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Andersen, Nathan L., Singer, Brad S., Costa, Fidel, Fournelle, John, Herrin, Jason S. and Fabbro, Gareth N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5334-2010
(2018)
Petrochronologic perspective on rhyolite volcano unrest at Laguna del Maule, Chile.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 493.
pp. 57-70.
ISSN 0012-821X
Abstract
Rhyolitic magmas have rarely erupted during historical times, thus we have a poor record of the signals of unrest that precede them. The Laguna del Maule volcanic field (LdM), Chile, is in the midst of a decade-long episode of unrest including surface inflation at more than 200 mm/yr. Geomorphic observations indicate that many similar deformation episodes occurred during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. During this time, approximately 40 km3 of rhyolite has erupted effusively and explosively from at least 24 vents distributed around a 300 km2 lake basin. The large volume, protracted eruptive history, and ongoing unrest of LdM offer an unusual opportunity to integrate petrologic reconstructions of recent rhyolite generation with geophysical and geodetic observations associated with an active, growing magma reservoir. New petrochronologic data shows that the most recent rhyolites, erupted during the last 3200 yr, each resided in the shallow crust for only decades following extraction from an underlying reservoir. The rhyolites contain only limited, cryptic evidence for magma replenishment and reheating in the form of Ba concentration spikes in plagioclase, which suggest biotite breakdown in a crystal-rich mush. The absence of evidence for substantial reheating or mixing with intruding magma preceding the rhyolitic eruptions indicates that they must have been triggered by another process. We propose the accumulation of fluids derived from the deeper degassing of mafic melts is capable of pressurizing eruptible magma bodies of low density rhyolite. This process likely continues to this day and is consistent with the best-fit models of the ongoing unrest. The striking absence of visible surface degassing accompanying the unrest at LdM suggests fluids are trapped beneath an impermeable carapace and could catalyze a future explosive eruption.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: Allison Rubin is thanked for analytical assistance during the 2014 LA-ICP-MS session. This work greatly benefited from many fruitful discussions with Hélène Le Mével, Judy Fierstein, and the LdM research group. Christy Till and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for thorough and constructive comments and Tamsin Mather for editorial handling. This research is supported by the US NSF ( EAR-1322595 , EAR-1411779 to BSS) and an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes fellowship to NLA ( 1414759 ). BSS is grateful for an appointment as a Visiting Professor at EOS-NTU during which the 2015 LA-ICP-MS session was completed. FC research was supported by a National Research Foundation Investigatorship Award ( NRF-NRFI2017-06 ). Appendix A Funding Information: Allison Rubin is thanked for analytical assistance during the 2014 LA-ICP-MS session. This work greatly benefited from many fruitful discussions with Hélène Le Mével, Judy Fierstein, and the LdM research group. Christy Till and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for thorough and constructive comments and Tamsin Mather for editorial handling. This research is supported by the US NSF (EAR-1322595, EAR-1411779 to BSS) and an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes fellowship to NLA (1414759). BSS is grateful for an appointment as a Visiting Professor at EOS-NTU during which the 2015 LA-ICP-MS session was completed. FC research was supported by a National Research Foundation Investigatorship Award (NRF-NRFI2017-06). Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier B.V. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | andes,diffusion timescales,eruption trigger,plagioclase,rhyolite,trace elements,geophysics,geochemistry and petrology,earth and planetary sciences (miscellaneous),space and planetary science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1908 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Geosciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2023 01:16 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89212 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.043 |
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