Emplacement dynamics of phonolite magma into maar-diatreme structures - Correlation of field, thermal modeling and AMS analogue modeling data
2011
Abstract
Emplacement mode and original shape and dimensions of a well exposed phonolite body in the České středohoří Mountains (Czech Republic) were reconstructed using combined techniques of structural analysis of magmatic fabrics and columnar jointing together with analogue and thermal mathematical modeling of cooling for different shapes of experimental bodies. Phreatomagmatic rocks in the vicinity of some phonolite stocks in the area of interest suggest that the phonolite bodies were likely emplaced into maar-diatremes.
Our modeling revealed that intrusion of magma into phreatomagmatic maar-diatreme craters can result in cryptodomes, extrusive domes, lava lakes or branched intrusions.