Abstract
AbstractDistilling my experience in having field mapped in detail the volcanic fields at Laguna del Maule and Long Valley and having worked out their time‐volume‐composition magmatic histories, I compare and contrast the postglacial rhyolites of the former with six multi‐vent eruptive sequences of rhyolite in California. Compilations and discussions are made of volcanic‐field areas and longevities, their compositions, vent distributions, individual batch and total volumes, eruptive episodicities, and tectonic influences. Growth of long‐lived pluton‐scale reservoirs of granitic crystal mush, from which the rhyolite melts separated, are interpreted in terms of conceptual models I published previously—(1) fundamentally basaltic transcrustal magmatism, 1981; (2) the deep‐crustal MASH zone model, 1988; and (3) the rhyolite‐melt crystal‐mush model, 2001. Inferences and speculations are advanced concerning processes and timescales of rhyolite‐melt separation from granitic mush and of prompt or long‐delayed subsequent eruption.
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