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Sub-surface dynamics and eruptive styles of maars in the Colli Albani Volcanic District, Central Italy 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
G. Sottili J. Taddeucci D.M. Palladino M. Gaeta P. Scarlato G. Ventura 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2009,180(2-4):189
Eruptive scenarios associated with the possible reactivation of maar-forming events in the Quaternary, ultrapotassic Colli Albani Volcanic District (CAVD) provides implications for volcanic hazard assessment in the densely populated area near Rome. Based on detailed stratigraphy, grain size, componentry, ash morphoscopy and petro-chemical analyses of maar eruption products, along with textural analysis of cored juvenile clasts, we attempt to reconstruct the eruptive dynamics of the Prata Porci and Albano maars, as related to pre- and syn-eruptive interactions between trachybasaltic to K-foiditic feeder magmas and carbonate–silicoclastic and subvolcanic country rocks. Magma volumes in the order of 0.5–3.1 × 108 m3 were erupted during the monogenetic Prata Porci maar activity and the three eruptive cycles of the Albano multiple maar, originating loose to strongly lithified, wet and dry pyroclastic surge deposits, Strombolian scoria fall horizons and lithic-rich explosion breccias. These deposits contain a wide range of accessory and accidental lithic clasts, with significant vertical stratigraphic variations in the lithic types and abundances. The two maar study cases hold a record of repeated transitions between magmatic (i.e, Strombolian fallout) and hydromagmatic (wet and dry pyroclastic surges) activity styles. Evidence of phreatic explosions, a common precursor of explosive volcanic activity, is only found at the base of the Prata Porci eruptive succession. The quantitative evaluation of the proportions of the different eruptive styles in the stratigraphic record of the two maars, based on magma vs. lithic volume estimates, reveals a prevailing magmatic character in terms of erupted magma volumes despite the hydromagmatic footprint. Different degrees of explosive magma–water interaction were apparently controlled by the different hydrogeological and geological–structural settings. In the Prata Porci case, shifts in the depth of magma fragmentation are proposed to have accompanied eruption style changes. In the Albano case, a deeply dissected geothermal aquifer in peri-caldera setting and variable mass eruption rates were the main controlling factors of repeated shifts in the eruptive style. Finally, textural evidence from cored juvenile clasts and analytical modeling of melt–solid heat transfer indicate that the interacting substrate in the Prata Porci case was at low, uniform temperature (~ 100 °C) as compared to the highly variable temperatures (up to 700–800 °C) inferred for the geothermal system beneath Albano. 相似文献
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C. Silva Parejas T. H. Druitt C. Robin H. Moreno J.-A. Naranjo 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2010,72(6):677-692
The Pucón eruption was the largest Holocene explosive outburst of Volcán Villarrica, Chile. It discharged >1.0 km3 of basaltic-andesite magma and >0.8 km3 of pre-existing rock, forming a thin scoria-fall deposit overlain by voluminous ignimbrite intercalated with pyroclastic
surge beds. The deposits are up to 70 m thick and are preserved up to 21 km from the present-day summit, post-eruptive lahar
deposits extending farther. Two ignimbrite units are distinguished: a lower one (P1) in which all accidental lithic clasts
are of volcanic origin and an upper unit (P2) in which basement granitoids also occur, both as free clasts and as xenoliths
in scoria. P2 accounts for ∼80% of the erupted products. Following the initial scoria fallout phase, P1 pyroclastic flows
swept down the northern and western flanks of the volcano, magma fragmentation during this phase being confined to within
the volcanic edifice. Following a pause of at least a couple of days sufficient for wood devolatilization, eruption recommenced,
the fragmentation level dropped to within the granitoid basement, and the pyroclastic flows of P2 were erupted. The first
P2 flow had a highly turbulent front, laid down ignimbrite with large-scale cross-stratification and regressive bedforms,
and sheared the ground; flow then waned and became confined to the southeastern flank. Following emplacement of pyroclastic
surge deposits all across the volcano, the eruption terminated with pyroclastic flows down the northern flank. Multiple lahars
were generated prior to the onset of a new eruptive cycle. Charcoal samples yield a probable eruption age of 3,510 ± 60 14C years BP. 相似文献
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Pyroclastic deposits as a guide for reconstructing the multi-stage evolution of the Somma-Vesuvius Caldera 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The evolution of the Somma-Vesuvius caldera has been reconstructed based on geomorphic observations, detailed stratigraphic
studies, and the distribution and facies variations of pyroclastic and epiclastic deposits produced by the past 20,000 years
of volcanic activity. The present caldera is a multicyclic, nested structure related to the emptying of large, shallow reservoirs
during Plinian eruptions. The caldera cuts a stratovolcano whose original summit was at 1600–1900 m elevation, approximately
500 m north of the present crater. Four caldera-forming events have been recognized, each occurring during major Plinian eruptions
(18,300 BP "Pomici di Base", 8000 BP "Mercato Pumice", 3400 BP "Avellino Pumice" and AD 79 "Pompeii Pumice"). The timing of
each caldera collapse is defined by peculiar "collapse-marking" deposits, characterized by large amounts of lithic clasts
from the outer margins of the magma chamber and its apophysis as well as from the shallow volcanic and sedimentary units.
