scholarly journals Reconstruction of eruption column dynamics on the basis of grain size of tephra fall deposits: 2. Application to the Pinatubo 1991 eruption

2001 ◽  
Vol 106 (B4) ◽  
pp. 6513-6533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takehiro Koyaguchi ◽  
Marekazu Ohno
1974 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 539-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Self ◽  
R. S. J. Sparks ◽  
B. Booth ◽  
G. P. L. Walker

SummaryThe 1973 eruption on Heimaey, Iceland, presented the opportunity to study the interaction of the principal factors that control the formation of pyroclastic fall deposits. The grain size characteristics and the dispersal of some of the scoria fall units within the Eldfell Scoria deposit are described and related to observations made on the wind speed and direction, the height of the eruption column, the ‘muzzle’ velocity and the various styles of activity during the first month of the eruption.


1992 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 685-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
R S J Sparks ◽  
M I Bursik ◽  
G J Ablay ◽  
R M E Thomas ◽  
S N Carey

1980 ◽  
Vol 117 (5) ◽  
pp. 425-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. J. Sparks ◽  
T. C. Huang

SummaryMany volcanic ash layers preserved in deep-sea sediments are the products of large magnitude ignimbrite eruptions. The characteristics of such co-ignimbrite ash-fall deposits are illustrated by two layers from the Eastern Mediterranean: the Minoan ash, Santorini, and the Campanian ash, Italy. These layers are divisible into a coarse lower unit and a fine upper unit in proximal cores. Both layers also show striking bimodal grain size distributions in more distal cores. The coarser mode decreases in median diameter with distance from source whereas the finer mode shows no lateral variation. These features are interpreted in terms of a model for ignimbrite formation by eruption column collapse. Comparable volumes of ignimbrite and associated air-fall ejecta are produced.


2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazutaka Mannen ◽  
Toshiaki Hasenaka ◽  
Atsushi Higuchi ◽  
Koji Kiyosugi ◽  
Yasuo Miyabuchi

2005 ◽  
Vol 142 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. BATCHELOR

Tephra-fall deposits in the Late Mesoproterozoic Sleat Group (Torridonian) from Skye, Scotland, are described for the first time. Two individual beds occur within the Loch na Dal Formation which represents sedimentation in a shallow marine environment. Each bed has a distinctive brown, crumbly, amorphous appearance in the field and has sharp contacts with its host metasediment. This unique lithology is identical to that of albitic schists described recently from the Southern Highland Group, Dalradian Supergroup, which were identified as air-fall tuffs.


Author(s):  
Takehiro Koyaguchi ◽  
Yujiro J. Suzuki ◽  
Tomofumi Kozono

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