Abstract
The heat and gas released by a degassing magma affects the overlying predominantly meteoric aquifers to form magmatic-hydrothermal systems inside the solid body of a volcano. This chapter reviews how fluid geochemical signals help to track the evolution throughout the various stages of volcanic unrest. A direct view into a degassing magma is possible at open-conduit degassing volcanoes. Nevertheless, in most cases gas is trapped (i.e. scrubbed) by abundant water, leading to the loss of the pure signal the magma ideally provides. Deciphering how magmatic gas rises through, reacts, and re-equilibrates with the liquids in the magmatic-hydrothermal system in time and space is the only way to trace back to the pure signal. The most indicative magmatic gas species (CO2, SO2–H2S, HCl and HF) are released as a function of their solubility in magma. The less soluble gas species are released early from a magma at higher pressure conditions (CO2) (deeper), whereas the more soluble species are released later, at lower pressures (SO2, HCl and HF) (shallower depth). When these gases hit the water during their rise towards the surface, they will be more or less scrubbed. Depending on the chemical equilibria inside the magmatic-hydrothermal system (e.g. SO2–H2S conversion, acidity), the gas that eventually reaches the surface will carry the history of its rise from bottom to top. Tracking volcanic unrest implies a time frame; the kinetics of magma degassing throughout the liquid cocktail inside the volcano impose the maximum resolution the volcano provides and hence the monitoring time window to be adopted for each volcano. Gas-dominated systems are “faster” and require a higher monitoring frequency, water-dominated systems are slower and require a lower monitoring frequency.
Resumen
El calor y gas liberados por la desgasificación del magma afecta los acuíferos de origen predominantemente meteórico para formar sistemas magmático-hidrotermales dentro el cuerpo sólido del volcán. Este capítulo revisa como la geoquímica de fluidos puede ayudar a trazar la evolución a través de las varias etapas de “unrest” volcánico. Una visión directa dentro de un magma en desgasificación es solo posible para volcanes de conducto abierto. Sin embargo, en la mayoría de las situaciones el gas queda atrapado (i.e. “scrubbing”) en el agua, que conduce a la pérdida de la señal pura que el magma idealmente puede proporcionar. Descifrar como el magma sube a través de los líquidos, y reacciona y re-equilibra con ellos dentro el sistema magmático-hidrotermal, en un marco de tiempo y espacio, es la única manera para rastrear el origen de la señal del magma. La desgasificación de magma se da por cuatro procesos: (1) durante la subida de magma, (2) por la descompresión debido al eliminar una porción del edificio volcánico, (3) debido a la convección interna dentro la cámara magmática, o (4) después de “ebullición secundaria” siguiendo el enfriamiento y consecuente cristalización. Las especies gaseosas magmáticas más indicativas (CO2, SO2–H2S, HCl y HF) se liberan en función de su solubilidad en el magma. Las especies menos solubles se liberan antes del magma, bajo regímenes de presiones más altas (CO2), mientras que las especies más solubles se liberan después, bajo regímenes de presiones más bajas (SO2, HCl y HF). En términos espaciales, CO2 se libera a lo largo de una área espacial más amplia (desde lo más profundo). La presencia de SO2 es una indicación clara de un magma que sube hacia un ambiente más somero. La llegada de HCl en la superficie generalmente indica la presencia de una remesa de magma somera (cientos de metros hasta pocos kilómetros). Especialmente un aumento en la proporción CO2/SO2 es indicativo para elucidar un estado de “inquietud” (“unrest”). Una disminución consecutiva en el CO2/SO2, después de un aumento, es una indicación de que el magma está cerca de la superficie y es propenso a una erupción. Cuando estos gases alcanzan el agua durante su ascenso hacia la superficie, serán más, o menos, absorbidos. Dependiendo de los equilibrios químicos dentro el sistema magmático-hidrotermal (e.g. conversión de SO2–H2S, acidez), el gas que al final llega a la superficie lleva consigo la historia de su ascenso desde el fondo hasta la superficie. La desgasificación magmática es un proceso más rápido, mientras que la dinámica hidrotermal en el sistema rocoso FeO–FeO1.5 es más lenta. Por eso, el H2S se suele llamar un “gas hidrotermal”, y el SO2 un “gas magmático”. Trazar “unrest volcánico” implica un encuadramiento de tiempo más especifico. Si la ventana de tiempo de monitoreo es más largo que el tiempo definido por la cinética de la migración de gas, los detalles de la dinámica de desgasificación se perderán inevitablemente. Contrariamente, si la ventana de tiempo de monitoreo es más corto que la ventana definida por la cinética de la migración de gas, en tal caso, resultará en una visión demasiado detallada de lo que el sistema magmático-hidrotermal puede proveer. Estudios recientes han demostrado que acuíferos extremadamente ácidos pueden “desacelerar” la señal dejada por el sistema magmático-hidrotermal dominado por el gas (e.g. fumarolas), pero pueden “acelerar” la señal dejada por el sistema magmático-hidrotermal dominado por agua (e.g. lagos cratéricos ácidos). Estos hallazgos tienen implicaciones significativas para el encuadramiento de tiempo en reconocer la desgasificación magmática, y por tanto, para la frecuencia del monitoreo.
