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    40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Neogene phreatomagmatic volcanism 3 in the western Pannonian Basin, Hungary
    (Elsevier, 2007) Németh, Károly; Wijbrans, Jan; Martin, Ulrike; Balogh, Kadosa
    Neogene alkaline basaltic volcanic fields in the western Pannonian Basin, Hungary, including the Bakony–Balaton Highland and the Little Hungarian Plain volcanic fields are the erosional remnants of clusters of small-volume, possibly monogenetic volcanoes. Moderately to strongly eroded maars, tuff rings, scoria cones, and associated lava flows span an age range of ca. 6 Myr as previously determined by the K/Ar method. High resolution 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages on 18 samples have been obtained to determine the age range for the western Pannonian Basin Neogene intracontinental volcanic province. The new 40Ar/39Ar age determinations confirm the previously obtained K/Ar ages in the sense that no systematic biases were found between the two data sets. However, our study also serves to illustrate the inherent advantages of the 40Ar/39Ar technique: greater analytical precision, and internal tests for reliability of the obtained results provide more stringent constraints on reconstructions of the magmatic evolution of the volcanic field. Periods of increased activity with multiple eruptions occurred at ca. 7.95 Ma, 4.10 Ma, 3.80 Ma and 3.00 Ma. These new results more precisely date remnants of lava lakes or flows that define geomorphological marker horizons, for which the age is significant for interpreting the erosion history of the landscape. The results also demonstrate that during short periods of more intense activity not only were new centers formed but pre-existing centers were rejuvenated.
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    Pitfalls in erosion level calculation based on remnants of maar and diatreme volcanoes
    (Groupe Francais de Geomorphologie, 2007) Nemeth K; Martin U; Csillag G
    Erosion estimates based on geometrical dimension measurements of eroded maar/diatreme volcanoes are useful methods to determine syn-volcanic surface level and syn-volcanic bedrock stratigraphy. However, such considerations on volcanic architecture should only be employed as a first-order approach to determine the state of erosion. We demonstrate, on both young and eroded maar/diatreme volcanoes, that establishing the volcanic facies architecture gives vital information on the environment in which the volcano erupted. In ‘soft’ rocks, maar volcanoes are broad and underlain by ‘champagne glass’-shaped diatremes. In contrast, the crater wall of maar volcanoes that erupted through ‘hard rocks’ will be steep, filled with lacustrine volcaniclastic deposits and underlain by deep diatremes.