Magma reservoirs play a key role in controlling numerous processes in planetary evolution,
including igneous differentiation and degassing, crustal construction, and volcanism. For …

Cordilleran orogenic systems, such as the modern Andes, are long belts of deformation and
magmatism that are associated with the subduction of oceanic plates beneath continental …

The largest accumulations of rhyolitic melt in the upper crust occur in voluminous silicic
crystal mushes, which sometimes erupt as unzoned, crystal-rich ignimbrites, but are most …

Field, geochronological and geophysical studies show that many igneous bodies are
emplaced incrementally, growing by accretion of successive magma sheets. The existence …

Field and geochronologic evidence indicate that large and broadly homogeneous plutons
can accumulate incrementally over millions of years. This contradicts the common …

The Andes make up the largest orogenic system developed by subduction of oceanic crust
along a continental margin. Subduction began soon after the breakup of Rodinia in Late …

Large caldera-forming eruptions have long been a focus of both petrological and
volcanological studies; petrologists have used the eruptive products to probe conditions of …

Over the past 25 years, our understanding of the physical processes that drive volcanic
eruptions has increased enormously thanks to major advances in computational and …

Located in the central Andes, the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex (APVC) is the location of
an 11–1 Ma silicic volcanic field, one of the largest and youngest on Earth. Yet its …

Abstract Recent inference that Mesozoic Cordilleran plutons grew incrementally during> 106
yr intervals, without the presence of voluminous eruptible magma at any stage, minimizes …