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Earth Science 101

Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity

Chapter 8Instructor : Pete Kozich

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Volcanic eruptions Factors that determine the violence of an

eruption • Composition of the magma • Temperature of the magma• Dissolved gases in the magma

• These factors affect the magma viscosity

Viscosity of magma • Viscosity is a measure of a material's

resistance to flow (related to friction)

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Volcanic eruptions Factors affecting viscosity

• Temperature (hotter magmas are less viscous) • Composition (silica content)

• High silica – high viscosity (e.g., rhyolitic lava) • Low silica – more fluid (e.g., basaltic lava)

• Dissolved gases (volatiles) • Mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide • Gases expand near the surface• Provide the force to extrude lava • Violence of an eruption is related to how easily gases

escape from magma • Easy escape from fluid magma • Viscous magma produces a more violent

eruption (cool, high silica, more violent)

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Materials associated with volcanic eruptions

Lava flows • Basaltic lavas are more fluid

• Flow in broad sheets or stream-like ribbons often 10 m/hr

• Types of lava • Pahoehoe (Pah-hoy-hoy) lava

• resembles braids in ropes

• Aa (ah-ah) lava • rough, jagged blocks with sharp edges and spiny projections

Gases • Make up one to five percent of magma by weight• Mainly water vapor and carbon dioxide• Held in place with high pressure, released when

pressure decreases

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A Pahoehoe lava flow

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A typical aa flow

Figure 9.5 B

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Materials associated with volcanic eruptions

Pyroclastic materials • "Fire fragments" produced by the explosion of

superheated gases that rapidly expand upon eruption

• Types of pyroclastic material• Ash and dust – fine, glassy fragments

• Pumice – from "frothy" lava

• Lapilli – "walnut" size

• Cinders – "pea-sized"

• Particles larger than lapilli

• Blocks – hardened lava • Bombs – ejected as hot lava

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A volcanic bomb

Bomb is approximately 10 cm long

Figure 9.6

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Volcanoes General features

• Conduit, or pipe carries gas-rich magma to the surface

• Vent, the surface opening (connected to the magma chamber via a pipe)

• Crater• Steep-walled depression at the summit

• Caldera (a summit depression greater than 1 km diameter)

• Parasitic cones • Fumaroles (vents that emit hot gas and vapor only)

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Volcanoes Types of volcanoes

• Shield volcano• Broad, slightly domed • Primarily made of basaltic (fluid) lava • Generally large size, not very violent • e.g., Mauna Loa in Hawaii

• Cinder cone • Built from ejected lava fragments (particles harden

while in flight)• Steep slopes • Rather small size (less than 300 m high)• Frequently occur in groups

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Shield volcano

Figure 9.8

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Fig. 8.23, p.195

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Cinder cone

Figure 9.11

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Fig. 8.24a, p.195

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Volcanoes Types of volcanoes

• Composite cone (or stratovolcano) • Nearly symmetrical structure

• Most are adjacent to the Pacific Ocean (e.g., Mt. Rainier)

• Large size

• Interbedded lavas and pyroclastics emitted mainly from a central vent

• Violent activity

• Often produce nuée ardente

• Fiery pyroclastic flow made of hot gases infused with ash

• Flows down sides of a volcano at speeds up to 200 km (125 miles) per hour

• May produce a lahar - volcanic mudflow

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Composite volcano

Figure 9.7

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Mt. St. Helens – a typical composite volcano

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Mt. St. Helens following the 1980 eruption

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Fig. 8.25b, p.196

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Debris Avalanche and Eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington

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A size comparison of the three types of volcanoes

Figure 9.9

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Volcano Types

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A nuée ardente on Mt. St. Helens

Figure 9.14

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A lahar along the Toutle River near Mt. St. Helens

Figure 9.16

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Other volcanic landforms Calderas

• Steep walled depression at the summit

• Formed by the collapse of the volcano into a partially emptied magma chamber

• Nearly circular

• Size exceeds one kilometer in diameter

• most violent, with silica-rich eruptions

Fissure eruptions and lava plateaus • Fluid basaltic lava extruded from crustal fractures

called fissures, least violent type of eruptions

• e.g., Columbia Plateau

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Crater Lake, Oregon is a good example of a caldera

Figure 9.17

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Formation of Crater Lake

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Crater Lake in Oregon

Figure 9.18

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Fig. 8.26, p.197

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Fig. 8.30, p.199

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Fig. 8.22, p.194

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The Columbia River basalts

Figure 9.19

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Fig. 8.27a, p.197

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Table 8.1, p.194

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Other volcanic landforms

Volcanic pipes and necks • Pipes are short conduits that connect a magma

chamber to the surface • Volcanic necks (e.g., Ship Rock, New Mexico)

are resistant vents left standing after erosion has removed the volcanic cone

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Formation of a volcanic neck

