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Agust Gudmundsson 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,60(3):160-170
The ring fractures that form most collapse calderas are steeply inward-dipping shear fractures, i.e., normal faults. At the
surface of the volcano within which the caldera fault forms, the tensile and shear stresses that generate the normal-fault
caldera must peak at a certain radial distance from the surface point above the center of the source magma chamber of the
volcano. Numerical results indicate that normal-fault calderas may initiate as a result of doming of an area containing a
shallow sill-like magma chamber, provided that the area of doming is much larger than the cross-sectional area of the chamber
and that the internal excess pressure in the chamber is smaller than that responsible for doming. This model is supported
by the observation that many caldera collapses are preceded by a long period of doming over an area much larger than that
of the subsequently formed caldera. When the caldera fault does not slip, eruptions from calderas are normally small. Nearly
all large explosive eruptions, however, are associated with slip on caldera faults. During dip slip on, and doming of, a normal-fault
caldera, the vertical stress on part of the underlying chamber suddenly decreases. This may lead to explosive bubble growth
in this part of the magma chamber, provided its magma is gas rich. This bubble growth can generate an excess fluid pressure
that is sufficiently high to drive a large fraction of the magma out of the chamber during an explosive eruption.
Received: 2 January 1997 / Accepted: 22 April 1998 相似文献
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Subsidence of ash-flow calderas: relation to caldera size and magma-chamber geometry 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Peter W. Lipman 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1997,59(3):198-218
Diverse subsidence geometries and collapse processes for ash-flow calderas are inferred to reflect varying sizes, roof geometries,
and depths of the source magma chambers, in combination with prior volcanic and regional tectonic influences. Based largely
on a review of features at eroded pre-Quaternary calderas, a continuum of geometries and subsidence styles is inferred to
exist, in both island-arc and continental settings, between small funnel calderas and larger plate (piston) subsidences bounded
by arcuate faults. Within most ring-fault calderas, the subsided block is variably disrupted, due to differential movement
during ash-flow eruptions and postcollapse magmatism, but highly chaotic piecemeal subsidence appears to be uncommon for large-diameter
calderas. Small-scale downsag structures and accompanying extensional fractures develop along margins of most calderas during
early stages of subsidence, but downsag is dominant only at calderas that have not subsided deeply. Calderas that are loci
for multicyclic ash-flow eruption and subsidence cycles have the most complex internal structures. Large calderas have flared
inner topographic walls due to landsliding of unstable slopes, and the resulting slide debris can constitute large proportions
of caldera fill. Because the slide debris is concentrated near caldera walls, models from geophysical data can suggest a funnel
geometry, even for large plate-subsidence calderas bounded by ring faults. Simple geometric models indicate that many large
calderas have subsided 3–5 km, greater than the depth of most naturally exposed sections of intracaldera deposits. Many ring-fault
plate-subsidence calderas and intrusive ring complexes have been recognized in the western U.S., Japan, and elsewhere, but
no well-documented examples of exposed eroded calderas have large-scale funnel geometry or chaotically disrupted caldera floors.
Reported ignimbrite "shields" in the central Andes, where large-volume ash-flows are inferred to have erupted without caldera
collapse, seem alternatively interpretable as more conventional calderas that were filled to overflow by younger lavas and
tuffs. Some exposed subcaldera intrusions provide insights concerning subsidence processes, but such intrusions may continue
to evolve in volume, roof geometry, depth, and composition after formation of associated calderas.
