Multiple melt bodies fed the AD 2011 eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Caulle, Chile
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Alloway, B. V.
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Multiple melt bodies fed the AD 2011 eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Caulle, Chile
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Within the volcanological community there is a growing awareness that many large-to smallscale, point-source eruptive events can be fed by multiple melt bodies rather than from a single magma reservoir. In this study, glass shard major-and trace-element compositions were determined from tephra systematically sampled from the outset of the Puyehue-Corden Caulle (PCC) eruption (similar to 1 km(3)) in southern Chile which commenced on June 4th, 2011. Three distinct but cogenetic magma bodies were simultaneously tapped during the paroxysmal phase of this eruption. These are readily identified by clear compositional gaps in CaO, and by Sr/Zr and Sr/Y ratios, resulting from dominantly plagioclase extraction at slightly different pressures, with incompatible elements controlled by zircon crystallisation. Our results clearly demonstrate the utility of glass shard major-and trace-element data in defining the contribution of multiple magma bodies to an explosive eruption. The complex spatial association of the PCC fissure zone with the Liquine-Ofqui Fault zone was likely an influential factor that impeded the ascent of the parent magma and allowed the formation of discrete melt bodies within the sub-volcanic system that continued to independently fractionate.
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Artículo de publicación ISI
Patrocinador
Argentine PIP CONICET
2011 0311
FONCYT PICT
2010 2046
Iniciativa Cientifica Milenio grants
P02-51
NC120066
Chilean Fondecyt
1151469
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Scientific Reports 5:17589; 2015
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