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Growth after collapse: the volcanic and magmatic history of the Neostromboli lava cone (island of Stromboli, Italy)

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This study focuses on the Holocene Neostromboli lava cone which is part of the Stromboli volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy). It represents an important example of the structure and behaviour of lava cone re-growth shortly after a large-scale volcano sector collapse. Neostromboli’s eruptive style is dominated by extrusion of sheet-like a’a lava flows and associated autoclastic breccias. The lava cone developed during five phases of activity (phases A to E) representing discrete episodes of lava effusion characterised by rapid changes in magma composition, spatial development of the feeder system and physical properties of erupted lavas through time. Although they all belong to the potassic series (KS) with SiO2 49–55 wt% and MgO 2.50–6.25 wt%, the Neostromboli lavas have distinct petrogenetic characteristics ranging from leucite-free and low-Sr shoshonitic basalts (phases A and B) to leucite-bearing shoshonitic basalts with high (phase C) and intermediate (phase D) Sr contents, and to leucite-free, biotite-bearing shoshonites (phase E). Three different batches of mantle-derived, relatively primitive basic magmas fed the activity of phases A, C and D. The evolution phases A to B is inferred to have occurred in a continuously replenished, tapped and crystallizing (RTF) magma chamber whereas phase E products were dominantly generated by fractional crystallization from phase D magmas. The Neostromboli cone shows summit, flank and satellite vents and sheet intrusions with different geometry and location through time, reflecting the interplay of regional tectonics, precursory instability processes and volcano load.

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This work was financially supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Department of Civil Protection (DPC) in the framework of the Volcanological Projects V2 2004–2006 (“Monitoring and research activity at Stromboli and Panarea”) and 2007–2009 (“Paroxysms”). We are grateful to Federico A. Pasquaré Mariotto for his assistance during the fieldwork. Very constructive and detailed suggestions by two anonymous reviewers significantly improved the manuscript, which also greatly benefited from the thoughtful comments of the associate editor G. Giordano.

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Vezzoli, L., Renzulli, A. & Menna, M. Growth after collapse: the volcanic and magmatic history of the Neostromboli lava cone (island of Stromboli, Italy). Bull Volcanol 76, 821 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-014-0821-y

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