Volcanic edifice slip events recorded on the fault plane of the San Andres Landslide, El Hierro, Canary Islands

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228317" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228317</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Volcanic edifice slip events recorded on the fault plane of the San Andres Landslide, El Hierro, Canary Islands

Original language description

Volcanic flank collapses often result in giant debris avalanches that are capable of travelling tens of kilometres across the ocean floor and generating tsunamis that devastate distant communities. The San Andres Landslide on El Hierro, Canary Islands, represents one of the few places in the world where it is possible to investigate the landslide mass and fault planes of a volcanic collapse structure. In this study, a new conceptual model for the development of this enormous slump is presented on the basis of structural geological and geomorphological measurements, petrological and microstructural analyses, and cosmogenic radionuclide dating. Structural geological and geomorphological measurements indicate that the fault plane records two distinct events. Petrological and microstructural analyses demonstrate that a thin layer of frictionite covers the surface of the fault in contact with an oxidised tectonic breccia that transitions into the underlying undeformed basanite host rock. This frictionite comprises a heterogeneous cataclastic layer and a translucent silica layer that are interpreted to represent two separate slip events on the basis of their architecture and crosscutting relationships. Cosmogenic He-3 dating reveals a maximum exposure age of 183 +/- 17 ka to 52 +/- 17 ka. Arguments are presented in support of the idea that the first slip event took place between 545 ka and 430 ka, prior to significant clockwise rotation of El Hierro, and the second slip event took place between 183 ka and 52 ka, perhaps in association with one of the giant debris avalanches that occurred around that time. This is the first time that more than one slip event has been recognised from the fault plane of the San Andres Landslide. It is also believed to be the first time a silica layer resulting from frictional melt has been described in a volcanic setting.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ16-12227Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-12227Y: El Hierro megalandslide dynamics analysed using “big data” to predict the future behaviour of megalandslides on other volcanic islands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Tectonophysics

ISSN

0040-1951

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

776

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

228317

UT code for WoS article

000518493400004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077649423