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Intrusive igneous activity

Most magma remains at great depths and intrudes into existing rocks

An underground igneous body is called a plutonPlutons are classified according to

• Shape• Tabular (sheetlike)

• Massive

• Orientation with respect to the host (surrounding) rock • Discordant – cuts across existing structures

• Concordant – parallel to features such as sedimentary strata

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Intrusive igneous activity

Types of igneous intrusive features • Dike, a tabular, discordant pluton • Sill, a tabular, concordant pluton

• e.g., Palisades Sill, NY

• Resemble buried lava flows

• May exhibit columnar joints

• Laccolith • Similar to a sill (concordant, but massive)

• Lens shaped mass

• Arches overlying strata upward

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Intrusive igneous structures exposed by erosion

Figure 9.22 B

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Intrusive Igneous Features

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A sill in the Salt River Canyon, Arizona

Figure 9.23

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Intrusive igneous activity

Types of igneous intrusive features • Batholith

• Largest intrusive body (massive, discordant)

• Often occur in groups

• Surface exposure 100+ square kilometers (smaller bodies are termed stocks)

• Frequently form the cores of mountains

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A batholith exposed by erosion

Figure 9.22 c

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Origin of magma Magma originates when essentially solid rock,

located in the crust and upper mantle, meltsFactors that influence the generation of magma

from solid rock • Role of heat

• Earth’s natural temperature increases with depth (geothermal gradient) is not sufficient to melt rock at the lower crust and upper mantle

• Additional heat is generated by • Friction in subduction zones• Crustal rocks heated during subduction • Rising, hot mantle rocks

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Origin of magma Factors (continued)

• Role of pressure• Increase in confining pressure causes an increase in

melting temperature• Drop in confining pressure can cause

decompression melting • Lowers the melting temperature • Occurs when rock ascends

• Role of volatiles• Primarily water• Cause rock to melt at a lower temperature • Play an important role in subducting ocean plates

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Origin of magma

Factors (continued) • Partial melting

• Igneous rocks are mixtures of minerals

• Melting occurs over a range of temperatures for various minerals

• Produces a magma with a higher silica content than the original rock

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How Magma Rises

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Plate tectonics and igneous activity

Global distribution of igneous activity is not random • Most volcanoes are located on the margins of

the ocean basins (intermediate, andesitic composition)

• Second group is confined to the deep ocean basins (basaltic lavas)

• Third group includes those found in the interiors of continents (often, felsic type)

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Locations of some of Earth’s major volcanoes

Figure 9.28

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Plate tectonics and igneous activity

Plate motions provide the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt to form magma • Convergent plate boundaries

• Descending plate partially melts

• Magma slowly rises upward

• Rising magma can form

• Volcanic island arcs in an ocean (Aleutian Islands)

• Continental volcanic arcs (Andes Mountains)

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Plate tectonics and igneous activity

Plate motions provide the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt to form magma • Divergent plate boundaries

• The greatest volume of volcanic rock is produced along the oceanic ridge system

• Lithosphere pulls apart

• Less pressure on underlying rocks

• Partial melting occurs

• Large quantities of fluid basaltic magma are produced

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Plate tectonics and igneous activity

Plate motions provide the mechanism by which mantle rocks melt to form magma • Intraplate igneous activity

• Activity within a rigid plate

• Plumes of hot mantle material rise

• Form localized volcanic regions called hot spots

• Examples include the Hawaiian Islands and the Columbia River Plateau in the northwestern United States

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Tectonic Settings and Volcanic Activity

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End of Chapter 8

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Chapter 9

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9.1 Folds and faults: geologic structures

• How rocks respond to stress– Stress: force exerted against an object– Factors affecting response

• Nature of rock– Elastic deformation– Fracture– Plastic deformation

• Temperature • Pressure• Time

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9.1 Folds and faults: geologic structures

• Faults – fracture with displacement Slip – the distance of motion

Fault zone – numerous, closely spaced fractures

Hanging wall – miner’s reference, the side of a fault “overhead” in a mine

Footwall – (as above) the fault side underfoot

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9.1 Folds and faults: geologic structures

• Fault types: Normal fault – pulling apart of landscape

causes hanging wall to move downward

Reverse fault – compression of landscape forces hanging wall up relative to footwall

• Thrust fault – low angle reverse fault

Strike-slip fault – fracture close to vertical, motion horizontal (transform)

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9.1 Folds and faults: geologic structures

– Joints – fracture without motion• Joints decrease with depth

• Folds, Faults & plate boundaries Convergent – compression (analogous to

reverse faults)

Divergent – extension, pulling (analogous to normal faults)

Transform – strike-slip

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Fig. 9.10, p.213

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Fig. 9.12a, p.215

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Fig. 9.14, p.215


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