Edifice and substrata deformation induced by intrusive complexes and gravitational loading in the Mull volcano (Scotland)

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1133-1148

  Mathieu, Lucie ^a   van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Analogue experiments; Cup shaped intrusions; Mull; Scotland; Structural; Sub volcano complex; Volcanic cones

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; DEFORMATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LOADING; MESOZOIC; PALEOGENE; VOLCANO; VOLCANOLOGY;

ARGYLL AND BUTE; CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; HEBRIDES; INNER HEBRIDES; ITALY; MULL; SCOTLAND; SICILY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77952879307     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-009-0295-5     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Anderson DL, Natland JH (2005) A brief history of the plume hypothesis and its competitors; concept and controversy. Geol Soc Am Special Paper 388: 119-145.
2. Bailey EB, Clough CT, Wright WB, Richey JE, Wilson GV (1924) Tertiary and post-tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline and Oban. Mem Geol Surv Great Brit 44: 172-184.
3. Bailey EB (1962) Early tertiary fold movements in Mull. Geol Mag 99: 478-479.
4. Boudon G, Semet MP, Vincent PM (1992) Les éruptions à écroulement de flanc sur le volcan de la Grande Découverte (la Soufriére) de Guadeloupe: implications sur le risque volcanique. Bull Soc Géol Fr 163: 159-167.
5. Chambers LM, Pringle MS (2001) Age and duration of activity at the Isle of Mull tertiary igneous centre, Scotland, and confirmation of the existence of subchrons during anomaly 26r. EPSL 193: 333-345.
6. Cheeney RF (1962) Early tertiary fold movements in Mull. Geol Mag 99: 227-232.
7. Chester DK, Ducan AM, Guest JE, Kilburn CRJ (1985) Mount Etna, the anatomy of a volcano. University press, Cambridge.
8. Donnadieu F, Merle O (1998) Experiments on the indentation process during cryptodome intrusions: new insights into Mount St. Helens deformation. Geol 26(1): 79-82.
9. Emeleus CH, Bell BR (2005) British regional geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland, 4th edn. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
10. Galland O, Cobbold PR, Hallot E, de Bremond d'Ars J, Delavaud G (2006) Use of vegetable oil and silica powder for scale modelling of magmatic intrusion in a deforming brittle crust. EPSL 243: 786-804.
11. Hamilton MA, Pearson DG, Thompson RN, Kelley SP, Emeleus CH (1998) Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin plutonic complexes. Nature 394: 260-263.
12. Holohan EP, van Wyk de Vries B, Troll VR (2007) Analogue models of caldera collapse in strike-slip tectonic regimes. doi: 10. 1007/s00445-007-0166-x.
13. Jolly RJH, Sanderson DJ (1995) Variation in the form and distribution of dykes in the Mull swarm, Scotland. J Struct Geol 17: 1543-1557.
14. Judd JW (1878) The secondary rocks of Scotland. Third paper. The strata of the Western Coast and islands. Quarterly J Geol Soc Lond 34: 660-743.
15. Kennedy WQ (1946) The Great Glen Fault. J Geol Soc Lond 102(1-4): 41-76.
16. Kerr AC, Kent RW, Thomson BA, Seedhouse JK, Donaldson CH (1999) Geochemical evolution of the tertiary Mull volcano, Western Scotland. J Petrol 40: 873-908.
17. Mathieu L, van Wyk de Vries B, Holohan EP, Troll VR (2008) Dykes, cups, saucers and sills: Analogue experiments on magma intrusion into brittle rocks. EPSL 271(1-4): 1-13.
18. Merle O, Borgia A (1996) Scaled experiments of volcanic spreading. J Geophys Res 101(B6): 13, 805-13, 817.
19. Merle O, Vendeville B (1994) Experimental modeling of thin-skinned shortening around magmatic intrusions. Bull Volc 57: 33-43.
20. Morgan WJ (1971) Convection plumes in the lower mantle. Nature 230: 42-43.
21. Oehler JF, Labazuy P, Lénat JF (2004) Recurrence of major flank landslides during the last 2-Ma-history of Reunion Island. Bull Volcanol 66: 585-598. doi: 10. 1007/s0044500403412R.
22. Rast N, Diggens JN, Rast DE (1967) Triassic rocks of the Isle of Mull; their sedimentation, facies, structure, and relationship to the Great Glen Fault and the Mull caldera. Proc Geol Soc Lond 164(5): 299-304.
23. Roger DA, Marshall JEA, Astin TR (1989) Devonian and later movements on the Great Glen Fault system. J Geol Soc Lond 146(3): 369-372.
24. Saunders AD, Fitton JG, Kerr AC, Norry MJ, Kent RW (1997) The North Atlantic igneous province. In: Mahoney JJ, Coffin ML (eds) Large Igneous Provinces. AGU Geophysical Monograph 100, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, pp 45-93.
25. Sloan T (1971) The structure of the Mull Tertiary dyke swarm. PhD Thesis, University of London.
26. Sparks RSJ (1988) Petrology of the Loch Ba ring dyke, Mull (NW Scotland): an example of the extreme differentiation of tholeiitic magmas. Contrib Mineral Petrol 100: 446-461.
27. Stewart M, Strachan RA, Holdsworth RE (1997) Direct field evidence for sinistral displacements along the Great Glen Fault Zone: late Caledonian reactivation of a regional basement structure? J Geol Soc Lond 154(1): 135-139.
28. van Bemmelen RW (1937) The cause and mechanism of igneous intrusion: with some Scottish examples. Trans Geol Soc Glasg 19: 453-492.
29. van Wyk de Vries B, Francis PW (1997) Catastrophic collapse at stratovolcanoes induced by gradual volcano spreading. Nature 387: 387-390.
30. Walker GPL (1971) The distribution of amygdale minerals in Mull and Morven (western Scotland). In: Murty TVV, Rao SS (eds) Studies in Earth sciences: a volume in honour of William Dixon West. pp. 182-194.
31. Walker GPL (1975) A new concept in the evolution of the British tertiary intrusive centers. J Geol Soc Lond 131: 121-142.
32. Walker GPL, Skelhorn RR (1966) Some associations of acid and basic intrusions. Earth Sci Rev 2: 93-109.