of rhyolitic (70–75% SiO2) and andesitic (56–62% SiO2) magmas from the same volcanic vent over short time spans and without significant intermingling is characteristic of Cotopaxi’s
Holocene behavior. This study documents the eruptive history of Cotopaxi volcano, presenting its stratigraphy and geologic
field relations, along with the relevant mineralogical and chemical nature of the eruptive products, in order to determine
the temporal and spatial relations of this bimodal alternation. Cotopaxi’s history begins with the Barrancas rhyolite series,
dominated by pumiceous ash flows and regional ash falls between 0.4 and 0.5 Ma, which was followed by occasional andesitic
activity, the most important being the ample andesitic lava flows (∼4.1 km3) that descended the N and NW sides of the edifice. Following a ∼400 ka long repose without silicic activity, Cotopaxi began
a new eruptive phase about 13 ka ago that consisted of seven rhyolitic episodes belonging to the Holocene F and Colorado Canyon
series; the onset of each episode occurred at intervals of 300–3,600 years and each produced ash flows and regional tephra
falls with DRE volumes of 0.2–3.6 km3. Andesitic tephras and lavas are interbedded in the rhyolite sequence. The Colorado Canyon episode (4,500 years BP) also
witnessed dome and sector collapses on Cotopaxi’s NE flank which, with associated ash flows, generated one of the largest
cohesive debris flows on record, the Chillos Valley lahar. A thin pumice lapilli fall represents the final rhyolitic outburst
which occurred at 2,100 years BP. The pumices of these Holocene rhyolitic eruptions are chemically similar to those of older
rhyolites of the Barrancas series, with the exception of the initial eruptive products of the Colorado Canyon series whose
chemistry is similar to that of the 211 ka ignimbrite of neighboring Chalupas volcano. Since the Colorado Canyon episode,
andesitic magmatism has dominated Cotopaxi’s last 4,400 years, characterized by scoria bomb and lithic-rich pyroclastic flows,
infrequent lava flows that reached the base of the cone, andesitic lapilli and ash falls that were carried chiefly to the
W, and large debris flows. Andesitic magma emission rates are estimated at 1.65 km3 (DRE)/ka for the period from 4,200 to 2,100 years BP and 1.85 km3 (DRE)/ka for the past 2,100 years, resulting in the present large stratocone. 相似文献
10.
Large phreatomagmatic vent complex at Coombs Hills, Antarctica: Wet, explosive initiation of flood basalt volcanism in the Ferrar-Karoo LIP 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:2
The Mawson Formation and correlatives in the Transantarctic Mountains and South Africa record an early eruption episode related
to the onset of Ferrar-Karoo flood basalt volcanism. Mawson Formation rocks at Coombs Hills comprise mainly (≥80% vol) structureless
tuff breccia and coarse lapilli tuff cut by irregular dikes and sills, within a large vent complex (>30 km2). Quenched juvenile fragments of generally low but variable vesicularity, accretionary lapilli and country rock clasts within
vent-fill, and pyroclastic density current deposits point to explosive interaction of basalt with groundwater in porous country
rock and wet vent filling debris. Metre-scale dikes and pods of coherent basalt in places merge imperceptibly into peperite
and then into surrounding breccia. Steeply dipping to sub-vertical depositional contacts juxtapose volcaniclastic rocks of
contrasting componentry and grainsize. These sub-vertical tuff breccia zones are inferred to have formed when jets of debris
+ steam + water passed through unconsolidated vent-filling deposits. These jets of debris may have sometimes breached the
surface to form subaerial tephra jets which fed subaerial pyroclastic density currents and fall deposits. Others, however,
probably died out within vent fill before reaching the surface, allowing mixing and recycling of clasts which never reached
the atmosphere. Most of the ejecta that did escape the debris-filled vents was rapidly recycled as vents broadened via lateral
quarrying of country rock and bedded pyroclastic vent-rim deposits, which collapsed along the margins into individual vents.
The unstratified, poorly sorted deposits comprising most of the complex are capped by tuff, lapilli tuff and tuff breccia
beds inferred to have been deposited on the floor of the vent complex by pyroclastic density currents. Development of the
extensive Coombs Hills vent-complex involved interaction of large volumes of magma and water. We infer that recycling of water,
as well as recycling of pyroclasts, was important in maintaining water supply for phreatomagmatic interactions even when aquifer
rock in the vent walls lay far from eruption sites as a consequence of vent-complex widening. The proportion of recycled water
increased with vent-complex size in the same way that the proportion of recycled tephra did. Though water recycling leaves
no direct rock record, the volcaniclastic deposits within the vent complex show through their lithofacies/structural architecture,
lithofacies characteristics, and particle properties clear evidence for extensive and varied recycling of material as the
complex evolved.
