Climbing the crustal ladder: Magma storage-depth evolution during a volcanic flare-up

Gualda, Guilherme R.; Gravley, Darren M.; Connor, Michelle; Hollmann, Brooke; Pamukcu, Ayla S.; Bégué, Florence; Ghiorso, Mark S.; Deering, Chad D.

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aap7567

Title: Climbing the crustal ladder: Magma storage-depth evolution during a volcanic flare-up

Journal Article · Wed Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Science Advances

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aap7567· OSTI ID:1482227

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Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand)
Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
OFM Research, Seattle, WA (United States)
Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI (United States)

Very large eruptions (>50 km³) and supereruptions (>450 km³) reveal Earth’s capacity to produce and store enormous quantities (>1000 km³) of crystal-poor, eruptible magma in the shallow crust. We explore the interplay between crustal evolution and volcanism during a volcanic flare-up in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ, New Zealand) using a combination of quartz-feldspar-melt equilibration pressures and time scales of quartz crystallization. Over the course of the flare-up, crystallization depths became progressively shallower, showing the gradual conditioning of the crust. Yet, quartz crystallization times were invariably very short (<100 years), demonstrating that very large reservoirs of eruptible magma were transient crustal features. We conclude that the dynamic nature of the TVZ crust favored magma eruption over storage. Episodic tapping of eruptible magmas likely prevented a supereruption. Instead, multiple very large bodies of eruptible magma were assembled and erupted in decadal time scales.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; FG02-94ER14466; EAR-1128799; EAR-1151337

OSTI ID:: 1482227

Journal Information:: Science Advances, Vol. 4, Issue 10; ISSN 2375-2548

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