The Ammonia Tanks Tuff: Erupting a melt-rich rhyolite cap and its remobilized crystal cumulate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 518-525

  Deering, C D ^a   Bachmann, O ^a   Vogel, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia Tanks; Assimilation; Crystal cumulate; Recharge; Silicic; Zoned ignimbrite

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; CHEMICAL GRADIENTS; CRYSTAL FRACTION; CRYSTAL FRACTIONATION; ERUPTION DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMICAL MODELS; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; IGNIMBRITES; IN-SITU; INDUCED HEATING; INTERSTITIAL LIQUID; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; RECHARGE; RHYOLITIC; RHYOLITIC MELTS; SHALLOW RESERVOIRS; SILICIC; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

BARIUM; LIQUIDS; STRONTIUM; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCONIUM;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLINITY; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNIMBRITE; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOBILIZATION; RHYOLITE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACHYTE; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 80053442625     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.032     Document Type: Article

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