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Introduction
Fluid geochemical monitoring tracks variations in gaseous species and fluid phases released in various manners from a volcano. Fluids infiltrate, move, migrate, rise, react and re-equilibrate in the water- and vapor-filled solid body of the volcano. These processes are invisible as they occur in the subsurface, and can only be deduced from measurements at the surface. Nevertheless, gas and water are more mobile than rock and, when a volcano shifts into the gear of unrest, a change in degassing is often the first sign to be detected. As such, fluid geochemistry offers a crucial means to recognize unrest in a timely matter.
Most volcanic edifices store a large volume of water, as cold or thermal aquifers, with various hydrogeological architectures. When gas hits water in its rise towards the surface, the original signature of the gas is mostly lost. This disadvantage can however be overcome. Understanding how gas absorbs and solutes react in the liquid phase, and how it is eventually released to the atmosphere, is key to linking surface manifestations to magma dynamics.
Volcano monitoring largely focuses on how, where and when magma migrates towards the surface, as, intrinsically, every magmatic eruption is anticipated by magma rise. Nevertheless, volcanoes can become hazardous even without an eruption. A volcano is in a state of magmatic unrest if we recognize signals of a magma-on-the-move; in any other situation, given volcanic unrest, the volcano is in a state of non-magmatic unrest (hydrothermal or tectonic) (Rouwet et al. 2014a). To recognize volcanic unrest, the background behavior of a volcanic system should be tracked for a sufficiently long period, in order to know when a deviation from this background becomes a cause for concern (i.e. unrest, Phillipson et al. 2013). This background behavior and deviations from it are volcano-specific and can be monitored in several ways, besides the geochemical approach reviewed here.
The aim of this chapter is to scan through magmatic-hydrothermal systems during the process of magmatic degassing, from bottom to top, and describe how fluids behave in time and space. What are the lessons learned from fluid geochemistry throughout the evolution of volcanic quiescence, re-awakening, volcanic unrest, magmatic unrest and non-magmatic/hydrothermal unrest?
Magmatic-Hydrothermal Manifestations
One of the first signs of re-awakening after prolonged volcanic quiescence to a state that eventually causes concern is often the appearance of fumarolic exhalations from a crater. This happened, for instance, in 1994 during the reawakening of Popocatépetl (Mexico), and recently, at Cotopaxi (Ecuador), both VUELCO target volcanoes (De la Cruz-Reyna and Tilling 2008; Hall and Mothes 2008) (Fig. 1a). For open-conduit volcanoes the presence of a plume (i.e. a visible gas-vapor cloud originating from an open volcano crater) can become the prominent manifestation of degassing.
Some volcanoes are characterized by decade to century long high-temperature fumarolic degassing in a closed-conduit setting (Fig. 1b), suggesting the presence of a stable, but shallow magma chamber. This constantly high-temperature background degassing is generally no sign of unrest (e.g. Momotombo’s >700 °C, Satsuma-Iwojima’s >900 °C and Kudryavy’s >700 °C; Menyailov et al. 1986; Shinohara et al. 1993; Taran et al. 1995), whereas the increase of fumarolic temperatures from low (boiling point of water at a given altitude, hence atmospheric pressure) to high (above boiling to magmatic temperature) can be a sign of resumed unrest (e.g. the 1980–1990s crisis at Vulcano, Italy, Capasso et al. 1997).
Magmatic-hydrothermal systems are aquifers inside a volcano or beneath a volcanic area, heated by a magma, at an unspecified depth. The origin of the water is generally meteoric (i.e. rain, snow and its melt water). How hot, and how gas-rich such magmatic-hydrothermal systems are depend on the proportion of the water volume with respect to the heat and gas provided by the magma. The latter depends on the residing depth of the magma. Boiling-temperature fumaroles are a common manifestation at magmatic-hydrothermal systems (Fig. 1c). When the water table of such systems intersects the surface, in craters or volcano flanks, boiling pools appear (Fig. 1d). Such pools can manifest bubbling degassing, and are nothing less than a water-rich fumarole (Fig. 1e). Depending on the dominant gas they exhale, paired with water vapor, the manifestations are called solfataras (S-rich gases) or mofettes (CO2-rich gases); depending on the temperature and vapor/water proportion they emit they are called fumaroles (boiling or above boiling steam vents), thermal springs (liquid water emission) or geysers (water + vapor jets with a cyclic behavior). Thermal springs can discharge inside active craters or on volcano flanks in a degassed state, without bubbling or boiling (Fig. 1f). Heated water can fill (parts of) craters and form volcanic lakes (Fig. 1g). Depending on the degassing state and depth of the underlying magma, degassing features (bubbling or diffuse degassing) and evaporation can occur at the lake surface (Fig. 1h).