Editorial responsibility: J. Donnelly-Nolan 相似文献
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The 1957–1958 eruption of Capelinhos, Faial island, Azores, involved three periods of surtseyan, hydromagmatic activity: two in 1957 and one in 1958. Deposits from this eruption are exposed both in sea cliffs cut into the flanks of the tuff cone and more distally >1 km from the vent. Five lithofacies are identified: lithofacies I is composed of even thickness beds with laterally continuous internal stratigraphy and is interpreted to have been formed by fallout. Lithofacies II consists of beds with internally discontinuous lenses, and has sand-wave structures that increase in abundance toward the outer margins of the tuff cone. This lithofacies is interpreted as having been deposited from pyroclastic surges. Lithofacies III is composed of mantle-bedded deposits with laterally discontinuous internal stratigraphy. This lithofacies is interpreted to have been formed by hybrid processes where fallout of tephra occurred simultaneously with pyroclastic surges. In the outer flanks of the tuff cone, lithofacies III grades laterally into fallout beds of lithofacies I. Lithofacies IV consists of alternating beds of coarse ash aggregates and non-aggregated fine ash, and is particularly well developed in distal regions. Some of this facies was formed by fallout. Alternating beds also occur plastered against obstacles up to 2 km from the vent, indicating an origin from wet pyroclastic surges. The orientation of plastered tephra indicates that the surges were deflected by topography as they decelerated. The distinction between surge and fallout in distal regions is uncertain because wind-drifted fallout and decelerating surge clouds can generate similar deposits. Lithofacies V consists of scoria lapilli beds interpreted to be fallout from hawaiian-style fire-fountaining in the later stages of the eruption. Juvenile pyroclasts within hydromagmatic deposits are predominantly poorly vesicular (25–60% of clasts <30% vesicles). However, on both micro- and macroscopic scales, there is a wide range in clast vesicularity (up to 70% vesicles) indicating that, although fragmentation was predominantly hydromagmatic, vesiculation and magmatic-volatile-driven fragmentation operated simultaneously. 相似文献
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Daniele Andronico Antonio Cristaldi Paola Del Carlo Jacopo Taddeucci 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2009,180(2-4):110
The 2002–03 flank eruption of Etna was characterized by two months of explosive activity that produced copious ash fallout, constituting a major source of hazard and damage over all eastern Sicily. Most of the tephra were erupted from vents at 2750 and 2800 m elevation on the S flank of the volcano, where different eruptive styles alternated. The dominant style of explosive activity consisted of discrete to pulsing magma jets mounted by wide ash plumes, which we refer to as ash-rich jets and plumes. Similarly, ash-rich explosive activity was also briefly observed during the 2001 flank eruption of Etna, but is otherwise fairly uncommon in the recent history of Etna. Here, we describe the features of the 2002–03 explosive activity and compare it with the 2001 eruption in order to characterize ash-rich jets and plumes and their transition with other eruptive styles, including Strombolian and ash explosions, mainly through chemical, componentry and morphology investigations of erupted ash. Past models explain the transition between different styles of basaltic explosive activity only in terms of flow conditions of gas and liquid. Our findings suggest that the abundant presence of a solid phase (microlites) may also control vent degassing and consequent magma fragmentation and eruptive style. In fact, in contrast with the Strombolian or Hawaiian microlite-poor, fluidal, sideromelane clasts, ash-rich jets and plumes produce crystal-rich tachylite clasts with evidence of brittle fragmentation, suggesting that high groundmass crystallinity of the very top part of the magma column may reduce bubble movement while increasing fragmentation efficiency. 相似文献
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The May 22, 1915 eruptions of Lassen Peak involved a volcanic blast and the emplacement of three geographically and temporally distinct lahar deposits. The volcanic blast occurred when a Vulcanian explosion at the summit unroofed a shallow magma source, generating an eruption cloud that rose to an estimated height of 9 km above sea level. The blast cloud was probably caused by the collapse of a small portion of the eruption column; absence of a flank vent associated with these eruptions argues against it originating as an explosion that has been directed by vent geometry or location. The volcanic blast devasted 7 km2 of the northeast flank of the volcano, and emplaced a deposit of juvenile tephra and accidental lithic and mineral fragments. Decrease in blast deposit thickness and median grain size with increasing distance from the vent suggests that the blast cloud lost transport competence as it crossed the devastated area. Scanning electron microscope examination of pyroclasts from the blast deposit indicates that the blast cloud was a dry, turbulent suspension that emplaced a thin deposit which cooled rapidly after deposition. Lahar deposits were emplaced primarily in Lost Creek, with minor lahars flowing down gullies on the west, northwest and north flanks of the volcano. The initial lahar was apparently triggered early in the eruption when the blast cloud melted the residual snowpack as it moved down the northeast flank of the peak. The event that triggered the later lahars is enigmatic; the presence of approximately five times more juvenile dacite bombs on the surface of the later lahars suggests that they may have been triggered by a change in eruption style or dynamics. 相似文献
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Mount Etna volcano was shaken during the summer 2001 by one of the most singular eruptive episodes of the last centuries.
