The Temporal Variation of Magma Plumbing System of the Kattadake Pyroclastics in the Zao Volcano, Northeastern Japan

The geologic and petrologic study of the Kattadake pyroclastics (around 10 ka) from the Zao volcano (NE Japan) revealed the structure of the magma plumbing system and the mixing behavior of the shallow chamber. The Kattadake pyroclastic succession is divided into lower and upper parts by a remarkable discontinuity. All rocks belong to medium-K, calc-alkaline rock series and correspond to ol-cpx-opx basaltic-andesite to andesite with 20–28 vol% phenocrystic modal percentage. All rocks were formed by mixing between andesitic magma and near aphyric basalt. The petrologic features of andesites of lower and upper parts are similar, 59–61 wt% SiO2, having low-An plagioclase and low-Mg pyroxenes, with pre-eruptive conditions corresponding to 960–980 °C, 1.9–3.5 kb, and 1.9–3.4 wt% H2O. However, the basalts were ca. 49.4 wt% SiO2 with Fo~84 olivine in the lower part and 51.8 wt% SiO2 with Fo~81 olivine and high-An plagioclase the in upper one. The percentage of basaltic magma in the mixing process was lower, but the temperature of the basalt was higher in the lower part than the upper one. This means that the shallow magma chamber was reactivated more efficiently by the hotter basalts and that the mixed magma with a 70–80% of melt fraction was formed by a smaller percentage of the basaltic magma.

Geochemistry of basic magmatism of Western Antarctic Rift: implications for volatiles storage and recycling in the mantle

<p>The petrologic study of olivine-hosted melt inclusions (MIs) from alkaline primary Cenozoic basalts of Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) provide new insights on the role of volatiles in the onset of rift-related magmatism. The concentration of volatile species (H<sub>2</sub>O, CO<sub>2</sub>, F, Cl) have been determined by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) on a selection of MIs which have been previously re-homogenized at high pressure and temperature conditions in order to avoid any heterogeneity and reducing the H diffusion. The least differentiated MIs vary in composition from basanitic to alkaline basalts, analogously to what is found in McMurdo volcanics, while their volatile concentrations reach up to 2.64 wt% H<sub>2</sub>O, 3900 ppm CO<sub>2</sub>, 1377 ppm F and 1336 Cl. Taking into account the most undegassed MIs a H<sub>2</sub>O/(H<sub>2</sub>O+CO<sub>2</sub>) ratio equal to 0.88 was determined, which in turn brings the CO<sub>2</sub> content in the basanitic melt with the highest water content up to 8800 ppm.</p><p>Major and trace element melting modelling indicate that basanite and alkali basalt composition can be reproduced by 3 and 7% of partial melting of an amphibole-bearing spinel lherzolite respectively. Assuming a perfect incompatible behavior for H<sub>2</sub>O and CO<sub>2</sub> these melting proportions allow to constrain the water and CO<sub>2</sub> contents in the mantle source in the range 780-840 and 264-273 ppm respectively. The resulting CO<sub>2</sub>/Nb, CO<sub>2</sub>/Ba and H<sub>2</sub>O/Ce ratio are lower than those estimated for Depleted MORB Mantle (DMM), suggesting that the NVL Cenozoic alkaline magmatism could be originated by an enriched mantle source composed by a range from 70% to 60% of Enriched Mantle (EM) and from 30% to 40% of Depleted Morb Mantle (DMM).</p><p>A global comparison of fluid-related, highly incompatible and immobile/low incompatible elements such as Li, K, Cl, Ba, Nb, Dy and Yb allow to put forward that the prolonged (~500 to 100 Ma) Ross subduction event played a fundamental role in  providing the volatile budget into the lithospheric mantle before the onset of the Cenozoic continental rifting.</p>