Machine learning thermobarometry and chemometry using amphibole and clinopyroxene: a window into the roots of an arc volcano (Mount Liamuiga, Saint Kitts)

O Higgins, T Sheldrake, L Caricchi - Contributions to Mineralogy and …, 2022 - Springer
The physical and chemical properties of magma govern the eruptive style and behaviour of
volcanoes. Many of these parameters are linked to the storage pressure (P) and temperature …

Chemical differentiation by mineralogical buffering in crustal hot zones

J Blundy - Journal of Petrology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Chemical diversity in convergent margin magmas is a product of igneous differentiation in
crustal hot zones, vertically extensive regions characterised by a low-volume (< 20%) mobile …

Eruptive dynamics reflect crustal structure and mantle productivity beneath volcanoes

O Higgins, L Caricchi - Geology, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Volcanoes exhibit a wide range of eruptive and geochemical behavior, which has significant
implications for their associated risk. The suggested first-order drivers of intervolcanic …

Lateral variation in crustal structure along the Lesser Antilles arc from petrology of crustal xenoliths and seismic receiver functions

E Melekhova, D Schlaphorst, J Blundy… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
We reconstruct crustal structure along the Lesser Antilles island arc using an inversion
approach combining constraints from petrology of magmatic crustal xenoliths and seismic …

Petrology of the explosive deposits from the April 2021 eruption of La Soufrière volcano, St Vincent: a time-series analysis of microlites

HM Frey, MR Manon, J Barclay, BV Davies… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
After more than three months of lava dome extrusion, La Soufrière (St Vincent) transitioned
to a series of explosive eruptions in April 2021. Here we present a time-series petrologic …

Melting, compaction and reactive flow: controls on melt fraction and composition change in crustal mush reservoirs

H Hu, MD Jackson, J Blundy - Journal of Petrology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Changes in melt fraction and local bulk composition in high-crystallinity, crustal
mush reservoirs are essential to produce the large volumes of low-crystallinity, silicic magma …

Evidence from plutonic xenoliths for magma differentiation, mixing and storage in a volatile-rich crystal mush beneath St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles

GF Cooper, JD Blundy, CG Macpherson… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2019 - Springer
Quantifying the storage conditions and evolution of different magmatic components within
sub-volcanic plumbing systems is key to our understanding of igneous processes and …

The Oligocene Avaj volcanic–plutonic complex of Central Iran: A record of magma evolution and mineral equilibria

S Babazadeh, J Ghalamghash, T Furman… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Avaj Oligocene volcanic–plutonic complex is part of extensive Cenozoic
magmatic activity within the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc of Iran. We use whole rock …

Petrological insights on the last 1000 years of explosive activity at La Soufrière volcano, St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles)

L Fedele, PD Cole, C Scarpati, REA Robertson - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
The petrological features of scoria samples and enclosed holocrystalline xenoliths from the
last~ 1000 years of activity of the La Soufrière volcano of St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles) are …

Arc crust formation of Lesser Antilles revealed by crustal xenoliths from Petit St. Vincent

E Melekhova, M Camejo-Harry, J Blundy… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Lesser Antilles volcanic arc is known for its magmatic diversity and unusually
abundant plutonic xenoliths. Xenoliths from Petit St. Vincent (Grenadines' archipelago) are …