Resolving problems with the origin of Las Cañadas caldera (tenerife, Canary Islands): Los Roques de García Formation-part of a major debris avalanche or an in situ, stratified, edifice-building succession?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 464, Issue , 2010, Pages 113-132

  Martí, Joan ^a   Soriano, Carlos ^a   Galindo, Inés ^b   Cas, Raymond A F ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLAY ALTERATION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEBRIS; DEPOSITS; EXPLOSIVES; LANDSLIDES; LITHOLOGY; ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CANARY ISLANDS; CENTRAL COMPOSITE; DEBRIS AVALANCHES; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS; SHIELD CONSTRUCTION; STRATOVOLCANOES; VOLCANIC COMPLEX;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CALDERA; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LITHOLOGY; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRATOVOLCANO; VOLCANOLOGY;

CANARY ISLANDS; LAS CANADAS CALDERA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

EID: 78650907883     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2464(06)     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Ablay, G. J., and Hürlimann, M., 2000, Evolution of the north flank of Tenerife by recurrent giant landslides: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 103, p. 135-159, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (00) 00220-1.
2. Ablay, G. J., and Kearey, P., 2000, Gravity constraints on the structure and volcanic evolution of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 5783-5796, doi: 10.1029/1999JB900404.
3. Ablay, G. J., and Martí, J., 2000, Stratigraphy and structure of the Teide-Pico Viejo complex, Tenerife, Canary Islands: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 103, p. 175-208, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (00) 00224-9.
4. Ablay, G. J., Ernst, G. G. J., Martí, J., and Sparks, R. S. J., 1995, Volcanology, petrology and geochemistry of the 2020 ybp subplinian eruption of Montaña Blanca, Tenerife (Canary Islands): Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 57, p. 337-355.
5. Allen, S., and Cas, R. A. F., 1998, Lateral variations within coarse lithic coignimbrite breccias of the Kos Plateau Tuff, Greece: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 59, p. 356-377, doi: 10.1007/s004450050197.
6. Ancochea, E., Fúster, J. M., Ibarrola, E., Cendrero, A., Coello, J., Hernán, F., Cantagrel, J. M., and Jamond, C., 1990, Volcanic evolution of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) in the light of new K-Ar data: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 44, p. 231-249, doi: 10.1016/0377-0273 (90) 90019-C.
7. Ancochea, E., Cantagrel, J. M., Fuster, J., Huertas, M. J., and Arnaud, N. O., 1998, Vertical and lateral collapses on Tenerife (Canary Islands) and other volcanic ocean islands: Geology, v. 26, p. 861-862, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613 (1998) 026<0861:VALCOT>2.3.CO;2.
8. Ancochea, E., Huertas, M. J., Cantagrel, J. M., Coello, J., Fuster, J., Arnaud, N. O., and Ibarrola, E., 1999, Evolution of the Cañadas edifice and its implications for the origin of the Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 88, p. 177-199, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (98) 00106-1.
9. Ancochea, E., Huertas, M. J., Cantagrel, J. M., Fuster, J., and Arnaud, N. O., 2000, Cronología y evolución del edificio Cañadas, Tenerife, Islas Canarias: Boletín Geológico y Minero, v. 111, p. 3-16.
10. Aramaki, S., 1984, Formation of the Aira caldera, southern Kyushu, ∼22, 000 years ago: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 8485-8501, doi: 10.1029/JB089iB10p08485.
11. Araña, V., 1971, Litología y estructura del edificio Cañadas, Tenerife (Islas Canarias): Estudios Geológicos, v. 27, p. 95-135.
12. Araña, V., Camacho, A. G., García, A., Montesinos, F. G., Blanco, I., Vieira, R., and Felpeto, A., 2000, Internal structure of Tenerife (Canary Islands) based on gravity, aeromagnetic and volcanological data: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 103, p. 43-64, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (00) 00215-8.
13. 40 Ar de los depósitos de Roques de García (Las Cañadas, Tenerife): Geogaceta, v. 29, p. 19-22.
14. Branney, M. J., and Sparks, R. S. J., 1990, Fiamme formed by diagenesis and burial-compaction in soils and subaqueous sediments: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 147, p. 919-922, doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.147.6.0919.
15. Bravo, T., 1962, El circo de Cañadas y sus dependencias: Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, v. 40, p. 93-108.
