Volcanic ash is fragments of magma, and consists of minerals and volcanic glass. These materials in the ash can provide important information on the nature of the magma, because chemical compositions of magma usually show distinct features in each volcano, and because assemblages and compositions of minerals reflect their host melt. Using assemblages and chemical compositions of minerals and gl...

Over the last several hundred years, Stromboli has been characterized by steady-state Strombolian activity. The volcanic products are dominated by degassed and highly porphyritic (HP-magma) black scoria bombs, lapilli and lava flows of basaltic shoshonitic composition. Periodically (about one to three events per year), more energetic explosive eruptions also eject light coloured volatile-rich p...

the miocene pyroxene andesite lava flows are exposed in southeastern edge of urumieh dokhtar magmatic assemblage in iran. the hypocrystalline andesite in parts contain conspicuous co-magmatic igneous enclaves which are dark grey and occur mostly as spherical and occasionally as ribbon shapes with some showing chilled margins. petrographic study shows that the ribbon type enclaves have been form...

In order to explore the materials’ complexity induced by bubbles rising through mixing magmas, bubbleadvection experiments have been performed, employing natural silicate melts at magmatic temperatures. A cylinder of basaltic glass was placed below a cylinder of rhyolitic glass. Upon melting, bubbles formed from interstitial air. During the course of the experimental runs, those bubbles rose vi...

The mixing of magmas is a common phenomenon in explosive eruptions. Concentration variance is a useful metric of this process and its decay (CVD) with time is an inevitable consequence during the progress of magma mixing. In order to calibrate this petrological/volcanological clock we have performed a time-series of high temperature experiments of magma mixing. The results of these experiments ...

The interactions of magmas with their surroundings are important in the evolution igneous systems and crust. In this chapter, we conceptually distinguish assimilation from other modes magmatic interaction discuss a range geochemical models. We define its simplest form as an end-member mode which initial state ( t 0 ) that includes system melt solid wall rock evolves to later n where two entitie...