Partial melting below the magmatic arc in the central Andes deduced from geoelectromagnetic field experiments and laboratory data

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Oct 1997

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, v. 103, p. 17-31.

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Magnetotelluric and geomagnetic deep soundings in northern Chile revealed a pronounced high conductivity zone (HCZ). Below the Western Cordillera, which constitutes the present magmatic arc with active volcanism of the South American continental margin, conductivities in the range of 1 S/m are observed. The anomalously high conductivities in a broad depth range from approximately 20 km to at least 60 km, are interpreted in terms of partial melting. Other geophysical observations, such as a zone of low seismic velocities (LVZ) at similar depths, high heat flow values (> 100 mW/m2) and a pronounced negative anomaly in the residual gravity field, are also considered. Impedance spectroscopic laboratory experiments up to and in the temperature range of partial melting were performed under controlled oxygen fugacities. At sub-solidus temperatures, electrical behavior is described by defect electrons with an activation energy of 1.34 eV and a conductivity of 2.5 mS/m at 900°C. Model calculations using a modified-brick-layer model (MBL) were compared with experimental observations. A good agreement between calculations and experiments is achieved with an electrical resistivity of the melt phase of 7 S/m at 1250°C assuming an activation energy of 1 eV. The same MBL model is used to calculate melt proportions beneath the Western Cordillera. Between 14 and 27 vol.% of interconnected melt are necessary to explain the observed HCZ. The stability of the melt rich crust is explained by a dynamic melting-crystallisation behavior during crustal anatexis and by magma filled dikes.

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