NanoSIMS results from olivine-hosted melt embayments: Magma ascent rate during explosive basaltic eruptions

NanoSIMS results from olivine-hosted melt embayments: Magma ascent rate during explosive basaltic eruptions

Magma decompression rates during explosive eruptions of Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii, recorded by melt embayments

The decompression rate of magma as it ascends during volcanic eruptions is an important but poorly constrained parameter that controls many of the processes that influence eruptive behavior. In this study, we quantify decompression rates for basaltic magmas using volatile diffusion in olivine-hosted melt tubes (embayments) for three contrasting eruptions of Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii. Incomplete e...

Chemical zonation in olivine-hosted melt inclusions

Significant zonation in major, minor, trace, and volatile elements has been documented in naturally glassy olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Siqueiros Fracture Zone and the Galapagos Islands. Components with a higher concentration in the host olivine than in the melt (e.g., MgO, FeO, Cr2O3, and MnO) are depleted at the edges of the zoned melt inclusions relative to their centers, whereas ...

Lava Flows during Basaltic Eruptions

12 Observations in the USA, Iceland, and Tenerife, Canary Islands, reveal how processes occurring 13 during basaltic eruptions can result in complex physical and stratigraphic relationships between lava 14 and proximal tephra fall deposits around vents. Observations illustrate how basaltic lavas can 15 disrupt, dissect (spatially and temporally) and alter sheet-form fall deposits. Complexity ar...

Variations in Melt Productivity and Melting Conditions along SWIR (708E^498E): Evidence from Olivine-hosted and Plagioclase-hosted Melt Inclusions

Melt inclusion and host glass compositions from the eastern end of the Southwest IndianRidge showaprogressive depletion in light rare earth elements (LREE), Na8 and (La/Sm)n, but an increase in Fe8, from the NE (648E) towards the SW (498E).These changes indicate an increase in the degree of mantle melting towards the SWand correlate with a shallowing of the ridge axial depth and increase in cru...