Magma hybridisation and diffusive exchange recorded in heterogeneous glasses from Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat

Humphreys, M.C.S.; Edmonds, M.; Christopher, T.; Hards, V.. 2010 Magma hybridisation and diffusive exchange recorded in heterogeneous glasses from Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (1), L00E06. 10.1029/2009GL041926

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Abstract/Summary

Arc volcanoes commonly show evidence of mixing between mafic and silicic magma. Melt inclusions and matrix glasses in andesite erupted from Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, include an anomalously K2O‐rich population which shows close compositional overlap with residual glass from mafic inclusions. We suggest that these glasses represent the effects of physical mixing with mafic magma, both during ascent and by diffusive exchange during the formation of mafic inclusions. Many glasses are enriched only in K2O, suggesting diffusive contamination by high‐K mafic inclusion glass; others are also enriched in TiO2, suggesting physical mixing of remnant glass. Some mafic inclusion glasses have lost K2O. The preservation of this K‐rich melt component in the andesite suggests short timescales between mixing and ascent. Diffusive timescales are consistent with independent petrological estimates of magma ascent time.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2009GL041926
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2010 > BGS Corporate
ISSN:	0094-8276
Date made live:	03 Jun 2010 09:27 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9943

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