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Imbabura volcano (Ecuador): The influence of dipping-substrata on the structural development of composite volcanoes during strike-slip faulting

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The geology and long-term structural development of Imbabura volcano (Ecuador) have been discerned from field surveys, as well as petrographical and geochemical studies. The volcano is composed of an ancient edifice (Imbabura I), which has experienced one major volcanic landslide directed N 330-340°. After the emplacement of that debris-avalanche deposit, the petrographically and geochemically different edifices Imbabura II-1 and Imbabura II-2 developed on the N and NE flank of Imbabura I, as well as in its summit zone. Finally the smaller Imbabura II-3 edifice, a dome-complex locally known as Huarmi Imbabura, was emplaced in the SSW flank of Imbabura I. The relatively complex structure of the edifice (i.e. flank collapse direction and spatial distribution of the major stratigraphical units) cannot be explained solely by volcano-tectonic interactions with the regional left-lateral Río Ambi strike-slip fault, which traverses the edifice from NNE to SSW. Instead, the fact that the whole Imbabura edifice stands on a substratum dipping to the NW (i.e. the NW flank of the neighbor Cubilche volcano) is proposed to be the main factor influencing the departure of Imbabura structure from previously known models of volcanic edifices interacting with strike-slip faults. This hypothesis was tested with scaled experiments, during which the dip-direction of the substratum was systematically changed with respect to the strike of the fault. The structures developed by the experimental prototypes are highly coherent with those observed at Imbabura volcano.
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insu-03708950 , version 1 (29-06-2022)

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S. Daniel Andrade, Benjamin van Wyk de Vries, Claude Robin. Imbabura volcano (Ecuador): The influence of dipping-substrata on the structural development of composite volcanoes during strike-slip faulting. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2019, 385, pp.68-80. ⟨10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.11.017⟩. ⟨insu-03708950⟩
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