Abstract
Silicic volcanoes are increasingly understood to be underlain by crystal-rich and vertically extensive magma reservoirs within which disequilibrium is widespread. Observations from ignimbrite deposits demonstrate that silicic magma reservoirs are often compartmentalised and compositionally stratified. However, it is currently unclear whether the small (i.e., < 0.1 km3 dense rock equivalent) eruptions that dominate activity at many volcanoes, and peralkaline volcanoes in particular, are fed from similarly complex magma reservoirs as their larger counterparts. Here I report petrographic and geochemical observations from the products of a small peralkaline eruption on Pantelleria, Italy, with the aims of unravelling peralkaline magma assembly processes and evaluating the complexity of reservoirs feeding small silicic eruptions. Matrix glass and whole-rock compositions from the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone reveal that erupted magmas were assembled from at least three distinct magma types stored within a compartmentalised magma reservoir: trachytes, less-evolved pantellerites and evolved pantellerites. Chemical variability in the Khaggiar lava flow was created by at least three distinct processes: the accumulation of evolved macrocrysts into evolved pantellerites; the injection of trachytic magmas into less evolved pantellerites; and the accumulation of relatively primitive macrocrysts into trachytic magmas. Macrocryst textures indicate that both trachytic and pantelleritic domains of the magma reservoir experienced numerous recharge events prior to the one that ultimately triggered eruption. Overall, magmas forming the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone appear to have been assembled in analogous ways to those erupted in much larger events. My observations are in good agreement with those from other peralkaline volcanoes and confirm that magma mingling, crystal cannibalism and macrocryst entrainment are as ubiquitous in peralkaline systems as they are in their calc-alkaline counterparts.
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Introduction
Chemical variability and magma reservoir complexity
Many silicic volcanoes are underlain by complex magma reservoirs characterised by high average crystal contents (Marsh 1989, 2004; Hildreth 2004; Cooper and Kent 2014; Bachmann and Huber 2016; Cashman et al. 2017; Magee et al. 2018; Edmonds et al. 2019). Textural, chemical and isotopic disequilibria within and between erupted crystals demonstrate that individual eruptions often tap multiple thermochemically distinct domains within these reservoirs (e.g., Davidson and Tepley 1997; Davidson et al. 2007; Streck 2008; Cashman and Blundy 2013; Ellis et al. 2014). Zoned ignimbrite deposits, like those emplaced during the climactic calc-alkaline eruption of Mt. Mazama (Crater Lake), Oregon, USA, are typically thought to reflect the evacuation of chemically stratified magma bodies, providing insights into the nature of magma reservoir heterogeneity at depth (Hildreth 1981; Bacon and Druitt 1988; Druitt and Bacon 1989). Zoned ignimbrites with alkalic, tholeiitic and peralkaline affinities have also been recorded in intraplate (e.g., Gran Canaria, Canary Islands; Freundt and Schmincke 1992; Troll and Schmincke 2002), oceanic rift (e.g., Askja, Iceland; Sigurdsson and Sparks 1981) and continental rift (e.g., Pantelleria, Italy; Mahood and Hildreth, 1986) settings, respectively, suggesting that chemical variability and stratification are widespread features of silicic magma reservoirs. However, the lengthscales over which eruptible magmas maintain chemical variability at depth remain highly uncertain. Although major events like the climactic Mt. Mazama eruption (47 ± 9 km3 dense rock equivalent; DRE) elegantly demonstrate how chemically distinct magmas can interact during large eruptions, much less is known about how magmas interact during the small (i.e., < 0.1 km3) that dominate eruptive activity at many volcanoes.
Chemical variability within the products of individual eruptions records information about vital processes such as mantle melting, fractional crystallisation, magma mixing, crystal entrainment and crustal assimilation (Fitton et al. 1983; Rhodes 1983; Rubin et al. 2001; Maclennan et al. 2003; Passmore et al. 2012; Neave et al. 2014; Halldórsson et al. 2018). Research on mafic systems has investigated chemical variability in lava flows spanning orders of magnitude in volume (< 0.01 to > 15 km3; Rubin et al. 2001; Maclennan et al. 2003; Passmore et al. 2012; Neave et al. 2014). In contrast, research on silicic systems has typically focussed on chemical variability in large-volume (> 5 km3 DRE) pyroclastic deposits that facilitate systematic sampling throughout eruption chronologies (e.g., Wörner and Schmincke 1984; Freundt and Schmincke 1992). For example, chemical zonation within the ~ 45 ka Green Tuff of Pantelleria, Italy, which has been taken as evidence for a stably stratified magma reservoir beneath the island (Mahood 1984; Mahood and Hildreth 1986; White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012), and has been exploited to map the spatial and temporal evolution of ignimbrite emplacement during the eruption (Williams et al. 2013). In order to build holistic and unbiased models of magma reservoirs beneath silicic volcanoes, it is however essential to consider chemical variability in the products of small eruptions as well as large ones.