For about 3 weeks, several eruptive fractures developed, emitting lava flows and tephra that significantly modified the landscape
of the southern flank of the volcano. This event stimulated the attention of the scientific community especially for the simultaneous
emission of petrologically distinct magmas, recognized as coming from different segments of the plumbing system. A stratigraphically
controlled sampling of tephra layers was performed at the most active vents of the eruption, in particular at the 2,100 m
(CAL) and at the 2,550 m (LAG) scoria cones. Detailed scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer
(SEM-EDS) analyses performed on glasses found in tephra and comparison with lava whole rock compositions indicate an anomalous
increase in Ti, Fe, P, and particularly of K and Cl in the upper layers of the LAG sequence. Mass balance and thermodynamic
calculations have shown that this enrichment cannot be accounted for by “classical” differentiation processes, such as crystal
fractionation and magma mixing. The analysis of petrological features of the magmas involved in the event, integrated with
the volcanological evolution, has evidenced the role played by volatiles in controlling the magmatic evolution within the
crustal portion of the plumbing system. Volatiles, constituted of H2O, CO2, and Cl-complexes, originated from a deeply seated magma body (DBM). Their upward migration occurred through a fracture network
possibly developed by the seismic swarms during the period preceding the event. In the upper portion of the plumbing system,
a shallower residing magma body (ABT) had chemical and physical conditions to receive migrating volatiles, which hence dissolved
the mobilized elements producing the observed selective enrichment. This volatile-induced differentiation involved exclusively
the lowest erupted portion of the ABT magma due to the low velocity of volatiles diffusion within a crystallizing magma body
and/or to the short time between volatiles migration and the onset of the eruption. Furthermore, the increased amount of volatiles
in this level of the chamber strongly affected the eruptive behavior. In fact, the emission of these products at the LAG vent,
towards the end of the eruption, modified the eruptive style from classical strombolian to strongly explosive. 相似文献
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Dilute gravity current and rain-flushed ash deposits in the 1.8 ka Hatepe Plinian deposit,Taupo, New Zealand 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Two groups of poorly sorted ash-rich beds, previously interpreted as rain-flushed ashes, occur in the ca. AD 180 Hatepe Plinian pumice fall deposit at Taupo volcano, New Zealand. Two ash beds with similar dispersal patterns and an aggregate thickness of up to 13 cm make up the lowermost group (A). Group A beds extend 45 km north-east of the vent and cover 290 km2. In the southern part of the group A distribution area, a coarse ash to lapilli-size Plinian pumice bed (deposit B) separates the two group A beds. The scarcity of lapilli (material seen elsewhere from the still-depositing pumice fall) in group A beds indicates that they were rapidly transported and deposited. However, this rapid transportation and deposition did not produce cross-bedding, nor did it erode the underlying deposits. It is proposed that thick (>600 m) but dilute gravity currents generated from the collapsing outer margin of the otherwise buoyant Hatepe Plinian eruption column deposited the group A beds. The upper ash beds (group C) consist of one to seven layers, attain an aggregate thickness of 35 cm, and vary considerably in thickness and number of beds with respect to distance from vent. Group C beds contain variable amounts of ash mixed with angular Plinian pumices and are genuine rain-flushed ashes. Several recent eruptions at other volcanoes (Ukinrek Maars, Vulcan, Rabaul, La Soufrère de Guadeloupe and Soufrière, St Vincent) have produced gravity currents similar in style, but much smaller than those envisaged for group A deposits. The overloaded margins of otherwise buoyant eruption plumes generated these gravity currents. Laboratory studies have produced experimental gravity current analogues. Hazards from dilute gravity currents are considerable but often overlooked, thus the recognition of gravity current deposits will contribute to more thorough volcanic hazard assessment of prehistoric eruption sequences. 相似文献
16.
