High and low pressure phase equilibria of a mildly alkalic lava from the 1965 Surtsey eruption: Experimental results |
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| Authors: | P Thy |
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| Institution: | NASA, Johnson Space Center, SN2, Houston, TX 77058, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Melting experiments have been performed on a primitive, mildly alkalic glassy lava (10 wt.% MgO) from the 1965 eruption of the Surtsey volcano located at the tip of the south-eastern propagating rift zone of Iceland. At atmospheric pressure, approximately on the FMQ oxygen buffer, olivine (Fo81) crystallizes from 1240°C, followed by plagioclase (An70) from 1180°C and augite from 1140°C. The experimental glasses coexisting with olivine, plagioclase and augite are ferrobasaltic enriched in FeO (13.6–14.2 wt.%) and TiO2 (4.0–4.4 wt.%). In high pressure, piston-cylinder, graphite-controlled runs, olivine occurs as the liquidus phase until 14 kbar, above which augite is the liquidus phase. Low-Ca pyroxene is not a liquidus phase at any pressure. The high pressure liquids are, relative to the one atmosphere liquids, significantly enriched in Al2O3 and Na2O and depleted in CaO as a result of changes in the crystallizing assemblages. Furthermore, liquidus augite is dominantly subcalcic and shows significant enrichment in Al and depletion in Ti. Subliquidus plagioclase is enriched in sodium relative to low pressure phase compositions. Evaluated in normative projections, contrasting liquid lines of descent are revealed as a function of pressure. At one atmosphere, the multisaturated liquids are located close to the thermal divide defined by the plane olivine-plagioclase-augite, but appear, with advanced degrees of crystallization, to be moving away from the thermal divide toward normative quartz. The augites crystallizing in the one atmosphere experiments are calcic and slightly nepheline normative. In the 10 and 12.5 kbar experiments, the augites become subcalcic and dominantly hypersthene normative. Because of this shift in augite compositions, transitional basaltic liquids may at high pressure evolve from the tholeiitic side of the olivine-plagioclase-diopside normative divide onto the alkalic side. With increasing pressure above 15 kbar, the liquidus augite compositions move back toward the olivine-plagioclase-diopside normative divide. |
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