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Volcanic earthquakes, and their relationship to eruptions at Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe volcanoes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
J.H. Latter 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1981,9(4):293-309
Crustal earthquakes near Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe fall into two classes, each of which can be subdivided. On the one hand, there are high-frequency events ( 3 Hz) with sharp, well-defined phases, mainly concentrated beneath Ruapehu Crater Lake. Low-frequency events (< 2 Hz), on the other hand, are common at shallower depths under both volcanoes. These are usually emergent multiple events, and are often closely associated with eruptions.The low-frequency events resemble Minakami's B-type and explosion earthquakes, but sometimes occur where no vent exists and rather deeper than his formal definition (< 1 km) permits. More importantly, they lack reliable criteria (wave-form or magnitude differences) to distinguish between his two groups. Whether or not they accompany an eruption (Minakami's definition of explosion earthquake) appears to depend on whether the volcanoes are in a “closed-” or “open-vent” condition. The high-frequency earthquakes are similar in wave-form to Minakami's A-type. However, many at Ruapehu (here designated “roof-rock” earthquakes) originate at shallower depths than the B-type earthquakes, which is contrary to Minakami's definition.Difficulty in applying Minakami's classification rigorously, and the fact that low frequencies may be due to abnormal attenuation of higher frequencies along the path, rather than to their suppression or absence at the source, has led to reclassification of earthquakes near the volcanoes into two broad groups, tectonic and volcanic. The former includes all high-frequency earthquakes, and those discrete events in which dominant low frequencies are due to path effects. The latter includes multiple and emergent events which show evidence of prolonged or repetitive source mechanism. Dominant low frequencies are ascribed to occurrence in heat-weakened material, and high frequencies to instantaneous source mechanisms operating in competent rock. The term volcano-tectonic describes tectonic earthquakes within some arbitrary distance of a volcano.At Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, volcanic earthquakes accompany explosive, vent-clearing eruptions. Subsequent “open-vent” degassing and ash emission, however, although often powerful and prolonged, usually occurs without earthquakes. Such activity is, however, frequently accompanied by volcanic tremor. At Ruapehu, under “closed-vent” conditions, when lake temperature is low, low-frequency earthquakes up to magnitude ML = 3.4 have occurred without any eruption.Five types of phreatic eruptions are identified at Ruapehu, each having a distinctive seismic pattern. The three most explosive types appear to be generated by a chain reaction process, and all involve flashing of water to steam; the first by failure of the roof, with little precursory seismicity, after a “closed-vent” period, during which lake temperature decreases; the second, after prolonged heating of the lake and much preliminary volcanic tremor, interpreted as due to rising magma; and the third, under “open-vent” conditions in the wake of one of the two preceding types. A fourth probably occurs in wet sediments near the base of the lake, as a result of upward migration of hot gas, and a fifth, aseismic, or accompanied by very weak volcanic tremor, is associated with convective overturn within Crater Lake. 相似文献
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High frequency magnetotelluric (MT) measurements made on the summit plateau of Mount Ruapehu, some 1 km to the north of the presently active vent beneath Crater Lake, have been used to derive the electrical resistivity structure associated with the volcanic hydrothermal vent system. The entire summit plateau area is underlain at shallow depth by low resistivity which is inferred to be the result of hydrothermal alteration caused by rising volcanic gases mixing with local groundwater. Two areas of localised higher resistivity, one between 200 and 500 m depth beneath the central part of the plateau, and one at a depth of 1000 m below the northern part of the plateau, are interpreted as being the result of hydrothermal alteration at higher temperature forming chlorite dominated alteration products. These regions are believed to represent the locations of further heat pipes within the volcanic system. Both correlate with the locations of eruption centres on Ruapehu active within the last 10 ka. 相似文献