Richard S. Fiske Katharine V. Cashman Atsushi Shibata Kazuki Watanabe 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,59(4):262-275
A new and detailed bathymetric map of the Myojinsho shallow submarine volcano provides a framework to interpret the physical
volcanology of its 1952–1953 eruption, especially how the silicic pyroclasts, both primary and reworked, enlarged the volcano
and were dispersed into the surrounding marine environment. Myojinsho, 420 km south of Tokyo along the Izu–Ogasawara arc,
was the site of approximately 1000 phreatomagmatic explosions during the 12.5-month eruption. These explosions shattered growing
dacite domes, producing dense clasts that immediately sank into the sea; minor amounts of pumice floated on the sea surface
after some of these events. The Myojinsho cone has slopes of almost precisely 21° in the depth range 300–700 m.We interpret
this to be the result of angle-of-repose deposition of submarine pyroclastic gravity flows that traveled downslope in all
directions. Many of these gravity flows resulted from explosions and associated dome collapse, but others were likely triggered
by the remobilization of debris temporarily deposited on the summit and steep upper slopes of the cone. Tephra was repeatedly
carried into air in subaerial eruption columns and fell into the sea within 1–2 km of the volcano's summit, entering water
as deep as 400 m. Because the fall velocity of single particles decreased by a factor of ∼30 in passing from air into the
sea, we expect that the upper part of the water column was repeatedly choked with hyperconcentrations of fallout tephra. Gravitational
instabilities within these tephra-choked regions could have formed vertical density currents that descended at velocities
greater than those of the individual particles they contained. Upon reaching the sea floor, many of these currents probably
continued to move downslope along Myojinsho's submarine slopes. Fine tephra was elutriated from the rubbly summit of the volcano
by upwelling plumes of heated seawater that persisted for the entire duration of the eruption. Ocean currents carried this
tephra to distal areas, where it presumably forms a pyroclastic component of deep-sea sediment.
Received: 5 December 1996 / Accepted: 17 September 1997 相似文献
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Rolf Schumacher Ulrike Mues-Schumacher Vedat Toprak 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2001,112(1-4)
The Sarikavak Tephra from the central Galatean Volcanic Province (Turkey) represents the deposit of a complex multiple phase plinian eruption of Miocene age. The eruptive sequence is subdivided into the Lower-, Middle-, and Upper Sarikavak Tephra (LSKT, MSKT, USKT) which differ in type of deposits, lithology and eruptive mechanisms.The Lower Sarikavak Tephra is characterised by pumice fall deposits with minor interbedded fine-grained ash beds in the lower LSKT-A. Deposits are well stratified and enriched in lithic fragments up to >50 wt% in some layers. The upper LSKT-B is mainly reversely graded pumice fall with minor amounts of lithics. It represents the main plinian phase of the eruption. The LSKT-A and B units are separated from each other by a fine-grained ash fall deposit. The Middle Sarikavak Tephra is predominantly composed of cross-bedded ash-and-pumice surge deposits with minor pumice fall deposits in the lower MSKT-A and major pyroclastic flow deposits in the upper MSKT-B unit. The Upper Sarikavak Tephra shows subaerial laminated surge deposits in USKT-A and subaqueous tephra beds in USKT-B.Isopach maps of the LSKT pumice fall deposits as well as the fine ash at the LSKT-A/B boundary indicate NNE–SSW extending depositional fans with the source area in the western part of the Ovaçik caldera. The MSKT pyroclastic flow and surge deposits form a SW-extending main lobe related to paleotopography where the deposits are thickest.Internal bedding and lithic distribution of the LSKT-A result from intermittent activity due to significant vent wall instabilities. Reductions in eruption power from (partial) plugging of the vent produced fine ash deposits in near-vent locations and subsequent explosive expulsion of wall rock debris was responsible for the high lithic contents of the lapilli fall deposits. A period of vent closure promoted fine ash fall deposition at the end of LSKT-A. The subsequent main plinian phase of the LSKT-B evolved from stable vent conditions after some initial gravitational column collapses during the early ascent of the re-established eruption plume. The ash-and-pumice surges of the MSKT-A are interpreted as deposits from phreatomagmatic activity prior to the main pyroclastic flow formation of the MSKT-B. 相似文献
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F. Di Traglia C. Cimarelli D. de Rita D. Gimeno Torrente 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2009,180(2-4):89
