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Annual surveys of trilateration and leveling networks in and around Long Valley caldera in the 1982–1985 interval indicate that the principal sources of deformation are inflation of a magma chamber beneath the resurgent dome and right‐lateral strike slip on a vertical fault in the south moat of the caldera. The rate of inflation of the magma chamber seems to have been roughly constant (0.02 km 3 /yr) in the 1982–1985 interval, but the slip rate on the south moat fault has decreased substantially. In addition, there is evidence for a shallow source of dilatation (possibly dike intrusion) beneath the south moat of the caldera in 1983 and less certain evidence for a deep source (possibly magma chamber inflation beneath Mammoth Mountain) in the western caldera in 1983–1985. Deformation in the 1985–1986 interval as inferred from trilateration alone seems to be similar to that observed in 1984–1985.
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Lava flows present a recurring threat to communities on active volcanoes, and volumetric eruption rate is one of the primary factors controlling flow behavior and hazard. The time scales and driving forces of eruption rate variability, however, remain poorly understood. In 2018, a highly destructive eruption occurred on the lower flank of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i, where the primary vent exhibited substantial cyclic eruption rates on both short (minutes) and long (tens of hours) time scales. We used multiparameter data to show that the short cycles were driven by shallow outgassing, whereas longer cycles were pressure-driven surges in magma supply triggered by summit caldera collapse events 40 kilometers upslope. The results provide a clear link between eruption rate fluctuations and their driving processes in the magmatic system.
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縦長型マグマだまりの膨張ないし収縮によって形成されるカルデラを，アナログ実験で再現した．アナログ地殻は上新粉（米の粉末），アナログマグマだまりはゴム風船を使用した．実験結果は以下の通り．1．マグマだまりの膨張によってドーム隆起が生じ，ドーム頂部にグラーベン状に小さな漏斗型陥没が形成される．陥没の直径は，実際のスケールでは0.8～1.6 kmなので，カルデラというにはやや小さい．2．マグマだまりの収縮によって，平坦な底を持つ浅いカルデラと，その中心部の小径陥没が形成される．実際のスケールでは，カルデラの大きさは0.9～4.4 km，深さ200～400 mとなる．このモデルは，キラウエアカルデラと相似である．3．膨張後に収縮するマグマだまりによって形成されるカルデラは，先行するドーム隆起による地殻ダイラタンシーのため，マグマだまりが収縮するだけのモデルに比べて陥没量が小さくなる．
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Lava dome eruptions commonly display fairly regular alternations between periods of high activity and periods of low or no activity. The time scale for these alternations is typically months to several years. Here we develop a generic model of magma discharge through a conduit from an open-system magma chamber with continuous replenishment. The model takes account of the principal controls on flow, namely the replenishment rate, magma chamber size, elastic deformation of the chamber walls, conduit resistance, and variations of magma viscosity, which are controlled by degassing during ascent and kinetics of crystallization. The analysis indicates a rich diversity of behavior with periodic patterns similar to those observed. Magma chamber size can be estimated from the period with longer periods implying larger chambers. Many features observed in volcanic eruptions such as alternations between periodic behaviors and continuous discharge, sharp changes in discharge rate, and transitions from effusive to catastrophic explosive eruption can be understood in terms of the non-linear dynamics of conduit flows from open-system magma chambers. The dynamics of lava dome growth at Mount St. Helens (1980^1987) and Santiaguito (1922^2000) was analyzed with the help of the model. The best-fit models give magma chamber volumes of V0.6 km 3 for Mount St. Helens and V65 km 3 for Santiaguito. The larger magma chamber volume is the major factor in explaining why Santiaguito is a long-lived eruption with a longer periodicity of pulsations in comparison with Mount St. Helens. fl 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Explosive caldera-forming eruptions eject voluminous magma during the gravitational collapse of the roof of the magma chamber. Caldera collapse is known to occur by rapid decompression of a magma chamber at shallow depth, however, the thresholds for magma chamber decompression that promotes caldera collapse have not been tested using examples from actual caldera-forming eruptions. Here, we investigated the processes of magma chamber decompression leading to caldera collapse using two natural examples from Aira and Kikai calderas in southwestern Japan. The analysis of water content in phenocryst glass embayments revealed that Aira experienced a large magmatic underpressure before the onset of caldera collapse, whereas caldera collapse occurred with a relatively small underpressure at Kikai. Our friction models for caldera faults show that the underpressure required for a magma chamber to collapse is proportional to the square of the depth to the magma chamber for calderas of the same horizontal size. This model explains why the relatively deep magma system of Aira required a larger underpressure for collapse when compared with the shallower magma chamber of Kikai. The distinct magma chamber underpressure thresholds can explain variations in the evolution of caldera-forming eruptions and the eruption sequences for catastrophic ignimbrites during caldera collapse.
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The La Primavera caldera lies close to the triple junction of the Tepic-Zacoalco, Colima, and Chapala rifts in the western part of the Mexican Volcanic Belt. It is a promising geothermal field with 13 deep wells already drilled. We calculated solute geothermometric temperatures (Na–K, Na–Li, and SiO2) from the chemistry of geothermal water samples; determined values are generally between 99°C and 202°C for springs and between 131°C and 298°C for wells. Thermal modelling is an important geophysical tool as documented in the study of this and other Mexican geothermal areas. Using the computer program TCHEMSYS, we report new simulation results of three-dimensional (3-D) thermal modelling of the magma chamber underlying this caldera through its entire eruptive history. Equations (quadratic fit) describing the simulated temperatures as a function of the age, volume and depth of the magma chamber are first presented; these indicate that both the depth and the age of the magma chamber are more important parameters than its volume. A comparison of 3-D modelling of the La Primavera and Los Humeros calderas also shows that the depth of the magma chamber is more important than its volume. The best model for the La Primavera caldera has 0.15 million years as the emplacement age of the magma chamber, its top at a depth of 4 km, and its volume as 600 km3. Fresh magma recharge events within the middle part of the magma chamber were also considered at 0.095, 0.075, and 0.040 Ma. The simulation results were evaluated in the light of actually measured and solute geothermometric temperatures in five geothermal wells. Future work should involve a smaller mesh size of 0.050 or 0.10 km on each side (instead of 0.25 km currently used) and take into account the topography of the area and all petrogenetic processes of fractional crystallization, assimilation, and magma mixing as well as heat generation from natural radioactive elements.
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