A research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Earth Sciences, from the University of California and the Institute of Environmental Studies and Natural Resources of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) is carrying out a detailed geological mapping of the Timanfaya National Park and analyzing its geochemical characteristics.
This work has allowed discovering abundant tholeiitic lavas, a very rare type of magma in the Canary Islands that is generated in shallow oceanic ridges.
Another aspect of the work has been the documentary research, which has led to the discovery in the Simancas Archive of a large dossier with unpublished official accounts that narrate the development of the eruption and its effects on the island, a material of "great value" to better reconstruct the eruption of 1730.
To interpret these data and their importance, professors Francisco José Pérez Torrado and Juan Carlos Carracedo will give a new conference this Wednesday, November 20 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Mancha Blanca Interpretation Center, in Tinajo, entitled The Timanfaya eruption. New geological information about the eruptive event of 1730.
This conference is part of the program of activities that the Timanfaya National Park has prepared to celebrate its 50th anniversary. On this occasion, it does so in collaboration with the Royal Canarian Academy of Sciences, which this year will focus its scientific dissemination on the island of Lanzarote on the occasion of the half-century of life of the Lanzarote national park.
The capacity of the auditorium is limited and it is recommended to reserve a place through the registration form.
Two experts in geochemistry and volcanology from the Canary Islands
At 5:00 p.m., Professor Francisco José Pérez Torrado will speak with the conference Intraplate volcanic islands: Lanzarote.
Pérez Torrado is a professor of Petrology and Geochemistry at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and a specialist in Volcanology. He has developed most of his teaching work at the Faculty of Marine Sciences of the ULPGC.
After a break, at 6:30 p.m. it will be the turn of Juan Carlos Carracedo, who will offer a talk entitled The Timanfaya eruption: how they saw it and told it in 1730.
Carracedo holds a doctorate in Geological Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, a research professor at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and a researcher at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Until 2011 he was director of the Volcanological Station of the Canary Islands.
You can consult all the activities that will be held in Lanzarote on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Timanfaya National Park on the official website of the event.
