Title :

From prodigious volcanic degassing to caldera subsidence and quiescence at ambrym (vanuatu): the influence of regional tectonics

Author(s) :

Shreve, Tara [Auteur]
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris [IPG Paris]
Grandin, Raphael [Auteur]
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris [IPG Paris]
Boichu, Marie [Auteur]
Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique - UMR 8518 [LOA]
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Garaebiti, Esline [Auteur]
Moussallam, Yves [Auteur]
Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans [LMV]
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]
Ballu, Valerie [Auteur]
LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés [LIENSs]
Delgado, Francisco [Auteur]
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris [IPG Paris]
Leclerc, Frederique [Auteur]
Géoazur [GEOAZUR 7329]
Vallee, Martin [Auteur]
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris [IPG Paris]
Henriot, Nicolas [Auteur]
Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique - UMR 8518 [LOA]
Cevuard, Sandrine [Auteur]
Tari, Dan [Auteur]
Lebellegard, Pierre [Auteur]
Géoazur [GEOAZUR 7329]
Pelletier, Bernard [Auteur]
Géoazur [GEOAZUR 7329]

Journal title :

Scientific Reports

Abbreviated title :

Sci Rep

Volume number :

9

Pages :

18868

Publication date :

2019-12-11

ISSN :

2045-2322

HAL domain(s) :

Physique [physics]

English abstract : [en]

Eruptive activity shapes volcanic edifices. The formation of broad caldera depressions is often associated with major collapse events, emplacing conspicuous pyroclastic deposits. However, caldera subsidence may also proceed ...
Show more >Eruptive activity shapes volcanic edifices. The formation of broad caldera depressions is often associated with major collapse events, emplacing conspicuous pyroclastic deposits. However, caldera subsidence may also proceed silently by magma withdrawal at depth, more difficult to detect. Ambrym, a basaltic volcanic island, hosts a 12-km wide caldera and several intensely-degassing lava lakes confined to intra-caldera cones. Using satellite remote sensing of deformation, gas emissions and thermal anomalies, combined with seismicity and ground observations, we show that in December 2018 an intra-caldera eruption at Ambrym preceded normal faulting with >2 m of associated uplift along the eastern rift zone and 2.5 m of caldera-wide subsidence. Deformation was caused by lateral migration of >0.4 cubic kilometers of magma into the rift zone, extinguishing the lava lakes, and feeding a submarine eruption in the rift edge. Recurring rifting episodes, favored by stress induced by the D'Entrecasteaux Ridge collision against the New Hebrides arc, lead to progressive subsidence of Ambrym's caldera and concurrent draining of the lava lakes. Although counterintuitive, convergent margin systems can induce rift zone volcanism and subsequent caldera subsidence.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

CNRS
Université de Lille

Collections :

• Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA) - UMR 8518

Submission date :

2024-01-30T11:45:37Z
2024-02-26T10:20:41Z