Xenolith digestion in large magma bodies

Details Xenolith digestion in large magma bodies Xenolith digestion in large magma bodies

Feb 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985lpsc...15..585w&link_type=abstract

(Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA, American Geophysical Union, et al., Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 15th, Houston,

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Dissolving, Inclusions, Magma, Petrology, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Silicates, Size (Dimensions), Sodium Chlorides, Planets, Magma, Xenoliths, Subsidence, Dissolution, Experiments, Dynamics, Analogs, Parameters, Size, Crystals, Evolution

Scientific paper

Xenolith digestion during sinking in a corrosive magma is treated with a surface-controlled dissolution relation suggested from recent experiments on silicate crystals. The relation is shown to apply to a wide range of dynamical regimes from analog experiments on NaCl dissolution in water. Using this relation, xenolith penetration by sinking into magmas is shown to be strongly dependent on xenolith size. Crystal sinking is unimportant but sinking of meter-sized chunks can be a major process of mass and heat transport in planetary-scale magma body evolution. This evolution cannot be adequately treated with current information.

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