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- Title
Hydrovolcanic activity on a continental shelf inferred from the subsurface diatreme- and crater-filling deposits of Jeju Island, Korea.
- Authors
Jeon, Yongmun; Park, Ki Hwa; Sohn, Young Kwan
- Abstract
Jeju Island comprises numerous tuff rings and tuff cones and their reworked deposits in the subsurface, which formed on the ca. 120-m-deep Yellow Sea continental shelf under the fluctuating Quaternary sea levels. Tens of meter-thick and massive deposits were found by chance during groundwater drilling at three sites. These deposits are interpreted as either syn-eruptive diatreme-filling deposits or post-eruptive crater-filling deposits, both of hydromagmatic volcanoes. The diatremes were cut into shelf sediment, 70 to 250 m thick, and developed generally within it below the Quaternary sea levels. Abundant external water was therefore available for explosive magma-water interactions at shallow levels. The diatreme deposit in one core shows some features attributable to extreme wetness or water saturation of the diatreme fill, such as the matrix support of larger clasts, meager vertical changes in matrix content, and an absence of features related to particle adhesion. Fluidally shaped clasts with delicate reentrant margins in the core suggest minimal particle abrasion and breakage in a water-saturated and highly fluid slurry of tephra and water that was probably filling a shallow bowl-like diatreme, which is distinguished from both phreatomagmatic and kimberlite diatremes. The diatreme deposits in other cores comprise blocky and angular clasts in a sideromelane ash matrix, suggesting phreatomagmatic explosions at a deeper level. One of the cores contains collapsed deposits of thinly stratified tuff emplaced by pyroclastic surges, indicating that the diatreme is associated with an emergent tuff ring. Both Surtseyan and phreatomagmatic eruptions are therefore interpreted to have occurred on the shelf under the controls of fluctuating Quaternary sea levels. The subsurface diatremes suggest that there can be a variety of diatremes with different sizes, shapes, and material characteristics beneath the craters of hydromagmatic volcanoes, including not only maars but also tuff rings and tuff cones.
- Subjects
CHEJU Island (Korea); SOUTH Korea; CONTINENTAL shelf; VOLCANIC ash, tuff, etc.; KIMBERLITE; SEA level; VOLCANIC craters; VOLCANIC eruptions; EXPLOSIVE volcanic eruptions
- Publication
Bulletin of Volcanology, 2022, Vol 84, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
0258-8900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00445-022-01599-9