Imaging and modelling the subsurface structure of volcanic calderas with high-resolution aeromagnetic data at Vulcano (Aeolian Islands,Italy) |
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| Authors: | Isabel Blanco-Montenegro Riccardo De Ritis Massimo Chiappini |
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| Institution: | (1) Dep. de Física, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, Avda. de Cantabria s/n, 09006 Burgos, Spain;(2) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we present a magnetic model of the subsurface structure of Vulcano island based on high-resolution aeromagnetic
data. Three profiles across the most intense magnetic anomalies over the Piano and Fossa calderas were selected for the magnetic
modelling, which was constrained by structural and volcanological data, previous geophysical models, paleomagnetic data, and
borehole stratigraphy obtained from two deep wells. The interpretation of the magnetic sources represents a significant contribution
to the understanding of the Piano and Fossa calderas’ underlying structure, providing us with evidence of the lateral discontinuity
between them at depth. We propose that the positive magnetic anomalies in the Piano caldera area are caused by: (a) the remnants
of an early submarine volcano; (b) an outcropping dyke swarm related to the feeding system of the Primordial Vulcano phase
(beneath Mt. Saraceno); and (c) the presence of a non-outcropping dyke system intruded along a NE–SW-oriented intra-caldera
fault (beneath the eastern part of the Piano caldera). Offshore, to the west, the magnetic anomaly map suggests the presence
of a submarine volcanic structure, not revealed by bathymetric data, which could represent the eruptive centre, the presence
of which has been indirectly deduced from the outcrop of eastern-dipping lavas on the western seashore. Magnetic modelling
of the Fossa caldera points to the presence of a highly magnetized cone-like body inside the Fossa cone, centred beneath the
oldest crater rims. We interpret this body as a pile of tephritic lavas emplaced in an early phase of activity of the Fossa
cone, suggesting that the volume of mafic lavas that erupted at the beginning of the construction of the Fossa edifice was
more significant than has previously been deduced. Furthermore, the presence of a magnetized body inside the Fossa cone implies
that high temperatures are contained in very limited spaces, do not affect its bulk inner structure, and are restricted to
fumarolic conduits and vents. In addition, structures beneath the western and northern part of the Fossa caldera are revealed
to have null or low magnetization, which can be ascribed to the presence of pyroclasts and hyaloclastites in this area as
well as to a large volume of hydrothermally altered materials. This suggests that the hydrothermal system, with a very limited
extension at present, affected a larger area in the past, especially beneath the western part of the caldera. |
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| Keywords: | Potential field modelling High-resolution aeromagnetic data Crustal imaging Calderas Volcanic islands Vulcano Aeolian Islands |
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