Received: 13 February 1997 / Accepted: 9 August 1997 相似文献
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Edifices of stratocones and domes are often situated eccentrically above shallow silicic magma reservoirs. Evacuation of such reservoirs forms collapse calderas commonly surrounded by remnants of one or several volcanic cones that appear variously affected and destabilized. We studied morphologies of six calderas in Kamchatka, Russia, with diameters of 4 to 12 km. Edifices affected by caldera subsidence have residual heights of 250–800 m, and typical amphitheater-like depressions opening toward the calderas. The amphitheaters closely resemble horseshoe-shaped craters formed by large-scale flank failures of volcanoes with development of debris avalanches. Where caldera boundaries intersect such cones, the caldera margins have notable outward embayments. We therefore hypothesize that in the process of caldera formation, these eccentrically situated edifices were partly displaced and destabilized, causing large-scale landslides. The landslide masses are then transformed into debris avalanches and emplaced inside the developing caldera basins. To test this hypothesis, we carried out sand-box analogue experiments, in which caldera formation (modeled by evacuation of a rubber balloon) was simulated. The deformation of volcanic cones was studied by placing sand-cones in the vicinity of the expected caldera rim. At the initial stage of the modeled subsidence, the propagating ring fault of the caldera bifurcates within the affected cone into two faults, the outermost of which is notably curved outward off the caldera center. The two faults dissect the cone into three parts: (1) a stable outer part, (2) a highly unstable and subsiding intracaldera part, and (3) a subsiding graben structure between parts (1) and (2). Further progression of the caldera subsidence is likely to cause failure of parts (2) and (3) with failed material sliding into the caldera basin and with formation of an amphitheater-like depression oriented toward the developing caldera. The mass of material which is liable to slide into the caldera basin, and the shape of the resulted amphitheater are a function of the relative position of the caldera ring fault and the base of the cone. A cone situated mostly outside the ring fault is affected to a minor degree by caldera subsidence and collapses with formation of a narrow amphitheater deeply incised into the cone, having a small opening angle. Accordingly, the caldera exhibits a prominent outward embayment. By contrast, collapse of a cone initially situated mostly inside the caldera results in a broad amphitheater with a large opening angle, i.e. the embayment of the caldera rim is negligible. The relationships between the relative position of an edifice above the caldera fault and the opening angle of the formed amphitheater are similar for the modeled and the natural cases of caldera/cone interactions. Thus, our experiments support the hypothesis that volcanic edifices affected by caldera subsidence can experience large-scale failures with formation of indicative amphitheaters oriented toward the caldera basins. More generally, the scalloped appearance of boundaries of calderas in contact with pre-caldera topographic highs can be explained by the gravitational influence of topography on the process of caldera formation.Editorial responsibility: J. Stix 相似文献
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M. J. Branney 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1995,57(5):303-318
Structures at calderas may form as a result of precursory tumescence, subsidence due withdrawal of magmatic support, resurgence, and regional tectonism. Structural reactivation and overprinting are common. To explore which types of structures may derive directly from subsidence without other factors, evidence is reviewed from pits caused by the melting of buried ice blocks, mining subsidence, scaled subsidence models, and from over 50 calderas. This review suggests that complex patterns of peripheral deformation, with multiple ring and arcuate fractures both inside and outside caldera rims, topographic embayments, arcuate graben, and concentric zones of extension and compression may form as a direct result of subsidence and do not require a complex subsidence and inflation history. Downsag is a feature of many calderas and it does not indicate subsidence on an inward-dipping ring fault, as has been inferred previously. Where magmatic inflation is absent or slight, initial arcuate faults formed during collapse are likely to be multiple, and dip outwards to vertical. Associated downsag causes the peripheries of calderas undergo radial (centripetal) extension, and this accounts for some of the complex peripheral fractures, arcuate crevasses, graben, and some topographic moats. The structural boundary of a caldera, defined here as the outermost limits of subsidence and related deformation including downsag, commonly lies outside ring faults and outside the embayed topographic wall. It is likely to be funnel-shaped, i.e. inward-dipping, even though ring and arcuate fractures within it may dip outward. Inward-dipping arcuate normal faults at shallow levels and steep inward-dipping contacts between a caldera's fill and walls may both occur at a caldera that has initially subsided on outward-dipping ring faults. They arise due to peripheral surficial extension, gravitational spreading and scarp collapse. Topographic enlargement at some calderas and the formation of embayments may reflect general progressive downsag and localized downsag, respectively. These processes may occur in addition to surficial degradation of oversteep ring-fault scarps. 相似文献