In proximal sites the deposits consist of coarse breccias resulting from emplacement of either dense pyroclastic flows (Pomici
di Base and Pompeii eruptions) or fall layers (Avellino eruption). During each caldera collapse, the destabilization of the
shallow magmatic system induced decompression of hydrothermal–magmatic and hydrothermal fluids hosted in the wall rocks. This
process, and the magma–ground water interaction triggered by the fracturing of the thick Mesozoic carbonate basement hosting
the aquifer system, strongly enhanced the explosivity of the eruptions.
Received: 24 November 1997 / Accepted: 23 March 1999 相似文献
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Phreatomagmatic deposits at Narbona Pass, a mid-Tertiary maar in the Navajo volcanic field (NVF), New Mexico (USA), were characterized
in order to reconstruct the evolution and dynamic conditions of the eruption. Our findings shed light on the temporal evolution
of the eruption, dominant depositional mechanisms, influence of liquid water on deposit characteristics, geometry and evolution
of the vent, efficiency of fragmentation, and the relative importance of magmatic and external volatiles. The basal deposits
form a thick (5–20 m), massive lapilli tuff to tuff-breccia deposit. This is overlain by alternating bedded sequences of symmetrical
to antidune cross-stratified tuff and lapilli tuff; and diffusely-stratified, clast-supported, reversely-graded lapilli tuffs
that pinch and swell laterally. This sequence is interpreted to reflect an initial vent-clearing phase that produced concentrated
pyroclastic density currents, followed by a pulsating eruption that produced multiple density currents with varying particle
concentrations and flow conditions to yield the well-stratified deposits. Only minor localized soft-sediment deformation was
observed, no accretionary lapilli were found, and grain accretion occurs on the lee side of dunes. This suggests that little
to no liquid water existed in the density currents during deposition. Juvenile material is dominantly present as blocky fine
ash and finely vesiculated fine to coarse lapilli pumice. This indicates that phreatomagmatic fragmentation was predominant,
but also that the magma was volatile-rich and vesiculating at the time of eruption. This is the first study to document a
significant magmatic volatile component in an NVF maar-diatreme eruption. The top of the phreatomagmatic sequence abruptly
contacts the overlying minette lava flows, indicating no gradual drying-out period between the explosive and effusive phases.
The lithology of the accidental clasts is consistent throughout the vertical pyroclastic stratigraphy, suggesting that the
diatreme eruption did not penetrate below the base of the uppermost country rock unit, a sandstone aquifer ∼360 m thick. By
comparison, other NVF diatremes several tens of kilometers away were excavated to depths of ∼1,000 m beneath the paleosurface
(e.g., Delaney PT. Ship Rock, New Mexico: the vent of a violent volcanic eruption. In: Beus SS (ed) Geological society of
America Centennial Field Guide, Rocky Mountain Section 2:411–415 (1987)). This can be accounted for by structurally controlled variations in aquifer thickness beneath different regions of the
volcanic field. Variations in accidental clast composition and bedding style around the edifice are indicative of a laterally
migrating or widening vent that encountered lateral variations in subsurface geology. We offer reasonable evidence that this
subsurface lithology controlled the availability of external water to the magma, which in turn controlled characteristics
of deposits and their distribution around the vent.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Guido Giordano 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,60(1):10-26
The Quaternary White Trachytic Tuffs Formation from Roccamonfina Volcano (southern Italy) comprises four non-welded, trachytic,
pyroclastic sequences bounded by paleosols, each of which corresponds to small- to intermediate-volume explosive eruptions
from central vents. From oldest to youngest they are: White Trachytic Tuff (WTT) Cupa, WTT Aulpi, WTT S. Clemente, and WTT
Galluccio. The WTT Galluccio eruption was the largest and emplaced ∼ 4 km3 of magma. The internal stratigraphy of all four WTT eruptive units is a complex association of fallout, surge, and pyroclastic
flow deposits. Each eruptive unit is organized into two facies associations, Facies Association A below Facies Association
B. The emplacement of the two facies associations may have been separated by short time breaks allowing for limited reworking
and erosion. Facies Association A consists of interbedded fallout deposits, surge deposits, and subordinate ignimbrites. This
facies association involved the eruption of the most evolved trachytic magma, and pumice clasts are white and well vesiculated.
