Citation

Alanis PK, Yamaya Y, Takeuchi A, Sasai Y, Okada Y, Nagao T. Proc. Jpn. Acad. Ser. B Phys. Biol. Sci. 2013; 89(8): 383-389.

Affiliation

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Japan Academy)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

24126286

Abstract

Taal Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines. The magnetotelluric 3D forward analyses indicate the existence of a large high resistivity anomaly (∼100 Ω·m) with a volume of at least 3 km × 3 km × 3 km, which is capped by a conductive layer (∼10 Ω·m), beneath the Main Crater. This high resistivity anomaly is hypothesized to be a large hydrothermal reservoir, consisting of the aggregate of interconnected cracks in rigid and dense host rocks, which are filled with hydrothermal fluids coming from a magma batch below the reservoir. The hydrothermal fluids are considered partly in gas phase and liquid phase. The presence of such a large hydrothermal reservoir and the stagnant magma below may have influences on the volcano's activity. Two possibilities are presented. First, the 30 January 1911 explosion event was a magmatic hydrothermal eruption rather than a base-surge associated with a phreato-magmatic eruption. Second, the earlier proposed four eruption series may be better interpreted by two cycles, each consisting of series of summit and flank eruptions.(Communicated by Seiya Uyeda, M.J.A.).

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