16. Brown, R. J., and Branney, M. J., 2004, Event-stratigraphy of a caldera-forming ignimbrite eruption on Tenerife: The 273 ka Poris Formation: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 66, p. 392-416, doi: 10.1007/s00445-003-0321-y. (Pubitemid 39347798)
17. Brown, R. J., Barry, T. L., Branney, M. J., Pringle, M. S., and Bryan, S. E., 2003, The Quaternary pyroclastic succession of southern Tenerife, Canary Islands: Explosive eruptions, related subsidence and sector collapse: Geological Magazine, v. 140, p. 265-288, doi: 10.1017/S0016756802007252. (Pubitemid 36893262)
18. Bryan, S. E., Martí, J., and Cas, R. A. F., 1998a, Stratigraphy of the Bandas del sur Formation: An extracaldera record of Quaternary phonolitic explosive eruptions from las Cañadas edifice, Tenerife (Canary Islands): Geological Magazine, v. 135, p. 605-636, doi: 10.1017/S0016756897001258.
19. Bryan, S. E., Cas, R. A. F., and Martí, J., 1998b, Lithic breccias in intermediate volume phonolitic ignimbrites from Tenerife (Canary Islands): Constraints on pyroclastic flow depositional processes: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 81, p. 269-296, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (98) 00004-3.
20. Bryan, S. E., Cas, R. A. F., and Martí, J., 2000, The 0.57 Ma Plinian eruption of the Granadilla Member, Tenerife (Canary Islands): An example of complexity in eruption dynamics and evolution: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 103, p. 209-238, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (00) 00225-0.
21. Cantagrel, J. M., Arnaud, N. O., Ancochea, E., Fuster, J., and Huertas, M. J., 1999, Repeated debris avalanche on Tenerife and genesis of las Cañadas caldera wall (Canary Islands): Geology, v. 27, p. 739-742, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613 (1999) 027<0739:RDAOTA>2.3.CO;2.
22. Carracedo, J. C., 1994, The Canary Islands: An example of structural control on the growth of large oceanic-islands volcanoes: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 60, p. 225-241, doi: 10.1016/0377-0273 (94) 90053-1.
23. Carracedo, J., Rodríguez-Badiola, E., Guillou, H., Paterne, M., Scaillet, S., Pérez-Torrado, F. J., Paris, R., Fra-Paleo, U., and Hansen, A., 2007, Eruptive and structural history of Teide volcano and rift zones of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 119, p. 1027-1051, doi: 10.1130/B26087.1. (Pubitemid 47455429)
24. Coello, J., and Bravo, J., 1989, Lineamientos volcano-tectónicos en la región central de Tenerife, in Araña, V., and Coello, J., eds., Los Volcanes y la Caldera del Parque Nacional del Teide (Tenerife, Islas Canarias): Madrid, Instituto para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, p. 127-135.
25. Coppo, N., Schneeg, P., and Heise, W., 2008, Multiple caldera collapse processes inferred from shallow resistivity prints, las Cañadas caldera, Tenerife, Canary Islands: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 170, p. 153-166.
26. Druitt, T. H., 1985, Vent evolution and lag breccia formation during the Cape Riva eruption of Santorini, Greece: The Journal of Geology, v. 93, p. 439-454, doi: 10.1086/628965.
27. Druitt, T. H., and Bacon, C. R., 1986, Lithic breccias and ignimbrite erupted during the collapse of Crater Lake caldera, Oregon: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 29, p. 1-32, doi: 10.1016/0377-0273 (86) 90038-7.
28. Druitt, T. H., and Sparks, R. S. J., 1982, A proximal ignimbrite breccia facies on Santorini, Greece: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 13, p. 147-171, doi: 10.1016/0377-0273 (82) 90025-7.
29. Edgar, C. J., 2003, The Stratigraphy and Eruption Dynamics of a Quaternary Phonolitic Eruption Sequence: The Diego Hernández Formation, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain) [Ph. D. thesis]: Clayton, Monash University, 264 p.
30. Edgar, C. J., Wolff, J. A., Nichols, H. J., Cas, R. A. F., and Martí, J., 2002, A complex Quaternary ignimbrite-forming phonolitic eruption: The Poris Member of the Diego Hernández Formation (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 118, p. 99-130, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (02) 00252-4.
