Experimental constraints on pre-eruptive water contents and changing magma storage prior to explosive eruptions of Mount St Helens volcano   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

J. E. Gardner  M. Rutherford  S. Carey  H. Sigurdsson 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1995,57(1):1-17

Compositionally diverse dacitic magmas have erupted from Mount St Helens over the last 4000 years. Phase assemblages and their compositions in these dacites provide information about the composition of the pre-eruptive melt, the phases in equilibrium with that melt and the magmatic temperature. From this information pre-eruptive pressures and water fugacities of many of the dacites have been inferred. This was done by conducting hydrothermal experiments at 850°C and a range of pressures and water fugacities and combining the results with those from experiments at temperatures of 780 and 920°C, to cover the likely range in equilibration conditions of the dacites. Natural phase assemblages and compositions were compared with the experimental results to infer the most likely conditions for the magmas prior to eruption. Water contents disolved in the melts of the dacites were then estimated from the inferred conditions. Water contents in the dacites have varied greatly, from 3.7 to 6.5 wt.%, in the last 4000 years. Between 4000 and about 3000 years ago the dacites tended to be water saturated and contained 5.5 to 6.5 wt.% water. Since then, however, the dacites have been significantly water-undersaturated and contained less than 5.0 wt.% water. These dacites have tended to be hotter and more mafic, and andesitic and basaltic magmas have erupted. These changes can be explained by variable amounts of mixing between felsic dacite and basalt, to produce hotter, drier and more mafic dacites and andesites. The magma storage region of the dacitic magmas has also varied significantly during the 4000 years, with shifts to shallower levels in the crust occurring within very short time periods, possibly even two years. These shifts may be related to fracturing of overlying roof rock as a result of magma with-drawal during larger volume eruptions.  相似文献   

两例爆发性东北低压的对比诊断分析   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

孙力 《应用气象学报》1995,6(4):468-476

该文选择了发展变化机制有一定差异的两例春季爆发性东北低压（分别是1983年4月25～26日气旋（简称A例）和1983年4月28～29日气旋（简称B例）），进行了对比诊断分析。结果表明:（1）非绝热加热和局地斜压不稳定对A例气旋发展来说是十分关键的因子，而空正IPV平流的显著增强及其与低层IPV分布中两个局地最大值的垂直耦合是B例气旋增强的一个重要原因；（2）两个风暴最大不同点在于非绝热加热效应在影响气旋增强的程度上有所不同。另外，B例事件中对流层中部产生的较强高空锋生可以在低压范围内导致深厚的上升运动并使高空锋向下游的正涡度平流得以加强，这对系统的发展是十分有利的。  相似文献   

东亚寒潮活动对下游爆发性气旋生成的影响   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

孙淑清  高守亭 《气象学报》1993,51(3):304-314

本文研究了东亚寒潮过程与下游爆发性气旋之间的关系。通过对一个强寒潮过程及随后在西北太平洋上爆发性气旋生成的个例分析发现,寒潮过程相伴随的大环流调整给下游气旋猛烈发展提供了极好的背景条件。当超长波槽与长波槽耦合加深时,槽前气旋迅速发展。大槽的加深使高空急流不断加速,大风区向低层扩展。出口区的次级环流也随着急流的加强而加强,它促使北侧低层气旋发展。对93次爆发性气旋作统计分析进一步证实了上述结论。绝大多数过程皆伴有上游的强冷高压活动。高压中心越强相应的爆发气旋也越强,甚至可以发生连续的爆发。绝大多数爆发性气旋发生在超长波槽前,强高空急流出口区的向极侧。  相似文献   

Eruptive dynamics and caldera collapse during the Onano eruption, Vulsini, Italy     

Danilo M. Palladino  Silvia Simei 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2005,67(5):423-440

The Onano explosive eruption of the Latera Volcanic Complex (Vulsini Volcanoes, Quaternary potassic Roman Comagmatic Region, Italy) provides an interesting example of multiple changes of eruptive style that were concomitant with a late phase of collapse of the polygenetic Latera Caldera. This paper reports a reconstruction of the event based on field analysis, laboratory studies of grain size and density of juvenile clasts, and re-interpretation of available subsurface geology data. The Onano eruption took place in a structurally weak area, corresponding to a carbonate substrate high bordered by the pre-existing Latera caldera and Bolsena volcano-tectonic depression, which controlled the ascent and eruption of a shoshonitic-phonotephritic magma through intersecting rim fault systems. Temporal changes of magma vesiculation, fragmentation and discharge rate, and consequent eruptive dynamics, were strongly controlled by pressure evolution in the magma chamber and changing vent geometry. Initially, pumice-rich pyroclastic flows were emplaced, followed by spatter- and lithic-rich flows and fallout from energetic fire-fountaining. The decline of magma pressure due to the partial evacuation of the magma chamber induced trapdoor collapse of the chamber roof, which involved part of the pre-existing caldera and external volcano slopes and eventually led to the present-day caldera. The widening of the vent system and the emplacement of the main pyroclastic flow and associated co-ignimbrite lag breccia marked the eruption climax. A sudden drop of the confining pressure, which is attributed to a pseudo-rigid behaviour of the magma chamber wall rocks during a phase of rapid magma drainage, led to extensive magma vesiculation and fragmentation. The disruption of the magma chamber roof and waning magma pressure in the late eruption stage favoured the explosive interaction of residual magma with groundwater from the confined carbonate aquifer. Pulsating hydrostatic and magma pressures produced alternating hydromagmatic pyroclastic surges, strombolian fallout and spatter flows.  相似文献   

