The Villa Senni Eruption Unit (VSEU) belongs to the Tuscolano-Artemisio phase of volcanic activity in the Alban Hills Volcanic District, the closest to Rome of the recent or active volcanoes of central Italy. The most important products of this eruption are represented by pyroclastic flow deposits, named lower and upper flow unit (LFU and UFU, respectively). Three main rock types form VSEU as follows: (1) juvenile K-foiditic scoria clasts of the LFU; (2) juvenile phonotephritic scoria clasts of the UFU; and (3) holocrystalline phonotephritic Lithic inclusions (Italites) in the UFU. On the basis of the chemistry, mineralogy and petrography of the three studied rock types their phase relations have been discussed. Other petrologic constraints from laboratory melting experiments are presented and used to investigate the role of volatiles on the evolution of the magma chamber system. Some broad implications on withdrawal pattern are also presented. It has been verified the LFU rock type can be obtained from a parental melt of UFU composition by a CO2-controlled crystal-liquid fractionation of a solid assemblage close in composition to that of Italites. Because it can be proved that the storage of magma occurred at shallow depth within the Mesozoic carbonate country rocks, it is proposed that CO2 diffusion, originating from thermal decomposition of wall-rock carbonates, controlled the evolution trend of the melt at the periphery of the magma chamber, whereas the inner part of the magma body retained the volatile component (essentially H2O) of the original melt. The corresponding eruption model is therefore comprehensive of an early eruptive phase (LFU rock type) involving the more differentiated central magma bulb, whereas the late eruptive phase (UFU rock type) tapped the more mafic peripheral magma. The Italite xenoliths are believed to represent the chilled margins of the magma chamber.

The Villa Senni Eruption (Alban Hills, Central Italy): The role of H2O and CO2 on the magma chamber evolution and on the eruptive scenario / C., Freda; Gaeta, Mario; Palladino, Danilo Mauro; Trigila, Raffaello. - In: JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH. - ISSN 0377-0273. - STAMPA. - 78:1-2(1997), pp. 103-120. [10.1016/s0377-0273(97)00007-3]

The Villa Senni Eruption (Alban Hills, Central Italy): The role of H2O and CO2 on the magma chamber evolution and on the eruptive scenario

GAETA, Mario;PALLADINO, Danilo Mauro;TRIGILA, Raffaello
1997

Abstract

The Villa Senni Eruption Unit (VSEU) belongs to the Tuscolano-Artemisio phase of volcanic activity in the Alban Hills Volcanic District, the closest to Rome of the recent or active volcanoes of central Italy. The most important products of this eruption are represented by pyroclastic flow deposits, named lower and upper flow unit (LFU and UFU, respectively). Three main rock types form VSEU as follows: (1) juvenile K-foiditic scoria clasts of the LFU; (2) juvenile phonotephritic scoria clasts of the UFU; and (3) holocrystalline phonotephritic Lithic inclusions (Italites) in the UFU. On the basis of the chemistry, mineralogy and petrography of the three studied rock types their phase relations have been discussed. Other petrologic constraints from laboratory melting experiments are presented and used to investigate the role of volatiles on the evolution of the magma chamber system. Some broad implications on withdrawal pattern are also presented. It has been verified the LFU rock type can be obtained from a parental melt of UFU composition by a CO2-controlled crystal-liquid fractionation of a solid assemblage close in composition to that of Italites. Because it can be proved that the storage of magma occurred at shallow depth within the Mesozoic carbonate country rocks, it is proposed that CO2 diffusion, originating from thermal decomposition of wall-rock carbonates, controlled the evolution trend of the melt at the periphery of the magma chamber, whereas the inner part of the magma body retained the volatile component (essentially H2O) of the original melt. The corresponding eruption model is therefore comprehensive of an early eruptive phase (LFU rock type) involving the more differentiated central magma bulb, whereas the late eruptive phase (UFU rock type) tapped the more mafic peripheral magma. The Italite xenoliths are believed to represent the chilled margins of the magma chamber.
1997
alban hills; experimental petrology; magma chamber; potassic volcanism; volatiles
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The Villa Senni Eruption (Alban Hills, Central Italy): The role of H2O and CO2 on the magma chamber evolution and on the eruptive scenario / C., Freda; Gaeta, Mario; Palladino, Danilo Mauro; Trigila, Raffaello. - In: JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH. - ISSN 0377-0273. - STAMPA. - 78:1-2(1997), pp. 103-120. [10.1016/s0377-0273(97)00007-3]
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