DSpace Repository

Fast emplacement of extensive pahoehoe flow fields: the case of the 1736 flows from Montaña de las Nueces, Lanzarote

Show simple item record

dc.creator Solana, Carmen
dc.creator Kilburn, C. R. J.
dc.creator Rodríguez Badiola, Eduardo
dc.creator Aparicio, Alfredo
dc.date 2008-02-28T11:47:53Z
dc.date 2008-02-28T11:47:53Z
dc.date 2004-04-30
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:29Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:29Z
dc.identifier Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 132: 189-207
dc.identifier 0377-0273
dc.identifier 10.1016/S0377-0273(3)00345-7
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3108
dc.identifier 10.1016/S0377-0273(3)00345-7
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3108
dc.description The 1730—36 Timanfaya eruption on Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, is the second largest historical effusion on record. During its final stages, in 1736, the eruption produced the Montaña de las Nueces flow-field, consisting of sheets of pahoehoe lava that, within 4 weeks, had covered 32 km2 and reached a maximum length of almost 21 km. The tholeiitic lavas have pahoehoe surface features, but internal structures that are normally associated with massive aa flows, suggesting that their fronts advanced as single units rather than as a collection of budding pahoehoe tongues. Volume conservation and a simple model of crustal failure suggest that the main flows advanced at about 0.02 ms-1 over the prevailing slopes of ~lº. The rates of advance are (1) consistent with emplacement near the transition from pahoehoe to aa, and (2) about an order of magnitude greater than would have been expected by analogy with Hawaiian pahoehoe flow-fields of similar dimensions. Surface texture and morphology, therefore, is an insufficient guide for constraining the rate and style of pahoehoe emplacement, and a flow’s internal structure must be established before its characteristics are used to infer eruption conditions and potential hazard.
dc.description This work was funded by the EU Project FLOW, Contract number ENV4-CT98-0713
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.format 70211 bytes
dc.format text/html
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0377-0273(3)00345-7
dc.rights closedAccess
dc.subject Pahoehoe
dc.subject lava flow
dc.subject Lanzarote
dc.title Fast emplacement of extensive pahoehoe flow fields: the case of the 1736 flows from Montaña de las Nueces, Lanzarote
dc.type Artículo


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account