A multidisciplinary study of samples that were dredged during cruises of the R/V Vulkanolog was continued in order to interpret results from a survey of the anomalous magnetic field on the Pacific seafloor. We acquired data on the main ferromagnetic carrier and the nature of magnetization. The naturally occurring magnetic parameters and petromagnetic properties of the rocks that make up the edifices of the Sofu underwater volcanic cluster at the Izu-Bonin island arc have been studied. We provide the results of thermomagnetic, petrologic, and microprobe studies of the dredged samples. It is shown that the main magnetic mineral carriers of natural remanent magnetization are unaltered titanomagnetite and oxidized titanomagnetite. The differentiation of rocks over values of natural remanent magnetization was due to different crystallization conditions for titanomagnetite, while that over magnetic susceptibility was controlled by the magnetic grain size. The structural, mineralogic, and petrographic features of the samples show that they were taken from rocks that were discharged during different phases of eruptions.

Представлены результаты исследования лавовых потоков вулкана Безымянный различного возраста - от древних (около 3500 лет назад) до современных (1985-1989 гг.). Приводится подробная характеристика состава, строения и петрофизических свойств основных типов слагающих их пород - андезитов и андезибазальтов. Установлено, что главным фактором, определяющим свойства пород, является их пористость; влияние структурно-минералогических особенностей проявляется в меньшей степени. Показана динамика изменения свойств пород лавовых потоков в зависимости от их возраста: чем древнее породы, тем выше показатели их плотности и прочности и ниже значения пористости.

The paper describes petrophysical changes of Neogene-Quaternary volcanic rocks from Mutnovsky volcanic region under the action of hydrothermal processes. It was concluded that hydrothermal alterations lead to remarkable changes of physical and mechanical properties of rocks however the tendency of properties variation is different depending from a number of factors. Propylitization causes rocks consolidation, hardening, an increase of elastic properties, a decrease of porosity and disappearing of hygroscopic moisture. The influence of low-temperature fluids on the rocks is not so unequivocally. There can be a decrease as well as an increase of petrophysical properties. The sharp difference by properties, the structure of pore-space and the character and speed of hydrothermal alterations is observed between lavas and volcaniclastic rocks. However the primary differences between these rocks can disappear due to an intensive hydrothermal activity.

Rare-earth elements in historic basaltic lavas are characterized for the first time (1932—1985), for Klyuchevskoi volcano. Analysis of petrochemical data and phenomenological observations show that traces of differentiation are absent in alumina lavas. Alumina and magnesian basaltz originate from one source (chamber).