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Pierre Delmelle Minoru Kusakabe Alain Bernard Tobias Fischer Simon de Brouwer Esfeca del Mundo 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,59(8):562-576
The hydrologic structure of Taal Volcano has favored development of an extensive hydrothermal system whose prominent feature
is the acidic Main Crater Lake (pH<3) lying in the center of an active vent complex, which is surrounded by a slightly alkaline
caldera lake (Lake Taal). This peculiar situation makes Taal prone to frequent, and sometimes catastrophic, hydrovolcanic
eruptions. Fumaroles, hot springs, and lake waters were sampled in 1991, 1992, and 1995 in order to develop a geochemical
model for the hydrothermal system. The low-temperature fumarole compositions indicate strong interaction of magmatic vapors
with the hydrothermal system under relatively oxidizing conditions. The thermal waters consist of highly, moderately, and
weakly mineralized solutions, but none of them corresponds to either water–rock equilibrium or rock dissolution. The concentrated
discharges have high Na contents (>3500 mg/kg) and low SO4/Cl ratios (<0.3). The Br/Cl ratio of most samples suggests incorporation of seawater into the hydrothermal system. Water
and dissolved sulfate isotopic compositions reveal that the Main Crater Lake and spring discharges are derived from a deep
parent fluid (T≈300 °C), which is a mixture of seawater, volcanic water, and Lake Taal water. The volcanic end member is
probably produced in the magmatic-hydrothermal environment during absorption of high-temperature gases into groundwater. Boiling
and mixing of the parent water give rise to the range of chemical and isotopic characteristics observed in the thermal discharges.
Incursion of seawater from the coastal region to the central part of the volcano is supported by the low water levels of the
lakes and by the fact that Lake Taal was directly connected to the China sea until the sixteenth century. The depth to the
seawater-meteoric water interface is calculated to be 80 and 160 m for the Main Crater Lake and Lake Taal, respectively. Additional
data are required to infer the hydrologic structure of Taal. Geochemical surveillance of the Main Crater Lake using the SO4/Cl, Na/K, or Mg/Cl ratio cannot be applied straightforwardly due to the presence of seawater in the hydrothermal system.
Received: 12 February 1997 / Accepted: 26 January 1998 相似文献
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Some months prior to the 1995 eruption of Mt Ruapehu (New Zealand), a series of shallow earthquake swarms occurred about 15–20 km west of the summit of Ruapehu. Several earthquakes in these swarms were felt, and the largest event was ML 4.8. Crustal earthquakes of ML≥3.0 within 20 km of the summit of Ruapehu have been rather uncommon in recent years. Furthermore, the two periods of strongest activity were both just before times when the temperature of Crater Lake showed rapid increases. The second of these rapid heating phases was immediately followed by increases in the Mg2+ ion concentration in Crater Lake, indicating that chemical interactions were occurring between fresh magmatic material and the lake water. The coincidence between seismicity and lake changes suggested a link with the following eruption. A 1-D simultaneous inversion to locate the earthquakes more accurately showed that most of the earthquakes fell into three spatial clusters, each cluster having a small horizontal cross-section. The predominant depth was about 10–16 km. The b-value of this swarm was 0.74, quite compatible with ordinary tectonic earthquakes. Each cluster of earthquakes lies close to the normal Raurimu Fault which runs predominantly north–south to the west of Ruapehu, with an east-trending branch splaying off near its northern end (see Fig. 1b). Composite focal mechanisms of events in the two more southern clusters are oblique-normal, while the other cluster to the north has an oblique-reverse mechanism. The two oblique-normal mechanisms suggest that extension has occurred on part of the fault. This stress pattern was also observed in the focal mechanism solutions of events that occurred after the eruption, when a denser network of portable seismographs covered the region. Although we cannot definitely connect the occurrence of these swarms to the eruptions later in 1995, there is a strong suggestion that the seismicity was connected to the process of magma movement, which temperature and chemical changes in Crater Lake suggest was occurring during the first half of 1995. 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
