Heterogeneity of phonolitic pumice deposits from Tenerife, Canary Islands

Wolff, John A.

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Wolff, John A.

Abstract(s)

The island of Tenerife has an extensive Quaternary phonolitic pyroclastic series, comprising plinian pumice-fall deposits, ignimbrites, and pyroclastic surges. The dominant petrological feature of these pumice deposits is their geochemical and petrographical heterogeneity. Evidence is presented for three causes of heterogeneity: assimilation of roof-rock by the magma, resulting in less evolved compositions of the first erupted pumice; zonation of the magma chamber, causing a change to intermediate compositions among the last products of an eruption; and magma mixing, where mafic and banded tephra are distributed more or less randomly through a particular pumice deposit.

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International Symposium on the Activity of Oceanic Volcanoes. Ponta Delgada, 4-9 August 1980.

Keywords

Petrology Tenerife Canary Islands

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/4897

Citation

WOLFF, John A. (1982). Heterogeneity of phonolitic pumice deposits from Tenerife, Canary Islands. "Arquipélago. Série Ciências da Natureza", 3: 231-232.