著者

田島 靖久 及川 純 小林 哲夫 安田 敦

出版者

特定非営利活動法人 日本火山学会

雑誌

火山 (ISSN:04534360)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.67, no.1, pp.45-68, 2022-03-31 (Released:2022-04-26)

参考文献数

105

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Shinmoedake is the compound volcano in Kirishima Volcano and the most active volcano in Japan, having recorded frequent magmatic eruptions during 1716-1717, 2011, and 2018. The three geological active periods of Shinmoedake in the last 8 ka were recorded by a geological survey (Tajima et al., 2013a). The geological eruptive time category of Shinmoedake is divided into long-term, middle-term, and short-term activities. Short-term activity is captured by monitoring and covers a period of several years or more. The magma eruption rates during middle-term activities were estimated to be several times higher than the long-term magma eruption rate. Moreover, the centers of magma eruptions within each middle-term period had stabilized in terms of location. Additionally, the magma eruption rates during each period of middle-term activity were not constant. Therefore, knowledge regarding the variation in the magma production of Shinmoedake during geologically short-term, middle-term, and long-term activities is required to understand its development and plumbing system. In this paper, we compile recent geological investigation results of Shinmoedake and propose a rational conceptual model of its current state supported by petrological and geophysical data. A well-known conceptual plumbing model of Kirishima Volcano was proposed by Kagiyama et al. (1997). The seismic attenuation spot (reservoir A) is located at a depth of 4-5 km below Karakunidake (Oikawa et al., 1994), and a wide P-wave velocity anomaly area (reservoir W) is situated at a depth of 10-15 km below Kirishima Volcano (Yamamoto and Ida, 1994). Recently, geophysical observations have indicated that magma was supplied from a depth of 8-10 km (reservoir B) to the western area of Shinmoedake during the 2011 magmatic eruption (Nakao et al., 2013). In addition, petrological analysis suggested two different sources of silicic magma from a level of reservoir A and mafic magma from a level of reservoir B (Suzuki et al., 2013a). Therefore, reservoir B might have been connected to reservoir A, where magma mixing occurred during the 2011 eruption. Furthermore, analysis of the deep low-frequency (DLF) earthquake of the 2011 eruption of Shinmoedake revealed that the DLF activities at a depth of 20-27 km (reservoir L1) in the eastern part of Kirishima Volcano were involved (Kurihara et al., 2019). Reservoirs L1 and B may also be connected. These results support the increasing activities of Kirishima Volcano revealed by the geological survey (Tajima et al., 2013a). It is concluded that the complex magma plumbing system of Shinmoedake may cause different magma eruption rates during periods of middle- and long-term activities.