Geoheritage values of one of the largest maar craters in the Arabian Peninsula: the Al Wahbah Crater and other volcanoes (Harrat Kishb, Saudi Arabia)

Al Wahbah Crater is one of the largest and deepest Quaternary maar craters in the Arabian Peninsula. It is NW-SE-elongated, ～2.3 km wide, ～250 m deep and surrounded by an irregular near-perpendicular crater wall cut deeply into the Proterozoic diorite basement. Very few scientific studies have been conducted on this unique site, especially in respect to understanding the associated volcanic eruption processes. Al Wahbah and adjacent large explosion craters are currently a research subject in an international project, Volcanic Risk in Saudi Arabia (VORiSA). The focus of VORiSA is to characterise the volcanic hazards and eruption mechanisms of the vast volcanic fields in Western Saudi Arabia, while also defining the unique volcanic features of this region for use in future geoconservation, geoeducation and geotourism projects. Al Wahbah is inferred to be a maar crater that formed due to an explosive interaction of magma and water. The crater is surrounded by a tephra ring that consists predominantly of base surge deposits accumulated over a pre-maar scoria cone and underlying multiple lava flow units. The tephra ring acted as an obstacle against younger lava flows that were diverted along the margin of the tephra ring creating unique lava flow surface textures that recorded inflation and deflation processes along the margin of the post-maar lava flow. Al Wahbah is a unique geological feature that is not only a dramatic landform but also a site that can promote our understanding of complex phreatomagmatic monogenetic volcanism. The complex geological features perfectly preserved at Al Wahbah makes this site as an excellent geotope and a potential centre of geoeducation programs that could lead to the establishment of a geopark in the broader area at the Kishb Volcanic Field.     

大兴安岭哈拉哈河-绰尔河第四纪火山分期: K-Ar年代学与火山地质特征

大兴安岭中部哈拉哈河-绰尔河第四纪火山区分布有34座火山,这些火山总体呈北东向带状分布,火山岩分布面积约400 km2,岩性主要为碱性橄榄玄武岩.根据火山地质特征,结合火山岩K-Ar测年结果,哈拉哈河-绰尔河第四纪火山可进一步划分为早、中、晚更新世和全新世4期.早更新世火山岩,由于被后期火山岩覆盖,主要分布于火山区周边和出露在河谷中.中更新世火山活动最强,不论火山数量(27座)还是熔岩流规模都超过该区第四纪火山的一半以上.晚更新世时期火山活动趋弱,火山活动范围缩小,只局限于小范围区域.全新世火山活动又进入新的高峰期,强爆破式喷发和规模宏大的熔岩流,以及保存完好的熔岩流地貌是全新世火山之特点.     

Ground‐based InSAR reveals conduit pressurization pulses at Stromboli volcano

At Stromboli volcano (Southern Italy), only few minor precursors (gas output) have been identified for ‘major’ Strombolian explosions. We use ground‐based interferometric synthetic aperture radar (GBInSAR) technology to monitor the displacement rate of the summit area of Stromboli. We analysed the 2009–2011 period. The analysis of the displacement rate has been performed by dividing the summit zone monitored by the GBInSAR into three regions, corresponding to the edge of the crater area (1 and 2), and to the slope of the NE crater (3). Pulses of rapid expansion of sector 3, of variable duration and amplitude, appear in coincidence with periods of intense activity that include lava flows and major explosions. We associate this expansion with the pressurization of the magma column that is recharged by deep‐derived gas, promoting the onset of ‘major explosion‐dominated’ activity.     