The grain size coarsens upward in Facies Association A, with upward increases of dune bedform wavelengths and a decrease in
the proportion of fine ash. These trends could reflect an increase in eruption column height from the onset of the eruption
and possibly also in mass eruption rate. Facies Association B comprises massive ignimbrites that are progressively richer
in lithic clast content. This association involved the eruption of more mafic magma, and pumice clasts are gray and poorly
vesiculated. Facies Association B is interpreted to record the climax of the eruption. Phreatomagmatic deposits occur at different
stratigraphic levels in the four WTT and have different facies characteristics. The deposits reflect the style and degree
of magma–water interaction and the local hydrogeology. Very fine-grained, lithic-poor phreatomagmatic surge deposits found
at the base of WTT Cupa and WTT Galluccio could record the interaction of the erupting magma with a lake that occupied the
Roccamonfina summit depression. Renewed magma–water interaction later in the WTT Galluccio eruption is indicated by fine grained,
lithic-bearing phreatomagmatic fall and surge deposits occurring at the top of Facies Association A. They could be interpreted
to reflect shifts of the magma fragmentation level to highly transmissive, regional aquifers located beneath the Roccamonfina
edifice, possibly heralding a caldera collapse event.
Received: 26 August 1996 / Accepted: 27 February 1998 相似文献
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S. Branca P. Del Carlo M. D. Lo Castro E. De Beni J. Wijbrans 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2009,71(1):79-94
Geological surveys, tephrostratigraphic study, and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations have allowed us to chronologically constrain the geological evolution of the lower NW flank of Etna
volcano and to reconstruct the eruptive style of the Mt Barca flank eruption. This peripheral sector of the Mt Etna edifice,
corresponding to the upper Simeto valley, was invaded by the Ellittico volcano lava flows between 41 and 29 ka ago when the
Mt Barca eruption occurred. The vent of this flank eruption is located at about 15 km away from the summit craters, close
to the town of Bronte. The Mt Barca eruption was characterized by a vigorous explosive activity that produced pyroclastic
deposits dispersed eastward and minor effusive activity with the emission of a 1.1-km-long lava flow. Explosive activity was
characterized by a phreatomagmatic phase followed by a magmatic one. The geological setting of this peripheral sector of the
volcano favors the interaction between the rising magma and the shallow groundwater hosted in the volcanic pile resting on
the impermeable sedimentary basement. This process produced phreatomagmatic activity in the first phase of the eruption, forming
a pyroclastic fall deposit made of high-density, poorly vesicular scoria lapilli and lithic clasts. Conversely, during the
second phase, a typical strombolian fall deposit formed. In terms of hazard assessment, the possible occurrence of this type
of highly explosive flank eruption, at lower elevation in the densely inhabited areas, increases the volcanic risk in the
Etnean region and widens the already known hazard scenario. 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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Gianluca Sottili Danilo M. Palladino Mario Gaeta Matteo Masotta 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2012,74(1):163-186
Maar volcanoes represent a common volcano type which is produced by the explosive interaction of magma with external water.
Here, we provide information on a number of maars in the ultrapotassic Sabatini Volcanic District (SVD, Roman Province) as
young as ∼90 ka. The SVD maars are characterised in terms of crater and ejecta ring morphologies, eruptive successions and
magma compositions, in light of the local substrate settings, with the aim of assessing magma–water interaction conditions,
eruption energetics and genetic mechanisms. Feeder magmas spanned the whole SVD differentiation trend from trachybasalts–shoshonites
to phonolites. From the ejected lithic fragments from aquifer rocks, the range of depth of magma–water explosive interaction
is estimated to have been mostly at ∼400–600 m below ground level, with a single occurrence of surficial interaction in palustrine–lacustrine
environment. In particular, the interaction with external water may have triggered the explosive behaviour of poorly differentiated
magmas, whereas it may have acted only as a late controlling factor of the degree of fragmentation and eruption style for
the most differentiated magma batches during low-flux ascent in an incipiently fragmented state. Crater sizes, ejecta volumes
and ballistic data allow a reconstruction of the energy budget of SVD maar-forming eruptions. Erupted tephra volumes from
