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Thermal evolution of silicic magma chambers after basalt replenishments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Takehiro Koyaguchi  and
Katsuya Kaneko
Takehiro Koyaguchi
Affiliation:
Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033,Japan; e-mail: [email protected]
Katsuya Kaneko
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba 305-8567,Japan; e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In order to understand the governing factors of petrological features of erupted magmas of island-arc or continental volcanoes, thermal fluctuations of subvolcanic silicic magma chambers caused by intermittent basalt replenishments are investigated from the theoretical viewpoint. When basaltic magmas are repeatedly emplaced into continental crust, a long-lived silicic magma chamber may form. A silicic magma chamber within surrounding crust is composed of crystal-melt mixtures with variable melt fractions. We define the region which behaves as a liquid in a mechanical sense (‘liquid part’) and the region which is in the critical state between liquid and solid states (‘mush’) collectively as a magma chamber in this study. Such a magma chamber is surrounded by partially molten solid with lower melt fractions. Erupted magmas are considered to be derived from the liquid part. The size of a silicic magma chamber is determined by the long-term balance between heat supply from basalt and heat loss by conduction, while the temperature and the volume of the liquid part fluctuate in response to individual basalt inputs. Thermal evolution of a silicic magma chamber after each basalt input is divided into two stages. In the first stage, the liquid part rapidly propagates within the magma chamber by melting the silicic mush, and its temperature rises above and decays back to the effective fusion temperature of the crystal-melt mixture on a short timescale. In some cases the liquid part no longer exists. In the second stage, the liquid part ceases to propagate and cools slowly by heat conduction on a much longer timescale. The petrological features of the liquid part, such as the amount of unmelted preexisting crystals, depend on the intensity of individual pulses of the basalt heat source and the degree of fractionation during the first stage, as well as the bulk composition of the silicic magma.

Keywords

conductionconvectiongranitemass and heat transfermush
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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 91 , Issue 1-2: Fourth Hutton Symposium: The Origin of Granites and Related Rocks , 2000 , pp. 47 - 60
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2000

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