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Journal of Petrology | Volume 44 | Number 9 | Pages 1703-1726 | 2003
© Oxford University Press 2003
Time-scales of Differentiation from Mafic Parents to Rhyolite in North American Continental Arcs
1 DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA CITY, IA 52242, USA
2 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, WOODS HOLE, MA 02543, USA
3 EXXON-MOBIL, 800 BELL STREET, HOUSTON, TX 77002, USA
4 MINNESOTA ISOTOPE LABORATORY, DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55455, USA
* Corresponding author. Telephone: 319-335-1802. Fax: 319-335-1821. E-mail: mark-reagan{at}uiowa.edu
Young rhyolites and associated lavas and magmatic enclaves from the Katmai–Novarupta volcanic system (Alaskan Peninsula), and the Crater Lake and Medicine Lake volcanic system (Cascades) were analyzed for U and Th isotope abundances, as well as major and trace element concentrations, to investigate the time-scales of the processes that lead to rhyolite generation in continental arcs. Basalts and basaltic andesites typically migrate from the mantle to the surface within several thousand years. Variations in (230Th)/(232Th) and (238U)/(232Th) ratios with SiO2 concentrations in intermediate lavas appear to result from crystal fractionation combined with assimilation of recently crystallized magmas. These data also suggest that 
104–105 years of mafic magmatism are required at a volcanic center to generate silicic andesites and dacites. Rhyolite genesis involves varying proportions of crystal fractionation of intermediate magmas and assimilation of crust. The near-equilibrium (238U)/(230Th) ratios for all of the rhyolites suggest an average time since U was last fractionated from Th for the constituents making up these rhyolites of >105 years. Therefore, the residence times of continental magmas and their entrained crystals appear to increase by a minimum of 2–3 orders of magnitude with increasing SiO2 concentrations from basalt to rhyolite.
KEY WORDS: time-scales; rhyolite; andesite; Aleutian arc; Cascade arc
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