Abstract
The Wondong Caldera, formed by the voluminous eruption of the rhyolitic ashflows of the Wondong Tuff which is about 1,550 m thick at the intracaldera and 550 m at the outflow, is a resurgent caldera which shows a dome structure on the central exposure of the caldera. The Wondong caldera volcanism eviscerated the magma chamber by a series of explosive eruptions during which rhyolitic magma was ejected, as small fallouts and voluminous ash-flows, to form the Wondong Tuff. The explosive eruptions began with ash-falls, progressed through pumice-falls and transmitted ash-flows. During the ash-flow phase the initial central vent eruption transmitted into late ring-fissure eruption which accompanied with caldera collapse. Contemporaneous collapse of the roop of the chamber resulted in the formation of the Wondong Caldera, a subcircular depression subsiding about 1,930 deep. Following the collapse, quartz porphyry was intruded as ring dykes along the ring fracture near the southwestern caldera rim. Subsequently the central part of the caldera floor began to be uplifted into a circular resurgent dome by the rising of residual magma. Concurrent with the resurgent doming, the volcaniclastic sediments of Hwajeri Formation were accumulated in the caldera moat and then rhyodacite lava erupted from the initial central resurgent dome and another ash-flow tuff from the northern ring fracture. After the sedimentation, the find-grained granodiorite was intruded as an arc along the eastern ring fracture of the caldera. Finally in the central part, the resurgent magma was emplaced as a hornblende biotite granite stock that formed the central dome.
원동 칼데라의 화산작용은 화도에서 어떤 외부물과 상호작용되는 수증기마그마성 분출작용으로 시작하여 점차 물의 유입이 차단됨으로써 저플리언 분출작용으로 전환되었으며 이는 다시 회류분출로 전환되었다. 이 회류분출은 초기에는 중앙화구로부터 일어났으며 후기에는 환상 열극화구로 전환되었다. 이러한 환상 열극화구로부터 회류분출의 방출율이 급격히 커짐으로써 원동 칼데라가 형성되고 뒤이어 환상단열대를 따라 석영반암이 관입되어 환상암맥을 형성하였다. 그리고 이 칼데라 모우트에는 오랬동안 응회질 퇴적물이 채워지면서 반상유문암 용암이 초기 소생도움으로부터 분류되었으며, 환상단열대의 다른 틈을 따라 소량의 회류응회암이 분출되었다. 그리고 소생도움이 더 커지면서 세립질 화강섬록암이 관입되었으며, 마지막으로 지속적 소생작용으로 칼데라 중앙부에 각섬석 흑운모 화강암이 정치되어 완전한 소생도움을 형성하는 과정을 겪었다.
