Mode of Occurrence and Hydration of Glassy Rhyolite Lava from Katsuma-Yama Volcano, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, Northern Japan

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  • YOSHIMURA Yohei
    Graduate School of Engineering and Resource Science, Akita University
  • KANO Kazuhiko
    Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST:(Present office)Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima University
  • ISHIYAMA Daizo
    Graduate School of Engineering and Resource Science, Akita University

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  • 北海道奥尻島,勝澗山火山から噴出したガラス質流紋岩溶岩の産状と水和
  • ホッカイドウ オクシリトウ,マサルカンサン カザン カラ フキダシタ ガラスシツ リュウモンガン ヨウガン ノ サンジョウ ト スイワ

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Abstract

Katsuma-Yama volcano is located on the Okushiri Island 15 km west of Oshima Peninsula, southwest Hokkaido. Effused from the Katsuma-Yama crater of the volcano at about 20 ka or a little bit older time, Katsuma-Yama rhyolite lava entered the Horonai-Gawa caldera lake and intruded into the lake deposits. The rhyolite lava is almost entirely glassy but hydrated to form perlitic rocks with a water content up to 2～3 wt.%. Relatively fresh, dark and dense part of the lava remains in the inner part of the source area and is replaced with a light grey glassy rock mainly along the flow layers or flow-parallel minor fractures. Dark dense glass locally fills fractures of a light grey glassy part, and curviplanar cracks are developed normal to the columnar joints and further normal to the resulting cracks. In addition to these thermal contraction cracks, more curved and more closely spaced cracks are developed in light grey rocks, likely produced by volumetric change with glass hydration. Thermal contraction cracks were presumably developed in the relatively fresh part immediately below the glass transition temperature with a rapid volume change. Hydration likely proceeded with water-permeation through the cooling cracks and cracking proceeded further with volume expansion of hydrated domains. The glass transition temperature is estimated empirically to be about 700℃ with a minimum water-content, 0.3 wt.% in a relatively fresh dark glassy rock. Hydration is likely to have almost ceased at about 400℃ as the rate of water diffusion becomes too small to across crack-to-crack distance before the lava entirely cooled below 400℃.

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