Journal
BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY
Volume 73, Issue 9, Pages 1393-1406Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0476-x
Keywords
Explosive paroxysm; Mineral zoning; Magma evolution; Eruption dynamics; Stromboli
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- INGV-DPC
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This study focuses on a pyroclastic sequence related to a large-scale paroxysm that occurred during the seventeenth century AD and which can be considered one of the most powerful and hazardous explosive events at the volcano in the past few centuries. Paroxysms are energetic, short-lived explosions which sporadically interrupt normal Strombolian activity at Stromboli and commonly erupt a deep-derived, volatile-rich crystal-poor high-potassium basalt (low porphyricity (LP)), together with a shallow, degassed crystal-rich high-potassium to shoshonitic basalt (high porphyricity (HP)), which feed normal activity at the volcano. The studied deposit, crops out along the flanks of Sciara del Fuoco and, from base to top, consists of: (1) a layer of HP and LP ash and lapilli; (2) an unwelded layer of coarse HP lapilli and flattened dark scoriae; (3) weakly welded spatter made up of dense HP pyroclasts at the base, overlain by strongly vesicular LP clasts. The textural and chemical zoning of minerals and the glass chemistry of the LP products record repeated mafic recharge events, mixing with an old mushy body and episodes of rapid crystallization due to sudden degassing. Collapse of a foam layer originated by deep degassing probably triggered this large-scale, spatter-forming paroxysm. Decompression induced rapid degassing and vesiculation of the deep volatile-rich magma. The rapid ascent of the foamy magma blob pushed the shallow HP magma out and finally produced a fire fountain that emplaced the LP portion of the spatter.
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