either monogenetic or polygenetic maars ranged 0.004–0.07 km3 during individual maar-forming eruptions, with corresponding total magma thermal energies of 8 × 1015–4 × 1017 J. Based on energy partitioning and volume balance of erupted magmas and lithic fractions vs. crater holes, we consider the
different contributions of explosive excavation of the substrate vs. subsidence in forming the SVD maar craters. Following
available models based on crater sizes, highly variable fractions (5–50%) of the magma thermal energies would have been required
for crater excavation. It appears that subsidence may have played a major role in some SVD maars characterised by low lithic
contents, whilst substrate excavation became increasingly significant with increasing degrees of aquifer fragmentation. 相似文献
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The Zaragoza ignimbrite and two enclosing rhyodacite pumice fall layers were emplaced during the 15 km3 (DRE), ∼0.1 Ma Zaragoza eruption from Los Humeros volcanic centre, 180 km east of Mexico City. The ignimbrite comprises several massive flow-units, the largest of which locally exceeds 20 m in thickness and is regionally traceable. It comprises massive lapilli-ash with vertical elutriation pipes, and has a fine-grained inverse-graded base and a pumice concentration zone at the top. It also exhibits an unusual gradational ‘double’ vertical compositional zonation that is widely traceable. A basal rhyodacitic (67.6–69 wt% SiO2) zone grades up via a mixed zone into a central andesitic (58–62 wt% SiO2) zone, which, in turn, grades up into an upper rhyodacitic (67.6–69 wt% SiO2) zone. Zoning is also defined by vertical variations in lithic clast populations. We infer that pyroclastic fountaining fed initially rhyodacite pumice clasts to a sustained granular fluid-based pyroclastic density current. The composition of the pumice clasts supplied to the current then gradually changed, first to andesite and then back to rhyodacite. Inverse grading at the base of the massive layer may reflect initial waxing flow competence. The pumice concentration at the top of the massive layer is entirely rhyodacitic and was probably deposited during waning stages of the current, when the supply of andesitic pumice clasts had ceased. The return to rhyodacitic composition may have been the result of eruption-conduit modification during collapse of Los Potreros caldera, marked in the ignimbrite by a widespread influx of hydrothermally altered lithic blocks, and/or a decrease in draw-up depth from a compositionally stratified magma chamber as the eruptive mass flux waned. The massive layer of ignimbrite thins locally to less than 2 m, yet it still shows the double zonation. Correlation of the zoning suggests that the thin massive layer is stratigraphically condensed, and aggraded relatively slowly during the same time interval as did the much thicker (≤50 m) massive layer.Editorial responsibility: J McPhie 相似文献
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R. S. J. Sparks M. C. Gardeweg E. S. Calder S. J. Matthews 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1997,58(7):557-565
Pyroclastic flows generated in the 19–20 April 1993 eruption of Lascar Volcano, Chile, produced spectacular erosion features.
Scree and talus were stripped from the channels and steep slopes on the flanks of the volcano. Exposed bedrock and boulders
suffered severe abrasion, producing smoothed surfaces on coarse breccias and striations and percussion marks on bedrock and
large boulders. Erosional furrows developed with wavelengths of 0.5–2 m and depths of 0.1–0.3 m. Furrows commonly nucleated
downstream of large boulders or blocks, which are striated on the upstream side, and thereby produced crag-and-tail structures.
Erosive features were produced where flows accelerated through topographic restrictions or where they moved over steep slopes.
The pyroclastic flows are inferred to have segregated during movement into lithic-rich and pumice-rich parts. Lithic-rich
deposits occur on slopes up to 14°, whereas pumice-rich deposits occur only on slopes less than 4°, and mainly at the margins
and distal parts of the 1993 fan. The lithic-rich deposits contain large (up to 1 m) lithic clasts eroded from the substrate
and transported from the vent, whereas pumice-rich deposits contain only small (typically <2 cm) lithic clasts. These observations
suggest that lithic clasts segregated to the base of the flows and were responsible for much of the erosive phenomena. The
erosive features, distribution of lithic clasts and deposit morphology indicate that the 1993 flows were highly concentrated
avalanches dominated by particle interactions. In some places the flows slid over the bedrock causing abrasion and long striations
which imply that large blocks were locked in fixed positions for periods of about 1 s. However, shorter striae at different
angles, impact marks, segregation of the deposits into pumice- and lithic-rich parts, and mixing of bedrock-derived lithic
clasts throughout the deposits indicate that clasts often had some freedom of movement and that jostling of particles allowed
internal mixing and density segregation to occur within the flows.
