Rhyolite themobarometry and the shallowing of the magma reservoir, Coso volcanic field, California

Journal of Petrology
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Abstract

The compositionally bimodal Pleistocene Coso volcanic field is located at the western margin of the Basin and Range province ∼60 km north of the Garlock fault. Thirty-nine nearly aphyric high-silica rhyolite domes were emplaced in the past million years: one at 1 Ma from a transient magma reservoir, one at ∼0·6 Ma, and the rest since ∼0·3 Ma. Over the past 0·6 My, the depth from which the rhyolites erupted has decreased and their temperatures have become slightly higher. Pre-eruptive conditions of the rhyolite magmas, calculated from phenocryst compositions using the two-oxide thermometer and the Al-in-hornblende barometer, ranged from 740°C and 270 MPa (2·7 kbar; ∼10 km depth) for the ∼0·6 Ma magma, to 770°C and 140 MPa (1·4 kbar; ∼5·5 km) for the youngest (∼0·04 Ma) magma. Results are consistent with either a single rhyolitic reservoir moving upward through the crust, or a series of successively shallower reservoirs. As the reservoir has become closer to the surface, eruptions have become both more frequent and more voluminous.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Rhyolite themobarometry and the shallowing of the magma reservoir, Coso volcanic field, California
Series title Journal of Petrology
DOI 10.1093/petrology/41.1.149
Volume 41
Issue 1
Year Published 2000
Language English
Publisher Oxford Academic
Contributing office(s) Volcano Science Center
Description 26 p.
First page 149
Last page 174
Country United States
State California
Other Geospatial Magma Reservoir, Coso Volcanic Field
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