Crystal scavenging from mush piles recorded by melt inclusions

oleh: Penny E. Wieser, Marie Edmonds, John Maclennan, Frances E. Jenner, Barbara E. Kunz

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-12-01

Deskripsi

The increasingly prevalent view of magmatic systems as mush-dominated challenges the common assumption that melt inclusions record the pre-eruptive storage and processing of the melts they were erupted with. Here, the authors show that melt inclusions from Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i exhibit extreme compositional diversity, consistent with the accumulation of inclusion-bearing crystals in magmatic mush zones for >170 years before their eventual eruption in unrelated carrier melts.