The pictures of the degassing manifestations in Fig. 1 show a trend from gas-dominated, active plume degassing in an open-conduit setting towards more water-dominated, hydrothermal, passive degassing in a closed-conduit setting. These visual observations only give a first glance of magmatic-hydrothermal activity, and do not reflect the state of unrest of a volcano. Throughout the life-time of magmatic-hydrothermal systems (centuries to millenia) volcanoes can evolve from gas-dominated to water-dominated, and vice versa. The next sections present what we know on the theoretical level, following the laws of chemistry. Despite these classic rules, it will become clear that the range of manifestations and variations in fluid signatures is wide, and volcano-dependent.
Magma Degassing from Bottom to Top
Magma Degassing
The degassing of a magma increases when the confining pressure in the magma decreases. Magma decompression can occur in four ways (Fig. 2): (1) magma rise, (2) decompression by uncovering a portion of the volcanic edifice, (3) internal convection in a magma chamber, or (4) secondary boiling upon cooling and consequent crystallization. The first process is often induced by the input of a deeper magma, into a shallower magma chamber. Magma rise towards the lower pressure regime results from the buoyancy difference between the stagnant magma, the rising new melt and the surrounding rocks. The second degassing process can be triggered by the mass removal from part of the volcanic edifice. This superficial process can even trigger eruptions (e.g. 1980 Mt St. Helens). Internal magma convection causes degassing of a less dense, gas-rich magma batch. Once degassed, the now denser magma batch sinks (e.g. Stromboli, Aiuppa et al. 2009). The fourth process increases the gas/melt ratio in the magma, due to the loss of crystals from the cooling magma, hence favoring degassing.
Based on gas geochemistry only it is hard to rule out which process actually occurs at depth, and thus distinguish between magmatic and non-magmatic unrest. Geophysical signals are needed. Following the definition of magmatic unrest by Rouwet et al. (2014a) (i.e. the recognition of a magma-on-the-move), only the first process is initially consistent with the requisite of magmatic unrest.
Variations in magma degassing can be detected both qualitatively and quantitatively. Detailed insights in the degassing state of a magma can only be obtained if both are measured contemporaneously. Which gas species are released, how much and when? When a magma starts to degas, by any of the above processes, the less soluble species is released first (i.e. at higher confining pressure in the magma chamber). The order in solubility of indicative magmatic gas species is CO2 < SO2 < HCl < HF; the order of release when a magma progressively degasses is “CO2-first till HF-last” (Giggenbach 1987). Hence, tracking variations in ratios between these species gives qualitative insights into the degassing state of a magma. A consecutive increase with time in first CO2/SO2, then SO2/HCl, then HCl/HF ratios reflects the evolution in degassing state from a magma moving from depth towards the surface. Especially an increase in the CO2/SO2 is indicative of the state of unrest, pointing to an input of poorly degassed magma at great depths. A consecutive decrease in CO2/SO2 ratio, after the increase, is an indication of magma moving towards the surface. The latter two ratios come into play when eruption of magma is imminent, or even ongoing: the highly soluble species HCl and HF are released from a highly degassed magma, a situation that reflects near-surface degassing (Aiuppa et al. 2002). The arrival of HCl at the surface (e.g. in fumaroles) generally indicates the presence of a shallow magma batch (hundreds of meters, or less).
The “purest” proxy of the magmatic gas is provided by direct sampling of a fumarole with a near-magmatic temperature, followed by the analysis of its chemical composition. During the past five-six decades fumarolic gases have been extensively sampled and analyzed representing a wide range of temperatures and states of volcanic activity. Table 1 presents a compilation of chemical compositions of fumarolic gases for the high- and low-temperature ranges.
Before dealing with the abundant water vapor in fumaroles, we tackle the other gas species in the “dry-gas phase”. Regardless of the fumarole temperature, CO2 is the most abundant gas species (Table 1). CO2 is often released at the surface across a wider spatial extent, as it degasses from greater depth (Fig. 3). Old and deep magma bodies can continue to release CO2 for tens to hundreds of millenia.
The second most abundant “dry-gas” species are the sulphur species SO2 and H2S. SO2 is more soluble in magma than CO2, and will thus be released at lower pressure. As SO2 degasses at lower depth, the degassing tends to be more centralized along the central conduit (open or closed) of the volcano (Fig. 3). As such, SO2 is often measured in volcanic plumes. An increase of SO2 has often been interpreted as an indicator of magma rise into the shallower environment.
