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Bertagnini et al. 2003
Bertagnini, A., Métrich, N., Landi, P. and Rosi, M. (2003). Stromboli volcano (Aeolian Archipelago, Italy): An open window on the deep-feeding system of a steady state basaltic volcano. Journal of Geophysical Research 108: doi: 10.1029/2002JB002146. issn: 0148-0227.

Paroxysms at Stromboli are the most violent manifestations of the persistent activity and are related to the emission of small volumes (103--105 m3) of nearly aphyric HK-basaltic pumices. They offer the exceptional opportunity to detail the mixing-crystallization-degassing processes that occur in a steady state basaltic arc volcano. We present mineralogy, major, volatile, and trace element geochemistry of olivine-hosted melt inclusions of these pumices. In all the paroxysms, melt inclusions hosted in olivines Fo88--91 have recorded the parental melts rich in CaO (up to 14.5 wt %) but low in FeO (6--7 wt %). They demonstrate recurrent variations in the K2O content (1.6--1.3 wt %) and S/Cl ratios (1.2--0.8) of the melts that entered the deep system. Dynamic magma mixing between melts slightly distinct by their degree of evolution, rapid crystallization, and entrapment of gas-oversaturated melts during decompression are indicated by (1) the high density of irregular, clear melt inclusions, and embayments in homogeneous olivines (Fo87¿0.5--Fo83¿0.5), (2) the variable ratio between melt and gas bubble, and (3) the variability of melt inclusion compositions in both major (CaO/Al2O3 = 1--0.59) and volatile (3.4--1.8 wt % H2O, 1582--1017 ppm CO2) elements. FeO-rich melt inclusions in patchy, reversely zoned olivines also demonstrate interactions between ascending melt blobs and inherited olivine crystals. We propose a model involving a vertically extended dike-like system, where magmas progress and differentiate. On the basis of olivine growth rate calculations the volatile-rich magma blobs may ascend within few hours to few tenths of hours. Finally, we propose that sulfur degassing is possibly initiated during the early stage of magma differentiation.

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Geochemistry, Chemical evolution, Mineralogy and Petrology, Crystal chemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Major element composition, Volcanology, Magma migration, Volcanology, Physics and chemistry of magma bodies
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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