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== Climate and vegetation ==
== Climate and vegetation ==


The region is dry with precipitation mainly falling during southern hemisphere summer, and has little vegetation cover.<ref name="BanksMarkland2005" /> ''[[Polylepis tarapacana]]'' trees grow on the slopes of Tata Sabaya; these trees form the highest woodlands in the world.<ref name="Morales2012" />
The region is dry with precipitation mainly falling during southern hemisphere summer, and has little vegetation cover.<ref name="BanksMarkland2005" /> ''[[Polylepis tarapacana]]'' trees grow on the slopes of Tata Sabaya; these trees form the highest woodlands in the world.<ref name="Morales2012" /> Other aspects of regional vegetation are the so-called [[puna]] [[steppe]], which is characterized by grass and [[shrub]] vegetation.<ref name="Pouteau2011" />


== Eruption history ==
== Eruption history ==
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== References ==
== References ==
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Tata Sabaya
Highest point
Elevation5,430 m (17,810 ft)[1]
Coordinates19°08′S 68°32′W / 19.133°S 68.533°W / -19.133; -68.533[2]
Geography
Tata Sabaya is located in Bolivia
Tata Sabaya
Tata Sabaya

Tata Sabaya is a volcano in Bolivia.

Geography and geomorphology

Tata Sabaya lies just north of the Salar de Coipasa in Bolivia. The small village of Pagador lies west-southwest of the volcano,[3] but the whole region is thinly inhabited.[4] The name means "Father Sabaya", where "Sabaya" may be the Aymara corruption of the Quechua term for "devil", "demon".[5] The volcano is mythologized in local legends.[6]

Tata Sabaya is part of the Central Volcanic Zone,[7] which consists of a volcanic arc that mainly follows the Western Cordillera. There are about 44 Holocene volcanoes, although the remoteness of the region and dry climate has restricted scientific research of these volcanoes; among the better known are Lastarria, the Nevados de Payachata, Ollagüe, San Pablo, San Pedro and Socompa.[2]

Tata Sabaya reaches a height of 5,430 metres (17,810 ft).[8][1] Five lava flows extend north from the summit and display levees and flow fronts with a maximum length of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi); their top is cut by a collapse scar that extends east and west of the edifice in the form of scarps up to 50 metres (160 ft) high,[9] which is in turn filled by more recent lava flows with a blocky appearance.[10] Farther away of the edifice, the scarp is more noticeable with a height of about 200 metres (660 ft) on the southeastern side of the volcano.[8]

A 300 square kilometres (120 sq mi) large deposit south of the volcano, originally interpreted as a nuee ardente deposit, is actually a landslide deposit[2] which extends over a length of 20 kilometres (12 mi) and a width of 7 kilometres (4.3 mi);[11] its volume is about 6 ± 1 cubic kilometre (1.44 ± 0.24 cu mi).[12] The landslide incorporated material from the salar,[13] and its rocks reflect in part the layering and structure of the pre-collapse volcano.[12] The deposit is one of the more conspicuous of its type, to the point that it could even be observed on low-resolution Landsat images.[8] It consists of material that forms hummock-like deposits, with individual hummocks becoming smaller the farther away from the edifice they are.[9] The deposit extends into the Salar de Coipasa where it was eventually confined by faults[11] and contains lacustrine sediments such as tufa.[9]

  • Outline of the debris avalanche
    Outline of the debris avalanche
  • Debris avalanche profile
    Debris avalanche profile
  • Profile of volcano development
    Profile of volcano development

Geology

Off the western coast of South America, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South America Plate,[14] at a rate of about 10 centimetres per year (3.9 in/year).[15] This subduction process is responsible for the volcanism in the Andean Volcanic Belt, which occurs in a Northern Volcanic Zone in Ecuador and Colombia, a Central Volcanic Zone in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina and a Southern Volcanic Zone in Chile and Argentina. These volcanic zones are separated by gaps without volcanism, where the subduction process is shallower.[16]