At high-temperature magmatic conditions the following reaction applies (Giggenbach 1987; Delmelle and Bernard 2015):
This explains the presence of both SO2 and H2S in high-temperature fumaroles. The SO2/H2S ratio is sensitive to temperature and the oxidation state (i.e. the role of H2 in Eq. 1 reflects the oxidation vs reduction state, Giggenbach 1987).
On the other hand, it is noted that the low-temperature fumaroles lack SO2, instead, the dominant sulphur species is H2S (Table 1). Low-temperature hydrothermal conditions (T < 300 °C) favor the reduced S-species H2S (Table 1), equilibrated by the rock phase, following the reaction:
or simply through reduction of SO2 in the gaseous environment:
To convert SO2 into H2S in a rock matrix (FeO–FeO1.5-system), following reaction (2), a major constraint is “sufficient time”. Magmatic degassing (Eq. 1) is a faster process, while hydrothermal dynamics (Eq. 2) are slower. This is why H2S is often called a “hydrothermal gas” and SO2 a “magmatic gas” (Table 1).
As noted in Table 1, the major gas species in fumaroles is often water, regardless of their temperature. Even high-temperature fumaroles are water-dominated.
Knowing that water boils at 100 °C (at atmospheric pressure, at sea level), in theory, the temperature of a fumarole is buffered at 100 °C and cannot rise until water is exhausted in the underlying plumbing system. Moreover, the critical temperature of water is 374 °C (i.e. the temperature at which vapor and liquid water cannot coexist anymore), imposing a second temperature buffer. This implies that (1) water directly originates from a high-temperature magma under super-critical conditions (“andesitic water” with T > 374 °C, Taran et al. 1989), and/or (2) water is excessively present in the fumarole plumbing system with respect to the gas, and will hardly ever exhaust.
When the Gas Hits the Water
The shallow subsurface environment of the different sections of the Earth’s crust hosts numerous aquifers at various depths originating from the infiltration and storage of meteoric water, or seawater in the case of low-lying islands; volcanic edifices are no different, being “small dots” at the Earth’s surface. As described before, a magma degasses and heats the space between the magma and the surface, and will inevitably heat and modify the volcanic aquifers. As the magma heats the overlying aquifers, between the magma and the surface, from bottom to top, a gas-only, vapor + gas zone, a vapor + liquid zone and a liquid-only zone can be found (Fig. 4). When a magma rises, or the heat input from the magma increases, the vapor + liquid zone or vapor + gas zone will be pushed upwards until intersecting the surface (e.g. in a volcano crater), manifested at the surface as boiling or bubbling pools and fumaroles (Fig. 4). If the distance between the magma and surface is larger, the thermal aquifer will intersect the surface and create thermal springs (Fig. 4). Facing unrest, a liquid to vapor transition at a surface manifestation reflects heating of the hydrothermal system.
When the above “gas train” (Fig. 3) consecutively reaches the liquid-only zone, gas species will be absorbed and react depending on their specific chemical properties in water. The capacity to absorb magmatic gases in the liquid phase is called “scrubbing” (Symonds et al. 2001). The CO2 that reaches the water from greater depths during magma degassing (Fig. 3), will create CO2-dominated bubbling thermal springs, and HCO3-rich slightly acidic springs (pH 5–7) (Fig. 4). The second least soluble gas species that hits the water is SO2 that will be hydrolyzed as sulphuric acid (H2SO4) and dissociate into HSO4 − or SO4 2−, depending on the pH of the water. The dissolved H+ creates the high acidity or low pH, following pH = −log [H+]. Volcanic environments are renowned for being acidic; the acid is generated by the scrubbing of acidic gases into the water.
The following SO2 disproportionation reactions occur (Kusakabe et al. 2000):
or
Reaction (4) occurs under relatively oxidizing conditions, low temperature and high total sulphur concentrations, whereas reaction (5) occurs under relatively reducing (i.e. oxygen poor) conditions, high temperature and low total sulphur concentrations. “To disproportionate SO2” means that for each three or four moles of SO2 that hit the water, one mole of S°, or one mole of H2S is given in return (reaction 4 and 5, respectively).
As SO2 degasses at shallower depth in a magma system than CO2, the resulting acid SO4-rich springs are found near the central degassing conduit (e.g. inside active craters). For SO2-dominated magmatic systems a pH near 2 or less is common; for H2S-dominated hydrothermal systems a pH of 2–2.5 is the most acidic water can get (i.e. hydrothermal or “steam heated” waters).