基于SPH-FEM耦合法的土体爆炸效应数值研究

岩土体爆炸破坏问题是岩土工程领域的研究热点,为开展小当量集团装药在不同埋置深度时的土中爆炸效应分析研究,在LS-DYNA框架内建立基于光滑粒子流体动力学-有限元耦合方法（SPH-FEM）的砂土地基爆炸效应分析模型。计算结果表明：浅埋装药时最大爆坑深度到达时刻远在最大爆坑直径之前,地基表层砂土体剪切流场对爆坑直径的发展具有决定性作用;随着药包埋置深度的增加存在一个临界爆坑直径,爆坑直径近似认为只与药包当量和埋置深度相关,经简化与经验假定之后得到的爆坑直径与埋药深度之比与比例距离近似呈直线关系;砂土中爆炸波在近区表现为强间断的冲击波形式,压缩作用是造成近区砂土大变形流动的主要因素,而在爆炸远区则转变为连续的应力波形式;土中爆炸波峰值压力随比例爆距的衰减规律与经验曲线基本一致。研究结果可以为地基工程的抗爆设计及加固提供参考。     

Sur le mécanisme des éruptions basaltiques sous-marines à faibles profundeurs et la genèse d'hyaloclastites associées

A basaltic eruption occurring in relatively shallow waters looks drastically different from the same occurring on land.

1. Explosive phenomena are exceptionally violent (height several times the height reached in subaerial basaltic eruptions); 2) frequency of explosions very much higher (20 to 90 explosions per minute vs 0.1 to 10); 3) proportion of pyroclasts much higher too, reaching up to 99% of the total outpour; 4) pyroclasts much finer than that of land basaltic eruptions, having a granulometry similar to that of acid pyroclasts.

According to the author, these differences are due to series of phreatic (steam) explosions rapidly following each violent magmatic (gas phase) event. By magmatic event, we mean actual explosion as well as the violent mashing of the upper part of the lava column; the necessary condition being an initial fragmentation of the lava enabling a comparatively large area of very high temperature material being put into contact with water to produce a first steam explosion; this phreatic explosion shatters the fragments from the magmatic explosion, letting new incandescent surfaces to be put into contact with water, thus producing a 2 d steam explosion; this brings former fragments to smaller shatters still, and so on. This process enables a very quick transformation of the heat content of a given volume of lava into kinetic energy, explaining the specific characteristics observed, as well as their absence when only quiet effusive flows (or lava lake) occurs under-water, where no initial magmatic explosion happens to expose large enough area of high temperature lava.     

爆炸荷载作用下土中爆坑形成的数值模拟

利用爆破产生能量可进行软基处理,但不同药量、不同药包埋设深度下爆坑形态和土体属性变化会存在差异。采用基于欧拉法的爆炸流体动力学数值模拟技术对土中爆破问题进行了分析,结果表明,最终爆坑形态与已有试验成果具有较好一致性;爆坑直径与药量和埋药深度存在一定的非线性关系;爆炸荷载在近域传播与冲击波类似,随着远离药包中心,则表现为应力波特征;随埋药深度增加,爆破挤密效果明显,但浅层爆破对土体挤密效果有限     

内蒙锡林浩特鸽子山火山地质研究

鸽子山火山位于内蒙古自治区锡林浩特市东南,处于大兴安岭-大同新生代火山喷发带中段,是锡林浩特-阿巴嘎火山群中保存最为完好的一座玄武质火山。火山喷发物的分布面积约55km²,主要为降落火山渣、溅落熔结火山碎屑岩和熔岩流,成分主要为碧玄岩,晚期有少量的橄榄拉斑玄武岩,碧玄岩中含有较多二辉橄榄岩包体和辉石及歪长石巨晶。火山由锥体、熔岩流和火山碎屑席组成,锥体由早期的降落锥和晚期溅落锥复合而成。火山口经历多次塌陷而成为破火口。锥体西侧及北东侧出露两个仍保留了原始形态的熔岩溢出口,熔岩流类型为结壳熔岩,由多个岩流单元组成,局部地区的熔岩流中发育较多保存完好的喷气锥、喷气碟或喷气塔。火山碎屑席主要分布在锥体的东侧,厚度由锥体向外逐渐减薄。火山活动可分为早、晚两个阶段,早期为爆破式喷发,形成火山渣锥和碎屑席,属亚布里尼型喷发,晚期主要为溢流式喷发,形成溅落锥和大规模熔岩流,其活动时代为晚更新世末-全新世。     

