Abstract
Apatite, which has demonstrated to be useful for tracking volatile evolution in magmatic systems, is a common accessory in La Fossa active volcano (Vulcano island, Italy) products. We performed in situ geochemical (major and trace elements, Cl, F, S) analyses on apatite of La Fossa, and used the data to track the pre-eruptive magmatic volatile evolution for the La Fossa shoshonitic suite, to provide insights on magma evolution in the plumbing system and to investigate volatile fluxing. Our results confirm that apatite volatile chemistry is a valuable tool to give constraints on pre-eruptive volatile contents of magmas. For specific compositions, however, we obtained an underestimation of the water contents with respect to those estimated with plagioclase-liquid hygrometer in previous works. Vulcano apatite halogen composition also indicates that water saturation and pre-eruptive exsolution of a hypersaline aqueous fluid phase occurred when the magma reached rhyolitic composition. The high As, Bi and Cd contents found in apatite crystals belonging to shoshonite and high-K trachyte suggest that the magma reservoirs feeding these eruptions were affected by a deep volatile fluxing which was able to carry these trace elements up to shallow levels. This is in agreement with the occurrence of the deep degassing already demonstrated at La Fossa volcano on the basis of petrological and geochemical data, and supports the apatite geochemical approach to track deep volatile fluxing.
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