The next gas species to be added to the “liquid cocktail” are HCl and HF (Fig. 3). HCl is highly volatile, but also highly hydrophile. This contradictio in terminis means that when HClgas reaches water it will be trapped in the liquid phase as Cl− and H+. Generally, Cl− is considered “conservative” in the liquid phase, and is therefore often used as a tracer in the hydrothermal environment (see Section “Rock Leaching Upon Weathering”). Conservative means that Cl− can be hardly lost from the solution as Cl-salts are highly soluble in acidic and hot environments, and HCl should not degas from “high pH water” (>2). Sulphate minerals in their turn can be lost from solutions by precipitation, demonstrating their non-conservative character (Rouwet and Ohba 2015). For extremely acidic environments (pH 0 or <0) the reaction
moves to the left due to an H+ excess with respect to Cl− (i.e. HCl degassing). The same counts for HF. Bearing in mind the abundance of the acid SO2 in the magmatic-hydrothermal environment, providing a large part of the acidity, this “secondary HCl degassing from the liquid phase” is less unexpected than previously thought. This implies that HCl can degas from a low-temperature aquifer, as long as the aquifer is extremely acid (Capaccioni et al. 2016). Moreover, as hot water releases vapor, this loss enriches the remnant liquid in solutes, including H+ (i.e. salinity and acidity increase), leading to the fact that even SO2 tends to degas from the liquid, instead of remaining in the water phase as SO4 2− or HSO4 −.
Acid water (pH < 3.8) is completely transparent for the omni-present CO2. This implies that CO2, one of the “deepest signals” available for a degassing volcano, will completely outgas from bottom to top. In active craters, often underlain by acidic thermal aquifers, the release of CO2 thus behaves as though there is no water present. This is a great advantage to monitoring volcanoes and tracking unrest, especially to detect the onset of unrest.
In conclusion, the above insights demythologize two generally accepted facts: (1) high-temperature fumaroles cannot contain water vapor (Table 1), and (2) low-temperature fumaroles cannot release acidic gases.
Within the scope of this book, tracking unrest using fluid geochemistry requires the introduction of a time frame, or a monitoring time window and frequency. Does the fumarole reflect the exact moment of degassing, or is it rather an average degassing for the longer previous period stored and steadily released from the magmatic-hydrothermal plumbing system? What is the time delay between the moment the gas hits the water and the eventual release at the surface? The kinetics (i.e. “speed”) of the gas migration from a magma towards the surface are still poorly constrained. If we can estimate the residence time of gas and water in the magmatic-hydrothermal system, we are able to define a monitoring time window, and hence adopt an adequate monitoring frequency. As explained, the acidity of the feeding aquifer plays a role. For extreme acidic conditions, less gas scrubbing occurs and the fumarolic system will react faster, and hence, shorter monitoring time windows can be adopted. If the monitoring time window is longer than the window defined by the kinetics of gas migration, details in degassing dynamics will be lost. On the contrary, the monitoring time window should not be a lot shorter than the time window defined by the kinetics of gas migration, if so, it will provide a too detailed view of what the magmatic-hydrothermal system can maximally provide.
The Other Liquid: Elemental Sulphur
Whereas water melts at 0 °C and boils at 100 °C, sulphur melts at 119 °C and boils at 444 °C (Oppenheimer and Stevenson 1989, and references therein). This physical fact on phase transitions implies that in the hydrothermal environment (boiling water) elemental sulphur is solid, and that during the initial phase of transition towards a more magmatic, high-temperature regime sulphur will become liquid. Molten sulphur in the hydrothermal plumbing system can be remobilized, clear vugs and vents and eventually be expelled as a liquid sulphur flow from fumarole mouths, or “fill-and-freeze” pores in the shallower hydrothermal system. The first process opens up degassing pathways; the second process can decrease rock porosity and permeability near the surface, thus sealing a hydrothermal system. During the evolution from low-temperature (>119 °C, unrest) towards high-temperature (occasionally magmatic unrest), the viscosity of the liquid sulphur increases 2000-fold (>160 °C) to become an extremely efficient sealer of a magmatic-hydrothermal system. Pressure build-up beneath seals in hydrothermal systems can lead to phreatic eruptions (Rouwet and Morrissey 2015; Rouwet et al. 2016). Monitoring fumarolic temperatures is thus essential, and probably one the simplest methods to apply.
Tracking Hydrothermal Unrest and Related Hazards: Methods from Case-Studies
From Quiescence to Unrest, to Phreatic Eruptions, to Magmatic Eruptions
Turrialba, Costa Rica (2001–2016)
A transition from the stable, passively degassing hydrothermal system of Turrialba volcano (Costa Rica), to hydrothermal unrest, to phreatic eruptions, to magmatic eruptions, is a recent example of an evolution from volcanic quiescence heading towards eruption.