长白山天池火山近代喷发中气象站组熔岩—碎屑岩流研究

中晚全新世以来,长白山天池火山的活动多为爆炸性喷发和形成火山碎屑流,熔岩流出较少,气象站组熔岩—碎屑岩流则是为数不多的熔岩溢流活动之一,它是天池火山一个寄生火山的喷发产物。气象站组熔岩—碎屑岩流的岩性为碱流岩质,岩浆粘度大,流动缓慢。据研究其喷发时间大约4 ka BP,应属天池火山的近代喷发产物。     

基于粗糙度的雨海地形及撞击坑特征分析

以月球雨海地区为研究区,利用Matlab编程语言,结合分辨率为118 m的DEM数据,得出了该地区的均方根高程及均方根偏差分布图,并在研究区内选取18条剖面线,对其进行多种粗糙度参数计算。结果表明雨海地区粗糙度较大的区域主要分布在环形山和撞击坑等区域,粗糙度较小值则主要分布在被火山熔岩流填充的平原等区域,可以确定在百米尺度上环形山和撞击坑是影响雨海地形粗糙度的重要因素。对单个撞击坑而言,坑壁粗糙度最大,坑缘次之,坑底较为平坦,粗糙度最小。坑底粗糙度增大的现象可初步推断该撞击坑存在中央峰。     

Geomorphologic evidence for Plio‐Quaternary shortening in the southern Neuquén basin (40°S,Argentina)

A morphostructural analysis of a Pliocene flood basalt formation in the southern Neuquén basin (40°S) shows evidence of contractional deformation less than 3.5 Ma ago. This formation exhibits a general dip towards the south‐east, with relict outcrops located 100 m higher than the main source volcano, which suggests a local tilting of the lava flow. This tilt has been brought about by Plio‐Quaternary reactivation of the eastern border of the Sañico Massif along two thrusts that offset the lava flow. Another long‐wavelength bulge in the southern part of the lava flow unit indicates a possible Pliocene uplift of the North Patagonian Massif. These results provide new evidence of continuing shortening in the Neuquén basin during the Plio‐Quaternary, challenging the hypothesis that an extensional regime has existed since the end of the Miocene in this basin.     

Landslide-induced wave in a small volcanic lake: Kasu Tephra Cone,Papua New Guinea

The south crater wall of a Quaternary tephra cone in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea collapsed on 20 April 1999 and sent a 150,000-m ³ landslide into its lake. Displacing 5–10% of the lake's volume, the landslide induced a 15-m-high wave which flattened vegetation throughout the crater interior, and broke over a low saddle in the crater's east rim where it destroyed two houses and injured 11 people, killing one.     

中国物理火山学研究进展评述

应用物理原理研究不同规模和时间尺度火山活动的动力过程,近年来不断受到中国火山学者的关注。过去几年,中国第四纪火山区内火山活动的物理过程研究取得了一些有价值的进展。本文重点总结和评述了岩浆房的固结、分离结晶和活动稳定性、火山通道和喷发柱的动力学、火山碎屑流与熔岩流运移与就位的物理过程。对火山碎屑物与熔岩流的分形特征以及岩浆房的动力系统中存在的非线性过程进行了特别的评价和展望。     

Volcanic earthquake swarms at Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

Mount Erebus is an active volcano in Antarctica located on Ross Island. A convecting lava lake occupies the summit crater of Mt. Erebus. Since December 1980 the seismic activity of Mt. Erebus has been continuously monitored using a radio-telemetered network of six seismic stations. The seismic activity observed by the Ross Island network during the 1982–1983 field season shows that: (1)Strombolian eruptions occur frequently at the Erebus summit lava lake at rates of 2–5 per day; (2)centrally located earthquakes map out a nearly vertical, narrow conduit system beneath the lava lake; (3)there are other source regions of seismicity on Ross Island, well removed from Mt. Erebus proper. An intense earthquake swarm recorded in October 1982 near Abbott Peak, 10 km northwest of the summit of Mt. Erebus, and volcanic tremor accompanying the swarm, may have been associated with new dike emplacement at depth.     