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A key question in volcanology is the driving mechanisms of resurgence at active, recently active, and ancient calderas. Valles caldera in New Mexico and Lake City caldera in Colorado are well-studied resurgent structures which provide three crucial clues for understanding the resurgence process. (1) Within the limits of 40Ar/39Ar dating techniques, resurgence and hydrothermal alteration at both calderas occurred very quickly after the caldera-forming eruptions (tens of thousands of years or less). (2) Immediately before and during resurgence, dacite magma was intruded and/or erupted into each system; this magma is chemically distinct from rhyolite magma which was resident in each system. (3) At least 1?km of structural uplift occurred along regional and subsidence faults which were closely associated with shallow intrusions or lava domes of dacite magma. These observations demonstrate that resurgence at these two volcanoes is temporally linked to caldera subsidence, with the upward migration of dacite magma as the driver of resurgence. Recharge of dacite magma occurs as a response to loss of lithostatic load during the caldera-forming eruption. Flow of dacite into the shallow magmatic system is facilitated by regional fault systems which provide pathways for magma ascent. Once the dacite enters the system, it is able to heat, remobilize, and mingle with residual crystal-rich rhyolite remaining in the shallow magma chamber. Dacite and remobilized rhyolite rise buoyantly to form laccoliths by lifting the chamber roof and producing surface resurgent uplift. The resurgent deformation caused by magma ascent fractures the chamber roof, increasing its structural permeability and allowing both rhyolite and dacite magmas to intrude and/or erupt together. This sequence of events also promotes the development of magmatic–hydrothermal systems and ore deposits. Injection of dacite magma into the shallow rhyolite magma chamber provides a source of heat and magmatic volatiles, while resurgent deformation and fracturing increase the permeability of the system. These changes allow magmatic volatiles to rise and meteoric fluids to percolate downward, favouring the development of hydrothermal convection cells which are driven by hot magma. The end result is a vigorous hydrothermal system which is driven by magma recharge. 相似文献
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Timescale of magma chamber processes revealed by U–Pb ages,trace element contents and morphology of zircons from the Ishizuchi caldera,Southwest Japan Arc 
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下载免费PDF全文 Mami Takehara Kenji Horie Kenichiro Tani Takeyoshi Yoshida Tomokazu Hokada Shoichi Kiyokawa 《Island Arc》2017,26(2)
U–Pb geochronology and trace element chemistry of zircons in a microscale analysis were applied to the Ishizuchi caldera in the Outer Zone of Southwest Japan in order to estimate the timescale of the magma process, in particular, the magma differentiation. This caldera is composed mainly of ring fault complexes, major pyroclastic flow deposits, and felsic intrusion including central plutons. Using SHRIMP‐IIe, our new U–Pb zircon ages obtained from the major pyroclastic flow deposits (Tengudake pyroclastic flow deposits), granitic rocks from central plutons (Soushikei granodiorite and Teppoishigawa quartz monzonite), and rhyolite from the outer ring dike (Tenchuseki rhyolite) and the inner ring dike (Bansyodani rhyolite) are 14.80 ±0.11 Ma, 14.56 ±0.10 Ma, 14.53 ±0.12 Ma, 14.55 ±0.11 Ma and 14.21 ±0.19 Ma, respectively. Based on the U–Pb ages, the Hf contents and the REE patterns of the zircons, three stages are recognized in the evolutionary history of the magma chamber beneath the Ishizuchi caldera: (i) climactic Tengudake pyroclastic flow eruption; (ii) Tenchuseki rhyolite intrusion into the outer ring dike and central pluton intrusion; and (iii) Bansyodani rhyolite intrusion in the inner ring dike. These results indicate a magma evolution history of the Ishizuchi caldera system which took at least ca 600 kyr from the climatic caldera‐forming eruption to the post‐caldera intrusions. Our new geochronological data suggest that the Ishizuchi caldera formed as part of the voluminous and episodic magmatism that occurred in the wide zone along the Miocene forearc basin of Southwest Japan during the inception of the young Philippine Sea Plate subduction. 相似文献
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Situated in a submerged continental rift, Pantelleria is a volcanic island with a subaerial eruptive history longer than 300 Ka. Its eruptive behavior, edifice morphologies, and complex, multiunit geologic history are representative of strongly peralkaline centers. It is dominated by the 6-km-wide Cinque Denti caldera, which formed ca. 45 Ka ago during eruption of the Green Tuff, a strongly rheomorphic unit zoned from pantellerite to trachyte and consisting of falls, surges, and pyroclastic flows. Soon after collapse, trachyte lava flows from an intracaldera central vent built a broad cone that compensated isostatically for the volume of the caldera and nearly filled it. Progressive chemical evolution of the chamber between 45 and 18 Ka ago is recorded in the increasing peralkalinity of the youngest lava of the intracaldera trachyte cone and the few lavas erupted northwest of the caldera. Beginning about 18 Ka ago, inflation of the chamber opened old ring fractures and new radial fractures, along which recently differentiated pantellerite constructed more than 25 pumice cones and shields. Continued uplift raised the northwest half of the intracaldera trachyte cone 