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One active and ten extinct Quaternary volcanoes are described from the Cape Hoskins area, on the north coast of New Britain. They are mostly strato volcanoes built up of lava flows, lava domes, pyroclastic flows, lahars, tephra, and derived alluvial sediments. The volcanic products range in composition from basalt to rhyolite, but basaltic andesite and andesite predominate. Much of the area is covered by tephra, several metres thick, consisting mainly of rhyolitic pumice. The active volcano, Pago, is built up of several glacier-like lava flows, the last of which was formed during an eruption in 1914–18. Pago lies within a well-preserved caldera forming the central part of a broad low-angle cone, named Witori, which consists largely of welded and unwelded pyroclastic flow deposits. C-14 dates obtained on charcoal indicate that the caldera eruption occurred about 2500 years B. P. Another caldera of similar age lies south of Witori. Of the other eight volcanoes described four are relatively well-preserved steep-sided cones formed mainly of lava flows, one is a remnant of a low-angle cone with a caldera, and three are deeply eroded cones which have none of their constructional surfaces preserved. 相似文献
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Neeraj Awasthi Jyotiranjan S. Ray Amzad H. Laskar Alok Kumar M. Sudhakar Rajneesh Bhutani Hetu C. Sheth Madhusudan G. Yadava 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2010,72(9):1131-1136
Barren Island (Andaman Sea) is the northernmost active volcano of the Indonesian Arc. To construct the eruptive history of
this little studied volcano, we measured 14C dates of inorganic carbon in sediment beds, and Sr and Nd isotopic ratios of seven discrete ash layers, in a marine sediment
core collected from 32 km southeast of the volcano. The study reveals that the volcano had seven major ash eruptions at ~70,
69, 61, 24, 19, 15, and 10 ka. The ash layers erupted from 70 ka through 19 ka have highly uniform Nd isotopic composition,
and since the ~15 ka eruption to the present the isotopic composition has been highly variable. Between ~24 ka and ~10 ka,
the volcano had large ash eruptions spaced at 4,500 year intervals. Isotopically correlating the precaldera lavas and ash
exposed on the volcano to the uppermost ash layer in the core, we infer that the caldera of Barren Island volcano is younger
than 10 ka. 相似文献
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Field, geochronologic, and geochemical evidence from proximal fine-grained tephras, and from limited exposures of Holocene
lava flows and a small pyroclastic flow document ten–12 eruptions of Mount Rainier over the last 2,600 years, contrasting
with previously published evidence for only 11–12 eruptions of the volcano for all of the Holocene. Except for the pumiceous
subplinian C event of 2,200 cal year BP, the late-Holocene eruptions were weakly explosive, involving lava effusions and at
least two block-and-ash pyroclastic flows. Eruptions were clustered from ∼2,600 to ∼2,200 cal year BP, an interval referred
to as the Summerland eruptive period that includes the youngest lava effusion from the volcano. Thin, fine-grained tephras
are the only known primary volcanic products from eruptions near 1,500 and 1,000 cal year BP, but these and earlier eruptions
were penecontemporaneous with far-traveled lahars, probably created from newly erupted materials melting snow and glacial
ice. The most recent magmatic eruption of Mount Rainier, documented geochemically, was the 1,000 cal year BP event. Products
from a proposed eruption of Mount Rainier between AD 1820 and 1854 (X tephra of Mullineaux (US Geol Surv Bull 1326:1–83, 1974))
are redeposited C tephra, probably transported onto young moraines by snow avalanches, and do not record a nineteenth century
eruption. We found no conclusive evidence for an eruption associated with the clay-rich Electron Mudflow of ∼500 cal year
BP, and though rare, non-eruptive collapse of unstable edifice flanks remains as a potential hazard from Mount Rainier.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
T. W. Sisson and J. W. Vallance contributed equally to this study. 相似文献
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Tyatya Volcano, southwestern Kuril arc: Recent eruptive activity inferred from widespread tephra 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
MITSUHIRO NAKAGAWA YOSHIHIRO ISHIZUKA † TAKASHI KUDO MITSUHIRO YOSHIMOTO ‡ WATARU HIROSE YOSHIO ISHIZAKI NOBUO GOUCHI YOSHIO KATSUI ALEXANDER W. SOLOVYOW GENRIKH S. STEINBERG ARSLAN I. ABDURAKHMANOV 《Island Arc》2002,11(4):236-254