Received: 15 July 1996 / Accepted: 15 January 1997 相似文献
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Two large (106–107 m3 erupted volume) hydrothermal explosions occurred from craters on the eastern margin of Kawerau Geothermal Field at c. 14,500 and 9,000 yrs B.P. Explosion products are interbedded within C14 dated pyroclastic fall deposits and contain clasts of hydrothermally altered ignimbrite, rhyolite and tuff, in a silty hydrothermal clay matrix. No magmatic ejecta are found. Some ejected blocks record earlier pre-eruption episodes of shallow hydraulic fracturing and silica cementation. Drillhole stratigraphy indicates that explosion extended to about 190 m below present ground level. The explosion is analysed as a rock/water interaction with eruptive energy provided by flashing of about half the available water. Although surface heat flow and shallow temperatures are now low at eastern Kawerau, the hydrothermal explosions demonstrate the previous existence of a high temperature shallow geothermal system, probably related to a major fault feeding water up through the basement. 相似文献
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Daniela Mele Roberto Sulpizio Pierfrancesco Dellino Luigi La Volpe 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2011,73(3):257-278
New volcanological studies allow reconstruction of the eruption dynamics of the Pomici di Mercato eruption (ca 8,900 cal.
yr B.P.) of Somma-Vesuvius. Three main Eruptive Phases are distinguished based on two distinct erosion surfaces that interrupt
stratigraphic continuity of the deposits, indicating that time breaks occurred during the eruption. Absence of reworked volcaniclastic
deposits on top of the erosion surfaces suggests that quiescent periods between eruptive phases were short perhaps lasting
only days to weeks. Each of the Eruptive Phases was characterised by deposition of alternating fall and pyroclastic density
current (PDC) deposits. The fallout deposits blanketed a wide area toward the east, while the more restricted PDC deposits
inundated the volcano slopes. Eruptive dynamics were driven by brittle magmatic fragmentation of a phonolitic magma, which,
because of its mechanical fragility, produced a significant amount of fine ash. External water did not significantly contribute
either to fragmentation dynamics or to mechanical energy release during the eruption. Column heights were between 18 and 22 km,
corresponding to mass discharge rates between 1.4 and 6 × 107 kg s−1. The estimated on land volume of fall deposits ranges from a minimum of 2.3 km3 to a maximum of 7.4 km3. Calculation of physical parameters of the dilute pyroclastic density currents indicates speeds of a few tens of m s−1 and densities of a few kg m−3 (average of the lowermost 10 m of the currents), resulting in dynamic pressures lower than 3 kPa. These data suggest that
the potential impact of pyroclastic density currents of the Pomici di Mercato eruption was smaller than those of other Plinian
and sub-Plinian eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius, especially those of 1631 AD and 472 AD (4–14 kPa), which represent reference
values for the Vesuvian emergency plan. The pulsating and long-lasting behaviour of the Pomici di Mercato eruption is unique
in the history of large explosive eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius. We suggest an eruptive scheme in which discrete magma batches
rose from the magma chamber through a network of fractures. The injection and rise of the different magma batches was controlled
by the interplay between magma chamber overpressure and local stress. The intermittent discharge of magma during a large explosive
eruption is unusual for Somma-Vesuvius, as well as for other volcanoes worldwide, and yields new insights for improving our
knowledge of the dynamics of explosive eruptions. 相似文献
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Non-welded, lithic-rich ignimbrites, hereintermed the Roque Nublo ignimbrites, are the most distinctive deposits of the Pliocene
Roque Nublo group, which forms the products of second magmatic cycle on Gran Canaria. They are very heterogeneous, with 35–55%
volume lithic fragments, 15-30% mildly vesiculated pumice, 5–7% crystals and 20–30% ash matrix. The vitric components (pumice
fragments and ash matrix) are largely altered and transformed into zeolites and subordinate smectites. The Roque Nublo ignimbrites
originated from hydrovolcanic eruptions that caused rapid and significant erosion of vents thus incorporating a high proportion
of lithic clasts into the eruption columns. These columns rapidly became too dense to be sustained as vertical eruption columns
and were transformed into tephra fountains which fed high-density pyroclastic flows. The deposits from these flows were mainly
confined to palaeovalleys and topographic depressions. In distal areas close to the coast line, where these palaeovalleys
widened, most of the pyroclastic flows expanded laterally and formed numerous thin flow units. The combined effect of the
magma–water interaction and the high content of lithic fragments is sufficient to explain the characteristic low emplacement
temperature of the Roque Nublo ignimbrites. This fact also explains the transition from pyroclastic flows into lahar deposits
observed in distal facies of the Roque Nublo ignimbrites. The existence of hydrovolcanic eruptions generating high-density
pyroclastic flows, unable to efficiently separate the water vapour from the vitric components during transport, also accounts
for the intense zeolitic alteration in these deposits.
Received: 5 November 1996 / Accepted: 3 March 1997 相似文献
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R. Cioni A. Bertagnini D. Andronico P. D. Cole F. Mundula 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2011,73(7):789-810
We describe the products of the hitherto poorly known 512 AD eruption at Vesuvius, Italy. The deposit records a complex sequence
of eruptive events, and it has been subdivided into eight main units, composed of stratified scoria lapilli or thin subordinate
ash-rich layers. All the units formed by deposition from tephra fallout, pyroclastic density currents of limited extent being
restricted to the initial stages of the eruption (U2). The main part of the deposit (U3 and U5) is characterized by a striking
grain size alternation of fine to coarse lapilli, similar to that often described for mid-intensity, explosive eruptions.
