Postshield volcanism and catastrophic mass wasting of the Waianae Volcano, Oahu, Hawaii

 The 3.9- to 2.9-Ma Waianae Volcano is the older of two volcanoes making up the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Exposed on the volcanic edifice are tholeiitic shield lavas overlain by transitional and alkalic postshield lavas. The postshield "alkalic cap" consists of aphyric hawaiite of the Palehua Member of the Waianae Volcanics, overlain unconformably by a small volume of alkalic basalt of the Kolekole Volcanics. Kolekole Volcanics mantle erosional topography, including the uppermost slopes of the great Lualualei Valley on the lee side of the Waianae Range. Twenty new K–Ar dates, combined with magnetic polarity data and geologic relationships, constrain the ages of lavas of the Palehua member to 3.06–2.98 Ma and lavas of the Kolekole Volcanics to 2.97–2.90 Ma. The geochemical data and the nearly contemporaneous ages suggest that the Kolekole Volcanics do not represent a completely independent or separate volcanic event from earlier postshield activity; thus, the Kolekole Volcanics are reduced in rank, becoming the Kolekole Member of the Waianae Volcanics. Magmas of the Palehua and Kolekole Members have similar incompatible element ratios, and both suites show evidence for early crystallization of clinopyroxene consistent with evolution at high pressures below the edifice. However, lavas of the Kolekole Member are less fractionated and appear to have evolved at greater depths than the earlier Palehua hawaiites. Postshield primary magma compositions of the Palehua and Kolekole Members are consistent with formation by partial melting of mantle material of less than 5–10% relative to Waianae shield lavas. Within the section of Palehua Member lavas, an increase with respect to time of highly incompatible to moderately incompatible element ratios is consistent with a further decrease in partial melting by approximately 1–2%. This trend is reversed with the onset of eruption of Kolekole Member lavas, where an increase in extent of partial melting is indicated. The relatively short time interval between the eruption of Palehua and Kolekole Member lavas appears to date the initial formation of Lualualei Valley, which was accompanied by a marked change in magmatic conditions. We speculate that the mass-wasting event separating lavas of the Palehua and Kolekole Members may be related to the formation of a large submarine landslide west and southwest of Waianae Volcano. Enhanced decompression melting associated with removal of the equivalent volume of this landslide deposit from the edifice is more than sufficient to produce the modeled increase of 1–2% in extent of melting between the youngest Palehua magmas and the posterosional magmas of the Kolekole Member. The association between magmatic change and a giant landsliding event suggests that there may be a general relationship between large mass-wasting events and subsequent magmatism in Hawaiian volcano evolution. Received: 1 September 1996 / Accepted: 26 November 1996     

Constraints on the dynamics of subglacial basalt eruptions from geological and geochemical observations at Kverkfjöll, NE-Iceland

The Kverkfjöll area, NE Iceland is characterised by subglacial basalt pillow lavas erupted under thick ice during the last major glaciation in Iceland. The water contents of slightly vesiculated glassy rims of pillows in six localities range from 0.85±0.03 to 1.04±0.03 wt %. The water content measurements allow the ice thickness to be estimated at between 1.2 and 1.6 km, with the range reflecting the uncertainty in the CO₂ and water contents of the melt. The upper estimates agree with other observations and models that the ice thickness in the centre of Iceland was 1.5–2.0 km at the time of the last glacial maximum. Many of the pillows in the Kverkfjöll area are characterised by vesiculated cores (40–60% vesicles) surrounded by a thick outer zone of moderately vesicular basalt (15–20% vesicles). The core contains ～1 mm diameter spherical vesicles distributed uniformly. This observation suggests a sudden decompression and vesiculation of the still molten core followed by rapid cooling. The cores are attributed to a jökulhlaup in which melt water created by the eruption is suddenly released reducing the environmental pressure. Mass balance and solubility relationships for water allow a pressure decrease to be calculated from the observed change of vesicularity of between 4.4 and 4.7 MPa depressurization equivalent to a drop in the water level in the range 440–470 m. Consideration of the thickness of solid crust around the molten cores at the time of the jökulhlaup indicates an interval of 1–3 days between pillow emplacement and the jökulhlaup. Upper limits for ice melting rates of order 10^?3 m/s are indicated. This interpretation suggests that jökulhlaups can reactivate eruptions.     

黑龙江省饶河枕状玄武岩古地磁学研究及其构造意义

蛇绿岩中枕状玄武岩的古地磁学研究可为古海洋的恢复与演化提供定量化依据.黑龙江省饶河地区中侏罗世枕状玄武岩的岩石学、岩石磁学研究表明,该岩石具备水下喷出特点,发育辉长结构,载磁矿物为磁铁矿.17个采点181块样品的热退磁实验表明,中侏罗世枕状玄武岩记录了高温分量和中温分量,前者为熔岩喷发记录的原生剩磁方向,平均方向D/I=59.4°/46.3°,α95=6.8°,对应的极位置为40.3°N,224.6°E,A95=7°;后者可能为晚侏罗世—早白垩世岩浆热事件的叠加,平均方向D/I=55.4°/60.6°,α95=3.9°,对应的极位置为50.8°N,210.6°E,A95=5.2°.综合考虑区域地质背景,将这一结果与邻区同时代的古地磁数据对比,推测在中侏罗世之前,在饶河杂岩与佳木斯地体之间存在一定规模的海域,与现今日本海相似;早白垩世时期,该海域封闭,饶河杂岩与华北、西伯利亚板块在动力学上已成为整体.     