爆发性气旋的锋生位涡反演诊断     

郑伦伟  陈军  周毅 《气象科学》2006,26(2):183-191

本文采用基于埃特尔位涡反演诊断和锋生函数诊断的锋生位涡反演诊断方法,对一次发生在西太平洋地区的爆发性气旋过程进行了诊断分析和机制研究。本文主要从锋生演变的角度,定量诊断了与对流层顶折迭现象相联系的高层位涡扰动,由凝结潜热释放造成的中层位涡扰动,与低层锋区扰动相联系的低层位涡扰动以及以低层水平辐合辐散为主要成份的非平衡风场在气旋发生发展的不同阶段所起的作用和影响,并对以上各物理过程相互作用,造成气旋爆发性发展的机制进行了分析讨论。  相似文献   

Major-ion bulk deposition around an active volcano (Mt. Etna, Italy)     

A. Aiuppa  S. Bellomo  L. Brusca  W. D'Alessandro  R. Di Paola  M. Longo 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2006,68(3):255-265

Bulk atmospheric deposition of major cations (Na, K, Ca, Mg) and anions (Cl, F, SO₄) were measured at 15 sites around an active volcano, Mount Etna, from 2001 to 2003. Their composition indicates several natural sources, among which deposition of plume-derived volcanogenic gas compounds is prevalent for F, Cl and S. Plume-derived acidic compounds are also responsible for the prevailing acidic composition of the samples collected on the summit of the volcano (pH in the 2.45–5.57 range). Cation species have complex origin, including deposition of plume volcanogenic ash and aerosols and soil-dust wind re-suspension of either volcanic or carbonate sedimentary rocks. Variation of the deposition rates during the March 2001–March 2003 period, coupled with previous measurements from 1997 to 2000 (Appl Geochem 16:985–1000, 2001), were compared with the variation of SO₂ flux, volcanic activity and rainfall. The deposition rate was mainly controlled by rainfall. Commonly, about 0.1–0.9% of HF, HCl and SO₂ emitted by the summit crater's plume were deposited around the volcano. We estimate that ∼2 Gg of volcanogenic sulphur were deposited over the Etnean area during the 2002–2003 flank eruption, at an average rate of ∼24 Mg day⁻¹ which is two orders of magnitude higher than that typical of quiescent degassing phases.  相似文献   

Subglacial and ice-contact volcanism at the Öræfajökull stratovolcano, Iceland     

John A. Stevenson  David W. McGarvie  John L. Smellie  Jennie S. Gilbert 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2006,68(7-8):737-752

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Experimental simulations of gas-driven eruptions: kinetics of bubble growth and effect of geometry     

Youxue Zhang 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1998,59(4):281-290

 Simulated gas-driven eruptions using CO₂–water-polymer systems are reported. Eruptions are initiated by rapidly decompressing CO₂–saturated water containing up to 1.0 wt.% CO₂. Both cylindrical test cells and a flask test cell were used to examine the effect of magma chamber/conduit geometry on eruption dynamics. Bubble-growth kinetics are examined quantitatively in experiments using cylindrical test cells. Uninhibited bubble growth can be roughly expressed as dr/dt≈λD(β-1)/(γt ^1/3) for a CO₂–water-polymer system at 0–22  °C and with viscosities up to 5 Pa·s, where r is the radius of bubbles, λ and D are the Ostwald solubility coefficient and diffusivity of the gas in the liquid, β is the degree of saturation (decompression ratio), and γ characterizes how the boundary layer thickness increases with time and is roughly 1.0×10^–5 m/s^1/3 in this system. Unlike the radius of cylindrical test cells, which does not affect the eruption threshold and dynamics, the shape of the test cells (flask vs cylindrical) affects the dynamics but not the threshold of eruptions. For cylindrical test cells, the front motion is characterized by constant acceleration with both Δh (the height increase) and ΔV (the volume increase) being proportional to t ²; for the flask test cell, however, neither Δh nor ΔV is proportional to t ² as the conduit radius varies. Test-cell geometry also affects foam stability. In the flask test cell, as it moves from the wider base chamber into the narrower conduit, the bubbly flow becomes fragmented, affecting the eruption dynamics. The fragmentation may be caused by a sudden increase in acceleration induced by conduit-shape change, or by the presence of obstacles to the bubbly flow. This result may help explain the range in vesicularities of pumice and reticulite. Received: 16 May 1997 / Accepted: 11 October 1997  相似文献   

