Inaug.-diss.--Marburg. / Vita.

Inaug.-diss.--Marburg. / Vita.

Inaug.-diss.--Greifswald. / Vita.

Inaug.-diss.--Marburg. / Vita.

The electrical conductivity of the pyromagmas from the Northeast Crater of Mount Etna, Sicily was measured over the temperature range 1032°C to 1071°C and over the frequency range 1 kHz to 400 kHz. Measurements were made using a four-terminal Wenner array in conjunction with a Wavetek Model 110B portable signal generator and Hewlett Packard Model 731 portable electronic voltmeters. The electrical conductivity is of the order of 0.4 mhos/m with less than 20% dispersion over the frequency range. Over the 40 degree temperature interval the temperature coefficient of resistance corresponds to an activation energy of 1.5 ± 0.5 eV. The value for the electrical conductivity of the gas-charged pyromagma is related to values determined in the laboratory for gas-free melts of lava and for glasses and slags of similar chemical composition. An original design of semi-expendable graphite-molybdenum electrode contributed greatly to the reliability of the measurements. A chromatographic analysis of the vent gases, and a silicate analysis, a modal analysis and a normal analysis of the lavas are included for completeness. Finally, as an aid to future electromagnetic probing activity, an analysis and estimate are made of the variation of electrical conductivity of pyromagma with depth in a volcanic conduit. / Graduation date: 1970

Graduation date: 2002

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Le système Géocube est un réseau de capteurs GPS conçu et développé par le Laboratoire d'OptoÉléctronique de Métrologie et d'Instrumentation (LOEMI) de l'Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN) et maintenu par le même laboratoire et l'entreprise Ophelia- Sensors qui s'occupe de son industrialisation. Il a comme objectif de mesurer les déformations du sol avec une précision millimétrique. Ce réseau de capteurs a la particularité d'être à la fois très peu énergivore, d’un faible coût de revient, simple d’installation et d’utilisation. Il est donc bien adapté à l’usage dans un environnement difficile, comme les volcans. Ce système a déjà été testé avec succès lors d’une précédente thèse sur le glacier d’Argentière et sur un glissement de terrain proche de Super-Sauze en France. La première partie de cette thèse porte sur l’optimisation du système de calcul du Géocube pour l'adapter à des réseaux de tailles plus importantes horizontalement et verticalement en vue de son utilisation dans un contexte volcanique. Cela passe, d’abord, par l’intégration d’une stratégie pour l’estimation du biais troposphérique dans le filtre de Kalman qui constitue le coeur du logiciel de calcul du Géocube. Cette amélioration est ensuite validée en utilisant les données de quelques réseaux GNSS permanents nationaux et internationaux. La deuxième partie consiste à étudier l’apport d’un réseau dense de Géocubes à l’étude du volcanisme à travers une expérience conduite sur le flanc sud-est de l’Etna, où cinq Géocubes ont été déployés entre le 12 Juillet 2016 et le 10 Juillet 2017. Les résultats obtenus et les enseignements tirés de cette expérimentation sont discutés et analysés. Enfin, nous validons les résultats obtenus avec les Géocubes en appliquant une technique PSI (Persistent Scatterer InSAR) sur des interférogrammes RADAR calculés à partir des données des satellites Sentinel-1A/B et qui couvrent la période de déploiement des Géocubes sur l’Etna. Ces deux méthodes (GPS et RADAR) se sont avérées complémentaires puisque le RADAR apporte la densité spatiale des mesures et le système Géocube la précision et la continuité temporelle. / The Geocube system is a network of wireless GPS sensors designed and developed by the Laboratory of Opto-Electronics, Metrology and Instrumentation (LOEMI) of the National Institute of Geographical and Forest Information (IGN) and maintained by the same laboratory and Ophelia-Sensors, the company responsible for its industrialization. Its purpose is to measure ground deformations with millimetre accuracy. This sensor network has the particularity of being very low in energy consumption, low cost, easy to install and easy to use. It is suited for use in harsh environments, such as volcanoes. This system has already been successfully tested in a previous works on the Argentière glacier and a Super-Sauze landslide in France. The first part of this thesis deals with the optimization of the Geocube system for larger networks, horizontally and vertically, in order to use it in a volcanic context. First, a new strategy to estimate the tropospheric bias has been implemented into the Kalman filter (the heart of the Geocube processing software) in real time and in post-processing. This improvement is then validated using data from some national and international permanent GNSS networks. The second part consists in studying the contribution of a dense Geocubes network to the study of volcanism through an experiment conducted on the southeastern flank of Etna, where five Geocubes were deployed between July, 12th 2016 and July, 10th 2017. The results obtained from this experiment are discussed and analysed. Finally, the results obtained with Geocubes are validated by applying a PSI (Persistent Scatterer InSAR) technique on RADAR interferograms calculated from Sentinel-1A/B satellite data covering the period of deployment of the Geocubes on Etna. These two methods (GPS and RADAR) turned out to be complementary since RADAR provides the spatial density of measurements and the Geocube system provides accuracy and temporal continuity.

