Kinematic significance of mingling-rolling structures in lava flows: a case study from Porri Volcano (Salina, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) |
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| Authors: | Guido Ventura |
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| Institution: | (1) Osservatorio Vesuviano, Via Osservatorio, I-80056 Ercolano (NA), Italy Tel.: +39-81-7777149 Fax: +39 81 739 0644 e-mail: ventura@osve.unina.it, IT |
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| Abstract: | A basaltic andesite lava flow from Porri Volcano (Salina, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) is composed of two different magmas. Magma
A (51 vol.% of crystals) has a dacitic glass composition, and magma B (18 vol.% of crystals), a basaltic glass composition.
Magma B is hosted in A and consists of sub-spherical enclaves and boudin-like, banding and rolling structures (RS). Four types
of RS have been recognized: σ–type;δ–type; complex σ-δ–types and transitional structures between sub-spherical enclaves and rolling structures. An analysis of the RS has been performed
in order to reconstruct the flow kinematics and the mechanism of flow emplacement. Rolling structures have been selected in
three sites located at different distances from the vent. In all sites most RS show the same sense of shear. Kinematic analysis
of RS allows the degree of flow non-coaxiality to be determined. The non-coaxiality is expressed by the kinematic vorticity
number Wk, a measure of the ratio Sr between pure shear strain rate and simple shear strain rate. The values of Wk calculated from the measured shapes of microscopic RS increase with increasing distance from the vent, from approximately
0.5 to 0.9. Results of the structural analysis reveal that the RS formed during the early–intermediate stage of flow emplacement.
They represent originally sub-spherical enclaves deformed at low shear strain. At higher strain, RS deformed to give boudin-like
and stretched banding structures. Results of the kinematic analysis suggest that high viscosity lava flows are heterogeneous
non-ideal shear flows in which the degree of non-coaxiality increases with the distance from the vent. In the vent area, deformation
is intermediate between simple shear and pure shear. Farther from the vent, deformation approaches ideal simple shear. Lateral
extension processes occur only in the near-vent zone, where they develop in response to the lateral push of magma extruded
from the vent. Lateral shortening processes develop in the distal zone and record the gravity-driven movement of the lava.
The lava flow advanced by two main mechanisms, lateral translation and rolling motion. Lateral translation equals rolling
near the vent, while rolling motion prevailed in the distal zones.
Received: 6 November 1997 / Accepted: 29 November 1997 |
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| Keywords: | Kinematic/strain analysis Mingling structures Lava flow Mechanisms of emplacement Aeolian Islands |
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