The erupted products have a phonotephritic composition, with progressively less evolved composition from the base to the top
of the stratigraphic sequence. Based on different dispersal, sedimentological and textural features of the products, we identify
five phases related to different eruptive styles: opening phase (U1, U2), subplinian phase (U3 to U5), pulsatory phreatomagmatic
phase (U6), violent strombolian phase (U7) and final ash-dominated phase (U8). A DRE volume of 0.025 km3 has been calculated for the total fallout deposit. Most of the magma was erupted during the subplinian phase; lithic dispersal
data indicate peak column heights of between 10 and 15 km, which correspond to a mass discharge rate (MDR) of 5 × 106 kg s−1. The lower intensity, violent strombolian phase coincided with the eruption of the least evolved magma; a peak column height
of 6–9 km, corresponding to an MDR of 1 ×10 6 kg s −1, is estimated from field data. Phreatomagmatic activity played a minor role in the eruption, only contributing to the ash-rich
deposits of U1, U4, U6 and U8. 相似文献
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The historic Breccia di Commenda (BC) explosive eruption of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) opened with a phase that generated a gray fine ash layer dispersed to the northwest (phase 1). The eruption continued with a dilute pyroclastic density current (PDC) that was dispersed to the east, followed by the emplacement of radially distributed, topographically controlled PDC deposits (phase 2). The last phase of the eruption produced a sequence of accretionary lapilli and gray fine ash dispersed toward the southeast (phase 3). The most impressive feature of the BC is its high lithic/juvenile clast ratio and the yellow color of the deposits of phase 2. Lithic fragments are mainly hydrothermally altered rocks, in the silicic and advanced argillic facies. Juvenile fragments, ranging from 20?% to 40?% by volume, are mainly confined to the ash component of the deposits and comprise rhyolitic to trachyandesite, poorly to non-vesicular fragments. The fine ash fraction of the deposits is richer in S, Cu, Zn, Pb, and As than the BC juvenile lapilli and bombs, and also the juvenile components of other La Fossa units, suggesting that the BC formed in the presence of an anomalously high amount of S and metals. Sulfur and metals may have been carried as aerosols by chloride- and sulfate-bearing micro-crystals, derived from the condensation of magmatic gas in the eruptive cloud. The high content of hydrothermally altered lithic clasts in the deposits suggests that explosions involved the fluid-saturated hydrothermally altered rocks residing in the conduit zone. However, the presence of a juvenile component in the deposits supports the idea that this explosion may have been triggered by the ascent of new magma. We categorize this eruption as magmatic-hydrothermal to emphasize that in this type of phreatomagmatic eruption the external water was an active hydrothermal system. Rock magnetic temperatures of non-altered lava lithic fragments indicate a uniform deposit temperature for the PDC deposits of between 200 and 260?°C, with a maximum at 280?°C. These homogeneous, relatively low temperatures are consistent with the idea that the phase 2 explosions involved the expansion of abundant steam from the flashing of the hydrothermal system. In addition, recent paleomagnetic dating of the BC provides an age of between 1000 and 1200?AD, younger than that reported in the previously published data, suggesting that previous interpretations and the recent history of La Fossa and Mt. Pilato require re-evaluation. 相似文献
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Greig A. Paterson Andrew P. Roberts Conall Mac Niocaill Adrian R. Muxworthy Lucia Gurioli José G. Viramonté Carlos Navarro Shoshana Weider 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2010,72(3):309-330
Paleomagnetic data from lithic clasts collected from Mt. St. Helens, USA, Volcán Láscar, Chile, Volcán de Colima, Mexico and
Vesuvius, Italy have been used to determine the emplacement temperature of pyroclastic deposits at these localities and to
highlight the usefulness of the paleomagnetic method for determining emplacement temperatures. At Mt. St. Helens, the temperature
of the deposits (T
dep
) at three sites from the June 12, 1980 eruption was found to be ≥532°C, ≥509°C, and 510–570°C, respectively. One site emplaced
on July 22, 1980 was emplaced at ≥577°C. These new paleomagnetic temperatures are in good agreement with previously published
direct temperature measurements and paleomagnetic estimates. Lithic clasts from pyroclastic deposits from the 1993 eruption
of Láscar were fully remagnetized above the respective Curie temperatures, which yielded a minimum T
dep
of 397°C. Samples were also collected from deposits thought to be pyroclastics from the 1913, 2004 and 2005 eruptions of
Colima. At Colima, the sampled clasts were emplaced cold. This is consistent with the sampled clasts being from lahar deposits,
which are common in the area, and illustrates the usefulness of the paleomagnetic method for distinguishing different types
of deposit. T
dep
of the lower section of the lithic rich pyroclastic flow (LRPF) from the 472 A.D. deposits of Vesuvius was ~280–340°C. This
is in agreement with other, recently published paleomagnetic measurements. In contrast, the upper section of the LRPF was
emplaced at higher temperatures, with T
dep
~520°C. This temperature difference is inferred to be the result of different sources of lithic clasts between the upper
and lower sections, with the upper section containing a greater proportion of vent-derived material that was initially hot.