内蒙古西乌珠穆沁旗至锡林郭勒一带与古火山机构有关的花岗岩浆原地重熔

新生代之前的火山口因风化剥蚀严重,保留的火山遗迹很不明显。在野外宏观调查发现微弱古火山痕迹的基础上,通过对火山机构附近的火山碎屑岩、熔岩及后期侵入的花岗斑岩开展了常量元素岩石化学和稀土元素地球化学研究,提出了古火山口存在的辅助证据,而且这些证据再次证明有关学者关于地下原岩多次熔化并沿构造薄弱处运移的成岩机制的存在。     

STUDY OF ERUPTIONS AND EARTHQUAKES ORIGINATING FROM VOLCANOES (PART 1 OF 3)

Reports of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes originating from volcanoes indicate that seismic activity preceding the eruption is related not only to eruption magnitude and structure of the volcano, but also to viscosity of the lava at the time of eruption. This follows, since lava of higher viscosity meets greater resistance as it ascends from the magma chamber to the earth's surface and, consequently, greater stress will be produced within and beneath the volcano. The writer gives a condensed statistical breakdown of earthquakes and explosive eruptions of Asama Volcano. The Asama earthquakes treated in the report are mainly those of rather low magnitude (T = 1. 0 sec, V = 350) at the Asama Volcano Observatory, situated 4. 2 km east of the center of the summit crater. This investigation showed that most of the explosive eruptions were preceded by an increase in micro-earthquakes. In addition, an experimental formula for predicting volcanic eruptions, based on the statistical relation between frequency of earthquakes originating from Asama and its explosive eruptions. The forthcoming report (Part II) will discuss the same problem based on seismic observations by more sensitive instruments set nearer the summit crater. — A. Eustus     

松辽盆地营城组火山岩冷却单元及地层结构分析

火山岩冷却单元的识别是火山岩地层和岩相研究的重要环节。松辽盆地东南缘露头区和徐家围子断陷营城组火山岩剖面的剖析显示,冷却单元主要存在4种主要的单元类型:碎屑岩型、熔岩型、碎屑岩+熔岩型和熔岩+碎屑岩型。碎屑岩型和熔岩型是端元类型,分别反映蒸汽喷发和岩浆喷发的作用过程;碎屑岩+熔岩型是基本组合单元类型,反映蒸汽-岩浆喷发的连续作用过程;熔岩+碎屑岩型属于改造的或特殊机制的类型。冷却单元本身及其堆叠具有相的意义,是火山岩地层的基本成因地层单元,因此成为解释火山岩地层结构、了解形成与保存过程的重要基础。通过火山岩冷却单元识别与叠置分析,构建了松辽盆地徐家围子断陷营城组一段的地层结构。     

The chemistry of sublimates collected directly from lava fountains at Kilauea Volcano,Hawaii

During 1970, it was occasionally feasible to collect sublimate from directly above the lava fountain in the crater of Mauna Ulu on the east rift zone of Kilauea Volcano, when the level of the lava pool had dropped within the crater. Collecting equipment was suspended down the steep wall to a position above the fountain. Collections were made on quartz wool held within open-ended quartz tubes and, for silica detection, on stainless steel wool in a stainless steel tube. The main components in the sublimate were, in order of decreasing concentration for the best sample, Na, Ca, Al, Fe, Mg, K, B, Si, Ti, Zn, H⁺, NH₄⁺, Cu, Ni in the form of sulfates, chlorides and fluorides.In order to investigate the forms in which the sublimate ions occur under different conditions of temperature and oxidation, the equilibrium compositions of the compounds most likely to be present were calculated. This was done for those important components for which thermodynamic data are available, using a computer program to calculate the minimum free energy for the mixture. The results indicate that, for primary conditions of high temperature and low oxygen partial pressure, the halides were the most likely form of the metallic compounds. Particulate sulfates appear under increasing oxidizing conditions caused by the access of air. These conclusions were reinforced by collections made from holes drilled through the thin crust of a lava lake formed during the same eruption.     

