TY - JOUR
T1 - New constraints on Ti diffusion in quartz and the priming of silicic volcanic eruptions
AU - Audétat, Andreas
AU - Schmitt, Axel K.
AU - Njul, Raphael
AU - Saalfeld, Megan
AU - Borisova, Anastassia
AU - Lu, Yongjun
N1 - Funding Information:
A.A. acknowledges funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491183248, and by the Open Access Publishing Fund of the University of Bayreuth. Y.L. publishes with the permission of the Executive Director, Geological Survey of Western Australia.
Funding Information:
A.A. acknowledges funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491183248, and by the Open Access Publishing Fund of the University of Bayreuth. Y.L. publishes with the permission of the Executive Director, Geological Survey of Western Australia.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Titanium diffusion profiles in quartz crystals are widely applied to constrain the duration of magmatic processes. However, experimentally determined Ti diffusion coefficients in quartz diverge by three orders of magnitude. To rectify this problem we derive Ti diffusion coefficients from natural quartz phenocrysts from the 1991 eruption at Mt. Pinatubo, by combining U-Th ages of small (15–40 µm long) zircon inclusions with Ti diffusion profiles measured at nearby growth zone contacts in the same quartz crystals. Application of the obtained data to quartz crystals with Ti-rich rims from thirteen silicic volcanic tuffs worldwide suggests that the magmas erupted years to thousands of years after magma chamber rejuvenation, with the priming time increasing with magma volume and decreasing temperature. Here we show that the time scales involved in the generation of silicic volcanic eruptions are much longer than originally thought.
AB - Titanium diffusion profiles in quartz crystals are widely applied to constrain the duration of magmatic processes. However, experimentally determined Ti diffusion coefficients in quartz diverge by three orders of magnitude. To rectify this problem we derive Ti diffusion coefficients from natural quartz phenocrysts from the 1991 eruption at Mt. Pinatubo, by combining U-Th ages of small (15–40 µm long) zircon inclusions with Ti diffusion profiles measured at nearby growth zone contacts in the same quartz crystals. Application of the obtained data to quartz crystals with Ti-rich rims from thirteen silicic volcanic tuffs worldwide suggests that the magmas erupted years to thousands of years after magma chamber rejuvenation, with the priming time increasing with magma volume and decreasing temperature. Here we show that the time scales involved in the generation of silicic volcanic eruptions are much longer than originally thought.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-023-39912-5
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-39912-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 37460528
AN - SCOPUS:85165210787
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 14
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4277
ER -