An assessment of the reliability of melt inclusions as recorders of the pre-eruptive volatile content of magmas

• Published in: American Mineralogist
• Main Authors: Esposito R., Hunter J., Schiffbauer J. D., Shimizu N., Bodnar R. J.
• Other Authors: Esposito, R, Hunter, J, Schiffbauer, J, Shimizu, N, Bodnar, R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2014
• Subjects: Magma degassing path; Melt inclusion assemblage (MIA); Melt inclusion; Pre-eruptive volatile content; Secondary ion mass spectrometry; New Zealand; White Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10281/348038; https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2014.4574

Many studies have used melt inclusions (MI) to track the pre-eruptive volatile history of magmas. Often, the volatile contents of the MI show wide variability, even for MI hosted in the same phenocryst. This variability is usually interpreted to represent trapping of a volatile-saturated melt over s...