Porosity evolution of mafic crystal mush during reactive flow. [PDF]
The emergence of the “mush paradigm” has raised several questions for conventional models of magma storage and extraction: how are melts extracted to form eruptible liquid-rich domains?
Gleeson MLM +2 more
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Insights for crystal mush storage utilizing mafic enclaves from the 2011-12 Cordón Caulle eruption. [PDF]
Two distinct types of rare crystal-rich mafic enclaves have been identified in the rhyolite lava flow from the 2011–12 Cordón Caulle eruption (Southern Andean Volcanic Zone, SVZ).
Winslow H +7 more
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Compositional boundary layers trigger liquid unmixing in a basaltic crystal mush. [PDF]
This study seeks to tackle the question of why intermediate magmatic rock compositions are poorly represented on the Earth’s surface. The authors do so by tracking the evolution of the physical behaviour of immiscible Fe-rich liquids within a sample ...
Honour VC +9 more
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Advances in seismic imaging of magma and crystal mush
Seismic imaging methods have provided detailed three-dimensional constraints on the physical properties of magmatic systems leading to invaluable insight into the storage, differentiation and dynamics of magma.
Michele Paulatto +5 more
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Consequences of a crystal mush-dominated magma plumbing system: a mid-ocean ridge perspective. [PDF]
Crystal mush is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for the evolution of igneous systems. Mid-ocean ridges provide a unique opportunity to study mush processes: geophysical data indicate that, even at the most magmatically robust fast-spreading ridges ...
Lissenberg CJ, MacLeod CJ, Bennett EN.
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Crystal scavenging from mush piles recorded by melt inclusions. [PDF]
The increasingly prevalent view of magmatic systems as mush-dominated challenges the common assumption that melt inclusions record the pre-eruptive storage and processing of the melts they were erupted with.
Wieser PE +4 more
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The thickness of the crystal mush on the floor of the Bushveld magma chamber. [PDF]
The thickness of the crystal mush on magma chamber floors can be constrained using the offset between the step-change in the median value of dihedral angles formed at the junctions between two grains of plagioclase and a grain of another phase (typically
Holness MB, Cawthorn RG, Roberts J.
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The processes driving the evolution of crystal mushes are often documented in complex systems where crystallization, assimilation, magma replenishment and mixing occur concurrently and are generally overprinted by compaction and deformation.
V. Basch, C. Ferrando, A. Sanfilippo
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Localized rejuvenation of a crystal mush recorded in zircon temporal and compositional variation at the Lassen Volcanic Center, northern California. [PDF]
Zircon ages and trace element compositions from recent silicic eruptions in the Lassen Volcanic Center (LVC) allow for an evaluation of the timing and conditions of rejuvenation (reheating and mobilization of crystals) within the LVC magmatic system. The
Klemetti EW, Clynne MA.
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Crystal mush processes and crustal magmatism [PDF]
Much of Earth’s magma is stored as extensive crystal mush systems, yet the prevalence of physical processes operating within mushes and their importance in volcanically active regions remain enigmatic. In this Review, we explore the physical properties and key processes of crystal mush systems. The initiation, evolution and decline of volcanic systems,
M. C. Humphreys +10 more
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