Course and Ejecta of the Eruption of Asama Volcano on 2 February 2009

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  • MAENO Fukashi
    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • SUZUKI Yuki
    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • NAKADA Setsuya
    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • KOYAMA Etsuro
    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • KANEKO Takayuki
    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • FUJII Toshitsugu
    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
  • MIYAMURA Jun'ichi
    Seismological and Volcanological Department, Japan Meteorological Agency:(Present office)Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
  • ONIZAWA Shin'ya
    Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology:(Present office)Seismology and Volcanology Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute
  • NAGAI Masashi
    Department of Geosystem Sciences, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University:(Present office)Volcano Research Department, National Research Institute for Earthquake Science and Disaster Prevention

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  • 浅間山2009年2月2日噴火の経緯と噴出物
  • アサマヤマ 2009ネン 2ガツ フツカ フンカ ノ ケイイ ト フンシュツブツ

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Abstract

Asama volcano erupted in the midnight of 2 February 2009 with the ejection of ash and ballistics. The ash was dispersed toward the southeast, and observed in areas up to the southeast of the Kanto plain in the next morning. The ash fall deposits at the southeastern foot of the volcano were surveyed in order to determine a dispersal axis and detail isopleth contours. Isopleth contours of the ash fall deposit stretch out long from northwest to southeast, and they are denser in the western side of the dispersal axis than in the east. In the summit crater area, the ash is not recognized in the northern side. These indicate that the distribution of ash fall was strongly affected by a wind from the northwest. Based on the isopleth contour map, the total weight of ash fall is estimated to be 27,000-31,000ton, using a log area (m2)-log weight (g/m2) plot. The weight is approximately three fifth of the eruption on 1 September 2004 and the same order as ones on 13 November 2004 and 26 April 1982. Major components of the ash sampled at about 8km southeast from the source are non-altered and altered lava, individual crystals, and ceramisite, but minor glass particles (less than 1wt%) are also included in fine grains. The glass particles can be identified as juveniles and divided into two groups based on their shape and glass composition. One is 'dense-type' with rhyolitic composition which is the same as juveniles in the 2004 eruption, and the other is 'vesicular-type' with dacitic composition which is different from any juveniles in the recent eruptions including the 1783 Tenmei eruption. These chemical characteristics of juvenile particles indicate that two-types of magma have recently coexisted beneath Asama volcano and were erupted on 2 February 2009.

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