Contemporaneous eruption of calc-alkaline and alkaline lavas in a continental arc (Eastern Mexican Volcanic Belt): chemically heterogeneous but isotopically homogeneous source

Nearly contemporaneous eruption of alkaline and calc-alkaline lavas occurred about 900 years BP from El Volcancillo paired vent, located behind the volcanic front in the Mexican Volcanic Belt (MVB). Emission of hawaiite (Toxtlacuaya) was immediately followed by calc-alkaline basalt (Río Naolinco). Hawaiites contain olivine microphenocrysts (Fo_67–72), plagioclase (An_56–60) phenocrysts, have 4–5 wt% MgO and 49.6–50.9 wt% SiO₂. In contrast, calc-alkaline lavas contain plagioclase (An_64–72) and olivine phenocrysts (Fo_81–84) with spinel inclusions, and have 8–9 wt% MgO and 48.4–49.4 wt% SiO₂. The most primitive lavas in the region (Río Naolinco and Cerro Colorado) are not as primitive as parental melts in other arcs, and could represent either (a) variable degrees of melting of a subduction modified, garnet-bearing depleted mantle source, followed by AFC process, or (b) melting of two distinct mantle sources followed by AFC processes. These two hypotheses are evaluated using REE, HFSE, and Sr, Os and Pb isotopic data. The Toxtlacuaya flow and the Y & I lavas can be generated by combined fractional crystallization and assimilation of gabbroic granulite, starting with a parental liquid similar to the Cerro Colorado basalt. Although calc-alkaline and alkaline magmas commonly occur together in other areas of the MVB, evidence for subduction component in El Volcancillo magmas is minimal and limited to <1%, which is a unique feature in this region further from the trench. El Volcancillo lavas were produced from two different magma batches: we surmise that the injection of calc-alkaline magma into an alkaline magma chamber triggered the eruption of hawaiites. Our results suggest that the subalkaline and hawaiitic lavas were formed by different degrees of partial melting of a similar, largely depleted mantle source, followed by later AFC processes. This model is unusual for arcs, where such diversity is usually explained by melting of heterogeneous (enriched and depleted) and subduction-modified mantle.     

滇西莴中新生代高镁富钾火山岩中橄榄石斑晶及其尖晶石包裹体的岩浆成因动力学意义

滇西莴中新生代高镁富钾火山岩富含橄榄石斑晶，其核部Fo含量变化较大（94～75％），由大斑晶（〉1mm）、中等粒径斑晶（0．3～1mm）至小斑晶（〈0．3mm），Fo含量总体变小；橄榄石斑晶CaO含量大于0．1wt％，随着Fo含量的降低，MnO含量升高，而NiO含量降低，并具有明显的岩浆结晶分异趋势，均为岩浆成因，但来源复杂；大斑晶和中等粒径斑晶的核部Fo含量明显与全岩MgO不平衡，均属于捕虏晶来源。橄榄石斑晶中的尖晶石包裹体高Cr#（0．77～0．94）、低Mg#（0．17～0．65），具有较低的Al2O3含量（〈10wt％）；尖晶石包裹体的TiO2含量总体上较低（〈1．0wt％），暗示了绝大部分橄榄石属于岛弧型岩浆成因，来源于富集交代的方辉橄榄岩部分熔融岩浆；少量高TiO2尖晶石包裹体（1．36～3．96wt％）的存在则暗示了部分橄榄石斑晶的形成可能与峨眉山大火成岩省有关。大斑晶和中等粒径斑晶橄榄石均具明显的成分梯度变化，由核部、幔部至边部。其Fo、NiO含量降低而MnO、CaO含量增大，并且边部成分特征与小斑晶橄榄石相类似，其源区至少存在两次岩浆作用过程，核部成分变化反映的是早期高Mg#岩浆中的橄榄石结晶分离作用过程，而边部以及小斑晶橄榄石的成分变化则反映了后期喷发岩浆（Mg#略低）体系中橄榄石的结晶分离作用过程。     

滇西晚始新世高镁富钾火山岩的地球化学特征及其岩石成因机制探讨

40Ar/39Ar同位素定年分析显示滇西新生代高镁富钾火山岩均形成于始新世晚期(约36 Ma),富含MgO(＞9%)和K2O(3.07%～7.28%),绝大部分K2O/Na2O比值大于2,均属超钾质系列岩石.较高的Cr、Ni含量和较低的Sc(＜30 μg/g)、TiO2(＜1%)含量暗示了源区为尖晶石相方辉橄榄岩;高镁富钾火山岩与区内同时代的粗面岩具相似的地球化学组成特征,均富集LILE和LREE,亏损高场强元素Nb-Ta和Ti等,具有极低的Nb/La比值(0.2～0.3)、较高的87Sr/86Sr初始值(0.7056～0.7072)、负的εNd初始值(-0.97～-4.87)和相对较高的206pb/204Pb(18.556～18.695)、207pb/204Pb(15.609～15.630)比值,具有明显的岛弧型钾质火山岩的性质.高镁富钾火山岩来源于受古特提斯俯冲带流体交代的尖晶石相方辉橄榄岩的部分熔融岩浆,并在深部岩浆房经历了橄榄石的结晶分异和堆晶作用,而粗面岩则还在相对浅部岩浆房经历了较大程度的长石与单斜辉石的分离结晶.