Abstract Tyatya Volcano, situated in Kunashir Island at the southwestern end of Kuril Islands, is a large composite stratovolcano and one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril arc. The volcanic edifice can be divided into the old and the young ones, which are composed of rocks of distinct magma types, low‐ and medium‐K series, respectively. The young volcano has a summit caldera with a central cone. Recent eruptions have occurred at the central cone and at the flank vents of the young volcano. We found several distal ash layers at the volcano and identified their ages and sources, that is, tephras of ad 1856, ad 1739, ad 1694 and ca 1 Ka derived from three volcanoes of Hokkaido, Japan, and caad 969 from Baitoushan Volcano of China/North Korea. These could provide good time markers to reveal the eruptive history of the central cone, which had continued intermittently with Strombolian eruptions and lava flow effusions since before 1 Ka. Relatively explosive eruptions have occurred three times at the cone during the past 1000 years. We revealed that, topographically, the youngest lava flows from the cone are covered not by the tephra of ad 1739 but by that of ad 1856. This evidence, together with a report of dense smoke rising from the summit in ad 1812, suggests that the latest major eruption with lava effusion from the central cone occurred in this year. In 1973, after a long period of dormancy, short‐lived phreatomagmatic eruptions began to occur from fissure vents at the northern flank of the young volcano. This was followed by large eruptions of Strombolian to sub‐Plinian types occurring from several craters at the southern flank. The 1973 activity is evaluated as Volcanic Explosivity Index = 4 (approximately 0.2 km3), the largest eruption during the 20th century in the southwestern Kuril arc. The rocks of the central cone are strongly porphyritic basalt and basaltic andesite, whereas the 1973 scoria is aphyric basalt, suggesting that magma feeding systems are definitely different between the summit and flank eruptions. 相似文献
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At Bear Lake, in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake greenstone belt of Manitoba, 400+ m of thick-to very thick-bedded, generally ungraded, basaltic andesite tuff-breccia, breccia, and lapilli-tuff are intercalated with pillowed lava flows in the upper part of an early Proterozoic submarine basaltic andesite shield volcano. The fragmental rocks comprise angular, amygdaloidal blocks and lapilli, many with partial chilled selvages, in a matrix of blocky, non-amygdaloidal to highly amygdaloidal vitric basaltic andesite ash and small lapilli. Minor thin-to medium-bedded, commonly normally graded tuff occurs in the upper part of the sequence. Clasts in fragmental beds consistently have higher amygdule contents than intercalated lava flows. Although similar to pillow-fragment breccias, the Bear Lake fragmental rocks were produced by extended surtseyan-type, phreatomagmatic eruptions, with associated fire fountain activity, at a progressively subsiding, shallow water vent. Periodic tephra slumping generated debris flows that transported particles down the uppe, gentle slope of the volcano to a depositional site at a water depth of less than 1 km. Turbidity currents probably carried much fine tephra to deeper water; tuff was deposited in the preserved section only after explosive volcanism ceased. 相似文献
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Christopher F. Waythomas 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1999,61(3):141-161
Akutan Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian arc, but until recently little was known about its history
and eruptive character. Following a brief but sustained period of intense seismic activity in March 1996, the Alaska Volcano
Observatory began investigating the geology of the volcano and evaluating potential volcanic hazards that could affect residents
of Akutan Island. During these studies new information was obtained about the Holocene eruptive history of the volcano on
the basis of stratigraphic studies of volcaniclastic deposits and radiocarbon dating of associated buried soils and peat.
A black, scoria-bearing, lapilli tephra, informally named the "Akutan tephra," is up to 2 m thick and is found over most of
the island, primarily east of the volcano summit. Six radiocarbon ages on the humic fraction of soil A-horizons beneath the
tephra indicate that the Akutan tephra was erupted approximately 1611 years B.P. At several locations the Akutan tephra is
within a conformable stratigraphic sequence of pyroclastic-flow and lahar deposits that are all part of the same eruptive
sequence. The thickness, widespread distribution, and conformable stratigraphic association with overlying pyroclastic-flow
and lahar deposits indicate that the Akutan tephra likely records a major eruption of Akutan Volcano that may have formed
the present summit caldera. Noncohesive lahar and pyroclastic-flow deposits that predate the Akutan tephra occur in the major
valleys that head on the volcano and are evidence for six to eight earlier Holocene eruptions. These eruptions were strombolian
to subplinian events that generated limited amounts of tephra and small pyroclastic flows that extended only a few kilometers
from the vent. The pyroclastic flows melted snow and ice on the volcano flanks and formed lahars that traveled several kilometers
down broad, formerly glaciated valleys, reaching the coast as thin, watery, hyperconcentrated flows or water floods. Slightly
cohesive lahars in Hot Springs valley and Long valley could have formed from minor flank collapses of hydrothermally altered
volcanic bedrock. These lahars may be unrelated to eruptive activity.
