FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion BT AF Feuillet, Nathalie Jorry, Stephan Crawford, Wayne C. Deplus, Christine Thinon, Isabelle Jacques, Eric Saurel, Jean Marie Lemoine, Anne Paquet, Fabien Satriano, Claudio Aiken, Chastity Foix, Oceane Kowalski, Philippe Laurent, Angèle Rinnert, Emmanuel Cathalot, Cecile Donval, Jean-Pierre Guyader, Vivien Gaillot, Arnaud Scalabrin, Carla Moreira, Manuel Peltier, Aline Beauducel, François Grandin, Raphaël Ballu, Valérie Daniel, Romuald Pelleau, Pascal Gomez, Jérémy Besançon, Simon Geli, Louis Bernard, Pascal Bachelery, Patrick Fouquet, Yves Bertil, Didier Lemarchand, Arnaud Van der Woerd, Jérome AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:1;5:3;6:1;7:1;8:3;9:3;10:1;11:2;12:1;13:1;14:1;15:2;16:2;17:2;18:2;19:2;20:2;21:1;22:1;23:1,4;24:1;25:5;26:1;27:2;28:1;29:1;30:2;31:1;32:6;33:2;34:3;35:1;36:7; FF 1:;2:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:PDG-REM-GM-LAD;12:;13:;14:;15:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;16:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;17:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;18:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;19:PDG-REM-GM-CTDI;20:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;21:;22:;23:;24:;25:;26:;27:PDG-REM-GM-CTDI;28:;29:;30:PDG-REM-GM-LAD;31:;32:;33:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;34:;35:;36:; C1 Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France IFREMER, Unité Géosciences Marines, Technopole La Pointe du Diable, Plouzané, France Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières—BRGM, DGR/GBS, Orléans, France Université Grenoble Alpes, IRD, ISterre, Grenoble, France LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs) UMR7266, Université de La Rochelle—CNRS, La Rochelle, France Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, OPGC, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand, France Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg UMR7516 CNRS Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France C2 IPGP, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE BRGM, FRANCE UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES, FRANCE UNIV LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE UNIV CLERMONT AUVERGNE, FRANCE IPGP, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-GM-LGS PDG-REM-GM-LAD PDG-REM-GM-LCG PDG-REM-GM-CTDI IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-univ-france IF 21.531 TC 56 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00718/83007/88250.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00718/83007/88952.pdf LA English DT Article CR MAYOBS MAYOBS1 PTOLEMEE BO Marion Dufresne L'Atalante AB Volcanic eruptions shape Earth’s surface and provide a window into deep Earth processes. How the primary asthenospheric melts form, pond and ascend through the lithosphere is, however, still poorly understood. Since 10 May 2018, magmatic activity has occurred offshore eastern Mayotte (North Mozambique channel), associated with large surface displacements, very-low-frequency earthquakes and exceptionally deep earthquake swarms. Here we present geophysical and marine data from the MAYOBS1 cruise, which reveal that by May 2019, this activity formed an 820-m-tall, ~5 km³ volcanic edifice on the seafloor. This is the largest active submarine eruption ever documented. Seismic and deformation data indicate that deep (>55 km depth) magma reservoirs were rapidly drained through dykes that intruded the entire lithosphere and that pre-existing subvertical faults in the mantle were reactivated beneath an ancient caldera structure. We locate the new volcanic edifice at the tip of a 50-km-long ridge composed of many other recent edifices and lava flows. This volcanic ridge is an extensional feature inside a wide transtensional boundary that transfers strain between the East African and Madagascar rifts. We propose that the massive eruption originated from hot asthenosphere at the base of a thick, old, damaged lithosphere. PY 2021 PD OCT SO Nature Geoscience SN 1752-0894 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 14 IS 10 UT 000689655300002 BP 787 EP 795 DI 10.1038/s41561-021-00809-x ID 83007 ER EF