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CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY
Volume 155, Issue 6, Pages 719-738Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0267-8
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limestone assimilation; experimental petrology; silica-undersaturation; Mt. Vesuvius
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The results of an experimental study of limestone assimilation by hydrated basaltic magmas in the range 1,050-1,150C, 0.1-500 MPa are reported. Alkali basalts doped with up to 19 wt% of Ca, Mg-carbonates were equilibrated in internally heated pressure vessels and the resulting phase relationships are described. The major effects of carbonate incorporation are: (1) generation of CO2-rich fluid phases; (2) change in liquidus phase equilibria; the crystallization of Ca-rich clinopyroxene is favored and the other phases (e.g. olivine, plagioclase), present in the absence of carbonate assimilation, are consumed. As a consequence of the massive clinopyroxene crystallization, the residual melt is strongly silica-depleted and becomes nepheline-normative. Compositional and mineralogical evolutions observed in Mt. Vesuvius eruptive products match those documented in our experiments with added carbonates, suggesting the possibility that carbonate assimilation increased during the last 25 ka of activity. In Central-Southern Italy, carbonate assimilation at shallow levels probably superimposes on deeper source heterogeneities.
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