275 m, creating the island's present summit, Montagna Grande, by trapdoor uplift. Pantellerite erupted along the trapdoor faults and their hingeline, forming numerous pumice cones and agglutinate sheets as well as five lava domes. Degassing and drawdown of the upper pantelleritic part of a compositionally and thermally stratified magma chamber during this 18-3-Ka episode led to entrainment of subjacent, crystal-rich, pantelleritic trachyte magma as crenulate inclusions. Progressive mixing between host and inclusions resulted in a secular decrease in the degree of evolution of the 0.82 km3 of magma erupted during the episode.The 45-Ka-old caldera is nested within the La Vecchia caldera, which is thought to have formed around 114 Ka ago. This older caldera was filled by three widespread welded units erupted 106, 94, and 79 Ka ago. Reactivation of the ring fracture ca. 67 Ka ago is indicated by venting of a large pantellerite centero and a chain of small shields along the ring fault. For each of the two nested calderas, the onset of postcaldera ring-fracture volcanism coincides with a low stand of sea level.Rates of chemical regeneration within the chamber are rapid, the 3% crystallization/Ka of the post-Green Tuff period being typical. Highly evolved pantellerites are rare, however, because intervals between major eruptions (averaging 13–6 Ka during the last 190 Ka) are short. Benmoreites and mugearites are entirely lacking. Fe-Ti-rich alkalic basalts have erupted peripherally along NW-trending lineaments parallel to the enclosing rift but not within the nested calderas, suggesting that felsic magma persists beneath them. The most recent basaltic eruption (in 1891) took place 4 km northwest of Pantelleria, manifesting the long-term northwestward migration of the volcanic focus. These strongly differentiated basalts reflect low-pressure fractional crystallization of partial melts of garnet peridotite that coalesce in small magma reservoirs replenished only infrequently in this continental rift environment. 相似文献
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Leveling surveys in 1923, 1976, and each year from 1983 to 1993 have shown that the east-central part of the Yellowstone caldera, near the base of the Sour Creek resurgent dome, rose at an average rate of 14±1 mm/year from 1923 to 1976 and 22±1 mm/year from 1976 to 1984. In contrast, no detectable movement occurred in the same area from 1984 to 1985 (-2±5 mm/year), and from 1985 to 1993 the area subsided at an average rate of 19±1 mm/year. We conclude that uplift from 1923 to 1984 was caused by: (1) pressurization of the deep hydrothermal system by fluids released from a crystallizing body of rhyolite magma beneath the caldera, then trapped beneath a self-sealed zone near the base of the hydrothermal system; and (2) aseismic intrusions of magma into the lower part of the sub-caldera magma body. Subsidence since 1985 is attributed to: (1) depressurization and fluid loss from the deep hydrothermal system, and (2) sagging of the caldera floor in response to regional crustal extension. Future intrusions might trigger renewed eruptive activity at Yellowstone, but most intrusions at large silicic calderas seem to be accommodated without eruptions. Overpressurization of the deep hydrothermal system could conceivably result in a phreatic or phreatomagmatic eruption, but this hazard is mitigated by episodic rupturing of the self-sealed zone during shallow earthquake swarms. Historical ground movements, although rapid by most geologic standards, seem to be typical of inter-eruption periods at large, mature, silicic magma systems like Yellowstone. The greatest short-term hazards posed by continuing unrest in the Yellowstone region are: (1) moderate to large earthquakes (magnitude 5.5–7.5), with a recurrence interval of a few decdes; and (2) small hydrothermal explosions, most of which affect only a small area (<0.01 km2), with a recurrence interval of a few years. 相似文献
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William W. ChadwickJr Sigurjon Jónsson Dennis J. Geist Michael Poland Daniel J. Johnson Spencer Batt Karen S. Harpp Andres Ruiz 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2011,73(6):679-697
The May 2005 eruption of Fernandina volcano, Galápagos, occurred along circumferential fissures parallel to the caldera rim
and fed lava flows down the steep southwestern slope of the volcano for several weeks. This was the first circumferential
dike intrusion ever observed by both InSAR and GPS measurements and thus provides an opportunity to determine the subsurface
geometry of these enigmatic structures that are common on Galápagos volcanoes but are rare elsewhere. Pre- and post- eruption
ground deformation between 2002 and 2006 can be modeled by the inflation of two separate magma reservoirs beneath the caldera:
a shallow sill at ~1 km depth and a deeper point-source at ~5 km depth, and we infer that this system also existed at the
time of the 2005 eruption. The co-eruption deformation is dominated by uplift near the 2005 eruptive fissures, superimposed
on a broad subsidence centered on the caldera. Modeling of the co-eruption deformation was performed by including various
combinations of planar dislocations to simulate the 2005 circumferential dike intrusion. We found that a single planar dike
could not match both the InSAR and GPS data. Our best-fit model includes three planar dikes connected along hinge lines to
simulate a curved concave shell that is steeply dipping (~45–60°) toward the caldera at the surface and more gently dipping
(~12–14°) at depth where it connects to the horizontal sub-caldera sill. The shallow sill is underlain by the deep point source.