Our studies of four historical pyroclastic deposits demonstrates the usefulness of paleomagnetism for emplacement temperature
estimation. 相似文献
17.
F. Stoppa 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1996,57(7):563-577
The late Pleistocene San Venanzo maar and nearby Pian di Celle tuff ring in the San Venanzo area of Umbria, central Italy, appear to represent different aspects of an eruptive cycle accompanied by diatreme formation. Approximately 6x106 m3 of mostly lapillisized, juvenile ejecta with lesser amounts of lithics and 1x106 m3 of lava were erupted. The stratigraphy indicates intense explosive activity followed by lava flows and subvolcanic intrusions. The pyroclastic material includes lithic breccia derived from vent and diatreme wall erosion, roughly stratified lapilli tuff deposited by concentrated pyroclastic surge, chaotic scoriaceous pyroclastic flow and inverse graded grain-flow deposits. The key feature of the pyroclastics is the presence of concentric-shelled lapilli generated by accretion around the lithics during magma ascent in the diatreme conduits. The rock types range from kalsilite leucite olivine melilitite lavas and subvolcanic intrusions to carbonatite, phonolite and calcitic melilitite pyroclasts. Juvenile ejecta contain essential calcite whose composition and texture indicate a magmatic origin. Pyroclastic carbonatite activity is also indicated by the presence of carbonatite ash beds. The San Venanzo maar-forming event is believed to have been trigered by fluid-rich carbonatite-phonolite magma. The eruptive centre the moved to the Pian di Celle tuff ring, where the eruption of degassed olivine melilititic magma and late intrusions ended magmatic activity in the area. In both volcanoes the absence of phreatomagmatic features together with the presence of large amounts of primary calcite suggests carbonatite segregation and violent exsolution of CO2 which, flowing through the diatremes, produced the peculiar intrusive pyroclastic facies and triggered explosions. 相似文献
18.
Coarse, co-ignimbrite lithic breccia, Ebx, occurs at the base of ignimbrite E, the most voluminous and widespread unit of
the Kos Plateau Tuff (KPT) in Greece. Similar but generally less coarse-grained basal lithic breccias (Dbx) are also associated
with the ignimbrites in the underlying D unit. Ebx shows considerable lateral variations in texture, geometry and contact
relationships but is generally less than a few metres thick and comprises lithic clasts that are centimetres to a few metres
in diameter in a matrix ranging from fines bearing (F2: 10 wt.%) to fines poor (F2: 0.1 wt.%). Lithic clasts are predominantly
vent-derived andesite, although clasts derived locally from the underlying sedimentary formations are also present. There
are no proximal exposures of KPT. There is a highly irregular lower erosional contact at the base of ignimbrite E at the closest
exposures to the inferred vent, 10–14 km from the centre of the inferred source, but no Ebx was deposited. From 14 to <20 km
from source, Ebx is present over a planar erosional contact. At 16 km Ebx is a 3-m-thick, coarse, fines-poor lithic breccia
separated from the overlying fines-bearing, pumiceous ignimbrite by a sharp contact. This grades downcurrent into a lithic
breccia that comprises a mixture of coarse lithic clasts, pumice and ash, or into a thinner one-clast-thick lithic breccia
that grades upward into relatively lithic-poor, pumiceous ignimbrite. Distally, 27 to <36 km from source Ebx is a finer one-clast-thick
lithic breccia that overlies a non-erosional base. A downcurrent change from strongly erosional to depositional basal contacts
of Ebx dominantly reflects a depletive pyroclastic density current. Initially, the front of the flow was highly energetic
and scoured tens of metres into the underlying deposits. Once deposition of the lithic clasts began, local topography influenced
the geometry and distribution of Ebx, and in some cases Ebx was deposited only on topographic crests and slopes on the lee-side
of ridges. The KPT ignimbrites also contain discontinuous lithic-rich layers within texturally uniform pumiceous ignimbrite.
