Understanding eruptive style variations at calc-alkaline volcanoes: the 1913 eruption of Fuego de Colima volcano (Mexico)

Massaro, Silvia; Sulpizio, Roberto; Costa, Antonio; Capra, Lucía; Lucchi, Federico

doi:10.1007/s00445-018-1235-z

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“…The activity of Volcán de Colima shows a ∼100-year cycle, characterized by lava flow effusion, dome growth and moderate explosions, with an intensification in activity before culminating in a large sub-plinian to plinian eruption (Luhr and Carmichael, 1980;González et al, 2002;Luhr, 2002). The last large eruptions occurred in 1818 (Macías et al, 2017) and 1913 (Saucedo et al, 2010;Massaro et al, 2018), making close monitoring of the volcano an important topic due to the possibility of a plinian eruption in the near future. Therefore, many recent studies are aimed at monitoring and understanding the dynamics of volcano deformation.…”

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Load Stress Controls on Directional Lava Dome Growth at Volcán de Colima, Mexico

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Load Stress Controls on Directional Lava Dome Growth at Volcán de Colima, Mexico

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“…These deposits, and those of the 1913 and 1818 eruptions, are well studied in terms of their chemistry and petrology (e.g. Luhr and Carmichael, 1982;Robin et al, 1987;Luhr and Carmichael, 1990a;Robin et al, 1991;Luhr et al, 2006;Luhr et al, 2010;Saucedo et al, 2010;Crummy et al, 2014;Massaro et al, 2018;Crummy et al, 2019). Nevertheless, the characteristics of the eruptions that produced the pre-Historical Holocene tephra fallout deposits were unknown until this study.…”

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Challenges of determining frequency and magnitudes of explosive eruptions even with an unprecedented stratigraphy

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Through decades of field studies and laboratory analyses, Volcán de Colima, Mexico has one of the best known proximal eruption stratigraphies of any volcano, yet the frequency and magnitudes of previous eruptions are still poorly resolved. Hazard assessments based on models of well-known, well-mapped recent eruptions may appear to have low uncertainty, but may be biased by the nature of those events. We present a comprehensive stratigraphy of explosive eruption deposits combining new data collected as part of this study together with published and unpublished data. For the first time we have been able to model five of the best exposed and cross-correlated pre-historical Holocene explosive events at Volcán de Colima. By modelling the volumes and magnitudes of Holocene eruptions at Volcán de Colima, we are able to improve estimations of the potential range of magnitudes of future explosive eruptions, which can be incorporated into hazard assessments for nearby communities. Based on recent studies we demonstrate that these volumes may be underestimated by at least an order of magnitude, and show that even with an exceptionally well-defined stratigraphic record our understanding of the full range of explosive eruptions may still be biased.

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“…The Fuego de Colima has shown a transitional eruptive behaviour spanning from effusive to explosive activity, dominated by dome growth and Vulcanian eruptions. Occasionally sub-Plinian events occurred (1576, 1606, 1690, 1818 and 1913), indicating a recurrence time of approximately 100 years (De la Cruz-Reyna, 1993;Luhr, 2002;Saucedo et al, 2005;Gavilanes-Ruiz et al, 2009;Massaro et al 2018a). The sub-Plinian event occurred in 1913 (Saucedo et al, 2010) is the largest historical eruption and it has been used as benchmark for volcanic hazard studies (Martin Del Pozzo et al, 1995;Saucedo et al, 2005;Bonasia et al, 2011).…”

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“…water content in magma, dyke dimensions, volume of magma chamber, magma influx rate into the magma chamber) affecting the model outputs in case of the single magma chamber model. The volumes of the magma chamber (Vch) range from 20 to 50 km 3 and the width of the feeder dyke 2a from 200 to 400 m (Massaro et al, 2018a).…”

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Cyclic activity of Fuego de Colima volcano (Mexico): insights from satellite thermal data and non-linear models

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Abstract. The Fuego de Colima volcano (Mexico) showed a complex eruptive behaviour with periods of rapid and slow lava dome growth, punctuated by explosive activity. We reconstructed the weekly discharge rate average between 1998 and 2018 by means of satellite thermal data integrated with published discharge rate data. By using spectral and wavelet analysis, we found a multi-year long-, multi-month intermediate-, and multi-week short-term cyclic behaviour during the period of the investigated eruptive activity, as those of many others dome-forming volcanoes. We use numerical modelling in order to investigate the non-linear cyclic eruptive behaviour considering a magma feeding system composed of a dual or a single magma chamber connected to the surface through an elastic dyke evolving into a cylinder conduit in the shallowest part. We investigated the cases in which the periodicity is controlled by i) the coupled deep-shallow magma reservoirs, ii) the single shallow chamber, and iii) the elastic shallow dyke when is fed by a fixed influx rate or a constant pressure. The model outputs indicate that the observed multi-year periodicity (1.5–2.5 years) can be described by the fluctuations controlled by a shallow magma chamber with a volume of 20–50 km3 coupled with a deep reservoir of 500 km3, connected through a deep elastic dyke. The multi-month periodicity (ca. 5–10 months) appears to be controlled by the shallow magma chamber for the same range of volumes. The short-term multi-week periodicity (ca. 2.5–5 weeks) can be reproduced considering a fixed influx rate or constant pressure at the base of the shallower dyke. This work provides new insights on the non-linear cyclic behaviour of Fuego de Colima, and a general framework for the comprehension of eruptive behaviour of andesitic volcanoes.

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Understanding eruptive style variations at calc-alkaline volcanoes: the 1913 eruption of Fuego de Colima volcano (Mexico)

Cited by 16 publications

References 136 publications

Load Stress Controls on Directional Lava Dome Growth at Volcán de Colima, Mexico

Load Stress Controls on Directional Lava Dome Growth at Volcán de Colima, Mexico

Challenges of determining frequency and magnitudes of explosive eruptions even with an unprecedented stratigraphy

Cyclic activity of Fuego de Colima volcano (Mexico): insights from satellite thermal data and non-linear models

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