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Christoph Breitkreuz,
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
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Two main types of pyroclastic
transport and deposit:
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Eolian fractionation!
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Phonolitic fallout deposit,
Meidob Hills, NW Sudan
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Fallout Lage
zwischen Ignimbriten
des Bandelier Tuffs,
Jemez Mtns, New
Mexico
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Diagenetically compacted fallout deposit, Permian, N Chile
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Laacher See, Eifel, W Germany, ballistic block
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Fallout upon water - water-lain fallout deposits
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Formation of pyroclastic flows:
- lava(-dome) collapse
- eruption column collapse
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Mt. Pelee, 1902/3, Martinique
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Mt. Unzen 1991-1995
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Block-and-ash-flow deposit:
result of an explosive lava dome eruption
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Parameters controlling eruption column collapse:
Fig. 2.5 Stability fields for convecting and collapsing columns in terms of vent radius and
magmatic volatile content. Magma discharge rate (right side) is largely a function of vent
radius (left side) whereas exit velocity (bottom) is largely a function of volatile content (top)
(Orton 1996, from Wilson, Sparks & Walker, 1980).
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Ngauruhoe 1978, New Zealand
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What drives Pyroclastic flows?
Kinetic energy, gravity, turbulence and fluidisation!
Cool Hot
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Surge deposits: pyroclastic cross stratification!
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Lithofacies types of
surge deposits
Fig. 5.10 Classification
of base surge bedform
and internal cross-
stratification variations
related to depositional
rate (relative to transport
rate; vertical axis) and
surge temperature and
moisture content
(horizontal axis); flow
comes from left (From
Cas & Wright 1987, after
Allen 1982).
Fig. 5.11 Proximal to distal (LFS) and vertical (VFS) facies variation in pyroclastic
surge beds (i.e. single depositional units) on Songaksan tuff ring (after Chough &
Sohn, 1990). The lateral facies sequence (LFS 1) was distilled from common
downcurrent facies transitions in flank deposits whereas vertical facies sequences
(VFS) are distilled using Harpers (1984) method of facies sequence analysis. VFS1
and VFS2 are from proximal near-vent deposits, probably where short-lived pyroclastic
surges were overladen by suspended sediment fallout (compare with Lowe, 1988).
LFS1, and its vertical expression (VFS3) indicates downcurrent decrease in particle
concentration, grain size, and suspended-load fallout rate with a resultant increase in
traction and sorting processes (from Orton 1996).
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Fig. 5.14 Schematic
diagram showing the
structure and idealised
deposits of one
pyroclastic flow (From
Cas & Wright 1987).
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Low-angle cross stratification
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Deposition by aggradation
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Se genera cuando la parte inferior
de la CDP es lo suficientemente
diluida (escasa a nula interaccin
de partculas)
y la velocidad es muy baja
(procesos de traccin o saltacin).
Las partculas caen directamente.
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Pyroclastic fractionation!
elutriation
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Pyroclastic flow deposits Brohltal, Laacher See, Eifel, W
Gradacin Germany
may show various types of
grading:
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Accretionary
Lapilli
hailstone-like ash-
aggregates from wet
eruption clouds and
co-flow-ash clouds
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Vesiculated Tuff: surge/fall deposits from wet fine ash clouds
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Professor!
Dont forget to make some drawings about
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Can pyroclastic flows climb mountains?
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Post-depositional processes in hot pyroclastic flow deposits:
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Fig. 5.17 Model of sedimentation and initiation of
rheomorphic flow during the early accumulation phase of
ignimbrite D on a slightly inclined basal topography. Note
that pure flattening (compaction) is the first step of
deformation affecting the freshly deposited pyroclastic
material in both cases. Shear flow, in this configuration, is
always secondary and depends on a critical load pressure
as well as on the speed of the upward prograding
cooling/lithification front (From Kobberger & Schminke
1999).
Rheomorphic ignimbrite
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Diagenetic compaction Welding-compaction
non-welded ignimbrite,
Teplice ignimbrite, Late Carboniferous,
N Chile, Permian
Czech Republic
>> Branney and Sparks 1990
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From Marcelo Arnosio
Eutaxitic texture
fiamme
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Blue Creek
ignimbrite,
Idaho, USA
Parataxitic texture
Botzen Porphyry,
Permian N Italy
In hot thick deposits:
Adsorption of volatiles back
into the glass >>
disappearance of vesicles
and interclast pores
(Sparks et al. 1999)
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Post-depositional processes in hot pyroclastic flow deposits:
Concept:
- Depositional unit
- Cooling unit
Smith 1961
Fig. 5.15 Cross section through part of the Upper
Bandelier Tuff, showing welding and crystallisation zones.
The ignimbrite is a compound cooling unit, and shows an
upward increase in the degree of welding in cooling units
I-III. Recognisable flow units are much thinner in units IV
and V, and nearer the source they pass into densely welded
tuff, continuing the trend towards higher temperature of
emplacement of successive pumice flows that is more
clearly shown by units I-III. Note, the topography that the
ignimbrite fills in is cut into older ignimbrites and
basement, including Precambrian (cross section is
approximately normal to movement direction of the
pumice flows) (From Cas & Wright 1987, after R. L.
Smith & Bailey 1966).
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Bishop Tuff, Owens Gorge, E
California
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Non-welded ignimbrite
Sillar Facies: lithification by
vapor phase crystallisation
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Degassing pipes fines-depleted
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Fig. 5.21 Occurences of gas segregation structures in pyroclastic flow deposits. 1, Pipes and pods
generated initially or formed entirely by intraflow gas sources during emplacement; 1a, formed by
continued post-emplacement gas flow; 2, formed from heated ground water and incorporating
fluviatile pebbles; 3, formed above burnt vegetation and logs (From Cas & Wright 1987).
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Fig. 5.20 Zones of vapour-phase
crystallisation and devitrification in the
Bishop Tuff. Fumarole mounds project from
top of vapour-phase zone through non-
welded ash (From Cas & Wright 1987, after
Sheridan 1970).
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Hydroclastic flow deposit
(from collapse of a
phreatomagmatic eruption
column)
Szentbekkalla,
Hungary
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How to distinguish a pyroclastic flow deposit from a
sedimentary mass flow deposit?
Problem: there are hot Lahars (e.g. Arguden and Rudolfo 1990)!
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