Eruption style and petrology of a new carbonatitic suite from the Mt. Vulture Southern Italy/: The Monticchio Lakes Formation     

Francesco Stoppa  Claudia Principe 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1997,78(3-4)

The Monticchio Lakes Formation MLF is a newly identified carbonatite-melilitite tuff sequence which is exposed in the southwestern sector of the Vulture volcano. It is the youngest example ca. 0.13 m.y. of this type of volcanism in Italy, although other carbonatites of smaller volume, but with similar characteristics, have been discovered recently. This volcanic event occurred in isolation after a 0.35 m.y. period of inactivity at Vulture. The eruption produced two maar-type vents and formed tuff aprons mainly composed of dune beds of lapilli. Depositional features suggest that a dry surge mechanism, possibly triggered by CO₂ expansion, was dominant during tuff emplacement. The MLF event involved a mixture of carbonatite and melilitite liquids which were physically separated before the eruption. Abundant mantle xenoliths are direct evidence of the deep-seated origin of the parental magma and its high velocity of propagation towards the surface. Often, these nodules form the core of lapilli composed of concentric shells of melilitite andror porphyritic carbonatite. Coarse-ash beds alternate with lapilli beds and consist of abundant lumps and spherulae of very fine-grained calcite immersed in a welded, highly compacted carbonatite matrix. Porphyritic carbonatite shells of the lapilli and fine-grained spherulae of calcite in the tuff matrix suggest incipient crystallisation of a carbonatite liquid in subvolcanic conditions and eruption of carbonatite-spray droplets. Dark coloured juvenile fragments mainly consist of melilite, phlogopite, calcite, apatite, perovskite, and häuyne crystals in a carbonatite or melilitite matrix. The rocks have an extremely primitive, ultramafic composition with very high Mga) 85. and Cr and Ni content 1500 ppm-. The calcite contains high SrO, BaO and REE of up to 1.5 wt.%. Similar compositions are typical of primary, magmatic carbonates which are found in both intrusive and extrusive carbonatites. The high modal Sr-Ba-REE-rich calcite, the typical mineralogy, and the high amount of Sr-group elements identify the carbonate component as a carbonatite. The very high Mga, mantle debris and C, O, He isotope ratios in the range of mantle values indicate a near-primary character for the carbonatite which is distinctive of a restricted group of extrusive carbonatites only found in continental rift areas.  相似文献   

Recent eruptions of Mount Adams, Washington Cascades, USA     

Wes Hildreth  Judy Fierstein 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1997,58(6):472-490

 The postglacial eruption rate for the Mount Adams volcanic field is ∼0.1 km³/k.y., four to seven times smaller than the average rate for the past 520 k.y. Ten vents have been active since the last main deglaciation ∼15 ka. Seven high flank vents (at 2100–2600 m) and the central summit vent of the 3742-m stratocone produced varied andesites, and two peripheral vents (at 2100 and 1200 m) produced mildly alkalic basalt. Eruptive ages of most of these units are bracketed with respect to regional tephra layers from Mount Mazama and Mount St. Helens. The basaltic lavas and scoria cones north and south of Mount Adams and a 13-km-long andesitic lava flow on its east flank are of early postglacial age. The three most extensive andesitic lava-flow complexes were emplaced in the mid-Holocene (7–4 ka). Ages of three smaller Holocene andesite units are less well constrained. A phreatomagmatic ejecta cone and associated andesite lavas that together cap the summit may be of latest Pleistocene age, but a thin layer of mid-Holocene tephra appears to have erupted there as well. An alpine-meadow section on the southeast flank contains 24 locally derived Holocene andesitic ash layers intercalated with several silicic tephras from Mazama and St. Helens. Microprobe analyses of phenocrysts from the ash layers and postglacial lavas suggest a few correlations and refine some age constraints. Approximately 6 ka, a 0.07-km³ debris avalanche from the southwest face of Mount Adams generated a clay-rich debris flow that devastated >30 km² south of the volcano. A gravitationally metastable 2-to 3-km³ reservoir of hydrothermally altered fragmental andesite remains on the ice-capped summit and, towering 3 km above the surrounding lowlands, represents a greater hazard than an eruptive recurrence in the style of the last 15 k.y. Received: 24 June 1996 / Accepted: 6 December 1996  相似文献