Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008e%26psl.276..293s&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 276, Issue 3-4, p. 293-301.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
Assessing the residence times of phonolite magmas in the shallow crust contributes to the understanding of explosive volcanic systems. Estimations of that by dating the residence time of a mineral in a melt was difficult in the past, because e.g. of the lack of evidence for the co-genetic character of the crystals dated. Here we present an estimate for the residence time of a phonolite magma feeding the Pomici di Mercato Plinian eruption (8890 ± 90 cal years BP) of Mt. Somma-Vesuvius (Southern Italy), employing U Th disequilibrium dating of unzoned Ca-rich phenocrystic magmatic garnets. Based on combined textural, geochemical, and Sr-O isotope evidence, these garnets can be identified as co-genetic with their host phonolites. Furthermore, experimental and petrological data suggest that Ca-garnets can be a liquidus phase in highly differentiated phonolite magmas of Mercato. A whole-rock glass garnet U Th isochron gives a crystallisation age for the Ca-rich garnets of 14,400 ± 1100 a (2σ). This implies a Ca-garnet residence time of 5510 ± 1100 years (2σ) in the Mercato phonolite melt prior to eruption and provides one of the first robust estimates of how long explosive phonolite magma has resided in the shallow crust before eruption. Calculations of magma cooling rates and settling velocities of the Ca-garnets confirm that garnet-bearing phonolite can remain liquid and the garnets remain suspended in a magma chamber for as long as 5510 years before the time of eruption. Processes which may have disturbed the U Th isotope systematic of the samples, such as assimilation, recharge or surface alteration can be ruled out.
Civetta Lucia
Heumann Arnd
Scheibner Birgit
Wörner Gerhard
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