scholarly journals Vigorous Motions in Magma Chambers and Lava Lakes

1992 ◽  
pp. 141-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert E. Huppert ◽  
M. Grae Worster
Keyword(s):  
Magma Chambers ◽  
Lava Lakes

scholarly journals The fate of particles in a volumetrically heated convective fluid at high Prandtl number

2021 ◽  
Vol 929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Sturtz ◽  
Édouard Kaminski ◽  
Angela Limare ◽  
Stephen Tait
Keyword(s):  
Scaling Laws ◽  
Suspension Stability ◽  
Magma Chambers ◽  
Internal Heating ◽  
High Prandtl Number ◽  
Magma Oceans ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Lava Lakes ◽  
Convective Fluid ◽  
Key Parameter

The dynamics of suspensions plays a crucial role in the evolution of geophysical systems such as lava lakes, magma chambers and magma oceans. During their cooling and solidification, these magmatic bodies involve convective viscous fluids and dispersed solid crystals that can form either a cumulate or a floating lid by sedimentation. We study such systems based on internal heating convection experiments in high Prandtl fluids bearing plastic beads. We aim to determine the conditions required to produce a floating lid or a sedimented deposit. We show that, although the sign of particles buoyancy is the key parameter, it is not sufficient to predict the particles fate. To complement the model we introduce the Shields formalism and couple it with scaling laws describing convection. We propose a generalized Shields number that enables a self-consistent description of the fate of particles in the system, especially the possibility to segregate from the convective bulk. We provide a quantification of the partition of the mass of particles in the different potential reservoirs (bulk suspension, floating lid, settled cumulate) through reconciling the suspension stability framework with the Shields formalism. We illustrate the geophysical implications of the model by revisiting the problem of the stability of flotation crusts on solidifying rocky bodies.

TEMPERATURES AND BEHAVIORS OF LAVA LAKES FROM FIELD OBSERVATIONS AND COMPARISONS WITH IO

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jani Radebaugh ◽  
◽  
Rosaly Lopes ◽  
Robert Howell ◽  
Ralph Lorenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Observations ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Lava Lakes

scholarly journals Are plutons assembled over millions of years by amalgamation from small magma chambers?

GSA Today ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen F. Glazner ◽  
John M. Bartley ◽  
Drew S. Coleman ◽  
Walt Gray ◽  
Ryan Z. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Magma Chambers

scholarly journals Compositional Variation of Eudialyte-Group Minerals from the Lovozero and Ilímaussaq Complexes and on the Origin of Peralkaline Systems

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Lia N. Kogarko ◽  
Troels F. D. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Linear Trend ◽  
Major And Trace Elements ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Compositional Variation ◽  
Elemental Distribution ◽  
Magma Chambers ◽  
Eudialyte Group ◽  
System A ◽  
Distribution Of Elements ◽  
World Class

The Lovozero complex, Kola peninsula, Russia and the Ilímaussaq complex in Southwest Greenland are the largest known layered peralkaline intrusive complexes. Both host world-class deposits rich in REE and other high-tech elements. Both complexes expose spectacular layering with horizons rich in eudialyte group minerals (EGM). We present a detailed study of the composition and cryptic variations in cumulus EGM from Lovozero and a comparison with EGM from Ilímaussaq to further our understanding of peralkaline magma chambers processes. The geochemical signatures of Lovozero and Ilímaussaq EGM are distinct. In Lovozero EGMs are clearly enriched in Na + K, Mn, Ti, Sr and poorer Fe compared to EGM from Ilímaussaq, whereas the contents of ΣREE + Y and Cl are comparable. Ilímaussaq EGMs are depleted in Sr and Eu, which points to plagioclase fractionation and an olivine basaltic parent. The absence of negative Sr and Eu anomalies suggest a melanephelinitic parent for Lovozero. In Lovozero the cumulus EGMs shows decrease in Fe/Mn, Ti, Nb, Sr, Ba and all HREE up the magmatic layering, while REE + Y and Cl contents increase. In Lovozero EGM spectra show only a weak enrichment in LREE relative to HREE. The data demonstrates a systematic stratigraphic variation in major and trace elements compositions of liquidus EGM in the Eudialyte Complex, the latest and uppermost part of Lovozero. The distribution of elements follows a broadly linear trend. Despite intersample variations, the absence of abrupt changes in the trends suggests continuous crystallization and accumulation in the magma chamber. The crystallization was controlled by elemental distribution between EGM and coexisting melt during gravitational accumulation of crystals and/or mushes in a closed system. A different pattern is noted in the Ilimaussaq Complex. The elemental trends have variable steepness up the magmatic succession especially in the uppermost zones of the Complex. The differences between the two complexes are suggested to be related dynamics of the crystallization and accumulation processes in the magma chambers, such as arrival of new liquidus phases and redistributions by mush melts.

scholarly journals New insights on Br speciation in volcanic glasses and structural controls on halogen degassing

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 795-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Louvel ◽  
Anita Cadoux ◽  
Richard A. Brooker ◽  
Olivier Proux ◽  
Jean-Louis Hazemann
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
Divalent Cations ◽  
Stratospheric Ozone ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Aluminosilicate Glass ◽  
High Energy Resolution ◽  
Magma Chambers ◽  
Structural Controls ◽  
Volcanic Glasses ◽  
Melt Composition

Abstract The volcanic degassing of halogens, and especially of the heavier Br and I, received increased attention over the last 20 years due to their significant effect on atmospheric chemistry, notably the depletion of stratospheric ozone. While the effect of melt composition on halogen diffusion, solubility, or fluid-melt partitioning in crustal magma chambers has been thoroughly studied, structural controls on halogen incorporation in silicate melts remain poorly known, with only few studies available in simplified borosilicate or haplogranite compositions. Here, we demonstrate that high-energy resolution fluorescence detection X-ray absorption spectroscopy (HERFD-XAS) with a crystal analyzer spectrometer (CAS) is well-suited for the study of Br speciation in natural volcanic glasses which can contain lower Br concentrations than their laboratory analogs. Especially, HERFD-XAS results in sharper and better-resolved XANES and EXAFS features than previously reported and enables detection limits for EXAFS analysis down to 100 ppm when previous studies required Br concentrations above the 1000 ppm level. XANES and EXAFS analyses suggest important structural differences between synthetic haplogranitic glass, where Br is surrounded by Na and next-nearest oxygen neighbors, and natural volcanic glasses of basaltic to rhyodacitic compositions, where Br is incorporated in at least three distinct sites, surrounded by Na, K, or Ca. Similar environments, involving both alkali and alkaline earth metals have already been reported for Cl in Ca-bearing aluminosilicate glass and our study thus underlines that the association of Br with divalent cations (Ca2+) has been underestimated in the past due to the use of simplified laboratory analogs. Overall, similarities in Cl and Br structural environments over a large array of compositions (46–67 wt% SiO2) suggest that melt composition alone may not have a significant effect on halogen degassing and further support the coupled degassing of Cl and Br in volcanic systems.

scholarly journals Replenished magma chambers: effects of compositional zonation and input rates

1982 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert E. Huppert ◽  
J. Stewart Turner ◽  
R. Stephen ◽  
J. Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Magma Chambers ◽  
Compositional Zonation

The crystallization of lava lakes

1993 ◽  
Vol 98 (B9) ◽  
pp. 15891 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Grae Worster ◽  
Herbert E. Huppert ◽  
R. Stephen J. Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Lava Lakes
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