The geometry of this modeled magmatic system is consistent with the petrology of Fernandina lavas, which suggest that circumferential
eruptions tap the shallowest parts of the system, whereas radial eruptions are fed from deeper levels. The recent history
of eruptions at Fernandina is also consistent with the idea that circumferential and radial intrusions are sometimes in a
stress-feedback relationship and alternate in time with one another. 相似文献
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Steve J. Saunders 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2001,63(6):406-420
The floor of Rabaul caldera experiences complex deformation as revealed both in the geological and historical record, as well as through recent systematic monitoring. The observed deformation pattern has been modelled previously as being caused by tumescent strain above one or more point sources at shallow levels within the caldera block, or as a response of the caldera structure to deeper sources of deformation. Here, two-dimensional finite element modelling is used to re-interpret the pre-1994 eruption deformation data, demonstrating that the observed pattern may have been caused by dykes located in sectors of the ring fault system, as delimited by seismicity. Both a pressurised ring structure and a pair of arcuate sources are modelled. Maximum compressional stress results in a central position within the encompassed block, and a moat-like feature forms offset outwards from the intersection of the azimuth of the modelled deformation sources and the free surface. The modelled deformation generally fits well with the observed movements. That the shallow ring dyke appears not to be complete, existing as two discrete arcuate dykes, helps to explain observed changes in the indicated tilt directions through time. Changing areas of relative down-warping offset outwards from the seismically active ring structure, and north/south-oriented structural up-doming south of Matupit. The distribution of thermal anomalies, and the lack of evidence for shallow central caldera intrusions, can also be explained by this scenario. Associated normal faulting above these dykes, and/or the stress regime generated by simultaneous intrusions into opposite sides of the ring fault, are proposed to explain the apparent inward dip of the intrusions at very shallow levels, leading to the eruptive sites being offset outwards from the seismic zone. A conceptual model is proposed to try to explain the general behaviour of the caldera between 1971 and the eruption of 1994. 相似文献
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A. Ewart S. C. Milner A. R. Duncan M. Bailey 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2002,114(3-4)
The Messum igneous complex (MIC) lies within the ENE-trending zone of Lower Cretaceous (132 Ma) Damaraland intrusive complexes in Namibia, intruded into Pan-African Damara basement. It is defined by a roughly circular structure 18 km in diameter, the bounding ring fault exposed along the eastern sector. Encircling Messum are the volcanic sequences of the Goboboseb Mountains, comprising a lower basalt series (Tafelkop and Tafelberg types) followed, with intervening basalts, by four voluminous quartz latite (QL) eruptions (Goboboseb and Springbok QL units).Inferred stages of development are: (a) an initial very broad basaltic lava shield, comprising the Tafelberg and Tafelkop basalts, and Messum crater basalts (MCB; possibly ponded in near-vent lava lakes). Embedded within the lower basaltic sequence is a localised rhyolite-dominated eruptive centre (ca. 5 km in diameter), interpreted as a funnel caldera located towards the centre of the MIC. (b) Downsagging, extending northwards from Messum, following the Goboboseb QL eruptions (≥2300 km3). Ponding of overlying basaltic units. (c) Climactic Springbok QL eruption (≥6300 km3) producing further downsag together with the inward radial dip of all volcanic units towards the MIC. Ring fault initiation. (d) Cauldron subsidence emplacement of a granitoid suite, forming the MIC ‘moat’ (area between the ring fault and the core region). (e) Intrusion of gabbroic cone sheets into incompletely solidified granitic melts within the southeastern moat. Resulting hybridisation and magma mingling produced extensive development of heterogeneous granitoid and hybrid dioritic lithologies. (f) Cone sheet intrusions of the eastern gabbros into more highly solidified granitoids of the southeastern moat. (g) Intrusion of thick (1–2 km) western gabbro cone sheets, exhibiting local fine-scale layering, into solidified granitoids, mainly within the western moat. Minor late-stage granitic intrusions. (h) 2–3 Ma quiescent period followed by quartz- and ne-syenite intrusions, and finally basanite dykes, emplaced within the MIC core. Accompanying differential uplift of the core.Uplift/resurgence within the MIC has accompanied intrusion of the moat granitoids and mafic cone sheets, thereby juxtaposing volcanic and intrusive sequences. Phases of both subsidence and uplift have characterised the MIC. The NW Scotland Tertiary central igneous complexes and Messum show evidence of a number of parallel developments, but also important differences. The MIC differs markedly from caldera systems within the western USA and circum-Pacific. Messum is therefore suggested to represent a distinct class of intrusive/extrusive central complex, although probably common in large igneous provinces. 相似文献