These intra-ignimbrite lithic breccias are finer grained and thinner than the basal lithic breccias and overlie non-erosional
basal contacts. The proportion of fine ash within the KPT lithic breccias is heterogeneous and is attributed to a combination
of fluidisation within the leading part of the flow, turbulence induced locally by interaction with topography, flushing by
steam generated by passage of pyroclastic density currents over and deposition onto wet mud, and to self-fluidisation accompanying
the settling of coarse, dense lithic clasts. There are problems in interpreting the KPT lithic breccias as conventional co-ignimbrite
lithic breccias. These problems arise in part from the inherent assumption in conventional models that pyroclastic flows are
highly concentrated, non-turbulent systems that deposit en masse. The KPT coarse basal lithic breccias are more readily interpreted
in terms of aggradation from stratified, waning pyroclastic density currents and from variations in lithic clast supply from
source.
Received: 21 April 1997 / Accepted: 4 October 1997 相似文献
19.
The Pagosa Peak Dacite is an unusual pyroclastic deposit that immediately predated eruption of the enormous Fish Canyon Tuff (5000 km3) from the La Garita caldera at 28 Ma. The Pagosa Peak Dacite is thick (to 1 km), voluminous (>200 km3), and has a high aspect ratio (1:50) similar to those of silicic lava flows. It contains a high proportion (40–60%) of juvenile clasts (to 3–4 m) emplaced as viscous magma that was less vesiculated than typical pumice. Accidental lithic fragments are absent above the basal 5–10% of the unit. Thick densely welded proximal deposits flowed rheomorphically due to gravitational spreading, despite the very high viscosity of the crystal-rich magma, resulting in a macroscopic appearance similar to flow-layered silicic lava. Although it is a separate depositional unit, the Pagosa Peak Dacite is indistinguishable from the overlying Fish Canyon Tuff in bulk-rock chemistry, phenocryst compositions, and 40Ar/39Ar age.The unusual characteristics of this deposit are interpreted as consequences of eruption by low-column pyroclastic fountaining and lateral transport as dense, poorly inflated pyroclastic flows. The inferred eruptive style may be in part related to synchronous disruption of the southern margin of the Fish Canyon magma chamber by block faulting. The Pagosa Peak eruptive sources are apparently buried in the southern La Garita caldera, where northerly extensions of observed syneruptive faults served as fissure vents. Cumulative vent cross-sections were large, leading to relatively low emission velocities for a given discharge rate. Many successive pyroclastic flows accumulated sufficiently rapidly to weld densely as a cooling unit up to 1000 m thick and to retain heat adequately to permit rheomorphic flow. Explosive potential of the magma may have been reduced by degassing during ascent through fissure conduits, leading to fracture-dominated magma fragmentation at low vesicularity. Subsequent collapse of the 75×35 km2 La Garita caldera and eruption of the Fish Canyon Tuff were probably triggered by destabilization of the chamber roof as magma was withdrawn during the Pagosa Peak eruption. 相似文献
20.
The pyroclastic deposits of the 1300 B.P. eruption of Newberry Volcano, OR, USA, contain minor amounts of obsidian (1–6 wt.%).
The volatile (H2O and CO2) contents and textures of these clasts vary considerably. FTIR measurements of H2O in obsidian pyroclasts range from 0.1 to 1.5 wt.% indicating equilibration pressures ≤20 MPa. CO2 contents are low (<10 ppm) except in clasts that also contain xenolith powder that provided a local CO2 source. Obsidian clasts exhibit a range of color and textural types that changed in relative proportion as the eruption progressed.
Together these data indicate that there were multiple origins of obsidian and that the dominant source changed during the
eruption. Early in the eruption, obsidian was almost entirely black or grey (microlite-bearing) and probably derived from
dikes or wall rock fractures filled with vanguard magma or tuffisite that, together with wall rocks, were eroded and incorporated
into the eruption column as the vent widened. Later in the eruption, following a brief cessation of activity, the proportion
of obsidian to wallrock lithic clasts increased and new types of obsidian dominated, types that represent remnants of a shallow
conduit plug, welded fallback material from within the conduit, and sheared and degassed magma from near the conduit walls.
Analysis of bubble shapes preserved within obsidian indicates that shear stresses and shear rates varied by over two orders
of magnitude, with maxima of 88 kPa and 10−2.3 s−1, respectively, based on an assumed magma temperature of 850°C. Furthermore, the highest shear rates and stresses, and the
shortest flow times (10–20 min), are preserved in clasts that also contain wall rock. The longest deformation times (5 and
8 h) correspond to two microlite-rich clasts, suggesting that the higher microlite content results from slower ascent rates
and/or longer magma residence times at shallow levels. Differences between obsidian pyroclasts from the Newberry eruption
and those of the Mono Craters may relate to the nature of the conduit feeding the two events. From this comparison, we conclude
that obsidian can provide information on time scales and mechanisms of pre-fragmentation magma ascent. 相似文献