Received: 31 August 1998 / Accepted: 30 January 1999 相似文献
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Holocene explosive activity of Hudson Volcano, southern Andes 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
Fallout deposits in the vicinity of the southern Andean Hudson Volcano record at least 12 explosive Holocene eruptions, including
that of August 1991 which produced ≥4 km3 of pyroclastic material. Medial isopachs of compacted fallout deposits for two of the prehistoric Hudson eruptions, dated
at approximately 3600 and 6700 BP, enclose areas at least twice that of equivalent isopachs for both the 1991 Hudson and the
1932 Quizapu eruptions, the two largest in the Andes this century. However, lack of information for either the proximal or
distal tephra deposits from these two prehistoric eruptions of Hudson precludes accurate volume estimates. Andesitic pyroclastic
material produced by the 6700-BP event, including a 1 10-cm-thick layer of compacted tephra that constitutes a secondary
thickness maximum over 900 km to the south in Tierra del Fuego, was dispersed in a more southerly direction than that of the
1991 Hudson eruption. The products of the 6700-BP event consist of a large proportion of fine pumiceous ash and accretionary
lapilli, indicating a violent phreatomagmatic eruption. This eruption, which is considered to be the largest for Hudson and
possibly for any volcano in the southern Andes during the Holocene, may have created Hudson's 10-km-diameter summit caldera,
but the age of the caldera has not been dated independently.
Received: 31 January 1997 / Accepted: 29 October 1997 相似文献
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John J. Lyons Gregory P. Waite William I. Rose Gustavo Chigna 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2010,72(1):1-15
Fuego volcano, Guatemala is a high (3,800 m) composite volcano that erupts gas-rich, high-Al basalt, often explosively. It
spends many years in an essentially open vent condition, but this activity has not been extensively observed or recorded until
now. The volcano towers above a region with several tens of thousands of people, so that patterns in its activity might have
hazard mitigation applications. We conducted 2 years of continuous observations at Fuego (2005–2007) during which time the
activity consisted of minor explosions, persistent degassing, paroxysmal eruptions, and lava flows. Radiant heat output from
MODIS correlates well with observed changes in eruptive behavior, particularly during abrupt changes from passive lava effusion
to paroxysmal eruptions. A short-period seismometer and two low-frequency microphones installed during the final 6 months
of the study period recorded persistent volcanic tremor (1–3 Hz) and a variety of explosive eruptions. The remarkable correlation
between seismic tremor, thermal output, and daily observational data defines a pattern of repeating eruptive behavior: 1)
passive lava effusion and subordinate strombolian explosions, followed by 2) paroxysmal eruptions that produced sustained
eruptive columns, long, rapidly emplaced lava flows, and block and ash flows, and finally 3) periods of discrete degassing
explosions with no lava effusion. This study demonstrates the utility of low-cost observations and ground-based and satellite-based
remote sensing for identifying changes in volcanic activity in remote regions of underdeveloped countries. 相似文献
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Dennis Geist Keith A. Howard A. Mark Jellinek Scott Rayder 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1994,56(4):243-260
Volcán Alcedo is one of the seven western Galápagos shields and is the only active Galápagos volcano known to have erupted rhyolite as well as basalt. The volcano stands 4 km above the sea floor and has a subaerial volume of 200 km3, nearly all of which is basalt. As Volcán Alcedo grew, it built an elongate domal shield, which was partly truncated during repeated caldera-collapse and partial-filling episodes. An outward-dipping sequence of basalt flows at least 250 m thick forms the steepest (to 33°) flanks of the volcano and is not tilted; thus a constructional origin for the steep upper flanks is favored. About 1 km3 of rhyolite erupted late in the volcano's history from at least three vents and in 2–5 episodes. The most explosive of these produced a tephra blanket that covers the eastern half of the volcano. Homogeneous rhyolitic pumice is overlain by dacite-rhyolite commingled pumice, with no stratigraphic break. The tephra is notable for its low density and coarse grain size. The calculated height of the eruption plume is 23–30 km, and the intensity is estimated to have been 1.2x108 kg/s. Rhyolitic lavas vented from the floor of the caldera and from fissures along the rim overlie the tephra of the plinian phase. The age of the rhyolitic eruptions is 120 ka, on the basis of K-Ar ages. Between ten and 20 basaltic lava flows are younger than the rhyolites. Recent faulting resulted in a moat around part of the caldera floor. Alcedo most resently erupted sometime between 1946 and 1960 from its southern flank. Alcedo maintains an active, transient hydrothermal system. Acoustic and seismic activity in 1991 is attributed to the disruption of the hydrothermal system by a regional-scale earthquake. 