Melt inclusions in volcanic rocks

• Main Authors: Sefein, Kirellos, Robertson, Kelly L., Simon, Adam
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Scholarship@UNLV 2011
• Subjects: Igneous rocks — Inclusions; Mineralogy; Mutnovsky Volcano; Russia (Federation) > Kamchatka Peninsula; Thin sections (Geology); Earth Sciences; Geochemistry; Volcanology; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/focs_ug_research/2011/april16/24; https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=focs_ug_research

We studied melt inclusions from Mutnovsky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia as part of a larger project designed to contrain the eruptive history of Mutnovsky. Transmitted and reflected light petrographic microscopy was used to characterize melt inclusions in grain mounts of mineral separates, standard 30...