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Table 4 Groundmass chemical compositions and crystallinity for the representative samples from the Shinmoedake eruptions

From: Eruption style transition during the 2017–2018 eruptive activity at the Shinmoedake volcano, Kirishima, Japan: surface phenomena and eruptive products

Eruption

28 Jan 2011

1 Feb 2011

Mar 2018

Sample name

2011–020503

2011–0201-1

SNM18_15

SNM18_16

SNM190305-2–3

SNM18_17

Sample type

Pumice

Lava

P1

P2

B

L

 

Bulk GM

Bulk GM

GM glass

Pl rim

GM glass

Pl rim

GM glass

Pl rim

GM glass

Pl rim

SiO2

60.87

63.94

68.57

53.26

69.83

53.77

72.63

53.25

76.02

54.35

TiO2

0.65

0.65

0.83

0.00

0.65

0.05

0.69

0.11

0.75

0.01

Al2O3

18.01

16.26

14.19

29.46

14.86

28.45

13.11

28.80

12.48

28.72

tFeO

5.67

5.44

5.17

0.47

3.78

0.94

3.60

1.16

1.88

0.56

MnO

0.12

0.12

0.11

0.00

0.09

0.01

0.07

0.02

0.05

0.01

MgO

2.37

2.11

1.10

0.04

0.69

0.13

0.47

0.15

0.06

0.05

CaO

7.10

5.72

3.68

12.71

3.58

12.54

2.40

13.08

1.01

11.75

Na2O

3.19

3.24

2.94

3.76

3.06

3.75

3.06

2.75

2.84

4.23

K2O

1.87

2.37

3.18

0.27

3.25

0.34

3.76

0.64

4.74

0.31

P2O5

0.16

0.16

0.12

0.00

0.11

0.00

0.12

0.00

0.09

0.00

n

480

565

10

3

9

3

6

2

2

3

Crystallinity

  

36.5 ± 8.6

 

38.8 ± 8.6

 

52.5 ± 8.0

 

59.2 ± 5.6