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Geophysical source conditions for basaltic lava from Santorini volcano based on geochemical modeling

Baziotis, Ioannis and Kimura, Jun-Ichi and Pantazidis, Avgoustos and Klemme, Stephan and Berndt, Jasper and Asimow, Paul (2018) Geophysical source conditions for basaltic lava from Santorini volcano based on geochemical modeling. Lithos, 316-317 . pp. 295-303. ISSN 0024-4937. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.07.027. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180730-095303577

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Abstract

Santorini volcano sits ~145 km above the Aegean Wadati-Benioff zone, where the African plate subducts northward beneath Eurasia. There are only a few localities in the whole Aegean where basaltic lavas primitive enough to constrain mantle processes beneath the Aegean arc can be found; in this work we analyzed one such locality, a basalt lava from the southern part of Santorini. We apply a suite of petrological tools (PRIMACALC2 and ABS5) in sequence to estimate magma chamber conditions, primary magma composition, mantle melting conditions, and slab dehydration conditions. Back-calculation modeling based on major-element chemistry yields shallow magma chamber conditions of P = 0.02 GPa, fO_2 = QFM + 2, and ~1 wt% H_2O in the primary magma. The estimated major element composition of this primary magma then leads to estimated mantle melting conditions of 2.1 GPa, 1353 °C, and F = 8%; whereas a more precise estimate derived from trace elementmodeling implies 1.7 GPa, 1323 °C, and F = 18%. Furthermore, the trace element model implies a slab flux derived from 4.6 GPa (~150 km slab depth). The estimated slab depth, magma segregation conditions, and magma chamber depth are all consistent with seismic observations, supporting slab dehydration in the seismically imaged steep slab interval and flux melting in a relatively hot mantle wedge.


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Asimow, Paul0000-0001-6025-8925
Additional Information:© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Received 26 April 2018, Accepted 26 July 2018, Available online 30 July 2018. J.I.-K. was funded by JSPS KAKENHI grant #JP15H02148, #JP16H01123, and #JP18H04372. PDA's participation in this study was funded by the US NSF, award EAR-1550934. We are grateful for the editorial handling by Andrew Kerr, and the fruitful comments made by two anonymous reviewers.
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)JP15H02148
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)JP16H01123
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)JP18H04372
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DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.07.027
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Official Citation:Ioannis Baziotis, Jun-Ichi Kimura, Avgoustos Pantazidis, Stephan Klemme, Jasper Berndt, Paul D. Asimow, Geophysical source conditions for basaltic lava from Santorini volcano based on geochemical modeling, Lithos, Volumes 316–317, 2018, Pages 295-303, ISSN 0024-4937, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.07.027. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024493718302664)
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