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Acoustic signals in Ruapehu Crater Lake, which are now being telemetered via a satellite transmission system, show promise as a possible precursor of increased volcanic activity from Ruapehu. The start of a recent period of rapid heating of Crater Lake was preceded by low-frequency (2 Hz) acoustic signals. These accompanied similar frequency seismic signals, but seemed to be produced independently. Audio-frequency (350–3000 Hz) acoustic noise also showed a very clear peak shortly before the lake temperature started to rise. 相似文献
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In summer 2003, a Chaparral Model 2 microphone was deployed at Shishaldin Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The pressure
sensor was co-located with a short-period seismometer on the volcano’s north flank at a distance of 6.62 km from the active
summit vent. The seismo-acoustic data exhibit a correlation between impulsive acoustic signals (1–2 Pa) and long-period (LP,
1–2 Hz) earthquakes. Since it last erupted in 1999, Shishaldin has been characterized by sustained seismicity consisting of
many hundreds to two thousand LP events per day. The activity is accompanied by up to ∼200 m high discrete gas puffs exiting
the small summit vent, but no significant eruptive activity has been confirmed. The acoustic waveforms possess similarity
throughout the data set (July 2003–November 2004) indicating a repetitive source mechanism. The simplicity of the acoustic
waveforms, the impulsive onsets with relatively short (∼10–20 s) gradually decaying codas and the waveform similarities suggest
that the acoustic pulses are generated at the fluid–air interface within an open-vent system. SO2 measurements have revealed a low SO2 flux, suggesting a hydrothermal system with magmatic gases leaking through. This hypothesis is supported by the steady-state
nature of Shishaldin’s volcanic system since 1999. Time delays between the seismic LP and infrasound onsets were acquired
from a representative day of seismo-acoustic data. A simple model was used to estimate source depths. The short seismo-acoustic
delay times have revealed that the seismic and acoustic sources are co-located at a depth of 240±200 m below the crater rim.
This shallow depth is confirmed by resonance of the upper portion of the open conduit, which produces standing waves with
f=0.3 Hz in the acoustic waveform codas. The infrasound data has allowed us to relate Shishaldin’s LP earthquakes to degassing
explosions, created by gas volume ruptures from a fluid–air interface. 相似文献
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A two-year chemical monitoring program of Ruapehu Crater Lake shows that it has evolved considerably since the volcano's more active eruptive periods in the early 1970s. The present pH (20°C) of 0.6 is about one half unit more acid than the baseline values in the 1970s, whereas S/Cl ratios have increased markedly owing in part to declining HCl inputs into the lake, but also to absolute increases in SO4 levels which now stand at the highest values ever recorded. Increases in K/Mg and Na/Mg ratios over the 20-year period are attributed to hydrothermal reaction processes in the vent which are presently causing dissolution of previously formed alteration phases such as natroalunite. These observations, combined with results of a recent heat budget analysis of the lake, have led to the development of hydrothermal convection model for the upper portion of the vent. Possible vent/lake chemical reaction processes between end member reactants have been modelled with the computer code CHILLER. The results are consistent with the view that variations in lake chemistry, which are initiated by the introduction of fresh magmatic material into the vent, reflect the extent of dissolution reaction progress on the magmatic material and/or its alteration products. The results also provide insights into the role of such vent processes in the formation of high sulfidation-type ore deposits. 相似文献
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Takehiko Mori Yasuaki Sudo Tomoki Tsutsui Shin Yoshikawa 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2008,70(9):1031-1042
Isolated-type tremors having two events with different dominant frequencies are characteristic seismological phenomena observed
during the fumarolic activity stage at Aso Volcano. These isolated tremors are called hybrid tremors (HBT) and comprise two
parts: an initial part named the “HF-part” with a dominant frequency in the high-frequency region (approximately 10 Hz) and
the following part named the “LF-part” with a dominant frequency in the low-frequency region (approximately 2 Hz). The LF-part