31. Edgar, C. J., Wolff, J. A., Olin, P. H., Nichols, H. J., Pittari, A., Cas, R. A. F., Reiners, P. W., Spell, T. L., and Martí, J., 2007, The late Quaternary Diego Hernandez Formation, Tenerife: A cycle of voluminous explosive phonolitic eruptions: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 160, p. 59-85, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.06.001. (Pubitemid 46029835)
32. Fisher, R. V., and Smith, G. A., eds., 1991, Sedimentation in Volcanic Settings: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 45, 257 p.
33. Fúster, J. M., Araña, V., Brandle, J. L., Navarro, M., Alonso, U., and Aparicio, A., 1968, Geología y Volcanología de las Islas Canarias: Tenerife, Madrid, Instituto "Lucas Mallada" Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 218 p.
34. Fúster, J. M., Ibarrola, E., Snelling, N. J., Cantagrel, J. M., Huertas, M. J., Coello, J., and Ancochea, E., 1994, Cronología K-Ar de la Formación Cañadas en el sector suroeste de Tenerife: Implicaciones de los episodios piroclásticos en la evolución volcanic: Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, v. 89, p. 25-41.
35. Galindo, I., Soriano, C., Martí, J., and Perez, N., 2005, Tectonic structure and evolution of the las Cañadas edifice (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Implications for active diffuse degassing: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 144, p. 73-87, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.11.017. (Pubitemid 40876209)
36. Hackett, W. R., and Houghton, B. F., 1989, A facies model for a Quaternary andesitic composite volcano: Ruapehu, New Zealand: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 51, p. 51-68, doi: 10.1007/BF01086761.
37. Huertas, M. J., Arnaud, N. O., Ancochea, E., Cantagrel, J. M., and Fúster, J. M., 2002, 40Ar/39Ar stratigraphy of pyroclastic units from las Cañadas edifice (Tenerife, Canary Islands) and their bearing on the structural evolution: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 115, p. 351-365, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (01) 00331-6.
38. Hulen, J. B., Nielson, D. L., and Little, T. M., 1991, Evolution of the Valles Caldera C complex, New Mexico: Evidence from intracaldera sandstones, breccias and surge deposits: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 8127-8142, doi: 10.1029/91JB00374.
39. Hürlimann, M., Martí, J., and Ledesma, A., 2004, Morphological and geological aspects related to large slope failures on oceanic islands: The huge la Orotava landslides on Tenerife, Canary Islands: Geomorphology, v. 62, p. 143-158, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.02.008. (Pubitemid 39250465)
40. Lipman, P. W., 1976, Caldera-collapse breccias in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 87, p. 1397-1410, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606 (1976) 87<1397:CBITWS>2.0. CO;2.
41. Lipman, P. W., 1984, The roots of ash flow calderas in western North America: Windows into the tops of granitic batholiths: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 8801-8841, doi: 10.1029/JB089iB10p08801.
42. Martí, J., 1996, Genesis of multiple crystal-rich volcaniclastic facies in the Permian redbeds of the Central Pyrenees (NE Spain): Sedimentary Geology, v. 106, p. 151-160, doi: 10.1016/0037-0738 (95) 00143-3.
43. Martí, J., and Gudmundsson, A., 2000, Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): An overlapping collapse caldera generated by magma-chamber migration: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 103, p. 161-173, doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273 (00) 00221-3.
44. Martí, J., Mitjavila, J., and Araña, V., 1994, Stratigraphy, structure and geochronology of las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Geological Magazine, v. 131, p. 715-727, doi: 10.1017/ S0016756800012838.
45. Martí, J., Ablay, G. J., and Bryan, S., 1996, The Canary Islands: An example of structural control on the growth of large oceanic-islands volcanoes: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 72, p. 143-179, doi: 10.1016/0377-0273 (95) 00079-8.
46. Martí, J., Hürlimann, M., Ablay, G. J., and Gudmundsson, A., 1997, Vertical and lateral collapses on Tenerife (Canary Islands) and other volcanic ocean islands: Geology, v. 25, p. 879-882, doi: 10.1130/0091-7613 (1997) 025<0879:VALCOT>2.3.CO;2.
47. Masson, D. G., Watts, A. B., Gee, M. J. R., Urgeles, R., Mitchell, N. C., Le Bas, T. P., and Canals, M., 2002, Slope failures on the flanks of the western Canary Islands: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 57, p. 1-35, doi: 10.1016/S0012-8252 (01) 00069-1.
