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Journal of Petrology | Volume 43 | Number 10 | Pages 1815-1856 | 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

Petrology and Geochemistry of the Bandas del Sur Formation, Las Cañadas Edifice, Tenerife (Canary Islands)

S. E. BRYAN1,2,*, J. MARTÍ3 and M. LEOSSON4

1DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, MONASH UNIVERSITY, CLAYTON, VIC. 3168, AUSTRALIA
2CENTRE FOR MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, ST. LUCIA, QLD. 4072, AUSTRALIA
3INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES ‘JAUME ALMERA’, CSIC, LLUIS SOLE SABARIS S/N, 08028 BARCELONA, SPAIN
4INSTITUTE FOR PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITÄT KARLSRUHE (TH), KAISERSTR. 12, D-76128 KARLSRUHE, GERMANY

The Bandas del Sur Formation preserves a Quaternary extra-caldera record of central phonolitic explosive volcanism of the Las Cañadas volcano at Tenerife. Volcanic rocks are bimodal in composition, being predominantly phonolitic pyroclastic deposits, several eruptions of which resulted in summit caldera collapse, alkali basaltic lavas erupted from many fissures around the flanks. For the pyroclastic deposits, there is a broad range of pumice glass compositions from phonotephrite to phonolite. The phonolite pyroclastic deposits are also characterized by a diverse, 7–8-phase phenocryst assemblage (alkali feldspar + biotite + sodian diopside + titanomagnetite + ilmenite + nosean–haüyne + titanite + apatite) with alkali feldspar dominant, in contrast to interbedded phonolite lavas that typically have lower phenocryst contents and lack hydrous phases. Petrological and geochemical data are consistent with fractional crystallization (involving the observed phenocryst assemblages) as the dominant process in the development of phonolite magmas. New stratigraphically constrained data indicate that petrological and geochemical differences exist between pyroclastic deposits of the last two explosive cycles of phonolitic volcanism. Cycle 2 (0·85–0·57 Ma) pyroclastic fall deposits commonly show a cryptic compositional zonation indicating that several eruptions tapped chemically, and probably thermally stratified magma systems. Evidence for magma mixing is most widespread in the pyroclastic deposits of Cycle 3 (0·37–0·17 Ma), which includes the presence of reversely and normally zoned phenocrysts, quenched mafic glass blebs in pumice, banded pumice, and bimodal to polymodal phenocryst compositional populations. Syn-eruptive mixing events involved mostly phonolite and tephriphonolite magmas, whereas a pre-eruptive mixing event involving basaltic magma is recorded in several banded pumice-bearing ignimbrites of Cycle 3. The periodic addition and mixing of basaltic magma ultimately may have triggered several eruptions. Recharge and underplating by basaltic magma is interpreted to have elevated sulphur contents (occurring as an exsolved gas phase) in the capping phonolitic magma reservoir. This promoted nosean–haüyne crystallization over nepheline, elevated SO3 contents in apatite, and possibly resulted in large, climatologically important SO2 emissions.

KEY WORDS: Tenerife; phonolite; crystal fractionation; magma mixing; sulphur-rich explosive eruptions


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