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Title: Airborne gravity reveals interior of Antarctic volcano
Authors: Jordan, T.A.1 tomj@bas.ac.uk, Ferraccioli, F.1, Jones, P.C.1,2, Smellie, J.L.1, Ghidella, M.3, Corr, H.1
Source: Physics of the Earth & Planetary Interiors. Jul2009, Vol. 175 Issue 3/4, p127-136. 10p.
Subjects: Volcanoes, Magmatism, Plate tectonics, Radar in aeronautics, Radar in surveying, Gravity
Geographic Terms: James Ross Island (Antarctica), Antarctica
Abstract: Abstract: Understanding Antarctic volcanoes is important as they provide a window on magmatic and tectonic processes of the Antarctic plate and contain datable records of ice-sheet changes. We present the results from the first detailed airborne radar and gravity surveys across James Ross Island, northern Antarctic Peninsula, which is dominated by Mt Haddington, an ice-covered Miocene-Recent alkaline stratovolcano. The surveys provide new insights into the subsurface structure of the volcano and hence its development, which are unavailable from the surface geology alone. We show that Mt Haddington is associated with a significant negative Bouguer gravity anomaly (≥26mGal), which suggests that there has not been significant pooling and solidification of a dense shallow-level mafic magma chamber during the growth of the volcano over at least the past 6 m.y., which is consistent with independent geochemical evidence. Simple flexural isostatic models cannot explain the localised negative Bouguer anomaly. 3D modelling techniques show that the negative anomaly is best explained by a shallow, low-density intra-crustal body with its top close to, or at, the surface. Although comparable gravity anomalies are commonly associated with large (∼20km) ash-filled calderas, as seen at Yellowstone or Toba, there is no geological evidence on James Ross Island for a similar structure. We therefore propose that the James Ross Island volcanic edifice subsided into the thick underlying pile of relatively soft Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments, which were displaced by low-density hyaloclastite breccia. The type of deformation envisaged is similar to that associated with Concepcioú, or Iwaki volcanoes in South America, although Mt Haddington is much larger. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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