Abstract
Dangsanbong volcano, which is located on the coast of the western promontory of Cheju Island, occurs in such a regular pattern on the sequences which represent an excellent example of an eruptive cycle. The volcano comprises a horseshoe-shaped tuff cone and a younger nested cinder cone on the crater floor, which are overlain by a lava cap at the top of the cinder cone, and wide lava plateau in the moat between two cones and in the northern part. The volcanic sequences suggest volcanic processes that start with Surtseyan eruption, progress through Strombolian eruption and end with Hawaiian eruption, and then are followed by rock fall from sea cliff of the tuff cone and by air fall from another crater. It is thought that the eruptive environments of the tuff cone could be mainly emergent because the present cone is located on the coast, and standing body of sea water could play a great role. It is thought that the now emergent part of the tuff cone was costructed subaerially because there is no evidence of marine reworking. The emergent tuff cone is characterized by distinctive steam-explosivity that results primarily from a bulk interaction between rapidly ascending magma and external water. The sea water gets into the vent by flooding accross or through the top or breach of northern tephra cone. Dangsanbong tuff cone was constructed from Surtseyan eruption which went into with tephra finger jetting explosion in the early stage, late interspersed with continuous upruch activities, and from ultra-Surtseyan jetting explosions producting base surges in the last. When the enclosure of the vent by a long-lived tephra barrier would prevent the flooding and thus allow the vent to dry out, the phreatomagmatic activities ceased to transmit into magmatic activity of Strombolian eruption, which constructed a cinder cone on the crater floor of the tuff cone Strombolian eruption ceased when magma in the conduit gradually became depleted in gas. In the Dangsanbong volcano, the last magmatic activity was Hawaiian eruption which went into with foundation and effusion of basalt lava.
당산봉 화산은 제주도 서쪽 끝 해안에 위치하며, 응회구, 분석구, 용암대지 및 애추층 등으로 구성된다. 이들의 암상과 층서는 써제이언분출, 스트롬볼리언분출, 하와이언분출 순으로 전개되는 화산 과정과 외력쇄설 지표과정을 나타낸다. 당산봉 응회구는 마그마와 해수가 상호작용하여 스팀폭발함으로서 형성되는 써쩨이언분출에 의한 구조물이다. 이 분출은 초기에 습윤한 테프라수지상분사 활동상이었고, 중기에 보다 덜 습윤한 테프라의 연속분승 활동상과 테프라수지상분사 활동상이 교대로 진행되었으며, 후기에 보다 건조한 초써쩨이언분사 활동상으로 전환되었다. 분석구는 응회구의 축조로 외부 물의 완전한 제한으로 인해 써제이언분출이 종식되고 스트롬볼리안분출로 전환됨으로써 형성되었다. 이 분출은 초기에 분석 위주로 포출하였으며 후기에 스패터 위주로 포출하는 활동상으로 변화되었다. 용암대지는 화도내 마그마 개스의 고갈로 폭발력이 소진되어 하와이언분출로 전환되므로써 형성되었다. 이 분출은 초기에 용암분천 활동상 위주로 진행되었으나 후기에 용암분류 활동상으로 변화되었다.