In 2001, increased fumarolic activity (appearance of SO2 in late 2001) was paired to seismic swarms and ground deformation (Martini et al. 2010; Vaselli et al. 2009 ) (i.e. unrest). In 2007, the increased SO2/H2S molar ratio in fumaroles (>100), combined with an increase in exhalation temperature up to 282 °C (in early 2008, Martini et al. 2010; Vaselli et al. 2009), point to more oxidized and magmatic conditions (i.e. magmatic unrest). Clear plume degassing resumed in early 2007 (Fig. 5a), and SO2 fluxes reached 740 t/d in January 2008 (Martini et al. 2010). In late 2009, fumarolic degassing was vigorous and extended into the Arbol Quemado fracture, newly formed in 2002. The first phreatic eruption occurred on 5 January 2010, in the inner crater wall of the actively degassing SW crater. Strong jet-like degassing occurred afterwards from this new vent (Fig. 5b), while diffuse fumarolic degassing diminished in the SW crater. A second phreatic eruption occurred on 12 January 2012, from a vent inside the Arbol Quemado fracture. The day before, this eruption was preceded by liquid sulphur flowing out of the Arbol Quemado fumaroles (González et al. 2015). A third phreatic eruption episode involved the 2010 and 2012 vents simultaneously (21 May 2013). During this 3.5-year long phreatic cycle the SO2 flux from Turrialba’s plume was high: from 2500 to 4300 t/d (Campion et al. 2012; Moussallam et al. 2014). CO2/SO2 molar ratios in March 2013 were relatively low (2.6), hinting at a CO2-depleted and SO2-rich magma (Moussallam et al. 2014). From 2001 to 2013, Moussallam et al. (2014) suggest the progressive “drying-out” of the underlying hydrothermal system.
The first magmatic eruption at Turrialba since the 1864–1866 phreatomagmatic activity occurred during the night of 29 and 30 October 2014 (Mora-Amador et al. 2015). At the time of writing, the last magmatic eruptions took place in September 2016.
Despite the well-monitored and tracked evolution from volcanic quiescence to magmatic eruption it remains unclear why some volcanoes quickly evolve from quiescence to eruption, while at Turrialba it took 14 years from quiescence to magmatic eruption, passing the complete range of unrest manifestations during this relatively long time span.
Cotopaxi, Ecuador (2015–2016)
Another example of volcanic quiescence to magmatic unrest is the one of Cotopaxi volcano in 2015. As Cotopaxi is a dangerous volcano whose activity would potentially affect densely populated areas its monitoring network has been continuously improved since the late 70s. After 73 years of quiescence, the first sign of unrest at Cotopaxi was a progressive increase in the amplitude of transient seismic events in April 2015. SO2 is measured at Cotopaxi by DOAS stations installed on the flanks of the volcano since 2008. The permanently measured SO2 emissions showed an increase on May 20 from almost non detectable up to ~3000 t/d. The fumaroles showed increased activity and a gas plume from the crater was usually observed on clear days. By early June SO2 emissions yielded up to 5000 t/d. On July 20 a green lake was observed filling the crater of the volcano, nevertheless no significant changes in the SO2 emission was observed, suggesting that the lake was of high acidity and/or too small to be an efficient scrubber. The first phreato-magmatic explosions occurred on August 14 and produced ash and gas columns reaching up to 9 km above the crater. The satellite-borne instruments such as OMI and OMPS reported 16,400 and 12,500 t/d of SO2 released to the atmosphere on that day (http://so2.gsfc.nasa.gov/pix/daily/0815/ecuador_0815z.html). Continuous ash emissions followed the initial explosions producing a permanent gas and ash plume drifting westward. SO2 measured in this permanent plume, by mobile-DOAS traverses or by the permanent stations, reached 24,000 t/d and decreased progressively until the end of the activity in late November 2015.
Since June and more consistently since 14 August 2015, BrO was also detected in the plume (Dinger et al. 2016). Airborne Multi-GAS measurements showed that the plume had a low CO2/SO2 ratio, and that SO2 was >99% of total sulfur (SO2 + H2S), indicating a shallow magmatic origin for the gas. At the time of writing (September 2016), SO2 emissions decreased to background levels. SO2 permanent monitoring proved to be a useful tool at Cotopaxi providing real time data contributing, together with other geophysical methods, to better evaluate volcanic unrest scenarios.
Gas Impact and Acid Rain
Persistent high-temperature fumarolic and plume degassing impact volcano flanks down-wind (Fig. 5c). This can happen when it rains through a plume, generating acid rain. Many volcanoes are subject to such long-term, non-eruptive hazard, making the surrounding ground harsh living environments. Other volcanoes suffer vegetation die-back, when activity resumes after prolonged quiescence (Fig. 5a). This was clearly visible during the increased activity at Turrialba volcano (Section “Turrialba, Costa Rica (2001–2016)”, Fig. 5a, b; González et al. 2015) and downwind Poás’ western flank (Cerro Pelón, Fig. 5c). To assess such hazards, a meteorological station (wind direction, speed, air humidity and rainfall), and a DOAS device to measure SO2 fluxes are valuable tools.
