Origin of crystal-poor, differentiated magmas: insights from thermal gradient experiments |
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| Authors: | Matteo Masotta Carmela Freda Mario Gaeta |
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| Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza—Universit? di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy;(2) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605, 00143 Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Crystal-poor, differentiated magmas are commonly erupted from shallow, thermally zoned magma chambers. In order to constrain
the origin of these magmas, we have experimentally investigated crystallization, differentiation and crystal-melt separation
in presence of a thermal gradient. Experiments have been designed taking advantage of the innate temperature gradient of the
piston cylinder apparatus and carried out on a phonolitic system at 0.3 GPa and temperature ranging from 1,050 to 800°C. Crystallization
degree and melt composition in experimental products vary as a function of the temperature gradient. In particular, melt composition
differentiates from tephri-phonolite (starting material) to phonolite moving from the hotter, glassy zone (T ≤ 1,050°C) towards the cooler, heterogeneously crystallized zone (T ≤ 900°C) of the charge. The heterogeneously crystallized zone is made up of: (1) a crystal-rich, mushy region (crystallinity
>30 vol%), (2) a rigid crystal framework (crystallinity ≤80 vol%) and (3) glassy belts of phonolitic glass at the top. Thermal
gradient experiments picture crystallization, differentiation and crystal-melt separation processes occurring in a thermally
zoned environment and reveal that relatively large volumes of crystal-poor melt (glassy belts) can originate as a consequence
of the instability and collapse of the rigid crystal framework. Analogously, in thermally zoned magma chambers, the development
and collapse of a solidification front may represent the controlling mechanism originating large volumes of crystal-poor,
differentiated magmas. |
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