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The hazards - and benefits - of volcanic eruptions
on oceanic islands
Kathy Cashman
University of Oregon
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I. Eruption styles/hazards
- Explosive eruptions
• Magmatic
• Phreatomagmatic
- Effusive eruptions
• How lava flows
• Real-time measurements
II. How volcanic processes relate to
magmatic processes
Volcanic eruptions
Surface processes Geomorphology
Hydrology
Soil development
Biology
Magmatic processes Geometry
P,T conditions
Magma supply rate
Magma evolution
Ash
Lava
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Explosive eruptions
Magmatic - driven by
exsolution of dissolved
volatiles
Phreatomagmatic - rising
magma interacts with external
water source
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Bubble nucleation and growth
Pressure decrease
If bubbles grow fast enough, the fluid
breaks into fragments or drops
Acceleration of fluid up to the surface
Magma/soda water volume increase
What drives magmatic eruptions?
BUBBLES!
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Fragmentation
mechanisms
FOAM
DISINTEGRATION
liquid
instabilities
SCORIA
brittle
fragmentation
PUMICE &
ASH
Plinian Hawaiian
High viscosity rhyolite Low viscosity basalt
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Why do we care? It‟s all about the ash
Data from Chouet et al. (1974); Rose et al. (1974); Carey & Sigurdsson (1989); Parfitt
(1995); Bonadonna & Houghton (2006); Mannen (2006); Rose and Durant (2009)
Plinian
Hawaiian
Rust & Cashman (in revision)
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Ash hazards
Plinian
Hawaiian/Str
ombolian
Problems with health & airplanes
Data from Chouet et al. (1974); Rose et al. (1974); Carey & Sigurdsson (1989); Parfitt
(1995); Bonadonna & Houghton (2006); Mannen (2006); Rose and Durant (2009) Rust & Cashman (in revision)
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Rare on hot spot oceanic islands BUT there are
exceptions, including Alcedo, where a silicic
Plinian eruption caused a bottleneck in tortoise
evolution)
Plinian eruptions on
volcanic islands
Beheregaray et al. (2003)
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Plinian eruptions on
volcanic islands
Rare on hot spot oceanic islands BUT there are
exceptions, including Alcedo, where a silicic
Plinian eruption caused a bottleneck in tortoise
evolution)
Common on arc-related island volcanoes; when they occur they can be disastrous
Santorini c. 3600 ybp- demise of the
Minoans
Toba c. 75,000 ybp - bottleneck in
human evolution
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Other ways to produce fine ash?
Intermediate
Eyjafjallajokull 2010
Phreatomagmatic
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Intermediate (“Violent Strombolian”) eruptions
Diego Rivera
• Type example is 1943-1952 eruption of
Parícutin, Mexico
• Produce scoria (cinder cones and ash
sheets) AND lava flows
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Krauskopf (1948) Vesicular
tephra
Degassed
lava
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Requires gas segregation (efficiency controlled by magma ascent rate)
Pioli et al. (2009)
Plinian
Lava flows
Arc volcanoes
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How common are these eruptions in non-arc settings?
Not widely recognized BUT (for example) the onset of Sierra Negra 1979 & 2005
eruptions were explosive - was this the result of accumulated volatiles?
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Or was it phreatomagmatic?
PHREATOMAGMATIC
ERUPTIONS
Interaction of magma with water
(groundwater or surface water)
Adding water:
• Increases explosive energy
• Increases amount of ash
• Promote explosive over effusive
eruption conditions
“Flying to Europe”
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Phreatomagmatic eruptions
Phreatomagmatic eruption was produced by magma
interaction with lake water during caldera collapse...
generated an ash cloud that reached 20-25 km
Fernandina 1968
Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
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Phreatomagmatic eruptions in Hawaii
Inferred eruptions through a crater lake
at Kilauea Volcano have produced
extensive ash deposits... inferred to be
caused by withdrawal of magma,
possibly associated with caldera
collapse
USGS Fact Sheet
1924
Phreatic
eruption
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Galapagos • Why do these craters accumulate water?
• What is the potential for (explosive) eruptions
through crater lakes, standing water,
groundwater reservoirs, or the ocean?
• What are the impacts of these eruptions?
Cerro Azul
Cerro Azul and Fernandina have
crater lakes and tuff cones; Sierra
Negra has phreatomagmatic
deposits on the crater rim
Fernandina
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Other types of water interaction
Rootless cones - formed
when lava flows into
areas of standing water
Cerro Azul
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Mauna Loa SWRZ
Kilauea
Koko Crater
Magma-ocean
interactions... Hawaii
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Kilauea Volcano
Jenny Paduan © 2011 MBARI
Mattox & Mangan 1993
Explosive lava-water interaction
requires confinement
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Littoral cones
Moore & Ault (1965)
This cone, at the lower terminus of the channel
was built by the steam explosions resulting from
the incandescent torrent rushing into water, a
crater being there formed, surrounded by a heap
of black sand. This horse shoe heap was 75 feet
high above sea level, and the front of it had
broken down on the ocean side, revealing a
section of bedded sands over a rock wall
beneath... The material was black and rather fine
lava sand...Everywhere the sand was coated
with a thin film of crystalline white salt, common
sea salt, to judge by the taste, and this made the
cone white as seen at a distance.