Based on research several phases of tectonic and volcanic activity have been identified in the Central Volcanic Zone. An earlier phase of volcanism in the Cordillera de la Costa commenced in the Jurassic but is considered separate from Central Volcanic Zone magmatism specifically. After an erosional hiatus during the Oligocene, volcanic arc activity increased during the Miocene and culminated in a phase of strong ignimbrite eruptions,[7] which originated in calderas. This phase was associated with a substantial thickening of the crust in the Central Andes. During the Pleistocene ignimbrite volcanism waned again and stratovolcanoes began to develop.[2]

Tata Sabaya lies along a crustal transition area which separates a younger crust farther south from an older (Proterozoic) crust in the north,[2] that is the Chilenia terrane and the Arequipa-Antofalla craton. This transition area appears to coincide with a chain of volcanoes that Tata Sabaya is part of and which extends from Cerro Saxani in the east to Isluga in Chile, as well as with the northern margin of the Pica gap where no recent volcanism occurs in the volcanic arc.[15]

The basement of the volcano is formed by the ignimbritic Altos de Pica formation, although outcrops of granite have been observed in the region;[15] one of these outcrops may be a Precambrian granite subsequently thermally modified in the Toarcian.[17] This basement is covered by younger volcanic rocks, alluvium and sediments of the Salar de Coipasa. Seismic tomography suggests that molten magma exists in the crust.[15]

Composition

Tata Sabaya has produced "two-pyroxene" andesite and porphyritic andesite.[18] Minerals contained within the rock are augite, biotite, hornblende, hypersthene, plagioclase and titanomagnetite with only little variation between separate stages of volcanic activity.[19] The erupted volcanites define a potassium-rich calc-alkaline suite. Inclusions of more mafic rocks in the erupted material may imply that mafic magma was injected into the magma chamber.[10] The magma genesis at Tata Sabaya has been explained with magma mixing processes, which gave rise to a fairly uniform composition of the eruption products.[20]

Climate and vegetation

The region is dry with precipitation mainly falling during southern hemisphere summer, and has little vegetation cover.[4] Polylepis tarapacana trees grow on the slopes of Tata Sabaya; these trees form the highest woodlands in the world.[21] Other aspects of regional vegetation are the so-called puna steppe, which is characterized by grass and shrub vegetation.[22]

Eruption history

Of all volcanoes in Bolivia, Tata Sabaya is the only one with Holocene activity which is not on the border with another country.[2] The young age of the mountain has been inferred from the lack of moraines[8] and glaciation on the mountain, unlike neighbouring summits.[1]

The earliest activity at Tata Sabaya emplaced a pyroclastic shield, which crops out as a 20 metres (66 ft) thick sequence of block-and-ash flows fallout deposits and pumice deposits in the northern sector of the volcano.[15] Effusive eruptions then constructed a volcanic cone on top of this shield; the five northerly lava flows were emplaced during this phase of activity. Some lava flows from this stage were unstable and collapsed, covering the northern parts of the volcano with debris.[23]

This effusive activity eventually oversteepened the cone, causing its southern sector to collapse. During this collapse, large toreva blocks formed from sectors of the cone which slid down undeformed, while other material from the cone formed the hummocks in the sector collapse deposit;[9] there was no explosive eruption at the time of the collapse. The configuration of the deposit indicates that the debris entered the Salar when it was filled with water; the height of the tufa deposits imply that water levels were about 3,700 metres (12,100 ft). This[10] and the lake terraces that the landslide overran marks the collapse as synchronous with the Lake Tauca episode 12,000-12,360 years ago.[10][8] The onset of such collapses on volcanoes is often determined by faulting, climate change or eruption of the volcano; at Tata Sabaya earthquakes and the injection of new magma has been invoked to explain the destabilization of the edifice.[12]

