Abstract Amphibole-dominated dehydration melting of gabbro is the primary process responsible for genesis adakites, low-K tonalites, modern trondhjemites, and plagiogranites as well Archean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite suites that represent earliest examples continental crust. Previous literature has mostly focused on role Al-rich amphibole during anatexis a mafic source many these studie...

This thesis compiles two distinct studies that both document the control of microstructures on rock seismic properties. The first part deals with the development of crystallographic preferred orientations (CPO) in the uppermost mantle associated with melt/fluid-rock interactions, recorded in peridotites xenoliths from the Japan sea back-arc basin. The microstructural and geochemical characteris...

The lava section in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, is chemically stratified and divided into a shallow lava sequence with low TiO2 content and a deeper lava sequence with high TiO2 content. We calculate the viscosity at magmatic temperature based on major element chemistry of lavas in Cyprus Crustal Drilling Project (CCSP) Holes CY-1 and 1A. We find that typical shallow low-Ti lavas have a magm...

Deep low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) are known to occur in dehydration phenomena from the subducting hydrous slab and magmatic beneath Quaternary volcanoes Japan. To realize spatial temporal characteristics of deep earthquakes, their hypocenters along with those ordinary overhead high-frequency analyzed six volcanic fields northeastern This trial clarifies rising basaltic magma conduits rheolo...

Teleseismic receiver functions are used to estimate the crustal structure beneath a 36-station, 500-km-long, NW oriented linear array centered on the eastern Snake River Plain and crossing the Yellowstone hotspot swell 250 km SW of Yellowstone. Structure derived previously for this region from wide-angle reflection data is used as an initial model, and ffiis structure explains most features obs...

Turbiditic sandstones from the mid–Late Cretaceous Tianba Flysch sequence are well exposed near Tianba in the north Nieru Valley, southern Tibet, and contain significant amounts of chrome-rich spinels. Microprobe results show that the spinels have a well-developed Fe-Ti trend and have Cr/( ) 0.4–0.65, Mg/( ) 0.3–0.9, and TiO2 2 Cr Al Mg Fe 11%. The occurrence of melt inclusions, and well above ...

Recommended Citation Burney, David. "Modeling the magmatic plumbing system beneath an off-rift volcanic deposit on Iceland, using textural analyses and geothermobarometry." MS ii To Laura and Hazel. Without you this never would have happened. iii ABSTRACT The emplacement of tholeiitic magmas along two NE-SW trending rift zones is the dominant mechanism of crustal accretion on Iceland. Small vol...