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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Kirt A. Kempter Shawn G. Benner Stanley N. Williams 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1996,71(2-4)
Acid rain and ongoing eruptive activity at Rincón de la Vieja volcano in northwestern Costa Rica have created a triangular, deeply eroded “dead zone” west-southwest of the Active Crater. The barren, steep-walled canyons in this area expose one of the best internal stratigraphic profiles of any active or dormant volcano in Costa Rica. Geologic mapping along the southwestern flank of the volcano reveals over 300 m of prehistoric volcanic stratigraphy, dominated by tephra deposits and two-pyroxene andesite lavas. Dense tropical forests and poor access preclude mapping elsewhere on the volcano. In the “dead zone” four stratigraphic groups are distinguished by their relative proportions of lava and tephra. In general, early volcanism was dominated by voluminous lava emissions, with explosive plinian eruptions becoming increasingly more dominant with time. Numerous phreatic eruptions have occurred in historic times, all emanating from the Active Crater. The stratigraphic sequence is capped by the Río Blanco tephra deposit, erupted at approximately 3500 yr B.P. Approximately 0.25 km3 (0.1 km3 DRE) of tephra was deposited in a highly asymmetrical dispersal pattern west-southwest of the source vent, indicating strong prevailing winds from the east and east-northeast at the time of the eruption. Grain-size studies of the deposit reveal that the eruption was subplinian, attaining an estimated column height of 16 km. A qualitative hazards assessment at Rincón de la Vieja indicates that future eruptions are likely to be explosive in style, with the zone of greatest hazard extending several kilometers north from the Active Crater. 相似文献
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The historical records of Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes reveal that the rough-surfaced variety of basalt lava called aa forms when lava flows at a high volumetric rate (>5–10 m3/s), and the smooth-surfaced variety called pahoehoe forms at a low volumetric rate (<5–10 m3/s). This relationship is well illustrated by the 1983–1990 and 1969–1974 eruptions of Kilauea and the recent eruptions of Mauna Loa. It is also illustrated by the eruptions that produced the remarkable paired flows of Mauna Loa, in which aa formed during an initial short period of high discharge rate (associated with high fountaining) and was followed by the eruption of pahoehoe over a sustained period at a low discharge rate (with little or no fountaining). The finest examples of paired lava flows are those of 1859 and 1880–1881. We attribute aa formation to rapid and concentrated flow in open channels. There, rapid heat loss causes an increase in viscosity to a threshold value (that varies depending on the actual flow velocity) at which, when surface crust is torn by differential flow, the underlying lava is unable to move sufficiently fast to heal the tear. We attribute pahoehoe formation to the flowage of lava at a low volumetric rate, commonly in tubes that minimize heat loss. Flow units of pahoehoe are small (usually <1 m thick), move slowly, develop a chilled skin, and become virtually static before the viscosity has risen, to the threshold value. We infer that the high-discharge-rate eruptions that generate aa flows result from the rapid emptying of major or subsidiary magma chambers. Rapid near-surface vesiculation of gas-rich magma leads to eruptions with high discharge rates, high lava fountains, and fast-moving channelized flows. We also infer that long periods of sustained flow at a low discharge rate, which favor pahoehoe, result from the development of a free and unimpeded pathway from the deep plumbing system of the volcano and the separation of gases from the magma before eruption. Achievement of this condition requires one or more episodes of rapid magma excursion through the rift zone to establish a stable magma pathway. 相似文献
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Janet M. Sumner 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,60(3):195-212