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The active Karthala volcano is found on Grande Comore, the most westerly of four volcanic islands comprising the Comores Archipelago, between northern Madagascar and Mozambique. The caldera, roughly elliptical in outline, is 4 km long and 3 km wide, with outer walls around 100 m high. It is dominated by a large central pit crater, Chahale, which is 1300 m long, 800 m wide, and 300 m deep. A smaller cylindrical pit crater 250 m in diameter and 30 m deep, Changomeni, is found one km north of Chahale. The vertical walls of both pit craters show excellent sections of the ponded flows which form the caldera floor, and the minor faults and intrusions which affected these flows. The youngest lava on the island was produced on July 12th, 1965, as single aa basalt flow emitted from a fissure halfway between the two pit craters. Small fumaroles are still active on this flow, as well as in the pit craters and at several small cinder cones in the caldera. Alignment of pyroclastic cones and fissure eruptions forms a radial pattern centering on Chahale pit crater, suggesting that these radial fissures are locally controlled. Location of the caldera at the intersection of two regional fissure systems implies that its location is controlled by regional stresses. The present size and form of the caldera is a result of the coalescence of at least four smaller calderas. Although the visible walls of these smaller calderas do not show any outward dip, the theoretical considerations ofRobson andBarr (1964), if applicable, require that at depth these are outward-dipping ring dyke type of fractures. 相似文献
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The Christmas Mountains caldera complex developed approximately 42 Ma ago over an elliptical (8×5 km) laccolithic dome that formed during emplacement of the caldera magma body. Rocks of the caldera complex consist of tuffs, lavas, and volcaniclastic deposits, divided into five sequences. Three of the sequences contain major ash-flow tuffs whose eruption led to collapse of four calderas, all 1–1.5 km in diameter, over the dome. The oldest caldera-related rocks are sparsely porphyritic, rhyolitic, air-fall and ash-flow tuffs that record formation and collapse of a Plinian-type eruption column. Eruption of these tuffs induced collapse of a wedge along the western margin of the dome. A second, more abundantly porphyritic tuff led to collapse of a second caldera that partly overlapped the first. The last major eruptions were abundantly porphyritic, peralkaline quartz-trachyte ash-flow tuffs that ponded within two calderas over the crest of the dome. The tuffs are interbedded with coarse breccias that resulted from failure of the caldera walls. The Christmas Mountains caldera complex and two similar structures in Trans-Pecos Texas constitute a newly recognized caldera type, here termed a laccocaldera. They differ from more conventional calderas by having developed over thin laccolithic magma chambers rather than more deep-seated bodies, by their extreme precaldera doming and by their small size. However, they are similar to other calderas in having initial Plinian-type air-fall eruption followed by column collapse and ash-flow generation, multiple cycles of eruption, contemporaneous eruption and collapse, apparent pistonlike subsidence of the calderas, and compositional zoning within the magma chamber. Laccocalderas could occur else-where, particularly in alkalic magma belts in areas of undeformed sedimentary rocks. 相似文献
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Recent K-Ar dating of eruptions at Pantelleria, a peralkaline volcanic island in the Strait of Sicily, shows a correlation between eruption of pantellerite lavas from caldera ring fractures and low stands of sea level as determined from
18O stratigraphy. Post-caldera pantellerite lavas associated with an 114-ky-old caldera erupted along the ring-fracture zone during a major low stand of sea level at about 67 Ka. The most recent episode of lava-flow emplacement began about 20 ky ago during the last glacial maximum. Magma vented along the ring fault of a 45-ky-old caldera, from fractures radial to the caldera, and along faults formed by intracaldera trapdoor uplift. Two mechanical models based on elasticity theory are presented to explain the correlation of post-caldera ring-fracture eruptions at Pantelleria with lowering of sea level. A simple analysis of a bending circular plate of thickness,T
r, and radius,R, representing the magma-chamber roof block, shows that tensile stress is concentrated by a factor of 0.75R
2/T
r
2
at the lower perimeter of the plate when sea level drops. Stress changes may be even greater ifT
r is effectively less than the stratigraphic thickness due to layering of rocks in the roof block. Calculated stress changes due to a 100-m drawdown of sea level are similar in magnitude to stresses associated with dike propagation. More realistic model geometries, including different chamber shapes, a conical volcanic edifice, and sea-level drawdown beyond the surface projection of the magma chamber, were tested using the boundary-element method. Lowering sea level generates a horizontal tensile stress above the chamber, even when sea water is removed outboard of the magma chamber. For some chamber geometries the magnitude of the tensile stress maximum is greater than the 1 MPa pressure of the 100 m of removed water and is of the right order of magnitude for dike propagation. Dikes initiated by the change of the stress field may originate and propagate along fractures inboard of the chamber margin. The magnitudes of tensile maxima along the top of the chamber decrease as original sea level is moved outboard of the chamber margin and as the chamber thickness decreases. When the depth to the top of the magma chamber reaches a critical value, dependent on chamber geometry, the propagation of dikes to the surface is inhibited. 相似文献
