Mafic explosive volcanism at Llaima Volcano: 3D x-ray microtomography reconstruction of pyroclasts to constrain shallow conduit processes
| Autor: | Valdivia, Pedro, Marshall, Aaron A., Brand, Brittany D., Manga, Michael, Huber, Christian, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA, Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, USA, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, USA |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| ISSN: | 1000-0623 |
| DOI: | 10.15495/epub_ubt_00006053 |
| Popis: | Mafic volcanic activity is dominated by effusive to mildly explosive eruptions. Plinian and ignimbrite-forming mafic eruptions, while rare, are also possible; however, the conditions that promote such explosivity are still being explored. Eruption style is determined by the ability of gas to escape as magma ascends, which tends to be easier in low-viscosity, mafic magmas. If magma permeability is sufficiently high to reduce bubble overpressure during ascent, volatiles may escape from the magma, inhibiting violent explosive activity. In contrast, if the permeability is sufficiently low to retain the gas phase within the magma during ascent, bubble overpressure may drive magma fragmentation. Rapid ascent may induce disequilibrium crystallization, increasing viscosity and affecting the bubble network with consequences for permeability, and hence, explosivity. To explore the conditions that promote strongly explosive mafic volcanism, we combine microlite textural analyses with synchrotron x-ray computed microtomography of 10 pyroclasts from the 12.6 ka mafic Curacautín Ignimbrite (Llaima Volcano, Chile). We quantify microlite crystal size distributions (CSD), microlite number densities, porosity, bubble interconnectivity, bubble number density, and geometrical properties of the porous media to investigate the role of magma degassing processes at mafic explosive eruptions. We use an analytical technique to estimate permeability and tortuosity by combing the Kozeny-Carman relationship, tortuosity factor, and pyroclast vesicle textures. The groundmass of our samples is composed of up to 44% plagioclase microlites, > 85% of which are 99% of pore volume), and (2) a population of very small and completely isolated vesicles ( 5 MPa could have been sufficient to fragment the Curacautín magma. Other mafic explosive eruptions report similar disequilibrium conditions induced by rapid ascent rate, implying that syn-eruptive disequilibrium conditions may control the explosivity of mafic eruptions more generally. national science foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 lawrence berkeley national laboratory http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006235 Universität Bayreuth (3145) |
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