is observed after the HF-part, and the HBT is accompanied by a long-period tremor (LPT). Hypocenters and source parameters
are estimated using seismograms recorded at 64 stations around Nakadake crater. The amplitude distributions of all HF-parts
have almost similar trends. Similarly, the amplitude distributions of all LF-parts have almost similar trends. However, the
amplitude distributions of HF- and LF-parts are not similar. From these results, we proposed that the hypocenters and source
parameters of HF- and LF-parts are not common, but each of them have common hypocenters and source parameters. The hypocenter
region of HF-parts was estimated to be just beneath the fumarole region south of the 1st crater: the volume fluctuation is
the major source factor. The hypocenter region of LF-parts is estimated to be at a depth of approximately 300 m beneath the
first crater: the strike–slip component is the major source parameter. The hypocentral depth of LF-parts is located at the
upper end of the crack estimated to be the source of the LPTs. The LPTs and HBTs are observed almost simultaneously. We consider
that volcanic fluid is involved in the source mechanisms of both HBT and LPT. 相似文献
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Hydrophone measurements of acoustic noise levels in the Crater Lake of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand were made on 18 January 1991 from an inflatable rubber boat on the lake. The greatest sound pressures were recorded in the 1–10 Hz band, with sound levels generally decreasing about 20 dB per decade from 10 Hz to 80 kHz. The low frequency noise did not have an obvious relationship to the tremor observed at a seismic station within 1 km of the lake. The comparatively low levels of middle and high frequency sound meant that at the time of measurement, direct steam input did not make a significant contribution to the heating of Crater Lake. This is consistent with the earlier conclusion that during the last decade a major part of the heat input of Crater Lake has come from lake water that was heated below the lake and recycled back into the lake. 相似文献
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The previously poorly documented 26–16.6 ka interval of pyroclastic volcanism from Tongariro Volcano is marked by three distal
lapilli fall units (Rt1-3) exposed in ring-plain deposits. The distal Rt1-3 units are tentatively correlated to proximal scoria
deposits on the upper slopes of North Crater based on their dispersal patterns, petrography and geochemistry. Lapilli in each
of the Rt1-3 deposits are characterised by variable groundmass crystallinity, vesicularity and colour within individual clasts.
Matrix glasses are mostly microlite-free, and compositionally diverse across the deposits (SiO2 = 62–75 wt%), with wide composition ranges occurring within single clasts. The glasses represent different melts that were
mingled and mixed shortly before eruption; a finding supported by widely variable Fe–Ti oxide equilibrium temperature estimates
(∼830–1,200°C). Ranges of 30–160°C (typically 70°C) occur within individual clasts. Some clinopyroxene crystals display Mg-rich
(∼Mg #88) rim zones around homogeneous low-Mg (∼Mg #68) cores, with abrupt transition zones. This zoning is interpreted as
resulting from the injection of a more mafic melt into a stagnating, resident magma. Crystal-melt equilibria indicate that
several episodes of mafic intrusion occurred, to produce hybrid melts with zoned crystals forming isolated ponds within the
resident magma. Variable mixing from the percolation of melts and the coalescence of melt ponds would explain the wide range
of melt compositions and equilibrium temperatures observed in the ejecta. The magma heterogeneity was preserved by quenching
on prompt eruption, with much of the short-duration chaotic mixing of melts and crystals occurring in the conduit. The Rt1-3
eruptions were from an open magmatic system consisting of one or more long-lived stagnant crystal mush zones, from which eruptions
were rapidly triggered by new injections of mafic magmas from greater depths. A similar pattern of magmatic dynamics was observed
in the much smaller 1995 eruptions of the neighbouring Ruapehu Volcano. 相似文献