The 1986 eruption of B fissure at Izu-Oshima Volcano, Japan, produced, among other products, one andesite and two basaltic
andesite lava flows. Locally the three flows resemble vent-effused holocrystalline blocky or aa lava; however, remnant clast
outlines can be identified at most localities, indicating that the flows were spatter fed or clastogenic. The basaltic andesite
flows are interpreted to have formed by two main processes: (a) reconstitution of fountain-generated spatter around vent areas
by syn-depositional agglutination and coalescence, followed by extensional non-particulate flow, and (b) syn-eruptive collapse
of a rapidly built spatter and scoria cone by rotational slip and extensional sliding. These processes produced two morphologically
distinct lobes in both flows by: (a) earlier non-particulate flow of agglutinate and coalesced spatter, which formed a thin
lobe of rubbly aa lava (ca. 5 m thick) with characteristic open extension cracks revealing a homogeneous, holocrystalline
interior, and (b) later scoria-cone collapse, which created a larger lobe of irregular thickness (<20 m) made of large detached
blocks of scoria cone interpreted to have been rafted along on a flow of coalesced spatter. The source regions of these lava
flows are characterized by horseshoe-shaped scarps (<30 m high), with meso-blocks (ca. 30 m in diameter) of bedded scoria
at the base. One lava flow has a secondary lateral collapse zone with lower (ca. 7 m) scarps. Backward-tilted meso-blocks
are interpreted to be the product of rotational slip, and forward-tilted blocks the result of simple toppling. Squeeze-ups
of coalesced spatter along the leading edge of the meso-blocks indicate that coalescence occurred in the basal part of the
scoria cone. This low-viscosity, coalesced spatter acted as a lubricating layer along which basal failure of the scoria cone
occurred. Rotational sliding gave way to extensional translational sliding as the slide mass spread out onto the present caldera
floor. Squeeze-ups concentrated at the distal margin indicate that the extensional regime changed to one of compression, probably
as a result of cooling of the flow front. Sliding material piled up behind the slowing flow front, and coalesced spatter was
squeezed up from the interior of the flow through fractures and between rafted blocks. The andesite flow, although morphologically
similar to the other two flows, has a slightly different chemical composition which corresponds to the earliest stage of the
eruption. It is a much smaller lava flow emitted from the base of the scoria cone 2 days after the eruption had ceased. This
lava is interpreted to have been formed by post-depositional coalescence of spatter under the influence of the in-situ cooling
rate and load pressure of the deposit. Extrusion occurred through the lower part of the scoria cone, and subsequent non-particulate
flow of coalesced material produced a blocky and aa lava flow. The mechanisms of formation of the lava flows described may
be more common during explosive eruptions of mafic magma than previously envisaged.
Received: 30 May 1997 / Accepted: 19 May 1998 相似文献
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Tanna island is part of a large volcanic complex mainly subsided below sea-level. On-land, two series of hydroclastic deposits
and ignimbrites overlie the subaerial remains of a basal, mainly effusive volcano. The ‘Older’ Tanna Ignimbrite series (OTI),
Late Pliocene or Pleistocene in age, consists of ash flows and ash- and scoria-flow deposits associated with fallout tephra
layers, overlain by indurated pumice-flow deposits. Phreatomagmatic features are a constant characteristic of these tuffs.
The ‘younger’ Late Pleistocene pyroclastics, the Siwi sequence, show basal phreatomagmatic deposits overlain by two successive
flow units, each comprising a densely welded layer and a nonwelded ash-flow deposit. Whole-rock analyses of 17 juvenile clasts
from the two sequences (vitric blocks from the phreatomagmatic deposits, welded blocks, scoriaceous bombs and pumices from
the ignimbrites) show basaltic andesite and andesite compositions (SiO2=53–60%). In addition, 296 microprobe analyses of glasses in these clasts show a wide compositional range from 51 to 69% SiO2. Dominant compositions at ∼54, 56, 58.5 and 61–62% SiO2 characterize the glass from the OTI. Glass compositions in the lower – phreatomagmatic – deposits from the Siwi sequence
also show multimodal distribution, with peaks at SiO2=55, 57.5, 61–62 and 64% whereas the upper ignimbrite has a predominant composition at 61–62% SiO2. In both cases, mineralogical data and crystal fractionation models suggest that these compositions represent the magmatic
signature of a voluminous layered chamber, the compositional gradient of which is the result of fractional crystallization.
