Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism: (Geophysical Monograph Series)

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 140. Subaqueous explosive eruptions are common, and in earth's early history were ubiquitous. Although they are unlike eruptions we find on land, they operate with the same fundamental processes. Deep-sea eruptions modify important seafloor hydrothermal systems and their coupled habitats for extremophile organisms, and large eruptions on the continental shelf presumably have as yet unknown effects on a wide range of marine organisms. Shallow eruptions that can affect shipping lanes and threaten coastal environments, either directly or by generation of tsunami, also appear to produce deposits and conditions closely linked with formation of significant chunks of the world's mineral resources.

Table of Contents:
Preface James White ix Introduction James D. L White, John L Smellie, and David A. Clague 1 Section I: Subaqueous Eruption Dynamics Water/Magma Interaction: Physical Considerations for the Deep Submarine Environment Kenneth H. Wohletz 25 Phreatomagmatic Explosions in Subaqueous Volcanism Bernd Zimanowski and Ralf Buttner 51 Melting of Ice by Magma-Ice-Water Interactions During Subglacial Eruptions as an Indicator of Heat Transfer in Subaqueous Eruptions Magnus T. Gudmundsson 61 Pyroclastic and Hydroclastic Deposits on Loihi Seamount, Hawaii David A. Clague, R. Batiza, James W. Head III, and Alice S. Davis 73 Large-Scale Interaction of Lake Water and Rhyolitic Magma During the 1.8 kaTaupo Eruption, New Zealand B. F. Houghton, B. J. Hobden, K V. Cashman, C J. N. Wilson, and R. T. Smith 97 Section II: Explosive Eruptions in the Modern Deep Sea Submarine Strombolian Eruptions on the Gorda Mid-Ocean Ridge David A. Clague, Alice S. Davis, and Jacqueline E. Dixon 111 Hyaloclastite from Miocene Seamounts Offshore Central California: Compositions, Eruption Styles, and Depositional Processes Alice S. Davis and David A. Clague 129 Recent MORB Volcaniclastic Explosive Deposits Formed Between 500 and 1750 m.b.s.l. on the Axis of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, South of the Azores Jean-Philippe Eissen, Yves Fouquet, Delphine Hardy, Helene Ondreas 143 Section III: Explosive Shallow-Marine (Surteyan) Eruptions and Their Kin A Cluster Of Surtseyan Volcanoes at Lookout Bluff, North Otago, New Zealand: Aspects of Edifice Spacing and Time Doris Maicher 167 Eruptive and Depositional Mechanisms of an Eocene Shallow Submarine Volcano, Moeraki Peninsula, New Zealand Benjamin Andrews 179 A Subaqueous Eruption Model For Shallow-Water, Small Volume Eruptions: Evidence From Two Precambrian Examples Wulf U. Mueller 189 Basaltic Lava Balloons Produced During the 1998-2001 Serreta Submarine Ridge Eruption (Azores) Joao L. Gaspar, Gabriela Queiroz, Jose M. Pacheco, Teresa Ferreira, Nicolau Wallenstein, Maria H. Almeida, and Rui Coutinho 205 Section III: Pumiceous Subsea Silicic Eruptions From the Modern Seafloor Subaqueous Pumice Eruptions and Their Products: A Review K. Kano 213 Submarine Silicic Calderas on the Northern Shichito-lwojima Ridge, Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) Arc, Western Pacific Makoto Yuasa and Kazuhiko Kano 231 Section IV: Subaqueous Pumiceous Deposits and Their Interpretation Submarine, Silicic, Syn-Eruptive Pyroclastic Units in the Mount Read Volcanics, Western Tasmania: Influence of Vent Setting and Proximity on Lithofacies Characteristics Jocelyn McPhie and Rodney L. Allen 245 Vesiculation and Eruption Processes of Submarine Effusive and Explosive Rocks from the Middle Miocene Ogi Basalt, Sado Island, Japan Norie Fujibayashi and Umio Sakai 259 The Submarine Record of a Large-Scale Explosive Eruption in the Vanuatu Arc: ~1 Ma Efate Pumice Formation Alison M. Raos and Jocelyn McPhie 273 Products of Explosive Subaqueous Felsic Eruptions Based on Examples From the Hellenic Island Arc, Greece S. R. Allen and A.L. Stewart 285 Miocene Submarine Fire Fountain Deposits, Ryugazaki Headland, Oshoro Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan: Implications for Submarine Fountain Dynamics and Fragmentation Processes R. A. F. Cas, H. Yamagishi, L. Moore and C. Scutter 299 An Archean Submarine Pyroclastic Flow Due to Submarine Dome Collapse: The Hurd Deposit, Harker Township, Ontario, Canada C. R. Scott, D. Richard, and A. D. Fowler 317 Section V: Economic Significance of Explosive Submarine Eruptions Deep Marine Pumice from the Woodlark and Manus Basins, Papua New Guinea Raymond A. Binns 329 Morphology, Distribution, and Estimated Eruption Volumes for Intracaldera Tuffs Associated With Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits in the Archean Sturgeon Lake Caldera Complex, Northwestern Ontario George J. Hudak, Ronald L Morton, James M. Franklin, and Dean. M. Peterson 345 Analysis of VHMS-Hosting Ignimbrites Erupted at Bathyal Water Depths (Ordovican Bald Mountain Sequence, Northern Maine) Lowell G. Kessel and Cathy J. Busby 361

About the Author :
James D. L. White is the editor of Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism, published by Wiley. John L. Smellie is the editor of Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism, published by Wiley.