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The most recent eruptive cycle of Tungurahua volcano began in May 2004, and reached its highest level of activity in July 2004. This activity cycle is the last one of a series of four cycles that followed the reawakening and major eruption of Tungurahua in 1999. Between June 30 and August 12, 2004, three temporary seismic and infrasonic stations were installed on the flanks of the volcano and recorded over 2,000 degassing events. The events are classified by waveform character and include: explosion events (the vast majority, spanning three orders of pressure amplitudes at 3.5 km from the vent, 0.1–180 Pa), jetting events, and sequences of repetitive infrasonic pulses, called chugging events. Travel-time analysis of seismic first arrivals and infrasonic waves indicates that explosions start with a seismic event at a shallow depth (<200 m), followed ∼1 s later by an out-flux of gas, ash and solid material through the vent. Cluster analysis of infrasonic signals from explosion events was used to isolate four groups of similar waveforms without apparent correlation to event size, location, or time. The clustering is thus associated with source mechanism and probably spatial distribution. Explosion clusters do not exhibit temporal dependence. 相似文献
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Cynthia A. Gardner Katharine V. Cashman Christina A. Neal 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,59(8):537-555
The 1992 eruption of Crater Peak, Mount Spurr, Alaska, involved three subplinian tephra-producing events of similar volume
and duration. The tephra consists of two dense juvenile clast types that are identified by color, one tan and one gray, of
similar chemistry, mineral assemblage, and glass composition. In two of the eruptive events, the clast types are strongly
stratified with tan clasts dominating the basal two thirds of the deposits and gray clasts the upper one third. Tan clasts
have average densities between 1.5 and 1.7 g/cc and vesicularities (phenocryst free) of approximately 42%. Gray clasts have
average densities between 2.1 and 2.3 g/cc, and vesicularities of approximately 20%; both contain abundant microlites. Average
maximum plagioclase microlite lengths (13–15 μm) in gray clasts in the upper layer are similar regardless of eruptive event
(and therefore the repose time between them) and are larger than average maximum plagioclase microlite lengths (9–11 μm) in
the tan clasts in the lower layer. This suggests that microlite growth is a response to eruptive processes and not to magma
reservoir heterogeneity or dynamics. Furthermore, we suggest that the low vesicularities of the clasts are due to syneruptive
magmatic degassing resulting in microlitic growth prior to fragmentation and not to quenching of clasts by external groundwater.
Received: 5 September 1997 / Accepted: 1 February 1998 相似文献
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The volcanic history of Ruapehu during the past 2 millennia based on the record of Tufa Trig tephras
Tufa Trig Formation comprises a sequence of at least 19 andesitic tephras erupted from Mt. Ruapehu (Tongariro Volcanic Centre,
New Zealand). Tephras of Tufa Trig Formation are the most recent eruptives from Ruapehu, dated between ca. 1850 years B.P.
and the present. Members of the Formation show restricted dispersals, principally to the east of Mt. Ruapehu. Volumes calculated
for the most widespread members are all less than 0.1 km3. Compared with other Mt. Ruapehu eruptives, Tufa Trig Formation tephras represent small eruptions that have contributed little
tephra to the ring plain. They do, however, show a greater frequency of eruption with one event occurring on average every
100 years. Tufa Trig Formation members Tf3–Tf18 are black to dark grey, vitric, coarse-ash and lapilli-grade tephras which
mantle the relief. They contain juvenile vitric particles which exhibit varying degrees of vesicularity, together with free
crystals of pyroxene and feldspar, and few lithic fragments. Several morphological types of vitric pyroclasts are recognised
in these tephras, the dominant type being of equant blocky morphology with fracture-bound surfaces (type-1 morphology). Field
characteristics, tephra distributions, and the morphologies and textures of constituent pyroclasts suggest that these members
(Tf3–Tf18) are the products of small-volume hydrovolcanic eruptions resulting from the interaction of fresh magma and meteoric
water. We propose that a source of this water was an ancestral crater lake which formed within the late Holocene ca. 3000
years B.P. The morphological, compositional, and chemical (major-element) characteristics of three Tufa Trig Formation Tephras
are compared with those of two new tephras erupted from Ruapehu Volcano during the October 1995 eruptions which comprise part
of a newly defined member (Tf19) of Tufa Trig Formation. The comparisons support our interpretation that the majority of the
Tufa Trig Formation tephras are primarily the products of hydrovolcanic eruptions. Other members of the Formation (Tf1 and
Tf2) are coarse-grained scoriaceous tephras and are interpreted to be the products of strombolian events.
