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Magma mixing in the 1100 AD Montaña Reventada composite lava flow, Tenerife, Canary Islands: Interaction between rift zone and central volcano plumbing systems
Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, 2 College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Solid Earth Geology.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Solid Earth Geology.
Estación Volcanológica de Canarias, IPNA-CSIC, Av. Astrofísica Francisco Sanchez 3, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
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2011 (English)In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, ISSN 0010-7999, E-ISSN 1432-0967, Vol. 162, no 3, p. 651-669Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Zoned eruption deposits commonly show a lower felsic and an upper mafic member, thought to reflect eruption from large, stratified magma chambers. In contrast, the Montaña Reventada composite flow (Tenerife) consists of a lower basanite and a much thicker upper phonolite. A sharp interface separates basanite and phonolite, and chilled margins at this contact indicate the basanite was still hot upon emplacement of the phonolite, i.e. the two magmas erupted in quick succession. Four types of mafic to intermediate inclusions are found in the phonolite. Inclusion textures comprise foamy quenched ones, others with chilled margins and yet others that are physically mingled, reflecting progressive mixing with a decreasing temperature contrast between the end-members. Analysis of basanite, phonolite and inclusions for majors, traces and Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes show the inclusions to be derived from binary mixing of basanite and phonolite end-members in ratios of 2:1 to 4:1. Although, basanite and phonolite magmas were in direct contact, contrasting 206Pb/204Pb ratios show that they are genetically distinct (19.7193(21)–19.7418(31) vs. 19.7671(18)–19.7807(23), respectively). We argue that the Montaña Reventada basanite and phonolite first met just prior to eruption and had limited interaction time only. Montaña Reventada erupted from the transition zone between two plumbing systems, the phonolitic Teide-Pico Viejo complex and the basanitic Northwest rift zone. A rift zone basanite dyke most likely intersected the previously emplaced phonolite magma chamber. This led to eruption of geochemically and texturally unaffected basanite, with the inclusion-rich phonolite subsequently following into the established conduit.

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Springer, 2011. Vol. 162, no 3, p. 651-669
Keywords [en]
Magma mixing, basanite, phonolite, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Reventada
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Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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Earth Science with specialization in Mineral Chemistry, Petrology and Tectonics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-132696DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0596-xISI: 000294216500013OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-132696DiVA, id: diva2:358878
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Erratum in: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2011, vol. 162, pp 671-673, doi: 10.1007/s00410-011-0668-6

Available from: 2010-10-25 Created: 2010-10-25 Last updated: 2017-12-12Bibliographically approved
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1. Processes of Magma-crust Interaction: Insights from Geochemistry and Experimental Petrology
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2010 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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This work focuses on crustal interaction in magmatic systems, drawing on experimental petrology and elemental and isotope geochemistry. Various magma-chamber processes such as magma-mixing, fractional crystallisation and magma-crust interaction are explored throughout the papers comprising the thesis. Emphasis is placed on gaining insights into the extent of crustal contamination in ocean island magmas from the Canary Islands and the processes of magma-crust interaction observed both in nature and in experiments. This research underscores that the compositions of ocean island magmas, even primitive types which are classically used as probes of the mantle, are susceptible to modification by crustal contamination. The principal mechanisms of contamination identified from work on both Tenerife and Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) are assimilation and partial melting of the pre-existing island edifice and intercalated sediments by newly arriving magma (i.e. “island recycling”). The information that we can gain from studying solidified magma and entrained crustal xenoliths concerning the rates and mechanisms of crustal assimilation is, however, limited. To address this shortcoming, a series of time-variable crustal carbonate assimilation experiments were carried out at magmatic pressure and temperature using natural materials from Merapi volcano, Indonesia. A temporally constrained reaction series of carbonate assimilation in magma has hence been constructed. The experiments were analysed using in-situ techniques to observe the progressive textural, elemental, and isotopic evolution of magma-carbonate interaction. Crucially, carbonate assimilation was found to liberate voluminous crustally-derived CO2 on a timescale of only seconds to minutes in the experiments. This points to the role of rapid crustal degassing in volcanic volatile budgets, and, pertinently, in magnifying hazardous volcanic behaviour. This thesis, therefore, delivers detailed insights into the processes of magma-crust interaction from experiments and geochemistry. The outcomes confirm that crustal processes are significant factors in both, i) ocean island magma genesis, and ii) magma differentiation towards compositions with greater explosive potential which can, in turn, manifest as hazardous volcanism.

 

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2010. p. 46
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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 777
Keywords
Canary Island magmatism, HP-HT experimental petrology, magma-crust interaction, Merapi volcano, radiogenic isotopes (Sr, Nd, Pb), stable isotopes (O, B).
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Geology
Research subject
Earth Science with specialization in Mineral Chemistry, Petrology and Tectonics
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-132702 (URN)978-91-554-7924-4 (ISBN)
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2010-12-03, Hambergsalen, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, Uppsala, 10:15 (English)
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Available from: 2010-11-12 Created: 2010-10-25 Last updated: 2013-01-09Bibliographically approved

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