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Authors: | Boudoire, G.* Liuzzo, Marco* Di Muro, A.* Ferrazzini, V.* Michon, L.* Grassa, Fausto* Derrien, A.* Villeneuve, N.* Bourdeu, A.* Brunet, C.* Giudice, Gaetano* Gurrieri, Sergio* |
Title: | Investigating the deepest part of a volcano plumbing system: Evidence for an active magma path below the western flank of Piton de la Fournaise (La Réunion Island) | Journal: | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | Series/Report no.: | /341 (2017) | Issue Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.05.026 | Abstract: | Peripheral diffuse degassing of CO2 from the soil occurs across the western flank of Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Réunion Island, Indian Ocean) along a narrow zone. In this area, carbon isotopic analysis on soil gas samples highlights significant mixing between magmatic and organic end-members. The zones with the strongest magmatic signature (highest δ13C) overlap spatial distribution of hypocenters recorded shortly before and during volcano reactivation and allow discriminating a N135° degassing lineament, with a minimum length of 11 km and 140 ± 20 m-width. Such orientation is in accordance with that of an old dyke network along the rift zone and with N120–130° and N140–155° lineaments related to the inheritance of oceanic lithosphere structures. Our findings show that this N135° lineament represents a preferential magmatic pathway for deep magma transfer below the volcano flank. Moreover, spatial distributions of recent eccentric cones indicate a well-founded possibility that future eruptions may by-pass the shallow plumbing system of the central area of the volcano, taking a lateral pathway along this structure. Our results also confirm that Piton de la Fournaise activity is linked to a laterally shifted plumbing system and represent a major improvement in identifying the main high-risk area on the densely populated western flank of the volcano |
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