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Title: | Formation of Stanley Patch volcanic cone: New insights into the Evolution of Deception Island Caldera (Antarctica) |
Author: | Hopfenblatt, Joaquín Geyer Traver, Adelina Aulinas Juncà, Meritxell Álvarez Valero, Antoni M. Gisbert Pinto, Guillem Kereszturi, Gabor Ercilla, G. Gómez-Ballesteros, María Márquez, A. García-Castellanos, Daniel Pedrazzi, D. Sumino, H Höskuldsson, A. Giralt Romeu, Santiago Angulo-Preckler, Carlos |
Keywords: | Volcans Antàrtida Vulcanisme Volcanoes Antarctica Volcanism |
Issue Date: | Jul-2021 |
Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
Abstract: | Deception Island (South Shetland Islands) is one of the most active volcanoes in Antarctica, with more than 20 explosive eruptive events registered over the past centuries. Recent eruptions (1967, 1969, and 1970) and volcanic unrest episodes (1992, 1999, and 2014-2015) demonstrate that volcanic activity is likely occurring in the future. This is of special concern for scientists, logistic personnel, and tourists, since the South Shetland Islands are an important tourist destination and host numerous year-round and seasonal scientific stations and base camps. Significant efforts have been made to understand the complex magmatic and volcanic evolution of Deception Islandwith special interest on its subaerial part. However, studies on submerged volcanic cones within Port Foster, the sea-flooded part of Deception Island's caldera depression, are comparatively scarce. Here, we provide a full characterization of Stanley Patch volcano, the largest of these volcanic edifices. Estimated morphometric parameters based on new multibeam bathymetric data, supported by petrographic and chemical observations from rock samples collected on the crater rim, reveal that Stanley Patch volcano grew in a subaerial environment. This result, combined with previous findings and new sedimentological evidence from our ultra-high resolution seismic profiles, allowto further detail the island's geologic evolution since the caldera collapse.Weconclude that the complete flooding of Port Foster could have only occurred after the formation of Stanley Patch volcano, i.e. during the last ~2000 years, and in a time period of a few days or less. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107249 |
It is part of: | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2021, vol. 415, num. 107249, p. 1-19 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/180952 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107249 |
ISSN: | 0377-0273 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada) |
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