Received: 14 September 1996 / Accepted: 6 June 1997 相似文献
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The three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure of Mount Spurr is determined to depths of 10 km by tomographic inversion
of 3,754 first-arriving P-wave times from local earthquakes recorded by a permanent network of 11 seismographs. Results show
a prominent low-velocity zone extending from the surface to 3–4 km below sea level beneath the southeastern flank of Crater
Peak, spatially coincident with a geothermal system. P-wave velocities in this low-velocity zone are approximately 20% slower
than those in the shallow crystalline basement rocks. Beneath Crater Peak an approximately 3-km-wide zone of relative low
velocities correlates with a near-vertical band of seismicity, suggestive of a magmatic conduit. No large low-velocity zone
indicative of a magma chamber occurs within the upper 10 km of the crust. These observations are consistent with petrologic
and geochemical studies suggesting that Crater Peak magmas originate in the lower crust or upper mantle and have a short residence
time in the shallow crust. Earthquakes relocated using the three-dimensional velocity structure correlate well with surface
geology and other geophysical observations; thus, they provide additional constraints on the kinematics of the Mount Spurr
magmatic system.
Received: 4 December 1997 / Accepted: 27 February 1998 相似文献
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James D. L. White 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1996,58(4):249-262
The subaqueous phases of an eruption initiated approximately 85 m beneath the surface of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville produced
a broad mound of tephra. A variety of distinctive lithofacies allows reconstruction of the eruptive and depositional processes
active prior to emergence of the volcano above lake level. At the base of the volcano and very near inferred vent sites are
fines-poor, well-bedded, broadly scoured beds of sideromelane tephra having local very low-angle cross-stratification (M1
lithofacies). These beds grade upward into lithofacies M3, which shows progressively better developed dunes and cross-stratification
upsection to its uppermost exposure approximately 10 m below syneruptive lake level. Both lithofacies were emplaced largely
by traction from relatively dilute sediment gravity flows generated during eruption. Intercalated lithofacies are weakly bedded
tuff and breccia (M2), and nearly structureless units with coarse basal layers above strongly erosional contacts (M4). The
former combines products of deposition from direct fall and moderate concentration sediment gravity flows, and the latter
from progressively aggrading high-concentration sediment gravity flows. Early in the eruption subaqueous tephra jetting from
phreatomagmatic explosions discontinuously fed inhomogeneous, unsteady, dilute density currents which produced the M1 lithofacies
near the vent. Dunes and crossbeds which are better developed upward in M3 resulted from interaction between sediment gravity
flows and surface waves triggered as the explosion-generated pressure waves and eruption jets impinged upon and occasionally
breached the surface. Intermingling of (a) tephra emplaced after brief transport by tephra jets within a gaseous milieu and
(b) laterally flowing tephra formed lithofacies M2 along vent margins during parts of the eruption in which episodes of continuous
uprush produced localized water-exclusion zones above a vent. M4 comprises mass flow deposits formed by disruption and remobilization
of mound tephra. Intermittent, explosive magma–water interactions occurred from the outset of the Pahvant eruption, with condensation,
entrainment of water and lateral flow marking the transformation from eruptive to "sedimentary" processes leading to deposition
of the mound lithofacies.