Rock Leaching upon Weathering
Absorption of magmatic gases into aquifers creates acidic magmatic-hydrothermal systems that, sooner or later, will exit the volcano. Acidic water attacks the wall rock and becomes loaded with solutes (Delmelle et al. 2015). If (1) meteoric recharge is high, (2) acid input is high, (3) wall rock is fresh, and (4) (thermal) spring water discharge is high, rock leaching capacity can reach thresholds to even mechanically destabilize volcano flanks. Enhanced chemical leaching for long periods favors physical rock removal, causing rock fall, landslides, or even flank and sector collapses of volcanic edifices. Even if magmatic degassing seems absent and a volcano may be long dormant, hazards loom due to the scrubbing capacity of deeper aquifers (Delmelle et al. 2015, and references therein).
The best suited method to quantify and track rock mass removal from a volcanic edifice is by monitoring the discharge rates from thermal springs, and their dissolved solutes and solids. The “Cl-inventory” uses Cl as the conservative tracer. As mentioned earlier, this is true for less acidic magmatic-hydrothermal systems (Ingebritsen et al. 2001; Taran and Peiffer 2009; Chiodini et al. 2014; Collard et al. 2014). Measuring the Cl-release from rivers draining thermal springs, and knowing the Cl-content and Cl/solute ratios in thermal spring waters, the rock mass removal rate can be estimated by:
where Qr and Qs are the discharges of rivers and thermal springs, respectively, in L/s; Cr and Cs are the concentrations of Cl of rivers and thermal springs, respectively, in mg/L. Measuring the river discharge (Qr) and analyzing the river and spring waters for its Cl content (Cr and Cs, respectively) thus enables to estimate the spring discharge (Qs), which would otherwise be impossible to directly measure in the field (e.g. numerous spring discharges, too irregular spring mouths). This method combines gas-water-rock interaction and hydrology of magmatic-hydrothermal systems in order to assess indirect hazard. Volcanoes with high rock mass removal rates are e.g. Irazú (Costa Rica, Fig. 5d); extremely acidic magmatic-hydrothermal rock removers are Kawah Ijen (Java), Poás (Costa Rica), and Copahue (Argentina-Chile). In the most extreme cases, the acidity and toxic metal load affects agricultural activities and human health.
Moreover, through the same Cl-inventory approach, the geothermal potential (i.e. heat output) from springs can be estimated, by multiplying the enthalpy of discharged spring waters, often based on geothermometric temperatures of the deep system, with the spring discharge rates. Such estimates were obtained for the active magmatic-hydrothermal systems of El Chichón and Tacaná (both in Chiapas, Mexico; Taran and Peiffer 2009; Collard et al. 2014), and Domuyo (Argentina; Chiodini et al. 2014), and originally of the Cascades Volcanic Range by Ingebritsen et al. (2001). Understanding the state of unrest on the long term of a specific volcano is needed to rule out if the volcano would be a feasible target for geothermal exploitation, or not.
Volcanic Lakes
Acid Peak-Activity Lakes in a State of Unrest
Volcanic lakes are the intersection of the crater surface and the underlying aquifer (Fig. 1g, h). Hence, they become “windows” into the depths of magmatic-hydrothermal systems. While fumaroles directly lose their signal from depth to the atmosphere as a “snapshot” (but see Section “When the Gas Hits the Water”), volcanic lakes preserve a past gas marker for a certain period. The time we can track back by studying the water chemistry depends on the duration the water resides in the lake (i.e. residence time). The residence time (RT) is estimated by dividing the lake volume (V in m3) by the input or output rate (Q in m3/s) of fluids, assuming steady-state conditions (Varekamp 2003; Rouwet et al. 2014b):
Small lakes with high rates of fluid flushing offer a better time-resolution than large lakes with slow rates of fluid in- and output. The monitoring frequency (e.g. lake water sampling) should be tuned to this residence time; a higher monitoring frequency will oversample the lake chemistry, while a lower monitoring frequency will lead to the loss of information the lake potentially provides (Rouwet et al. 2014b).