A plethora of magmatic processing occurs in magma reservoirs, where melts are stored prior to eruption. Magma reservoirs are complex, open systems, and often multiple reservoirs are partially inter-connected from source to surface, giving rise to the term 'volcanic plumbing system'. Parental melts feeding these reservoirs can have diverse and distinct geochemical and petrological characteristics, and be variably evolved or enriched. These melts can also bring with them a crystal cargo that may remain in equilibrium in the magma reservoir, but may also be modified by reaction, resorption, crystallisation and diffusion. Melts and crystals can be transported between reservoirs, from the upper mantle and through the crust, leading to melt mixing, reactions and volatile exsolution. Basaltic volcanic systems are fed by primitive melts, and due to the rapid ascent of melts and short magma storage times, these volcanoes provide the best means of unravelling the mantle and crustal contribution to geochemical heterogeneity observed in erupted samples. Despite the potential chemical complexity of a magma reservoir, evidence for magma processing and reaction can be preserved in melt inclusion suites and the compositional structure of their host crystals. Magmatic processes during storage and transport at two basaltic volcanoes are investigated using two carefully selected eruptions: the 1669 eruption at Mt. Etna, and the 2007 Father's Day eruption at Kīlauea. A suite of diverse geochemical, petrological and petrographical observations, made at a range of length-scales, are combined and interpreted in tandem with geophysical monitoring data. The conclusions of these studies shed light on the architecture of each volcano's plumbing systems and basaltic plumbing systems in general. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first study unravels the crustal and mantle processes controlling melt geochemical heterogeneity at Mt. Etna, Sicily, during the 1669 eruption, the largest eruption in historical times. The 1669 melt inclusion suite arises from the mixing of two basaltic melts with similar major element compositions but very different trace and volatile element compositions. The melt geochemistry suggests that at least one end-member melt has been heavily influenced by assimilation of carbonate in the crust. The elevation in alkalis, caused by carbonate assimilation, enhances carbon and sulfur solubility in one end member. The melt inclusion suite indicates that mixing of these melts occurred in the shallow crust shortly before eruption and this mixing may be the cause of the enhanced $CO_{2}$ fluxes prior to eruptions at Mt. Etna. The second study is split into two parts. Each uses the eruptive products of the Father's Day eruption at Kīlauea and aims to unravel the connectivity of the plumbing system between the summit and East Rift Zone, with a focus on timescales of storage and transport. The first part investigates the melt geochemistry in terms of heterogeneity and volatile composition, and the second investigates the crystal cargo in terms of features of the macro-scale crystal cargo distribution and the micro-scale geochemical zoning of individual crystals. The integration of observations and models from these two studies constrains the pressure, temperature and composition of source magma feeding the Father's Day eruption. The eruption is investigated in the context of the "magma surge'' event that preceded the intrusion, as well as within the context of the longer-term trends in Kīlauea geochemistry at the summit and East Rift Zone. Melt inclusion and matrix glass volatile systematics provide insights into the degassing path of the magma and the duration of magma transport to the surface is constrained by diffusion modelling. Estimated timescales for ascent by diffusion modelling of macrocryst major element composition, melt inclusion water content and the melt Fe$^{3+}$/Fe$_{tot}$ ratio are in agreement with timescales observed from the geophysical data of $< $8 hours from reservoir depth to eruption. Both studies emphasise how petrological observations can supplement geophysical monitoring datasets collected at the surface to aid our interpretation of volcanic behaviour and eruption forecasting.

Three volcanic domes and related volcanic rocks of Tertiary age are located near Etna, Utah, in Box Elder County. The domes follow a north-south trend and are fault controlled. Flow structure indicates a change from a less viscous, flow-forming lava which produced an exogenous dome to a more viscous lava which formed endogenous domes. Associated pyroclastic deposits are negligible. The volcanic rocks are composed of porphyritic rhyolite and rhyolitic vitrophyre having phenocrysts of quartz, sanidine, plagioclase and biotite with minor amounts of Fe-Ti oxides, hypersthene, allanite and calcic amphibole. Quartz and sanidine phenocrysts are generally embayed whereas plagioclase phenocrysts are euhedral and extensively zoned. Average whole-rock chemical analyses yield: SiO2, 77.13; TiO2, 0.12; Al2O3, 11.01; Fe2O3, 0.9; FeO, 0.35; MnO, 0.02; MgO, 0.19; CaO, 0.82; Na2O, 2.93; K2O, 4.99; P2O5, 0.03; H2O+, 1.17; H2O-, 0.22; total, 99.94 weight percent. Coexisting Fe-Ti oxide microphenocrysts yield equilibration temperatures ranging from 872° to 684°C while respective log f0 2 values range from -13.5 to -19.5. These temperatures are comparable to temperatures obtained using the plagioclase-glass geothermometer at a water pressure of 1 kb. Mineral buffer reactions yield water fugacities with corresponding water pressures up to 4.9 kb. Assuming water pressure equals total pressure, calculated depths of approximately 18 km are obtained indicating an origin within the crust. High silica values and high alkali to calcium ratios indicate that ix the lavas are chemically similar to bimodal rhyolite-basalt assemblages located in other areas of the western United States. Small outcrops of basalt, located west of the Etna area, also suggest a bimodal assemblage. Viscosity values (log n) for the south dome range from 7.05 to 10.35 suggesting that there was a change from a less viscous to a more viscous lava. Comparisons between hydrous and dry calculations indicate that falling water content as well as decreasing temperature were responsible for the change in viscosity and resulting structural changes.