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Eruptive and structural history of Teide Volcano and rift zones of Tenerife, Canary Islands

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dc.contributor Caja Canarias
dc.contributor Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (España)
dc.contributor Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
dc.creator Carracedo, Juan Carlos
dc.creator Rodríguez Badiola, Eduardo
dc.creator Guillou, Hervé
dc.creator Paterne, Martine
dc.creator Scaillet, Stéphane
dc.creator Pérez Torrado, Francisco José
dc.creator Paris, Raphael
dc.creator Fra-Paleo, U.
dc.creator Hansen Machín, Álex
dc.date 2008-02-28T09:09:42Z
dc.date 2008-02-28T09:09:42Z
dc.date 2007-09
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:26Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:26Z
dc.identifier GSA Bulletin, v.119; nº 9/10; p. 1027-1051
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3104
dc.identifier 10.1130/B26087.1
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3104
dc.description GSA Journals Online - GSA Journals Online Access Control.mht
dc.description The Teide and Pico Viejo stratocones and the Northwest and Northeast Rifts are products of the latest eruptive phase of the island of Tenerife, initiated with the lateral collapse of its northern flank that formed the Las Cañadas Caldera and the Icod–La Guancha Valley ca. 200 ka. The eruptive and structural evolution of this volcanic complex has been reconstructed after detailed geological mapping and radioisotopic dating of the significant eruptive events. A set of 54 new 14C and K/Ar ages provides precise age control of the recent eruptive history of Tenerife, particularly Teide Volcano, the third-highest volcanic feature on Earth (3718 m above sea level, >7 km high), and unique in terms of its intraplate setting. The development of the Teide–Pico Viejo Volcanoes may be related to the activity of the Northwest and Northeast Rifts. Volcanic and intrusive activity along both rift zones may have played an important role in activating the gravitational landslide and in the subsequent growth, nested within the collapse embayment, of an increasingly higher central volcano with progressively differentiated magmas. The coeval growth of the central volcano with sustained activity along the rifts led to a clear bimodal distribution in composition of eruptive products, with the basaltic eruptions in the distal part of the rifts and phonolitic and more explosive eruptions in the central area, where the differentiated stratocones developed. Current volcanic hazard in Tenerife is considered to be moderate, because eruptive frequency is low, explosivity is modest, and the eruptive activity of the Teide stratocone seems to have declined over the past 30 k.y., with only one eruption in this period (1150 yr B.P.).
dc.description This work has been possible thanks to the financial support of the Caja General de Ahorros de Canarias and the Spanish Plan Nacional de I+D+I research project CGL2005–00239/BTE. Financial support was also provided for the geochronological work by the Commisariat à ľÉnergie Atomique and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Geological Society of America
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Radioisotopic ages
dc.subject Volcanic history
dc.subject Structural history
dc.subject Rift volcanism
dc.subject Nested central volcanoes
dc.subject Teide Volcano
dc.subject Tenerife
dc.subject Canary Islands
dc.title Eruptive and structural history of Teide Volcano and rift zones of Tenerife, Canary Islands
dc.type Artículo


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