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and rock magnetic applications in the Deccan volcanic province based on some case studies

Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) as a tool has been explored here to investigate the nature of petrofabrics in Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP) of west-central Indian region by representative sampling in typical pahoehoe and rubbly pahoehoe lava flows, dykes within flows, shear zone and the impact crater units. The rock magnetic analysis indicate varying degree of concentration of titanomagnetite compositions dominated by multi domain (MD) to pseudo single domain (PSD) grains favoring shape anisotropy of minerals that form primary fabrics. The pahoehoe type lava flows shows planar oblate fabrics without any preferred orientation of principle susceptibility axis (K₁) depicting crystal settling (of magnetic grains) as chief mechanism of fabric development. The rubbly pahoehoe type lava flow exhibit prolate fabrics with well clustered maximum susceptibility axis within horizontal to sub-horizontal planes depicting their response to viscosity shear. The dykes show well clustered K₁ parallel to it’s plane locked during rapid contractional cooling. The sampling at Lonar impact crater was unable to trace any clear fabric due to impact/shock induced deformation and rather preserve the primary fabrics. Further, the shear zone depict random fabrics demanding more detailed and systematic sampling in both the cases. The present investigation infer that the magnetic mineralogy and magnetic fabric variations in the DVP are controlled by the flow mechanism and style of cooling that is characteristic of the given flow unit or dyke and any secondary or superimposed fabric needs to be examined by critical sampling strategy. While more detailed attempts are required to establish the AMS as a tool to record various aspects including the flow dynamics and rate of effusion in the vast terrain of DVP; the present approach is useful to characterize and correlate the lava flow units and dyke occurrences.     

东川裂谷因民期火山——岩浆活动特征

东川裂谷因民期火山—岩浆活动强烈，也是重要的铁铜成矿期。火山活动旋回均经历爆发—喷发—喷溢—（喷流）阶段。主要发育在裂谷中心落因火山链和蓑衣坡火山盆地中。落因火山链早期形成火山—沉积角砾岩段，火山活动以喷溢的火山熔岩为主，主要有钠质基性熔岩、玄武岩、安山岩，均已蚀变，并有钠长斑岩的侵入活动。中期火山喷发形成凝灰岩类、火山碎屑岩类，发育了铁铜矿化。在蓑衣坡火山盆地中因民期火山—岩浆活动发育两次火山—沉积旋回，即两次爆发（角砾岩）—喷发（凝灰岩）—喷溢（熔岩）—喷流（硅质岩），在喷流相发育赤铁矿层和含铜硅质岩层。     

内蒙中部辉腾锡勒第四纪火山群初步研究

辉腾锡勒火山群位于内蒙古中部卓资县、察哈尔右翼中旗和后旗交界处的高山草原区。处于中国东部大同-阿尔山-诺敏河第四纪火山喷发带南段。火山群坐落在太古宙变质岩系、二叠纪花岗岩和新近纪汉诺坝玄武岩之上。平面上呈低洼的菱形台地，四周为山地，总面积约260km²。因上覆在汉诺坝玄武岩台地之上，故以往将其误归为新近纪汉诺坝玄武岩。火山群内发育近百座火山，大多数火山形貌保存基本完整。火山产物主要为一套碱性橄榄玄武岩，次为不同成因的火山碎屑物（岩）。碱性玄武岩覆盖在晚更新世坡积物和黄土之上。火山活动的时代主体为晚更新世，可进一步分为早、中、晚三期。早期为裂隙-中心式喷发，火口已剥蚀殆尽；中期主要形成"地池式"和玛珥式火山，火山形貌较完整，火口呈特征的圆形或椭圆形，大部分积水成湖，当地习称"九十九眼泉"或"海子"。晚期以熔浆的溢流为主，形成结构完整的盾片状火山。火山活动经历了沿裂隙的喷溢到中心式弱爆发、溢流-射汽岩浆爆发-溢流再到溅落堆积的演化过程。辉腾锡勒火山群是在新近纪汉诺坝玄武岩台地上新解体确定的第四纪火山群，这为研究蒙古高原南部地壳深部结构及其活动性提供了又一天然窗口，对了解新构造活动、环境及灾害预警研究都具有重要的理论和实际意义。