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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth Année : 2014

Deformation of basaltic shield volcanoes under cointrusive stress permutations

Vincent Famin
Laurent Michon

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We performed a microstructural study of Piton des Neiges (La Réunion Island) to understand how intrusions and stresses control each other in basaltic volcanoes. Our study reveals that three perpendicular intrusions trends coexisted during the 2 Myr history of the volcano: a N120–140°E rift zone, a perpendicular dike trend, and swarms of subhorizontal intrusions hereafter called “sill zones”. Independently, the inversion of fault-slip data shows that incompatible paleostress fields recurrently occurred along with the intrusions: a dominant NNE-SSW extension, a perpendicular extension, and strike-slip or compressional regimes. The orientations of paleostresses are consistent with the orientations of the three perpendicular intrusion populations. We propose that stress accumulation in the edifice under the effect of repeated magma injections resulted in permutations of the principal axes of the stress tensor, causing a reorientation of subsequent intrusions. Stress permutations were cyclical. Each cycle started with dike injections in an extensional stress field, reducing the deviatoric stress and switching the axes of principal stresses, and finished with sill intrusions in a compressional stress field. Sill zones acted as detachment planes, restoring the extensional stress field and initiating a new cycle of permutations. Our model of stress permutations is in agreement with the pattern of eruptions and deformation observed at Piton de la Fournaise. In contrast with the Hawaiian model of spreading on a décollement, stress permutations in La Réunion's volcanoes imply that the basal deformation of the edifices, if any, is not sufficient to compensate the reduction of deviatoric stress caused by intrusions.
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hal-01147426 , version 1 (14-12-2015)

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Marie Chaput, Vincent Famin, Laurent Michon. Deformation of basaltic shield volcanoes under cointrusive stress permutations. Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 2014, 119 (1), pp.274--301. ⟨10.1002/2013JB010623⟩. ⟨hal-01147426⟩
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