Jaggar (1919)
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Tuff Cones
Formed by offshore
vents - eruptions through
sea water
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Surtseyan eruptions
Type example: Surtsey
1963
Primary hazard: tsunamis
At Myojinsho, 50 tsunamis were
recorded at a station 130 km north of
the volcano over a two-week period...
there could have been hundreds over
the course of the eruption
Fiske et al. (1998)
Myojinsho, Japan
1952-53
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Galapagos
tuff cones
Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
There are numerous tuff cones in the
Galapagos, including these spectacular
cones on the coast of Volcan Darwin
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Surtseyan eruptions
Darwin recognized that tuff cones were produced by interaction of magma
with sea water, the origin of accretionary lapilli, and the origin of surge
bedding...
James Bay, Sanitago Island
Benefits?
Palagonitic tuffs produced
by these eruptions...
palagonite is an alteration
product of basaltic glass -
has high plant-available
Ca and high cation
exchange potential
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Are there benefits? Jorullo Mexico 1759-1774
Ash from volcanic eruptions
can act as mulch in dry
climates
AND
provide “instant soil”
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QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
We see a similar story in the central Oregon Cascades with the help of Lidar
which provides both „bare earth‟ topography AND vegetation topography
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Upper McKenzie River, OR
All flows mapped as
3000 years old
BUT…
they have dramatically
different vegetation -
WHY?
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Sand Mountain Isopachs estimated from pits
and lake cores suggest that the
total volume of the tephra
deposit was ~ 1 km3
McKay and Cashman (in prep)
Clear Lake lies within the 10
cm isopach… suggests that
tephra deposited on the
previously emplaced southern
flow allowed the development
of mature forest;
Lack of tephra on the younger
flows has prevented
revegetation
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Lava flows
Kipukas
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Mt. Etna
GOAL: to predict flow
paths, flow lengths, and
rates of advance
CHALLENGE: Lava flows are
hot, may traverse tens of
kilometers and thousands of
meters in elevation, and
change from liquid to solid
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Lava flow morphologies
Pahoehoe
Aa
Blocky
Morphology determined
by emplacement
conditions
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pahoehoe `a`a
Surface morphology created by increase in crystal content
and/or shear rate
> 30-35% crystals < ~ 15-20% crystals
What determines the rate and extent of cooling?
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1. Open channel - steady, mobile central crust - fragmented solid in shear regions HIGH EFFUSION RATES; STEEP SLOPES
Channelized flow - Two regimes
2. Insulating tube - continuous solidified roof - efficient delivery of fluid lava LOW EFFUSION RATES; LOW SLOPES
Griffiths et al. (2003); Cashman et al. (2006)
Regime boundary
determined by the relative
time scales of advection
and cooling (crust
formation), as well as the
strength of internal
convection
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Channel velocity
Mauna Loa 1984
data from Lipman & Banks (1987)
Velocity decreases with time (eruption rate)
and distance (increasing lava viscosity plus
mass loss from overflows and bifurcations)
High vent velocities produce
coherent flow structures
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Flow paths?
Once the vent is
established, possible flow
paths can be predicted
using “lava sheds”
Kauahikaua et al. (2003)
Modeling approach uses
cellular automata
How accurate do DEMs need to be?
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Flow advance rates
Kauahikaua et al. (2003)
FLUX
rapid advance
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Flow advance rates
Kauahikaua et al. (2003)
FLUX
Cerro Azul 1998
~ 50 m3/s
Sierra Negra 2005
~ 200 m3/s
Fernandina 1995
~ 5 m3/s
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Channels
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H. Dietterich unpublished data
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V = 0.07 km/hr
V = 0.15 km/hr
V = 0.08 km/hr
Branching affects rates of flow advance
data from Wolfe et al. (1988)
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Monitoring active flows
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Using SAR images to map active lava flows
Satellite-based radar images are collected frequently and are
relatively insensitive to clouds
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SAR imaging
SAR coherence used to measure
post-emplacement subsidence
Stevens et al. (2001)
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Requires a mask for persistently
decorrelated ocean and
vegetation
We can also use SAR images to
monitor flow emplacement
H. Dietterich unpublished data
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Resulting image corresponds
well with USGS maps of flow
advance
...except for some problems
where the flows enter
vegetation
H. Dietterich unpublished data
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H. Dietterich unpublished data
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Thickness (m)
Days d
ecorr
ela
ted
H. Dietterich unpublished data
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Volcanic Hazards
• Explosive eruptions
- Plinian eruptions rare
(disastrous)
- ?Ash-producing eruptions?
(potential to have impact)
- Phreatomagmatic activity
important
• Effusive eruptions
- Very common form of activity
- Emplacement processes
complex
- Can be monitored remotely
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What do the Galapagos have to offer?
Volcanic processes
Surface processes
Magmatic processes
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Volcanology and magmatic systems
Maps of vents and flow
types can be used to map
stress fields and explain
the characteristic
morphology of Galapagos
volcanoes
Geist et al. (2006)
Geist & Harpp (2009)
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Temporal and spatial distribution of flow types
provides information on magma plumbing
system and volcano construction
Katz & Cashman (2003)
Holcomb (1987)
Kilauea surface
HSDP drill core
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Volcanology and magmatic systems
Extending into the
submarine realm allows full
reconstruction of magmatic
systems...
Geist et al. (2006)
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Volcanology and magmatic systems
...and allows us to start asking questions about magma plumbing
systems as they affect eruptive processes such as caldera formation
Geist & Harpp (2009)
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For example:
What triggers collapse and where does the magma go?
Howard (2010)
• Slow drainage during prolonged
eruptions?
• Intrusion into dike or sill?
• Submarine lava flows?
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Summary
• Hazards
- Explosive eruptions
Ash abundance and size
Magmatic or phreatomagmatic
- Lava flows
Rate and length of advance
Vent location
• Benefits
- Explosive eruptions
Instant soil?
- Effusive eruptions
Hydrology, Isolation drives evolution