Emplacement of subaerial pahoehoe lava sheet flows into water: 1990 Kūpaianaha flow of Kilauea volcano at Kaimū Bay, Hawai`i

Episode 48 of the ongoing eruption of Kilauea, Hawai`i, began in July 1986 and continuously extruded lava for the next 5.5 years from a low shield, Kūpaianaha. The flows in March 1990 headed for Kalapana and inundated the entire town under 15–25 m of lava by the end of August. As the flows advanced eastward, they entered into Kaimū Bay, replacing it with a plain of lava that extends 300 m beyond the original shoreline. The focus of our study is the period from August 1 to October 31, 1990, when the lava buried almost 406,820 m² of the 5-m deep bay. When lava encountered the sea, it flowed along the shoreline as a narrow primary lobe up to 400 m long and 100 m wide, which in turn inflated to a thickness of 5–6 m. The flow direction of the primary lobes was controlled by the submerged delta below the lavas and by damming up lavas fed at low extrusion rates. Breakout flows through circumferential and axial inflation cracks on the inflating primary lobes formed smaller secondary lobes, burying the lows between the primary lobes and hiding their original outlines. Inflated flow lobes eventually ruptured at proximal and/or distal ends as well as mid-points between the two ends, feeding new primary lobes which were emplaced along and on the shore side of the previously inflated lobes. The flow lobes mapped with the aid of aerial photographs were correlated with daily observations of the growing flow field, and 30 primary flow lobes were dated. Excluding the two repose periods that intervened while the bay was filled, enlargement of the flow field took place at a rate of 2,440–22,640 square meters per day in the bay. Lobe thickness was estimated to be up to 11 m on the basis of cross sections of selected lobes measured using optical measurement tools, measuring tape and hand level. The total flow-lobe volume added in the bay during August 1–October 31 was approximately 3.95 million m³, giving an average supply rate of 0.86 m³/s.     

碎斑熔岩在黑矿型矿床成矿作用中的地位

白银矿田火山碎屑岩及赋矿岩石的深入研究表明,该地区存在一种长英质侵出相火山岩——碎斑熔岩。其主要特征是：①产于矿田酸性火山岩穹的火山活动中心或古火山喷口位置,代表中酸性火山作用晚期岩浆活动的产物,其典型者如折腰山石英角斑质碎斑熔岩体,规模为2×0．5km2,有次火山相石英钠长斑岩和各种火山碎屑岩如晶屑凝灰岩、集块岩及熔岩等分布在其四周;②碎斑熔岩中碎斑为长石和石英,具破而不碎、碎而不离或离而不远的特征,③基质具霏细结构,但多数已发生绢云母化、绿泥石化和黄铁矿化等;④岩石化学上同该地区喷出相石英角斑岩相当,SiO2均大于70ωB％,具有较高的Al2O3含量和Na2O／K2O值,分别为11．16～14．90和1．78～7．43,具I型与S型的混合型特征,⑤稀土元素配分型式具平坦型和富集型两种,分别与白银矿田东西两段酸性火山岩成因类型相对应,微量元素地球化学研究表明碎斑熔岩与区内石英角斑岩属同源岩浆的衍生物．海相火山岩中碎斑熔岩的确立,不仅增加了海相火山作用形式,即便出作用,而且因其占据火山活动中心或岩浆通道位置,在成岩或火山作用期后便成为海底热液对流循环成矿作用中心即热液喷流口．它既标志着黑矿型块状硫化物矿床成矿的相对时期,是在火山作用晚期侵出相碎斑熔     

内蒙白旗地区火山碎斑熔岩矿物红外光谱特征研究

正镶白旗碎斑熔岩和花岗斑岩中钾长石主要为高正长石和低透长石，有序度低，反映了白旗火山岩形成温度较高，钾长石有序度具明显的变化规律，反映了各相带岩石形成环境的差异性。各相带中石英的红外光谱反映了与钾长石相同的温度变化规律；岩石中锆石主要以晶质锆石为主；磁铁矿的红外光谱特征则表明碎斑熔岩形成于高氧化条件的侵出相环境。     

峨眉山玄武岩母岩浆的性质及其成因类型

作者通过对峨眉山玄武岩的研究工作，对峨眉山玄岩浆提出新的看法，认为它是一种过渡类型的临界面岩浆。     

Distribution of thermal areas on an active lava flow field: Landsat observations of Kilauea,Hawaii, July 1991

A Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image acquired on 23 July 1991 recorded widespread activity associated with the Episode 48 of the Pu'u 'O'o-Kupaianaha eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. The scene contains a very large number (>3500) of thermally elevated near infrared (0.8–2.35 m) pixels (each 900 m²), which enable the spatial distribution of volcanic activity to be identified. This activity includes a lava lake within Pu'u 'O'o cone, an active lava tube system (7.9 km in length) with skylights between the Kupaianaha lava shield and several ocean entry points, and extensive active surface flows (total area of 1.3 km²) within a much larger area of cooling flows (total16 km²). The production of an average flux density map from the TM data of the flow field, wherein the average flux density is defined in units of Wm^-2, allows for the chronology of emplacement of active and cooling flows to be determined. The flux density map reveals that there were at least three breakouts (>5000 Wm^-2) feeding active flows, but on the day that the data were collected the TM recorded a waning phase of surface activity in this area, based on the relatively large amount of intermediate power-emitting (cooling) flows compared to high power-emitting (active) flows. The production of a comparable flux density map for future eruptions would aid in the assessment of volcanic hazards if the data were available in near-real time.     

