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The 1730-1736 eruption of Lanzarote, Canary Islands: a long, high magnitude basaltic fissure eruption

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dc.contributor Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España)
dc.contributor Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
dc.creator Carracedo, Juan Carlos
dc.creator Rodríguez Badiola, Eduardo
dc.creator Soler, Vicente
dc.date 2008-03-11T09:37:20Z
dc.date 2008-03-11T09:37:20Z
dc.date 1992-11
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:39Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:39Z
dc.identifier Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 53(1-4): 239-250 (1992)
dc.identifier 0377-0273
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3199
dc.identifier 10.1016/0377-0273(92)90084-Q
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3199
dc.description Comments and suggestions by P. Armienti, C. Newhall, R. Batiza and an anonymous reviewer led to significant improvements in the manuscript and are greatly appreciated.
dc.description The eruption that took place in Lanzarote between 1 September 1730 and 16 April 1736 differs from the normal style of the historic (last 500 years) volcanism of the Canary Islands. The duration (2,056 days), extent (200 km2), volume of materials emitted (3-5 km3) and the evolution of magmas from extremely SiO2-undersaturated lavas (melanephelinites) towards olivine tholeiite compositions are quite unique in the historic trend of volcanism in the Archipelago, and, apparently, even in the Earth's historical record of basaltic fissure eruptions. However, no specific work has been undertaken until now to attempt the reconstruction of this eruption. We present here a detailed reconstruction of the eruption, based on field observations and data provided by eye-witness accounts, one of which is a hitherto unpublished manuscript. The "anomalous" nature of this eruption in relation to the historic volcanism of the Canaries--especially the continuation of the eruption after the initial phase was completed (some 3-4 months, the maximum duration of any historic eruption in the Canarian Archipelago )--might be the result of upward movement of the magma generation front to an intermediate depth along a large fracture.
dc.description Financial support for this work was provided by the Spanish "Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT)" and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Research Projects PR84-0136 and PB88-0024.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.format application/octet-stream
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0377-0273(92)90084-Q
dc.rights closedAccess
dc.subject Historic eruption
dc.subject High-magnitude basaltic fissure eruption
dc.subject Lanzarote
dc.subject Canary Islands
dc.title The 1730-1736 eruption of Lanzarote, Canary Islands: a long, high magnitude basaltic fissure eruption
dc.type Artículo


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