TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnesian andesite and dacite lavas from Mt. Shasta, northern California
T2 - Products of fractional crystallization of H2O-rich mantle melts
AU - Grove, Timothy L.
AU - Baker, Michael B.
AU - Price, Richard C.
AU - Parman, Stephen W.
AU - Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.
AU - Chatterjee, Nilanjan
AU - Müntener, Othmar
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Acknowledgements The authors thank J. Donnelly-Nolan, T. Sisson and P. Wallace for thoughtful reviews. The authors also thank R.L. Christiansen for sharing unpublished mapping and analyses of Mt. Shasta and for guidance in the collection of lavas discussed in this paper. This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grants EAR-9706214, EAR-0073766 and OCE-00001821.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - Mt. Shasta andesite and dacite lavas contain high MgO (3.5-5 wt.%), very low FeO*/MgO (1-1.5) and 60-66 wt.% SiO2. The range of major and trace element compositions of the Shasta lavas can be explained through fractional crystallization (∼50-60 wt.%) with subsequent magma mixing of a parent magma that had the major element composition of an H2O-rich primitive magnesian andesite (PMA). Isotopic and trace element characteristics of the Mt. Shasta stratocone lavas are highly variable and span the same range of compositions that is found in the parental basaltic andesite and PMA lavas. This variability is inherited from compositional variations in the input contributed from melting of mantle wedge peridotite that was fluxed by a slab-derived, fluid-rich component. Evidence preserved in phenocryst assemblages indicates mixing of magmas that experienced variable amounts of fractional crystallization over a range of crustal depths from ∼25 to ∼4 km beneath Mt. Shasta. Major and trace element evidence is also consistent with magma mixing. Pre-eruptive crystallization extended from shallow crustal levels under degassed conditions (∼4 wt.% H2O) to lower crustal depths with magmatic H2O contents of ∼10-15 wt.%. Oxygen fugacity varied over 2 log units from one above to one below the Nickel-Nickel Oxide buffer. The input of buoyant H2O-rich magmas containing 10-15 wt.% H2O may have triggered magma mixing and facilitated eruption. Alternatively, vesiculation of oversaturated H2O-rich melts could also play an important role in mixing and eruption.
AB - Mt. Shasta andesite and dacite lavas contain high MgO (3.5-5 wt.%), very low FeO*/MgO (1-1.5) and 60-66 wt.% SiO2. The range of major and trace element compositions of the Shasta lavas can be explained through fractional crystallization (∼50-60 wt.%) with subsequent magma mixing of a parent magma that had the major element composition of an H2O-rich primitive magnesian andesite (PMA). Isotopic and trace element characteristics of the Mt. Shasta stratocone lavas are highly variable and span the same range of compositions that is found in the parental basaltic andesite and PMA lavas. This variability is inherited from compositional variations in the input contributed from melting of mantle wedge peridotite that was fluxed by a slab-derived, fluid-rich component. Evidence preserved in phenocryst assemblages indicates mixing of magmas that experienced variable amounts of fractional crystallization over a range of crustal depths from ∼25 to ∼4 km beneath Mt. Shasta. Major and trace element evidence is also consistent with magma mixing. Pre-eruptive crystallization extended from shallow crustal levels under degassed conditions (∼4 wt.% H2O) to lower crustal depths with magmatic H2O contents of ∼10-15 wt.%. Oxygen fugacity varied over 2 log units from one above to one below the Nickel-Nickel Oxide buffer. The input of buoyant H2O-rich magmas containing 10-15 wt.% H2O may have triggered magma mixing and facilitated eruption. Alternatively, vesiculation of oversaturated H2O-rich melts could also play an important role in mixing and eruption.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00410-004-0619-6
DO - 10.1007/s00410-004-0619-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:11844263912
VL - 148
SP - 542
EP - 565
JO - Contributions of Mineralogy and Petrology
JF - Contributions of Mineralogy and Petrology
SN - 0010-7999
IS - 5
ER -