48. 39 Ar method: Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España, v. 6, p. 1-10.
49. Miura, D., and Tamai, M., 1998, Intracaldera structure and megabreccias at Dorobu caldera, northeastern Honshu, Japan: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 80, p. 195-215.
50. Pittari, A., 2004, Eruption Dynamics and Emplacement Processes for the Climactic Abrigo Member, Tenerife, Canary Islands [Ph. D. thesis]: Clayton, Australia, Monash University, 327 p.
51. Pittari, A., Cas, R. A. F., Wolff, J. A., Nichols, H. J., and Martí, J., 2008, The use of lithic clast distributions in pyroclastic deposits to understand pre-and syn-caldera collapse processes: A case study of the Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands, in Gottsmann, J., and Martí, J., eds., Caldera Volcanism: Analysis, Modelling and Response: Developments in Volcanology: Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 97-142.
52. Pous, J., Heise, W., Schnegg, P., Muñoz, G., Martí, J., and Soriano, C., 2002, Magnetotelluric study of las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Hydrogeological and structural implications: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 204, p. 251-265, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X (02) 00956-1.
53. Rosi, M., Vezzoli, L., Aleotti, P., and De Censi, M., 1996, Interaction between caldera collapse and eruptive dynamics during the Campanian ignimbrite eruption, Phlegrean Fields, Italy: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 57, p. 541-554, doi: 10.1007/BF00304438.
54. Self, S., Goff, F., Gardner, J. N., Wright, J. V., and Kitte, W. M., 1986, Explosive rhyolitic volcanism in the Jemez Mountains: Vent location, caldera development, and relations to regional structures: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 91, p. 1779-1798, doi: 10.1029/JB091iB02p01779.
55. Siebert, L., 1984, Large volcanic debris avalanches: Characteristics of source areas, deposits and associated eruptions: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 22, p. 163-197.
56. Soriano, C., Zafrilla, S., Martí, J., Ablay, G. J., Cas, R. A. F., and Bryan, S., 2002, Welding and rheomorphism of phonolitic fallout deposits from las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 883-895, doi: 10.1130/0016-7606 (2002) 114<0883:WAROPF>2.0. CO;2.
57. Soriano, C., Galindo, I., Wolff, J. A., and Martí, J., 2006, Vent complexes and related proximal deposits in las Cañadas caldera, Tenerife, Canary Islands: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 69, p. 217-231, doi: 10.1007/s00445-006-0069-2.
58. Vessell, R. F., and Davies, D. K., 1981, Nonmarine sedimentation in an active forearc basin, in Ethridge, F. G., and Flores, R. M., eds., Recent and Ancient Nonmarine Depositional Environments: Models for Exploration: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 31, p. 31-45.
59. Walker, G. P. L., 1985, Origin of lithic breccias near ignimbrite source vents: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 25, p. 157-171, doi: 10.1016/0377-0273 (85) 90010-1.
60. Watts, A. B., and Masson, D. G., 1995, A giant land-slide on the northern flank of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, p. 24, 487-24, 498, doi: 10.1029/95JB02630.
61. Watts, A. B., and Masson, D. G., 1998, A giant land-slide on the northern flank of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 9949-9952, doi: 10.1029/97JB03406.
62. Watts, A. B., and Masson, D. G., 2001, New sonar evidence for recent catastrophic collapses of the north flank of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 63, p. 8-19, doi: 10.1007/s004450000119. (Pubitemid 32693094)
63. Watts, A. B., Peirce, C., Collier, J., Dalwood, R., Canales, J. P., and Henstock, T. J., 1997, A seismic study of the lithospheric flexure in the vicinity of Tenerife, Canary Islands: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 146, p. 431-447, doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X (96) 00249-X.
64. Wilson, C. J. N., and Walker, G. P. J., 1982, Ignimbrite depositional facies: The anatomy of a pyroclastic flow: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 139, p. 581-592, doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.139.5.0581.
65. Wright, J. V., 1981, The Río Caliente ignimbrite: Analysis of a compound intraplinian ignimbrite from a major late Quaternary Mexican eruption: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 44, p. 189-212, doi: 10.1007/BF02597704.
66. Wright, J. V., and Walker, G. P. L., 1977, The ignimbrite source problem: Significance of a co-ignimbrite lag-fall deposit: Geology, v. 5, p. 729-732.