During two major eruptive stages, probably related to two caldera collapses, the OTI and Siwi ignimbrites represent large
outpourings from these magmatic reservoirs. The successive eruptive dynamics, from phreatomagmatic to Plinian, emphasize the
role of water in initiating the eruptions, without which the mafic and intermediate magmas probably would not have erupted.
Received: February 19, 1993/Accepted October 10, 1993 相似文献
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I. V. Melekestsev E. V. Kartasheva T. P. Kirsanova A. A. Kuz’mina 《Journal of Volcanology and Seismology》2011,5(1):17-30
This study is the first to show, using data from the eruption of Koryakskii Volcano, Kamchatka that began in December 2008
and continued through 2009 that the water in permanent and temporary streams that start on the slopes of the volcanic cone
and in temporary lakes when contaminated with fresh tephra is a specific hazard factor related to long-continued hydrothermal-phreatic
eruptions on that volcano. This water is characterized by increased acidity (pH 4.1–4.35) and large amounts (up to 50–100
cm3/liter) of solid suspension and is unfit for drinking and irrigation. When combined with tephra, it probably produced mass
destruction of a number of animals who lived on the slopes and at the base of the volcano. The water contaminated with tephra
is an important component of the atmospheric mud flows occurring on Koryakskii Volcano; for several future years it will be
a potential source for enhancing the acidity of ground water in the volcanic edifice. 相似文献
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Andrea Borgia Clark Poore Michael J. Carr William G. Melson Guillermo E. Alvarado 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1988,50(2):86-105
Geologic mapping on a scale of 1:10000 and detailed stratigraphic studies of lava flows and tephra deposits of the Arenal-Chato volcanic system reveal a complex and cyclic volcanic history. This cyclicity provides insight into the evolution of magma batches during the growth of the andesitic volcanic system. The Arenal and Chato volcanoes have a central zone comprised of a lava armor and a distal zone comprised of a tephra apron. During Arenal's last two eruptive periods major craters formed near intersections of regional fractures at the lava armortephra apron transition. We suggest that such intersections are potential sites for future major explosions. The earliest rocks, i.e., the Chato lava flows, range in composition from basaltic andesite to andesite. These rocks, except for the andesitic domes of Chatito and La Espina, appear to have evolved from a common parental magma. The last active period of Chato volcano occurred 3550 B. P. The earliest known activity of Arenal volcano is 2900 B. P. Arenal lava flows have 54–56 wt% SiO2 and may be subdivided into a high-alumina group (HAG, Al2O3 = 20 wt%) and a low-alumina group (LAG, Al2O3 = 19 wt%). Compared to the HAG, the LAG also has smaller amounts of incompatible elements and higher amounts of FeO and MgO. Arenal tephra deposits were emplaced by Plinian-Sub-Plinian explosions occurring at 300±150-yr intervals. These deposits are compositionally zoned and alternate between dacite and basalt. The stratigraphy reveals an apparent magmatic cycle consisting of (a) dacitic-andesitic tephra, (b) HAG lava flows, (c) LAG lava flows, and (d) andesitic-basaltic tephra. This magmatic cycle is repeated four times during Arenal's history and is interpreted to have developed by the crystal fractionation and crystal redistribution of a single magma batch. The period of this cycle, and consequently the life of a magma batch, is about 800 years. If the cyclic pattern continues, a basaltic explosive phase may occur in the next 250 years. 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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Geology and geochemistry of lavas at Nekoma volcano: Implications for origin of Quaternary low-K andesite in the north-eastern Honshu arc, Japan 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Abstract Nekoma volcano forms part of the arc axis volcanic array of the North-eastern Honshu arc, Japan, which is commonly characterized by medium-K lava suites. However, Nekoma is exceptional because many of its lavas are low-K. This anomaly has been a matter of debate. Nekoma was active from 1.1 to 0.35 Ma. The volcano consists of thick andesite flows and domes associated with block and ash flow deposits produced during lava dome formation. A horseshoe-shaped collapse caldera was formed at the summit and small lava domes extruded into the caldera. Stratigraphy, published K–Ar