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In the 200 km by 45 km area of exposed Permian rocks of the Oslo rift of southern Norway, 15 and possibly 18, cauldrons occur within a rift length of 180 km. These cauldrons range in size from 5 to 16 km in diameter and average around 10–12 km. They exhibit ring dikes, central intrusions, caldera depression deposits (ignimbrites, breccias, lake sediments), and cannibalism of the subsided block by younger, stoping plutons. Only six cauldrons retain most of their periphery, three have lost half their original area to younger plutons, and nine show up as segments or crescents.Ring dikes are mostly syenitic, and central intrusions range from monzonitic to syenitic, with some granitic plugs. The caldera blocks seem to have subsided into monzonitic magma chambers with a differentiated top layer of syenitic magma. Subsidence is assumed to have been started by large-scale crustal movements with a slight tensional component that produced subsidence in the uppermost parts of the magmatic plumbing system. Blocks having thicknesses of 2–5 km above these uppermost magma chambers dropped along sharp ring faults. Absence of resurgent domes is due to composition (and viscosity) of the underlying magmas: these intermediate magmas stoped their way up, without doming. Cauldrons with magmas of intermediate composition make up a major group, between the basaltic shield cauldrons and the resurgent type that produced ignimbrites. 相似文献
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The formation of ring faults yields important implications for understanding the structural and dynamic evolution of collapse
calderas and potentially associated ash-flow eruptions. Caldera collapse occurred in 2000 at Miyakejima Island (Japan) in
response to a lateral intrusion. Based on geophysical data it is inferred that a set of caldera ring faults was propagating
upward. To understand the kinematics of ring-fault propagation, linkage, and interaction, we describe new laboratory sand-box
experiments that were analyzed through Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and post-processed using 2D strain analysis. The results
help us gain a better understanding of the processes occurring during caldera subsidence at Miyakejima. We show that magma
chamber evacuation induces strain localization at the lateral chamber margin in the form of a set of reverse faults that sequentially
develops and propagates upwards. Then a set of normal faults initiates from tension fractures at the surface, propagating
downwards to link with the reverse faults at depth. With increasing amounts of subsidence, interaction between the reverse-
and normal-fault segments results in a deactivation of the reverse faults, while displacement becomes focused on the outer
normal faults. Modeling results show that the area of faulting and collapse migrates successively outward, as peak displacement
transfers from the inner ring faults to later developed outer ring faults. The final structural architecture of the faults
bounding the subsiding piston-like block is hence a consequence of the amount of subsidence, in agreement with other caldera
structures observed in nature. The experimental simulations provide an analogy to the observations and seismic records of
caldera collapse at Miyakejima volcano, but are also applicable to caldera collapse in general. 相似文献
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I. Baker 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1969,33(2):369-397
Sixteen arcuate intrusions have been emplaced at extremely high levels into the basaltic shield volcanoes of Saint Helena. These intrusions are of special interest because of their small size and modes of emplacement. The arcuate masses are of three distinctive types:
- Irregular, steeply inward-dipping, basic sheets with diameters of 150 m to 450 m infill tensional fractures originating at depths of about 500 m beneath the volcano surface.
- Strongly curved sheets from 25 m to 750 m in diameter are cross-sections of inclined intrusions which in three dimensions resemble single sticks of celery. These intrusions, varying from basalt to trachyte in composition, are infilled tensional fractures originating at « point » pressure sources, inclined to the horizontal, at depths of about 500 m below the surface.
- Salic intrusions with near-vertical sides and gently inclined roof-infillings have outer diameters of 350 m to 1070 m. Pressure exerted onto the flanks of the volcano by domed, convex upwards, areas of a magma chamber roof, at a depth of about 2 km, caused near-vertical ring fractures to form. Formation of a sub-horizontal cross fracture and subsequent intrusion of magma produced the « roof-infillings » by updoming the overlying basalts or sinking of the enclosed block, or combinations of the two processes. Two intrusions of this third type are multiple.
