| Abstract: | This paper explores the hypothesis that chromate seams in the Stillwater Complex formed in response to periodic increases in total pressure in the chamber. Total pressure increased because of the positive ??V of nucleation of CO2 bubbles in the melt and their subsequent rise through the magma chamber, during which the bubbles increased in volume by a factor of 4-6. By analogy with the pressure changes in the summit chambers of Kilauea and Krafla volcanoes, the maximum variation was 0.2-0.25 kbar, or 5-10% of the total pressure in the Stillwater chamber. An evaluation of the likelihood of fountaining and mixing of a new, primitive liquid that entered the chamber with the somewhat more evolved liquid already in the chamber is based upon calculations using observed and inferred velocities and flow rates of basaltic magmas moving through volcanic fissures. The calculations indicate that hot, dense magma would have oozed, rather than fountained into the chamber, and early mixing of the new and residual magmas that could have resulted in chromite crystallizing alone did not take place. -from Author |
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| Citation Author: | Lipin, B. R. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Journal of Petrology |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Pressure increases, the formation of chromite seams, and the development of the ultramafic series in the Stillwater Complex, Montana; 1993; Article; Journal; Journal of Petrology; Lipin, B. R. |
| Citation Start Page: | 955 |
| Citation Volume: | 34 |
| Citation Year: | 1993 |
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| Text: | Pressure increases, the formation of chromite seams, and the development of the ultramafic series in the Stillwater Complex, Montana; 1993; Article; Journal; Journal of Petrology; Lipin, B. R. |
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| Date Other: | Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00 -0600 |
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