After the collapse, Holocene activity filled the scar with lava domes and lava flows; some of these in turn collapsed as well and gave rise to hot avalanche deposits.[10] Radiocarbon dating for a pyroclastic flow has yielded an age of 6,000 years before present, implying that the volcano may be still active.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c de Silva et al. 1993, p. 308.
  2. ^ a b c d e f de Silva et al. 1993, p. 307.
  3. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 307,308.
  4. ^ a b Banks, David; Markland, Howard; Smith, Paul V.; Mendez, Carlos; Rodriguez, Javier; Huerta, Alonso; Sæther, Ola M. (June 2005). "The effect of filtration on analyses of surface water samples. A study from the Salars of Coipasa and Uyuni, Bolivian Altiplano". Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 86 (2): 107. doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2005.04.003. ISSN 0375-6742.
  5. ^ Holmer, Nils M. (19 July 2013). "Indian Place Names in South America and the Antilles. II". Names. 8 (4): 204. doi:10.1179/nam.1960.8.4.197.
  6. ^ Gisbert, Teresa (1994). "El señorío de los Carangas y los chullpares del Río Lauca" (PDF) (in Spanish). Centro Bartolome de Las Casas. p. 433. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  7. ^ a b de Silva et al. 1993, p. 306.
  8. ^ a b c d e Francis, P. W.; Wells, G. L. (1 July 1988). "Landsat Thematic Mapper observations of debris avalanche deposits in the Central Andes". Bulletin of Volcanology. 50 (4): 265. doi:10.1007/BF01047488. ISSN 0258-8900.
  9. ^ a b c d de Silva et al. 1993, p. 313.
  10. ^ a b c d e de Silva et al. 1993, p. 315.
  11. ^ a b Deruelle, B.; Brousse, R. (2010). ""NUEE ARDENTE" DEPOSITS AT TATA SABAYA VOLCANO (BOLIVIAN-CHILEAN ANDES): PUMICES AND LAVA BLOCKS CRYSTALLIZATION FROM SINGLE MAGMA AT DIFFERENT DEPTHS". Revista Geológica de Chile (in Spanish). 0 (22). doi:10.5027/andgeoV11n2-a01. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  12. ^ a b c Godoy, Benigno; Clavero, Jorge; Rojas, Constanza; Godoy, Estanislao (2012). "Facies volcánicas del depósito de avalancha de detritos del volcán Tata Sabaya, Andes Centrales". Andean geology (in Spanish). 39 (3): 394–406. doi:10.5027/andgeoV39n3-a03. ISSN 0718-7106.
  13. ^ Clavero et al. 2006, p. 442.
  14. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 305.
  15. ^ a b c d e de Silva et al. 1993, p. 309.
  16. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 305,306.
  17. ^ Sempere, Thierry; Carlier, Gabriel; Soler, Pierre; Fornari, Michel; Carlotto, Vı́ctor; Jacay, Javier; Arispe, Oscar; Néraudeau, Didier; Cárdenas, José; Rosas, Silvia; Jiménez, Néstor (February 2002). "Late Permian–Middle Jurassic lithospheric thinning in Peru and Bolivia, and its bearing on Andean-age tectonics". Tectonophysics. 345 (1–4): 167. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00211-6. ISSN 0040-1951.
  18. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 309,313,315.
  19. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 315,317.
  20. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 332.
  21. ^ Morales, M. S.; Christie, D. A.; Villalba, R.; Argollo, J.; Pacajes, J.; Silva, J. S.; Alvarez, C. A.; Llancabure, J. C.; Soliz Gamboa, C. C. (30 March 2012). "Precipitation changes in the South American Altiplano since 1300 AD reconstructed by tree-rings". Clim. Past. 8 (2): 655. doi:10.5194/cp-8-653-2012. ISSN 1814-9332.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  22. ^ Pouteau, Robin; Rambal, Serge; Ratte, Jean-Pierre; Gogé, Fabien; Joffre, Richard; Winkel, Thierry (January 2011). "Downscaling MODIS-derived maps using GIS and boosted regression trees: The case of frost occurrence over the arid Andean highlands of Bolivia". Remote Sensing of Environment. 115 (1): 118. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.011. ISSN 0034-4257.
  23. ^ de Silva et al. 1993, p. 312,313.
  24. ^ Clavero et al. 2006, p. 439.

Sources

  • [1] Global Volcanism Program page for Tata Sabaya
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