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Application of plagioclase mineral textures in lava, ash fall and surge deposits to examine young Damavand magmatic processes

par Zadsaleh, Mohsen;Masoudi, Fariborz;Pourkhorsandi, Hamed ;Fontijn, Karen
Référence ̒Ulūm-i zamīn, 32, 13-30
Publication Publié, 2022-06-22

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Damavand is a young volcanic edifice with an elevation of 5610 meters formed in the middle of the central Alborz Mountain range (N Iran) during the Quaternary. Its edifice is composed of trachyte and trachyandesite rocks, pyroclastic fall and flow deposits and lahars, formed during several eruptions and under different magmatic conditions. To investigate the crystallization trends in the Damavand magma chamber and its evolution over time, plagioclase internal textures in lava flows, pyroclastic flow and ash deposits were studied. Samples from six different lava flows and pyroclastic fall and density current deposits with different ages were collected. Plagioclase crystals with similar dimensions and sizes but with completely different textures, and plagioclases with different dimensions but similar textural characteristics were observed. Twenty-eight different texture types were observed in plagioclase crystals from lava flows, whereas only three texture types were distinguished in the pyroclastic deposits. A large population of plagioclase in pyroclastic deposits reveal the non-equilibrium crstallization in the Damavand magma chamber(s), while in lava flows, a series of plagioclase cumulates present both equilibrium and non-equilibrium crystallization conditions in the magmat chamber. Plagioclase crystals in the source magmas of lava flows have repeatedly remained in a non-equilibrium state without eruption, letting the crystals to overgrow. Changes in the rate of magma ascent, small- and large-scale convection cells in magma chambers, varying temperature and/or pressure, and different volumes of (non-)eruptible mush/melt, are some of the parameters that are revealed by our textural studies. In the period between about 7-450 ky ago, the magma chamber that led to the buildup of the young Damavand volcano, was in non-equilibrium conditions as demonstrated by individual crystals textures and chemistry. However, these conditions have not always led to volcanic eruptions.