Received: 10 October 1995 / Accepted: 18 April 1996 相似文献
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Many earthquakes within the crust near Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe volcanoes, recorded at epicentral distances less than 20 km on vertical seismometers, show S-waves of lower dominant frequency than the P-waves. A large number also have amplitudes in the S-group less than those of the P-waves. Whereas the reduced amplitude of S-waves relative to that of P-waves can be a source mechanism effect, the corresponding reduction in dominant frequency should be independent of the source radiation pattern. The most plausible reason for such a reduction in dominant S-wave frequency is that the waves have passed through a zone of partially molten rock. The data are therefore interpreted in terms of the presence of magma in restricted zones near the volcanoes.Using ray paths from 232 hypocentres to three permanent seismograph stations, together with paths from three additional earthquakes to one permanent and two temporary stations, an interpretation in three dimensions has been made of the source of the anomalous attenuation at depths between 2 and 10 km below datum (Ruapehu Crater Lake). Wave paths which lie largely at depths shallower than 2 km cannot be used, as almost all such paths show evidence of enhanced S-wave attenuation, and this is attributed to the presence of superficial pyroclastic and unconsolidated laharic material within 2 km of the surface.At Ruapehu, the data suggest the presence of three principal intrusions, one underlying much of the southwest slopes and reaching as far east as Crater Lake, one beneath the eastern side of the Summit Plateau, and one beneath part of the northeast slopes of the volcano. All three are essentially vertical or steeply dipping structures, detectable to a depth of between 7 and 9 km. The first appears to extend to within about 5 km of the surface, whereas the other two have intruded to within 2 or 3 km. Other, less well-defined, and comparatively small bodies exist beneath both the western and eastern slopes of Ruapehu.In the Ngauruhoe area, few earthquakes have occurred and all have been at depths less than 6 km. Therefore, only shallow attenuating areas can be defined. A small area of anomalous S-wave attenuation occurs beneath the northwest slopes of Ngauruhoe, and another, elongated, body appears to coincide with a fault zone west of the volcano. Both of these lie at depths of about 3 km below datum (less than 2 km below surface in one locality).Finally, areas of high attenuation, at depths of 4–5 km below datum, appear to define a narrow east-west zone about 6 km long in the immediate area of Whakapapa village. Other zones exist east of the volcanic axis, defining a line which cuts the axis on the north east slopes of Ruapehu, at a point where a parasite crater formed a few thousand years ago. 相似文献
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Nathan D. Stansell 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2013,75(1):1-4
Radiocarbon-dated lake sediments provide minimum-limiting ages for two major debris avalanches originating from Mombacho Volcano in Nicaragua. A basal age from Lake El Gancho indicates that the northeast debris avalanche (Las Isletas) occurred sometime before ~140 to 345 A.D. Basal ages from Lakes Blanca and Verde indicate that the southern (El Crater) debris avalanche occurred sometime before ~270 to 650 A.D. Both events therefore occurred in the space of a few centuries, yet there is strong evidence that the mechanisms varied for destabilization of each flank. Possibly, the influence of a developing hydrothermal system lead first to deeper structural failure in the substrata to produce the Las Isletas sector collapse, progressing to higher level destabilization within the edifice and the El Crater collapse. 相似文献
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Shiveluch Volcano, located in the Central Kamchatka Depression, has experienced multiple flank failures during its lifetime,
most recently in 1964. The overlapping deposits of at least 13 large Holocene debris avalanches cover an area of approximately
200 km2 of the southern sector of the volcano. Deposits of two debris avalanches associated with flank extrusive domes are, in addition,
located on its western slope. The maximum travel distance of individual Holocene avalanches exceeds 20 km, and their volumes
reach ∼3 km3. The deposits of most avalanches typically have a hummocky surface, are poorly sorted and graded, and contain angular heterogeneous
rock fragments of various sizes surrounded by coarse to fine matrix. The deposits differ in color, indicating different sources
on the edifice. Tephrochronological and radiocarbon dating of the avalanches shows that the first large Holocene avalanches
were emplaced approximately 4530–4350 BC. From ∼2490 BC at least 13 avalanches occurred after intervals of 30–900 years. Six
large avalanches were emplaced between 120 and 970 AD, with recurrence intervals of 30–340 years. All the debris avalanches
were followed by eruptions that produced various types of pyroclastic deposits. Features of some surge deposits suggest that
they might have originated as a result of directed blasts triggered by rockslides. Most avalanche deposits are composed of
fresh andesitic rocks of extrusive domes, so the avalanches might have resulted from the high magma supply rate and the repetitive
formation of the domes. No trace of the 1854 summit failure mentioned in historical records has been found beyond 8 km from
the crater; perhaps witnesses exaggerated or misinterpreted the events.
Received: 18 August 1997 / Accepted: 19 December 1997 相似文献