Volcan Popocatepetl: Recent Eruptive History, and Potential Hazards and Risks in Future Eruptions

Boudal, C.; Robin, Claude

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“…All major and trace element data are given in supporting information Tables S1-S6; for standard analyses, see supplement of and Kutterolf et al (2014). Sampling and analytical methods Boudal & Robin, 1989;Siebe et al, 1995Siebe et al, , 1996 Large Plinian eruptions every 3-1 kyr During the last 20 ka Nevado de Toluca Volcano Numerous Plinian eruptions Between ca. 28 and 10 ka Arce et al, 2003Arce et al, , 2005Arce et al, , 2013Bloomfield & Valastro, 1974 Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems concord with the methods applied in , Kutterolf et al (2014Kutterolf et al ( , 2016Kutterolf et al ( , 2018, Schindlbeck et al (2015), , and Schindlbeck et al (2018).…”

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Miocene to Holocene Marine Tephrostratigraphy Offshore Northern Central America and Southern Mexico: Pulsed Activity of Known Volcanic Complexes

Schindlbeck

Kutterolf

Freundt

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Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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We studied the tephra inventory of 14 deep sea drill sites of three Deep Sea Drilling Project and Ocean Drilling Program legs drilled offshore Guatemala and El Salvador (Legs 67, 84, and 138) and one leg offshore Mexico (Leg 66). Marine tephra layers reach back from the Miocene to the Holocene. We identified 223 primary ash beds and correlated these between the drill sites, with regions along the volcanic arcs, and to specific eruptions known from land. In total, 24 correlations were established between marine tephra layers and to well‐known Quaternary eruptions from El Salvador and Guatemala. Additional 25 tephra layers were correlated between marine sites. Another 108 single ash layers have been assigned to source areas on land resulting in a total of 157 single eruptive events. Tephra layer correlations to independently dated terrestrial deposits provide new time markers and help to improve or confirm age models of the respective drill sites. Applying the respective sedimentation rates derived from the age models, we calculated ages for all marine ash beds. Hence, we also obtained new age estimates for eight known but so far undated large terrestrial eruptions. Furthermore, this enables us to study the temporal evolution of explosive eruptions along the arc, and we discovered five pulses of increased activity: (1) a pulse during the Quaternary, (2) a Pliocene pulse between 6 and 3 Ma, (3) a Late Miocene pulse between 10 and 7 Ma, (4) a Middle Miocene pulse between 17 and 11 Ma, and (5) an Early Miocene pulse (ca. >21 Ma).

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Miocene to Holocene Marine Tephrostratigraphy Offshore Northern Central America and Southern Mexico: Pulsed Activity of Known Volcanic Complexes

Schindlbeck

Kutterolf

Freundt

et al. 2018

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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“…Los únicos estudios geológicos realizados antes de su reactivación en 1994, fueron los de Heine y Heide-Weise (1973), Miehlich (1984), Robin (1984), Carrasco-Núñez (1985) y Boudal y Robin (1989), así como algunos estudios petrológicos (Boudal 1985;Boudal y Robin 1987;Kolisnik, 1990). En estos trabajos se define al Popocatépetl como un estratovolcán y se presenta la estratigrafía de sus depósitos más recientes, con la ayuda de fechamientos de 14 C. La evolución geológica del Popocatépetl se puede resumir en las siguientes etapas: 1) El primer edificio formado fue el volcán Nexpayantla (Mooser et al, 1958) o volcán primitivo (Robin, 1984), mediante la emisión de una serie de derrames andesíticos y dacíticos.…”

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Geología e historia eruptiva de algunos de los grandes volcanes activos de México

