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VOLCANIC LANDFORMSGEO 321 Lecture # 3
J. Steven KiteWest Virginia University
Cotopaxi Erupts in 1862 Painting by Frederic Church
VOLCANIC LANDFORMS
Sources for Images:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/pglossary.htmlhttp://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/
Check out USGS Hawaii site
• http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/main.html
Most Important Igneous Rocks
Mineral Composition
Text
ure
Felsic Mafic Ultra-Mafic
Inter-mediate
Cellular,GlassyFine
Coarse
Mix
rare
rare
rare
peridotite
basalt
gabbro
rhyolite
granite
andesite
diorite
scoriapumice
rhyoliteporphyry
andesiteporphyry
basaltporphyry
basalt
granite
andesiteporphyry
obsidian
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Composition of Magma: Important to Nature of Volcanic Eruptions and Resulting Landforms.
Tie Between Petrology and Geomorphology.
Eruption Types: • Exhalative or Phreatic : Few
Constructional Landforms• Explosive: Viscous Magma -
Felsic - Pyroclastics, Tephra(Ash, Bombs, etc.)
• Effusive: Fluid Magma - Mafic- Lava
Exhalative Eruption:
• Gaseous: Few Landforms
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Kelby Hicks, WVU
Phreatic Eruption:Ukinrek Maars,
AlaskaMaar: Low-relief, Broad Volcanic Crater Formed by Shallow Explosive Eruptions.
Explosions Are Usually Caused by Boiling When Magma Invades the Groundwater Table.
Ukinrek Maars, Alaska
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Eruption Types:
Exhalative -Explosive -Viscous Magma - Felsic -Bombs, Tephra, Pyroclastics
Quito, Equador, 1999
Effusive Eruption
Fluid MaficLava FlowMauna Loa, March 1983
2 Types of Eruption Apertures:
•Fissures•Vents
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Fissure Eruptions
• Felsic (= Granitic): Viscous Polymerized Lava and Pyroclastics–Welded Tuff = Huge Sheet, 100s of ft thick
Felsic EruptionsRhyolitic (Granitic) Composition:
Viscous Lava or TephraIgnimbrite = Welded Tuff = Huge Sheet of
Tephra Includes Ash, Bombs, etc.
Mt. Mazama“Ash” orTuff orTephra orPyroclastics(Caldera Event)
Fissure Eruptions
•Mafic (Basaltic): Fluid Lava–Flood Basalts With Many Feeder Dikes; Basalt Plateaus, Lunar Mare
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Mare Humorum
Lunar Flood Basalt
European Southern
Observatory
www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-1999/phot-02d-99-preview.jpg
Dry Falls, Washington
Nyriagongo Volcano, Dem. Rep. of Congo
Vent Eruptions =True Volcanoes
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USGS Map
//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Africa/Maps/map_drcongo_volcanoes.htmlOther Map: Global Volcanism Program Volcanic Activity Reports
www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/volcano/region02/africa_c/nyamura/var.htm#2603
Map of eruption sites and lava flows at Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira's 1977 Murara vent. The location of the stippled flow on Nyiragongo was provided by M. Krafft. Courtesy of Y. Pottier.
Source of Next Images:
Nyriagongo Volcano
Goma
Nyiragongo
Volcano
Y. Pottier
Nyriagongo Volcano, Jan 2002World’s fastest lava? 60 km/h
/www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/20/congo.eruption/index.html
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Magma Composition:
Many Volcanoes (= Volcanos) Change Character with Change in Magma Composition
Typically, Magma Evolves from Mafic (= Basic) and Fluid to Felsic (= Acidic) and Viscous.
Mafic (Fluid) Eruptions
Exogenous Domes - Flows of Lava - Low Gradient
Shield Volcano (Icelandic) - Single Vent, Lava Lake in Crater.
