Decompression Experiments on Rhyolitic Melt Embayments
Abstract:
This dataset presents volatile element (H2O + CO2) gradient analyses in experimentally decompressed rhyolitic melt (glass) embayments. In these experiments, natural quartz-hosted embayment glasses were re-equilibrated at high pressure (150 MPa) and temperature (780 °C) prior to controlled decompression to 10-30 MPa at various rates (0.005-0.05 MPa/s). The experiments were conducted using the cold-seal pressure vessels at the University of Oregon's Experimental Petrology and Geochemistry Laboratory, and diffusion-limited volatile gradients in glasses were analyzed by FTIR spectroscopy (Nicolet iN10 MX) at Montana State University. The purpose of this dataset is to address the longstanding need for validation of the embayment speedometer, a petrological tool that is increasingly being used to estimate magma decompression rates for explosive eruptions.
How to cite this dataset:
Hosseini, B., Myers, M. L., Watkins, J. M., Harris, M. A., 2023. Decompression Experiments on Rhyolitic Melt Embayments, Version 1.0. Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA).
https://doi.org/10.26022/IEDA/112852. Accessed 2025-01-15.
DOI Creation Date:
2023-04-03
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International [CC-BY-SA-4.0]
Funding source(s):
National Science Foundation:
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Coverage Scope: Other
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User Contributed Keyword(s):
Decompression experiments, magma decompression rates, volatiles, diffusion, melt embayments
Data Available On:
2023-05-31