The Croscat pyroclastic succession has been analysed to investigate the transition between different eruptive styles in basaltic monogenetic volcanoes, with particular emphasis on the role of phreatomagmatism in triggering Violent Strombolian eruptions. Croscat volcano, an 11 ka basaltic complex scoria cone in the Quaternary Garrotxa Volcanic Field (GVF) shows pyroclastic deposits related both to magmatic and phreatomagmatic explosions.Lithofacies analysis, grain size distribution, chemical composition, glass shard morphologies, vesicularity, bubble-number density and crystallinity of the Croscat pyroclastic succession have been used to characterize the different eruptive styles. Eruptions at Croscat began with fissural Hawaiian-type fountaining that rapidly changed to eruption types transitional between Hawaiian and Strombolian from a central vent. A first phreatomagmatic phase occurred by the interaction between magma and water from a shallow aquifer system at the waning of the Hawaiian- and Strombolian-types stage. A Violent Strombolian explosion then occurred, producing a widespread (8 km2), voluminous tephra blanket. The related deposits are characterized by the presence of wood-shaped, highly vesicular scoriae. Glass-bearing xenoliths (buchites) are also present within the deposit. At the waning of the Violent Strombolian phase a second phreatomagmatic phase occurred, producing a second voluminous deposit dispersed over 8.4 km2. The eruption ended with a lava flow emission and consequent breaching of the western-side of the volcano. Our data suggest that the Croscat Violent Strombolian phase was related to the ascent of deeper, crystal-poor, highly vesicular magma under fast decompression rate. Particles and vesicles elongation and brittle failure observed in the wood-shaped clasts indicate that fragmentation during Violent Strombolian phase was enhanced by high strain-rate of the magma within the conduit. 相似文献
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New physical characterization of the Fontana Lapilli basaltic Plinian eruption,Nicaragua 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
The Fontana Lapilli deposit was erupted in the late Pleistocene from a vent, or multiple vents, located near Masaya volcano
(Nicaragua) and is the product of one of the largest basaltic Plinian eruptions studied so far. This eruption evolved from
an initial sequence of fluctuating fountain-like events and moderately explosive pulses to a sustained Plinian episode depositing
fall beds of highly vesicular basaltic-andesite scoria (SiO2 > 53 wt%). Samples show unimodal grain size distribution and a moderate sorting that are uniform in time. The juvenile component
predominates (> 96 wt%) and consists of vesicular clasts with both sub-angular and fluidal, elongated shapes. We obtain a
maximum plume height of 32 km and an associated mass eruption rate of 1.4 × 108 kg s−1 for the Plinian phase. Estimates of erupted volume are strongly sensitive to the technique used for the calculation and to
the distribution of field data. Our best estimate for the erupted volume of the majority of the climactic Plinian phase is
between 2.9 and 3.8 km3 and was obtained by applying a power-law fitting technique with different integration limits. The estimated eruption duration
varies between 4 and 6 h. Marine-core data confirm that the tephra thinning is better fitted by a power-law than by an exponential
trend. 相似文献
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Susan L. Donoghue Alan S. Palmer Elizabeth McClelland Kate Hobson Robert B. Stewart Vincent E. Neall Jèrôme Lecointre Richard Price 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1999,61(4):223-240
The ca. 10,500 years B.P. eruptions at Ruapehu volcano deposited 0.2–0.3 km3 of tephra on the flanks of Ruapehu and the surrounding ring plain and generated the only known pyroclastic flows from this
volcano in the late Quaternary. Evidence of the eruptions is recorded in the stratigraphy of the volcanic ring plain and cone,
where pyroclastic flow deposits and several lithologically similar tephra deposits are identified. These deposits are grouped
into the newly defined Taurewa Formation and two members, Okupata Member (tephra-fall deposits) and Pourahu Member (pyroclastic
flow deposits). These eruptions identify a brief (<ca. 2000-year) but explosive period of volcanism at Ruapehu, which we define
as the Taurewa Eruptive Episode. This Episode represents the largest event within Ruapehu's ca. 22,500-year eruptive history
and also marks its culmination in activity ca. 10,000 years B.P. Following this episode, Ruapehu volcano entered a ca. 8000-year
period of relative quiescence. We propose that the episode began with the eruption of small-volume pyroclastic flows triggered
by a magma-mingling event. Flows from this event travelled down valleys east and west of Ruapehu onto the upper volcanic ring
plain, where their distal remnants are preserved. The genesis of these deposits is inferred from the remanent magnetisation
of pumice and lithic clasts. We envisage contemporaneous eruption and emplacement of distal pumice-rich tephras and proximal
welded tuff deposits. The potential for generation of pyroclastic flows during plinian eruptions at Ruapehu has not been previously
considered in hazard assessments at this volcano. Recognition of these events in the volcanological record is thus an important
new factor in future risk assessments and mitigation of volcanic risk at Tongariro Volcanic Centre.
Received: 5 July 1998 / Accepted: 12 March 1999 相似文献