Olivine-hosted melt inclusions: a microscopic perspective on a complex magmatic world

PJ Wallace, T Plank, RJ Bodnar… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Inclusions of basaltic melt trapped inside of olivine phenocrysts during igneous
crystallization provide a rich, crystal-scale record of magmatic processes ranging from …

Degassing of early-formed planetesimals restricted water delivery to Earth

ME Newcombe, SG Nielsen, LD Peterson, J Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The timing of delivery and the types of body that contributed volatiles to the terrestrial planets
remain highly debated,. For example, it is unknown if differentiated bodies, such as that …

The ins and outs of water in olivine-hosted melt inclusions: hygrometer vs. speedometer

A Barth, T Plank - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The amount of water dissolved in magmas at depth beneath volcanoes is fundamental to a
wide range of magmatic and eruptive processes due to water's dominant control on magma …

Magma decompression rate correlates with explosivity at basaltic volcanoes—Constraints from water diffusion in olivine

A Barth, M Newcombe, T Plank, H Gonnermann… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the strong theoretical basis for the importance of magma decompression rate in
modulating the dynamics of explosive basaltic eruptions, few measurements exist. Here, we …

The H2O content of the ureilite parent body

LD Peterson, ME Newcombe, CMOD Alexander… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The fate of highly volatile elements (H, C, F, Cl and S) during planetary accretion and
differentiation is debated. Recent analyses of water in non-carbonaceous chondrites (RC …

Trans‐lithospheric ascent processes of the deep‐rooted magma plumbing system underneath the ultraslow‐spreading SW Indian ridge

B Ma, PP Liu, HJB Dick, MF Zhou… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Processes of magma generation and transportation in global mid‐ocean ridges are key to
understanding lithospheric architecture at divergent plate boundaries. These magma …

Rates of dehydration of olivines from San Carlos and Kilauea Iki

E Ferriss, T Plank, M Newcombe, D Walker… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The rate at which H+ moves into, through, and out of olivine is of great interest for
understanding the deep water cycle, assessing the fidelity of olivine-hosted melt inclusions …

Are we recording? Putting embayment speedometry to the test using high pressure‐temperature decompression experiments

B Hosseini, ML Myers, JM Watkins… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite its increasing application to estimate magma decompression rates for explosive
eruptions, the embayment speedometer has long awaited critical experimental evaluation …

The mantle source of basalts from Reunion Island is not more oxidized than the MORB source mantle

M Brounce, E Stolper, J Eiler - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2022 - Springer
Glasses quenched from relatively undegassed ocean island magmas erupted from
volcanoes at Iceland, Hawaii, the Canary Islands, and Erebus have elevated Fe 3+/∑ Fe …

Pre-eruptive rhyolite magma ascent rate is rapid and independent of eruption size: a case study from Ōkataina Volcanic Centre, Aotearoa New Zealand

HC Elms, ML Myers, ARL Nichols, PJ Wallace… - Bulletin of …, 2023 - Springer
Volatile measurements in mineral-hosted sealed melt inclusions, and open-ended
embayments, have previously been used to study magma ascent dynamics in large rhyolitic …