Magma degassing during 7600 14C Kurile Lake caldera-forming eruption and its climatic impact

Autor: O. V. Dirksen, P. Yu. Plechov, Anna Balashova
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Doklady Earth Sciences. 433:974-977
ISSN: 1531-8354
1028-334X
Popis: The main goal of this investigation is estimating volume of volatile emission, atmospheric and climatic impact of the Kurile Lake caldera-forming eruption, one of the Earth’s largest Holocene explosive eruptions. The volatile content of magma before the eruption was estimated by comparing H2O, S, Cl and F contents in natural quenched glassy melt inclusions trapped by plagioclase phenocrysts. The volatile content of igneous rocks after eruption was estimated by comparing concentrations of degassed matrix glasses. As a result of KO-eruption not more than (3.7–4.2) × 1012 kg of water, (4.3–4.9) × 1010 kg of chlorine, (8.6–9.8) × 109 kg of fluorine and (2.6–2.9) × 1010 kg of sulphur were injected into the atmosphere. This eruption had to produce an important climatic impact.
Databáze: OpenAIRE