The colonization of Earth landmasses by vascular plants around 430 million years ago substantially impacted erosion and sediment transport mechanisms. This left behind fingerprints in magmatic rocks, linking the evolution Earth’s biosphere with its internal processes.

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.12.014 ⇑ Fax: +1 480 965 8102. E-mail address: [email protected] The surface of Mercury contains ancient volcanic features and signs of pyroclastic activity related to unknown magmatic volatiles. Here, the nature of possible magmatic volatiles (H, S, C, Cl, and N) is discussed in the contexts of formation and evolution of...

Four distinct types of fluid inclusion are associated with brecciation, alteration and mineralization in the Ilkwang Cu–W breccia-pipe deposit in the southeastern Kyongsang Basin, South Korea. The earliest fluid inclusions in igneous quartz have salinities of 35–49 wt% NaCl equiv. and homogenize by halite dissolution. This fluid exsolved directly from the melt. A CO2-bearing fluid (2–4 wt% NaCl...

Accurate and precise ages of large silicic eruptions are critical to calibrating the geologic timescale and gauging the tempo of changes in climate, biologic evolution, and magmatic processes throughout Earth history. The conventional approach to dating these eruptive products using the 40Ar/39Ar method is to fuse dozens of individual feldspar crystals. However, dispersion of fusion dates is co...

The Altiplano-Puna Magma Body (APMB) in the Central Andes is the largest imaged magma reservoir on Earth, and is located within the second highest orogenic plateau on Earth, the Altiplano-Puna. Although the APMB is a first-order geologic feature similar to the Sierra Nevada batholith, its role in the surface uplift history of the Central Andes remains uncertain. Here we show that a long-wavelen...