Paleomagnetic investigation of rhyolite lava: Is rhyolite with clearly marked flow structure a high-fidelity geomagnetic field recorder?

Emplacing a Cooling-Limited Rhyolite Lava Flow: Similarities with Basaltic Lava Flows

Accurate forecasts of lava flow length rely on estimates of eruption andmagma properties and, potentially more challengingly, on an understanding of the relative influence of characteristics such as the apparent viscosity, the yield strength of the flow core, or the strength of the lava’s surface crust. For basaltic lavas, the relatively high frequency of eruptions has resulted in numerous oppo...

Shock compression and isentropic release of rhyolite

Shock-wave equation of state of rhyolite

We have obtained new shock-wave equation of state (EOS) and release adiabat data for rhyolite. These data are combined with those of Swegle (1989, 1990) to give an experimental Hugoniot which is described by Us=2.53(±0.08)+3.393(±0.37)up for up<0.48 km s−1 , Us=3.85(±0.05)+0.65(±0.03)up for 0.48≤up<2.29 km s−1 , Us=1.52(±0.08)+1.67(±0.02)up for 2.29≤up<4.37 km s−1 , and Us=3.40(±034)+ 1.24(±0.0...

The Santa Rosa Event: 40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic results from the Valles rhyolite near Jaramillo Creek, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

The Jaramillo Event was originally defined by Doell and Dalrymple in 1966 on the basis of K^Ar ages from sanidine in the normally, transitionally and reversely magnetized rhyolite domes named Cerro del Abrigo, Cerro Santa Rosa I and Cerro Santa Rosa II, respectively, that erupted following collapse of the archetypal Valles Caldera, New Mexico. We have collected new paleomagnetic data from the t...

Thermodynamic and rheological properties of rhyolite and andesite melts

The heat capacities of a rhyolite and an andesite glass and liquid have been investigated from relativeenthalpy measurements made between 400 and 1800 K. For the glass phases, the experimental data agree with empirical models of calculation of the heat capacity. For the liquid phases, the agreement is less good owing to strong interactions between alkali metals and aluminum, which are not curre...