Volcanic lakes are excellent gas scrubbers. Nevertheless, recent studies quantify the gas release from the lake surface of the most acidic lakes (e.g. Aso, Copahue, Poás, Kawah Ijen; Shinohara et al. 2015; Tamburello et al. 2015; Capaccioni et al. 2016; de Moor et al. 2016; Gunawan et al. 2016). Under the most extreme pH conditions (<0) HF, HCl and even SO2 can degas freely from the lake. This means that acidic lakes are more sensitive than thought before, as acid gas flashes through the water body with only minor scrubbing. Monitoring frequency can thus increase and, hence, spectroscopic or electrochemical sensor tools become extremely useful (DOAS to measure SO2 fluxes from volcanic plumes, Multi-GAS to measure ratios between gas species, e.g. CO2/SO2).
Considering acidic lakes as “open-air” fumaroles (and fumaroles as “buried” acidic lakes) has changed the monitoring time frame, which might lead to better chances to forecast phreatic eruptions (Rouwet et al. 2014a, b; Rouwet and Morrissey 2015).
Volcanic Lake Response to External Triggers in the Absence of Magmatic Unrest
The Boiling Lake, in Dominica of the Lesser Antilles (a VUELCO target volcano), is a high-temperature volcanic crater lake, that is believed to be formed as a result of phreatic or phreatomagmatic activity (Lindsay et al. 2005). It is approximately 50 m × 60 m in size and ca. 12–15 m deep, with an estimated volume of ~1.2 × 104 m3 when filled (Fournier et al. 2009). Over the last 150 years, temperatures taken at the edge of the lake have generally ranged between 80 and 90 °C, and the pH from 4 to 6 (Joseph et al. 2011), however, the lake experiences periods of instability where water level, temperature and state of hydrothermal activity fluctuate suddenly. The long term stability of the Boiling Lake is attributed to the hypothesis that the lake is suspended above the water table by the buoyancy of rising steam bubbles from the underlying hydrothermal system (Fournier et al. 2009). Perturbations of this interaction as a result of landslides into the lake or regional seismicity is attributed to the cause of the sudden periods of instability (i.e. lake drainage and refill cycles), rather than changes in underlying magmatic activity. This is mainly because no coincident anomalous hydrothermal activity was observed in the Valley of Desolation geothermal area, which is located nearby the Boiling Lake.
The most recent episode of instability occurred during December 2004 to April 2005 (Fig. 6), when the lake water level dropped by ~8–10 m, and the temperature at the water’s edge decreased to <30 °C. Water acidity went from the usual acidic pH of 4–6 to neutral, while Cl concentration dropped from the typical 2000–6000 to 29–50 mg/L, and SO4 concentration dropped from 1500–4000 to 100–270 mg/L, indicating a drastic decrease of hydrothermal fluid input into the lake (Joseph et al. 2011). Additionally, total dissolved solid content decreased from 13,400 to 4500 mg/L, suggesting strong dilution by fresh water. Measurements of temperature, pH and chemical composition taken in August 2006 indicate that the lake had returned to its normal steady-state of activity (Joseph et al. 2011). This episode is reported to have been triggered as a result of the extensional strain induced by a regional Mw 6.3 earthquake that occurred on November 21, 2004 offshore Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) (Feuillet et al. 2011), which may have contributed to diminished water inflow.
It should be noted, however, that a phreatic explosion and gas release occurred at an “empty” Boiling Lake on 10 December 1901 that resulted in the deaths of two individuals (Elliot 1938; Bell 1946). This suggests that hazards related to volcanic lakes such as the Boiling Lake, may occur without magmatic input.
Take-Home Ideas: Implications for Geochemical Monitoring
Over the past five-six decades, gas geochemistry at magmatic-hydrothermal systems has mainly focussed on chemical equilibria and kinetics in the subsurface environment. Over the last 10–15 years more attention has been paid to remote sensing of volcanic gas plumes (DOAS, Multi-GAS) with the obvious advantage of increased safety and frequency of data gathering. Nevertheless, the relationship between the fumarole and plume has yet to be better constrained. The best proxy of a magmatic gas remains a direct sample of a high-temperature fumarole, although such target fumaroles are often inaccessible, especially during eruptive phases. Compromises between data fidelity and safety of the operators, and the frequency of data gathering should be framed in terms of what we want and maximally can unravel. The advantage of fluid geochemistry in volcano monitoring arrises from the fact that volatiles are mobile and thus reach the surface often before physical changes manifest. Timely recognition of unrest and especially hydrothermal unrest is often possible. Table 2 summarizes geochemical signals and how they relate to the various states of volcanic unrest, useful for monitoring based on deterministic research and probabilistic modeling.
Future research should focus on better constraining degassing dynamics at the surface-atmosphere boundary. Recent studies have demonstrated that extremely acidic aquifers can “slow down” the signal released from gas-dominated magmatic-hydrothermal systems (fumaroles), but “speed up” the signal released from water-dominated systems (e.g. acidic crater lakes). These findings have strong implications for the time frame of magma degassing, and hence for the monitoring frequency.
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