Recycling of magmatic clasts during explosive eruptions: estimating the true juvenile content of phreatomagmatic volcanic deposits

The juvenile content of phreatomagmatic deposits contains both first-cycle juvenile clasts derived from magma at the instant of eruption, and recycled juvenile clasts, which were fragmented and first ejected by earlier explosions during the eruption, but fell back or collapsed into the vent. Recycled juvenile clasts are similar to accessory and accidental lithics in that they contribute no heat to further magma: water interaction, but previously no effective criteria have been defined to separate them from first-cycle juvenile clasts. We have investigated componentry parameters (vesicularity, clast morphology and extent of mud-coating) which, in specific circumstances, can distinguish between first-cycle juvenile clasts, involved in only one explosion, and such recycled juvenile clasts. Phreatomagmatic fall deposits commonly show gross grainsize and sorting characteristics identical to deposits of purely dry or magmatic eruptions. However the abundance of non-juvenile clasts in pyroclastic deposits is a sensitive indicator of the involvement of external water. If this component is calculated including recycled juvenile clasts with accidental and accessory clasts the contrast is even more striking. Data from a Holocene maar deposit in Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, suggest that the first-cycle juvenile component of the deposits is less than one-third of that determined by simple juvenile:lithic:crystal componentry.     

Preservation of aeolian genetic units by lava flows in the Lower Cretaceous of the Paraná Basin, southern Brazil

The Lower Cretaceous geological record of the intracratonic Paraná Basin in southern Brazil comprises a thick succession of aeolian sandstones and volcanic rocks. The intercalation between aeolian sandstone and volcanic floods allowed the preservation of distinct aeolian genetic units. Each genetic unit represents an accumulation episode, bounded by supersurfaces, that coincides with the base of lava flood events. The entire package can be subdivided into a Lower Genetic Unit, which corresponds to aeolian sandstones preserved below the initial lava flows (Botucatu Formation), and an upper set of genetic units, which comprises interlayered aeolian deposits and lava floods (Serra Geral Formation). The Lower Genetic Unit is up to 100 m thick. Its base is composed of ephemeral stream and aeolian sand sheet deposits that are overlain by cross‐bedded sandstones whose origin is ascribed to simple, locally composite, crescentic and complex linear aeolian dunes. Aeolian accumulation of the lower unit was possible as a result of the existence of a wide topographic basin, which caused wind deceleration, and a large sand availability that promoted a positive net sediment flux. The Upper Genetic Units comprise isolated sand bodies that occur in two different styles: (1) thin lenses (<3 m thick) formed by aeolian sand sheets; and (2) thick sand lenses (3–15 m) comprising cross‐bedded cosets generated by migration and climbing of simple to locally composite crescentic aeolian dunes. Accumulation of the aeolian strata was associated with wind deceleration within depressions on the irregular upper surface of the lava floods. The interruption of sedimentation in the Lower and Upper Genetic Units, and related development of supersurfaces, occurred as a result of widespread effusions of basaltic lava. Preservation of both wind‐rippled topset deposits of the aeolian dunes and pahoehoe lava imprints indicates that lava floods covered active aeolian dunes and, hence, protected the aeolian deposits from erosion, thus preserving the genetic units.     

陕西宽坪岩群变基性熔岩锆石U-Pb年龄

宽坪岩群广东坪岩组绿片岩岩石学、岩石化学、稀土、微量元素、副矿物等研究表明其原岩为基性火山岩。对商州市板桥地区基性熔岩变质而成的绿片岩区域地质、地球化学特点、锆石特征进行了详细研究和单颗粒锆石U-Pb同位素年龄测定。放射性成因铅丢失最少的岩浆成因锆石的206Pb/238U表面年龄为1154Ma,变质成因锆石的206Pb/238U表面年龄为444Ma。5个锆石颗粒构成的不一致线上交点年龄为1827±11Ma,代表基性熔岩形成年龄;下交点年龄为418±8Ma,代表加里东期变质年龄。综合认为宽坪岩群形成时代为早元古代。     

A comparison between subaerial and submarine eruptions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: implications for the thermal viability of lateral feeder dikes

Eruption styles on the subaerial East Rift Zone (ERZ) of Kilauea volcano are reviewed and a classification scheme for the different types of eruption is proposed. The various eruption types are produced by differing thermal and driving pressure behaviour in the feeder dikes. Existing evidence is reviewed and new evidence presented of the types and volumes of eruptions on the Puna Ridge, which is the submarine extension of the ERZ. Eruptions on the Puna Ridge fall into the same five classes as, and are of comparable volume to, those on the subaerial ERZ. Evidence is presented which suggests that feeder dikes for Puna Ridge eruptions are more thermally viable than those feeding subaerial eruptions, and this difference causes long-lived, large-volume eruptions to be more common on the Puna Ridge than on the subaerial ERZ. This systematic variation in thermal viability may be due to increased dike width for Puna Ridge dikes or increased pressure gradients driving magma flow. Lateral dike emplacement is common to many basaltic systems including on other Hawaiian volcanoes, in Iceland and at mid-ocean ridges. The systematic trend inferred for the ERZ of Kilauea implies that in the other systems large-volume eruptions may also be more common at great distances than they are close to the magma centre.