Storage conditions of Bezymianny volcano parental magmas: results of phase equilibria experiments at 100 and 700 MPaстатья
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Аннотация:The crystallization sequence of a basaltic andesite from Bezymianny Volcano, Kamchatka, Rus-
sia, was simulated experimentally at 100 and 700 MPa at various water activities (aH2O) to investigate the compositional evolution of residual liquids. The temperature(T) range of the experiments was 950–1,150C, aH2O varied between 0.1 and 1, and the log of oxygen fugacity (fO2) varied between quartz–fayalite–magnetite (QFM) and QFM ? 4.1. The comparison of the experimentally produced liquids and natural samples was used to constrain the pressure (P)–T–aH2O–fO2 conditions of the Bezymianny parental magma in the intra-crustal magma plumbing system. The phase equilibria constraints suggest that parental basaltic andesite magmas should contain *2–2.5 wt% H2O; they can be stored in upper crustal levels at a depth of *15 km, and at this depth they start to crystallize at *1,110C. The subsequent chemical evolution of this parental magma most probably proceeded as decompressional crystallization occurred during magma ascent. The final depths at which crystallization productsaccumulated prior to eruption are not well constrained
experimentally but should not be shallower than 3–4 km because amphibole is present in natural magmas ([150 MPa). Thus, the major volume of Bezymianny andesites was produced in a mid-crustal magma chamber as a result of decompressional crystallization of parental
basaltic andesites, accompanied by mixing with silicic products from the earlier stages of magma fractionation. In addition, these processes are complicated by the release of
volatiles due to magma degassing, which occurs at various stages during magma ascent.