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Journal of Petrology Advance Access published online on October 28, 2004
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Received November 10, 2002
Accepted September 7, 2004

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Experimental Petrology of the 1991-1995 Unzen Dacite, Japan. Part I: Phase Relations, Phase Composition and Pre-eruptive Conditions

FRANCOIS HOLTZ 1*, HIROAKI SATO 2, JARED LEWIS 1, HARALD BEHRENS 1, and SETSUYA NAKADA 3

1 INSTITUTE FOR MINERALOGY, UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER, WELFENGARTEN 1, D-30167 HANNOVER, GERMANY
2 DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KOBE UNIVERSITY, KOBE, 657-8501 JAPAN
3 EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, YAYOI 1-1-1, BUNKYO, TOKYO, 113-0032 JAPAN

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
FRANCOIS HOLTZ, E-mail: f.holtz{at}mineralogie.uni-hannover.de


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Crystallization experiments were conducted on dry glasses from the Unzen 1992 dacite at 100-300 MPa, 775-875°C, various water activities, and fO2 buffered by the Ni-NiO buffer. The compositions of the experimental products and natural phases are used to constrain the temperature and water contents of the low-temperature and high-temperature magmas prior to the magma mixing event leading to the 1991-1995 eruption. A temperature of 1050 ± 75°C is determined for the high-temperature magma based on two-pyroxene thermometry. The investigation of glass inclusions suggests that the water content of the rhyolitic low-temperature magma could be as high as 8 wt % H2O. The phase relations at 300 MPa and in the temperature range 870-900°C, which are conditions assumed to be representative of the main magma chamber after mixing, show that the main phenocrysts (orthopyroxene, plagioclase, hornblende) coexist only at reduced water activity; the water content of the post-mixing dacitic melt is estimated to be 6 ± 1 wt % H2O. Quartz and biotite, also present as phenocrysts in the dacite, are observed only at low temperature (below 800-775°C). It is concluded that the erupted dacitic magma resulted from the mixing of c. 35 wt % of an almost aphyric pyroxene-bearing andesitic magma (1050 ± 75°C; 4 ± 1 wt % H2O in the melt) with 65 wt % of a phenocryst-rich low-temperature magma (760-780°C) in which the melt phase was rhyolitic, containing up to 8 ± 1 wt % H2O. The proportions of rhyolitic melt and phenocrysts in the low-temperature magma are estimated to be 65% and 35%, respectively. It is emphasized that the strong variations of phenocryst compositions, especially plagioclase, can be explained only if there were variations of temperature and/or water activity (in time and/or space) in the low-temperature magma.

Keywords: Unzen volcano; magma mixing; experimental study.
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