ages, and tephrochronology define three stages of volcanic activity, about 1.1 Ma (Stage 1), 0.8–0.6 Ma (Stage 2) and 0.45–0.35 Ma (Stage 3; post caldera stage). Low-K andesites occur in all stages. Extremely low-K andesite was also associated in Stage 2 and medium-K andesite was dominant in Stage 3. In general, lavas changed from low-K to medium-K after caldera formation. Geochemical study of the Nekoma lavas shows that both low-K and medium-K lavas are isotopically similar and were derived from a common source. Adatara and Azuma volcanoes, which lie close to Nekoma, also have both low-K and medium-K andesites. However, Sr isotope ratios or temporal-spatial variations in K-level lava classification vary between the three centers. Comparisons of K suites and Sr isotope ratios with frontal arc volcanoes in North-east–Honshu suggest source heterogeneity existed in both medium- and low-K suites. The K contents of lavas and their Sr isotopes are not simply related. This requires re-examination of models for chemical variation of andesites in arcs. 相似文献
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Pliocene–Recent volcanic outcrops at Seal Nunataks and Beethoven Peninsula (Antarctic Peninsula) are remnants of several
monogenetic volcanoes formed by eruption of vesiculating basaltic magma into shallow water, in an englacial environment. The
diversity of sedimentary and volcanic lithofacies present in the Antarctic Peninsula outcrops provides a clear illustration
of the wide range of eruptive, transportational and depositional processes which are associated with englacial Surtseyan volcanism.
Early-formed pillow lava and glassy breccia, representing a pillow volcano stage of construction, are draped by tephra erupted
explosively during a tuff cone stage. The tephra was resedimented around the volcano flanks, mainly by coarse-grained sediment
gravity flows. Fine-grained lithofacies are rare, and fine material probably bypassed the main volcanic edifice, accumulating
in the surrounding englacial basin. The pattern of sedimentation records variations in eruption dynamics. Products of continuous-uprush
eruptions are thought to be represented by stacks of poorly bedded gravelly sandstone, whereas better bedded, lithologically
more diverse sequences accumulated during periods of quiescence or effusive activity. Evidence for volcano flank failure is
common. In Seal Nunataks, subaerial lithofacies (mainly lavas and cinder cone deposits) are volumetrically minor and occur
at a similar stratigraphical position to pillow lava, suggesting that glacial lake drainage may have occurred prior to or
during deposition of the subaerial lithofacies. By contrast, voluminous subaerial effusion in Beethoven Peninsula led to the
development of laterally extensive stratified glassy breccias representing progradation of hyaloclastite deltas.
Received: 5 February 1996 / Accepted: 17 January 1997 相似文献
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PRELIMINARY VOLCANIC HAZARD ZONATION IN JINLONGDINGZI VOLCANO,LONGANG VOLCANO AREA,JILIN PROVINCE,CHINA 下载免费PDF全文
Longgang volcano cluster is 150km away from the Tianchi volcano, located in Jingyu and Huinan Counties, Jilin Province, China. It had a long active history and produced hundreds of volcanoes. The latest and largest eruption occurred between 1 500 and 1 600 years ago by Jinlongdingzi(JLDZ)volcano which had several eruptions in the history. This paper discusses the volcanic hazard types, and using the numerical simulations of lava flow obtained with the Volcflow model, proposes the hazard zonation of JLDZ volcano area. JLDZ volcano eruption type is sub-plinian, which produced a great mass of tephra fallout, covering an area of 260km2. The major types of volcanic hazards in JLDZ area are lava flow, tephra fallout and spatter deposits. Volcflow is developed by Kelfoun for the simulation of volcanic flows. The result of Volcflow shows that the flows are on the both sides of the previous lava flows which are low-lying areas now. According to the physical parameters of historical eruption and Volcflow, we propose the preliminary volcanic hazard zonation in JLDZ area. The air fall deposits are the most dangerous product in JLDZ. The highly dangerous region of spatter deposits is limited to a radius of about 2km around the volcano. The high risk area of tephra fallout is between 2km to 9km around the volcano, and between 9km to 14km is the moderate risk area. Out of 14km, it is the low risk area. Lava flow is controlled by topography. From Jinchuan Town to Houhe Village near the volcano is the low-lying area. If the volcano erupts, these areas will be in danger. 相似文献