Nature Communications (May 2022)

Fractional crystallisation of eclogite during the birth of a Hawaiian Volcano

  • Laura A. Miller,
  • Hugh St. C. O’Neill,
  • Andrew J. Berry,
  • Charles Le Losq

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30108-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Rare glasses of earliest melts produced by a Hawaiian volcano can only have formed by the crystallisation of garnet implying a magma chamber near the base of the lithosphere