Shield Volcano (Hawaiian) - Flank (Lateral) Eruptions
Mt. Bachelor, Oregon:Icelandic-Type Shield Volcano
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Mafic Shield Volcano, Hawaiian Type: Multiple VentsShield Volcano
Mafic Lava Flow
Shield Volcano: Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Mauna Loa Central Vent, Mauna Kea in Distance
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Kilauea Eruptions 1983-Date
1.8 km3 of Basalt100 km2 CoveredUp to 25 M Thick206 Hectares of New “Land”
Kilauea Eruptions 1983-Date
181 Houses Destroyed13 km of Road Buried
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Fissure Eruption 1983 Birth of Pu’u O’o
Pu’u O’o Cinder Cone 1983
Pu’u O’o - Royal Gardens Aa Flow 1983
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Pu’u O’o - Royal Gardens Aa Flow 1983
Pu’u O’o Cinder Cone 1986
255 m
Pu’u O’o Cone and Flows 1986
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Pu’u O’o Crater 1990
Pu’u O’o: Cinder Cone, Small Shield w/ Tiny Spatter Cone, 1992
Spatter Cone
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Pu’u O’o Cone Collapse 1995
Kupaianaha Pahoehoe Flow, 1988
Pahoehoe
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Aa Flow Buries Pahoehoe
Pu’u O’o Lava Delta 1993
Pillow Basalts, So. Pacific Sea Floor
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Images/Noaa/pillow_basalt_crop_l.jpg
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Lava Tube Kelby Hicks,
WVU
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Lava Tube, Hawaiian Volcanoes
National Park
Mauna Kea Cinder Cone
Felsic (= Granitic) Eruptions:Viscous Magma
Lava Domes (= Endogenous Domes)w/ Minor Viscous Lava Flows
Cinder Cones, Spatter ConesCollapse of Magma Chamber &
Explosion (Pyroclastics).Possible Calderas
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Newberry Cone Obsidian Flow
Newberry Cone Obsidian Flow
Lava Dome (Plug Dome), Valley of 10,000 Smokes, Katmai NP, Alaska
Novarupta Vent Blew 15 km3 in 1912
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Tavurvur Volcano, Rabual, Papua New Guinea: Cinder Cone, Tephra
VulcanianEruption
Ashfall, Papua New Guinea, 1994
Mt. Etna, Italy
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Stromboli
Strombolian Eruption
Intermediate (Andesitic) Magma:
• Composition Varies - Viscous to Fluid
• Small Cinder Cones or Spatter Cones & Flows Grow into....
• Composite Cones(=Stratovolcanos) –Composite of Flows and
Pyroclastics
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Popocatepetl, Mexico: 1994
Popocatepetl, Mexico: Dec 2000
Mayon Volcano, Philippines, Feb 2000
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Lava Flow onMayon Volcano,
Philippines,
Feb 2000
Pyro
clas
tics
May
on20
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SoufriereHills
VolcanoMontserrat
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Soufriere Hills VolcanoAndesite Lava Dome, 1997
Plymouth, Montserrat, July 1997
Bethel, Montserrat, July 1997
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Mt. Rainier, WA
J.S. Kite Photo Nov ‘03
Mt. St. Helens, Spirit Lake
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Mt. St. Helens: The Day Before
Mt. St. Helens, April 1980 Bulge
Plinian Eruption: Mt. St. Helens Tephra, 1980
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Yellowstone Ash
Mt. MazamaAsh
Blast Zone of Mt. St. Helens
Eruption Casualty
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Vent Eruptions =True Volcanoes
New Spirit Lake
Felsic (= Granitic) Magmas:
Post-1980 Lava Dome
Mt. St. Helens
May Occur in Late Eruption Phases of Intermediate or Mafic Magma Chamber
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Mt. St. Helens: 7 Years After
Left offhere thislecture
Caldera: Collapse of Magma Chamber:
• Krakatoa, 1880s• Mt. St. Helens 1980 (Landslide)• Pinitubo,1991
– Positive Feed Back System; Low Pressure = Eruption; Increase Eruption = Lower Pressure
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Long Valley Caldera
Crater Lake: Caldera of Mt MazamaExplosive Eruption 7,700 B.P. Eruption Expelled About 50 Km3 of Magma.
Wizard Island, Crater Lake,
J.S. Kite Photo July ‘03
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Aniakchak Caldera, Alaska
Yellowstone Caldera
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Gif/Yellowstone/Maps/map_yellowstone_caldera.gif
LANDSAT False Color image of Yellowstone National Park, 1999
• http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/EPO/yellowstone2002/workshop/y_caldera_extra/y_calderaextra_imgs/l7tm_13jul99_432_m.jpg
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Areas of the United States that once were covered by volcanic ash from Yellowstone's giant eruptions
• See "Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park", Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Erosion -• Volcanic Neck Usually More
Resistant To Erosion • Erosion often Simultaneous
with Eruption -–Complex Forms
Mt. Washington, OR: Eroded Remnant of Composite Cone
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Shiprock, New Mexico