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The geochemistry and the injection mechanism of hypovolcanic ring dykes have been extensively studied, but such is not the
case for their internal fabric. The Tertiary Western Red Hills epigranites of the Isle of Skye are a classic example of such
intrusions. Using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility measurements, we present the first structural data of their internal
magmatic fabric. The magnetic foliations, equated with the magmatic flow planes, have strikes which roughly follow the walls
of the different intrusions. They dip steeply toward the convex wall of each intrusion. The lineations, or maximal magnetic
susceptibility axes, generally have shallow plunges, except in the latest granite intrusion. These structures appear to be
related to the compressional deformation of each intrusion toward the end of its crystallization. This shortening would be
a consequence of a radial and compressive stress field acting after each injection of magma. This radial stress field is interpreted
as the effect of high magma pressures originating from the acid magma chamber underlying the ring-dyke complex at a shallow
depth.
Received: 10 October 1995 / Accepted: 4 June 1997 相似文献
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The authors have visited Suswa, a complex caldera-volcano situated thirty miles north-west of Nairobi, a feature surprisingly neglected by geologists. While they do not pretend to do more than present an introductory account of the general geology of this unique volcano, they are able to augment the brief references of earlier workers, Gregory, Spink and Richard. The principal rock types are described in general terms, and are found to include unusual rhomb-porphyry types of lava, vitrophyres of phonolitic composition (closely related to the kenytes, but devoid of modal nepheline). The earliest eruptions were of quite normal lava type, phonolites of Kenya type, erupted over a wide area in central Kenya in Plio-Pleistocene times (not later than 1.7 m.y. ago), and the rhomb-porphyries are restricted to a secondary eruptive sequence, of probable Pleistocene age. There was a minor reactivation in recent times, represented by restricted, bare, fresh flows, of type at present unknown. Chemical analyses of representative specimens of the two major suites are provided, and are supported by modal analyses of related specimens. Two summit calderas have been recognised, both apparently subsidence structures related to cauldron subsidence in depth. The earlier and larger caldera covers about 40 square miles, and is interpreted as ofGlencoe type with weakly developedKrakatoan characteristics. The inner caldera covers seven square miles, and is interpreted as aGlencoe type structure: it is not a simple caldera but contains an island — block of four square miles extent — a feature which may perhaps be reasonably compared with island features within the Lake Toba cauldron, Sumatra and Nyamlagira caldera, Congo. The terminal eruptions of the first volcano seem to have largely stemmed from a ring feeder, analogous with a body reported from Crater Lake caldera, Oregon, U.S.A. The outer caldera is now partly obscured by products of later eruption, from a secondary cone eccentric to the first caldera — Ol Doinyo Nyukie — and from minor parasitic vents. Ol Doinyio Nyukie volcano possessed an axial pit-crater, nearly a mile in diameter, now transected by the boundary fault of the inner caldera: this might reasonably be regarded as a third,Kilauean, summit caldera, since it was apparently drained by low-level, adventive eruptions. Fumarolic activity is rife within Suswa at the present time: steam is being emitted, probably derived from meteoric water but charged with CO2 and probably nitrogen. Analogies between the Suswa pattern of calderas and certain lunar crater patterns are briefly mentioned. 相似文献
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Collapse mechanism of the Paleogene Sakurae cauldron, SW Japan 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The Paleogene Sakurae cauldron of SW Japan is characterized by a nested structure with a polygonal outline (21×13 km2) including a circular collapsed part (5 km in diameter). Total thickness of the caldera infill amounts to 2,000 m. The lower member of the infill consists mainly of felsic crystal tuff and lesser intercalated andesitic lava flows, whereas the upper member is composed of high-grade ignimbrite capped with a large rhyolitic lava dome. These members represent the first and second stage eruptions, respectively. Faults bounding the cauldron rim comprise intersecting radial and concentric faults, producing the polygonal outline of this cauldron. The primary collapse of this cauldron thus occurred as a polygonal caldera basin where products of the first stage eruption accumulated. In contrast, the inner collapse part is defined by a ring fracture system. This sector subsided concurrently with accumulation of the high-grade ignimbrite of the second stage eruption. This inner circular collapse thus represents syn-eruptional subsidence concurrent with the climactic eruption. Magma drainage during the first stage probably induced outward-dipping ring fractures in the chamber roof. Opening of the ring fractures following subsidence of the central bell-jar block caused rapid evacuation of magma as voluminous pumice flows, even though magma pressure may have decreased to some degree. 相似文献