Macías¹

2005

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ResumenLa mayor parte de los grandes volcanes de nuestro país se encuentran ubicados en la parte frontal de la Faja Volcánica Transmexicana y en otras zonas volcánicas aisladas. En este trabajo se consideraron algunos de los grandes volcanes, éstos son el volcán de Colima, Nevado de Toluca, Popocatépetl, Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl) y Tacaná. También se incluyó al volcán Chichón debido a su erupción catastrófica de 1982. El edificio actual de estos volcanes, o parte de éste, se ha formado en tiempos relativamente recientes; en menos de 2 500 años el volcán de Colima, 16 500 el Pico de Orizaba, 23 000 el Popocatépetl, ~26 000 el Tacaná, y >50 000 el Nevado de Toluca. Los volcanes Colima, Popocatépetl, Pico de Orizaba y Tacaná se encuentran construidos al interior de antiguos cráteres originados por el colapso de edificios ancestrales. Los primeros tres representan los volcanes meridionales activos de cadenas volcánicas orientadas aproximadamente N-S. A pesar de que todos estos edificios volcánicos han sufrido el colapso del edificio volcánico, únicamente en el Pico de Orizaba se han realizado estudios de alteración hidrotermal y estabilidad de pendientes, indispensables para pronosticar las zonas potencialmente peligrosas en el futuro.Los magmas que han construido estos volcanes tienen una composición que va de andesítica (volcán de Colima), andesítica-dacítica (Nevado de Toluca, Popocatépetl, Pico de Orizaba, Tacaná) a traquiandesítica (Chichón). Estos magmas son el resultado de varios procesos magmáticos que van desde la fusión del manto, contaminación cortical, mezcla de magmas y cristalización fraccionada. Se conoce muy poco sobre los procesos que ocurren entre el sitio fuente del magma y la corteza inferior, mientras que se han logrado algunos avances sobre los procesos más superficiales. Existen evidencias claras de que los magmas que han alimentado a estos volcanes se estacionaron en cámaras magmáticas someras antes de alcanzar la superficie, a profundidades que varían de 3 a 4 km en el volcán de Colima, ~6 km en el Nevado de Toluca y 6-12 km en el volcán Chichón.Durante los últimos 15 años se han logrado avances importantes en el conocimiento estratigráfico y la historia eruptiva de estos volcanes; desafortunadamente, en ninguno de éstos se ha iniciado un análisis integral de toda la información geológica, geofísica, sísmica, vulcanológica, geoquímica y petrológica, para generar modelos conceptuales de su funcionamiento. Todavía necesitamos determinar con mayor precisión la posición y tamaño de la cámara magmática, los procesos de evolución del magma y sus tiempos de ascenso a la superficie, completar los estudios estratigráficos, evaluar los peligros y elaborar mapas de peligros, para finalmente establecer redes de monitoreo para su vigilancia. Actualmente, solamente los volcanes Colima y Popocatépetl cuentan con una red de monitoreo confiable, mientras que los volcanes Pico de Orizaba, Tacaná y Chichón cuentan con redes incompletas compuestas por algunas estaciones sísmicas. Sólo los volcanes Popocaté...

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“…23,000 years B.P. destroyed a previous volcano, generating massive debris avalanches (Robin and Boudal 1987;Boudal and Robin 1989). Since then, activity has been characterized by many small eruptions and at least seven major eruptions which have produced large volumes of ash and pumice.…”

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Precursory seismicity of the 1994 eruption of Popocatépetl Volcano, Central Mexico

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Popocatépetl Volcano is located in the central Mexican Volcanic Belt, within a densely populated region inhabited by over 20 million people. The eruptive history of this volcano indicates that it is capable of producing a wide range of eruptions, including Plinian events. After nearly 70 years of quiescence, Popocatépetl reawakened in December 21, 1994. The eruptive activity has continued up until the date of this submission and has been characterized by a succession of lava dome growth-anddestruction episodes, similar to events that have apparently been typical for Popocatépetl since the fourteenth century. In this regime, the episodes of effusive and moderately explosive activity alternate with long periods of almost total quiescence. In this paper we analyze five years of volcanotectonic seismicity preceding the initial eruption of the current episode. The evolution of the V-T seismicity shows four distinct stages, which we interpret in terms of the internal processes which precede an eruption after a long period of quiescence. The thermal effects of a magma intrusion at depth, the fracturing related to the slow development of magma-related fluid pathways, the concentration of stress causing a protracted acceleration of this process, and a final relaxation or redistribution of the stress shortly before the initial eruption are reflected in the rates of V-T seismic energy release. A hindsight analysis of this activity shows that the acceleration of the seismicity in the third stage asymptotically forecast the time of the eruption. The total seismic energy release needed to produce an eruption after a long period of quiescence is related to the volume of rock that must be fractured so imposing a characteristic threshold limit for polygenetic volcanoes, limit that was reached by Popocatépetl before the eruption.

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Volcan Popocatepetl: Recent Eruptive History, and Potential Hazards and Risks in Future Eruptions

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Miocene to Holocene Marine Tephrostratigraphy Offshore Northern Central America and Southern Mexico: Pulsed Activity of Known Volcanic Complexes

Miocene to Holocene Marine Tephrostratigraphy Offshore Northern Central America and Southern Mexico: Pulsed Activity of Known Volcanic Complexes

Geología e historia eruptiva de algunos de los grandes volcanes activos de México

Precursory seismicity of the 1994 eruption of Popocatépetl Volcano, Central Mexico

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