Determining the architecture and behaviour of magma reservoirs feeding small eruptions is particularly important for understanding peralkaline volcanoes that are often characterised by the emplacement of numerous small lava flows and pumice cones (e.g., Mahood and Hildreth 1986; Hutchison et al. 2016; Clarke et al. 2019). However, owing to the relative scarcity of peralkaline systems, our understanding of peralkaline magma reservoir processes is typically patchier than our understanding of calc-alkaline magma reservoir processes, notable exceptions aside (cf. White et al. 2009; Macdonald 2012; Iddon et al. 2018). This is despite peralkaline systems hosting major critical metal deposits (Wall 2014), having the potential to emit disproportionally large quantities of environmentally impacting sulphur (Scaillet and Macdonald 2006; Neave et al. 2012), and posing diverse volcanic hazards to those living around them, particularly in continental rift settings (Aspinall et al. 2011). This study, therefore, aims to deepen our understanding of peralkaline magmatism and bring it into closer alignment with our knowledge of more common expressions of magmatic activity.
Here I report petrographic and geochemical observations from the products of a small eruption of peralkaline rhyolite on Pantelleria, Italy. By using tools previously applied to the products of mafic eruptions, I present new insights into the pre- and syn-eruptive behaviour of the magma reservoir beneath Pantelleria (i.e., the pantescan magma reservoir), demonstrating key similarities with both peralkaline and calc-alkaline systems located elsewhere. Furthermore, by combining matrix glass and whole-rock analyses with contextualised microanalyses of crystal and enclave cargoes, I demonstrate that even very small (< 0.1 km3 DRE) eruptions can involve numerous different magma batches, and that overlooking intra-eruption chemical variability can lead to magma reservoir complexity being considerably underestimated.
Geological setting
Pantelleria is located in the Strait of Sicily continental rift, approximately 100 km south of Sicily and 70 km east of Tunisia (Fig. 1; Civile et al. 2008). Volcanism has taken place on Pantelleria for over 300 ka and is typically characterised by small, monogenetic eruptions punctuated by occasional ignimbrite-forming events (Civetta et al. 1984; Mahood and Hildreth 1986; Jordan et al. 2017). The most recent eruption took place a short distance northwest of the island in 1891. Although mafic magmatism occurs throughout the Strait of Sicily, Pantelleria is the only location where silicic magmatism is known to have developed (Civetta et al. 1998; Rotolo et al. 2006; White et al. 2009). Pantelleria is the type location for pantellerite, an iron-rich class of peralkaline rhyolite that forms the silicic end-member of bimodal magmatic suites in some ocean island and continental rift settings (Barberi et al. 1975; Mungall and Martin 1995; Civetta et al. 1998; Macdonald 2012; Hutchison et al. 2016; Iddon et al. 2018). Pantelleritic magmas are generally thought to be generated by the protracted fractional crystallisation of alkali basalt parents via trachytic intermediaries (White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012; Landi and Rotolo, 2015; Gleeson et al. 2017). Pantellerites are of particular volcanological interest because their high alkali contents translate into melt viscosities that are two to three orders of magnitude lower than those of similarly evolved calc-alkaline melts (Di Genova et al. 2013), leading to complex eruption dynamics that remain subject to considerable uncertainty (Stevenson and Wilson 1997; Hughes et al. 2017).
The southeast of Pantelleria hosts a nested caldera complex (Mahood and Hildreth 1986). The youngest Cinque Dente caldera, which is possibly associated with the ~ 45 ka Green Tuff eruption, is partly filled by trachytes of the Montagna Grande–Monte Gibele system that were emplaced between ~ 45 and ~ 30 ka (Civetta et al. 1998). Subsequent activity (7–25 ka) in the southeast of the island has been characterised by monogenetic events of variable intensity that have produced silicic lava flows and geographically restricted fall deposits along caldera ring faults and other tectonic lineaments (Orsi et al. 1991; Rotolo et al. 2007; Scaillet et al. 2011). In contrast, activity in the northwest of Pantelleria has been characterised by the emplacement of lava flows, mafic scoria cones and silicic pumice cones—the most recent onshore mafic eruption took place at ~ 10 ka (Mahood and Hildreth 1986; Civetta et al. 1988).
The Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone (< 0.1 km3 DRE combined) are some of the youngest eruption products on Pantelleria (~ 8 ka; Scaillet et al. 2011). The Khaggiar lava flow is ~ 3 km long and stretches from its source at an endogenous dome within the northern flank of the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone that formed immediately before lava effusion, to the sea at Punta Spadillo (Fig. 1). In a manner typical for silicic eruption centres on Pantelleria, deposits associated with Cuddia Randazzo contain a mixture of dense scoriae and highly vesicular pumice clasts (Rotolo et al. 2007; Hughes et al. 2017). In addition, they contain up to ~ 20 vol.% trachytic enclaves that are variably rounded to amoeboid in form, and have been interpreted as evidence for mingling between trachytic and pantelleritic magmas immediately prior to eruption (Landi and Rotolo 2015). Trachytic enclaves are abundant throughout the Khaggiar lava flow (Mahood and Hildreth 1986; Perugini et al. 2002), suggesting that both the lava flow and the pumice cone were derived from the same magma body. Nonetheless, differences in chemistry between trachytic enclaves and their host pantellerites (whether lavas or pumices) make it possible to track the provenance of individual crystals (White et al. 2005; Landi and Rotolo 2015), and Prosperini et al. (2000) argued that trachytic enclaves carry a cargo of anorthoclase crystals accumulated from overlying pantellerites. The petrological diversity present in the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone, therefore, makes them an ideal target for investigating intra-eruption chemical variability and magma reservoir complexity in silicic, peralkaline systems.
Sample collection
Samples were collected during fieldwork in September 2014 and consist of 13 lava samples from the Khaggiar lava flow, and four pumice samples, two enclave samples and one lithic sample from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone. Sampling locations are shown in Fig. 1. As far as possible, samples were collected from locations distributed across the lava flow and pumice cone. Further details about sampling locations and GPS coordinates are provided in the Supplementary Dataset. A total of 14 samples were selected for further investigation based on their relative freshness.
Methods
Imaging
Thin sections were investigated by optical and electron microscopy. Electron microscopy was performed using a JEOL JSM-7610F field emission gun scanning electron microscope (FEG-SEM) at the Institut für Mineralogie of the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. Most imaging was performed at a working distance of 15 mm using an accelerating voltage of 15 kV.
Electron probe microanalysis
Glass and mineral compositions were determined by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) at the Institut für Mineralogie of the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, using a Cameca SX100 instrument. Silicon, Ti, Al, Fe, Mn, Mg, Ca, Na, K, P, F and Cl were measured in glasses with a beam size of 12 μm, an accelerating voltage of 15 kV and a current of 10 nA. Silicon, Ti, Al, Fe, Mn, Mg, Ba, Ca, Na and K were measured in crystals with a beam size of 1 μm, an accelerating voltage of 15 kV and a current of 15 nA. Elements were counted on peak for 20 s, with the exceptions of Si and Na that were counted on peak for 10 s to minimise drift and migration, respectively. Background counting times were half on-peak counting times. The following standards were used for calibration: wollastonite (Si and Ca), TiO2 (Ti), jadeite (Al), Fe2O3 (Fe in silicates) Mn3O4 (Mn), barite (Ba), MgO (Mg), albite (Na), orthoclase (K), apatite (P), fluorite (F) and halite (Cl). Data quality was monitored by analysing the following secondary standards: A-99 basaltic glass (NMNH 113498), Kakanui augite (NMNH 122142, using preferred values) and Lake County plagioclase (NMNH 115900) (Jarosewich et al. 1980). Glass F contents were corrected for interference from the FeLα line using the approach of Zhang et al. (2015). Analytical uncertainties (2σ) were typically < 5% for major elements present at ≥ 1 wt.% and < 10% for minor elements present at < 1 wt.%
X-ray fluorescence
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses were performed at the Department of Geology of the University of Leicester, UK, using a PANalytical Axios Advanced X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer. The instrument runs with a 4 Kw Rhodium (Rh) anode end window super sharp ceramic technology X-Ray tube. Major elements were analysed on fused glass beads prepared from ignited glass powders using a sample-to-flux ratio of 1:5 and a flux containing 80% Li metaborate and 20% Li tetraborate. Trace elements were analysed on 32 mm diameter pressed powder pellets produced by mixing 7 g of sample powder with 12–15 drops of 7% PVA solution. Data quality was monitored though longitudinal analyses of an in-house granodiorite (BH-1) standard for major elements and USGS nepheline syenite (STM-1) standard for trace elements. Analytical uncertainties (2σ) were typically < 5% for major elements present at ≥ 1 wt.% and < 2% for trace elements present at > 50 ppmw.
Petrography and electron imaging
Lava samples have porphyritic textures characterised by macrocrysts of, in order of decreasing abundance, alkali feldspar, clinopyroxene, aenigmatite and olivine in a glassy to microcrystalline groundmass. Macrocrysts are defined as crystals that are larger and texturally distinct from groundmass crystals (Thomson and Maclennan 2013). Trachytic enclaves are also present in some samples and are described below. Tabular alkali feldspar macrocrysts are 500–4000 µm in length (lengths are expressed as long-axis lengths throughout) and are readily distinguished from acicular groundmass crystals that are up to 100 µm in length (Figs. 2a, 3a, b). Although alkali feldspar frequently occurs as individual macrocrysts, it also forms glomerocrysts. While some alkali feldspar macrocrysts are euhedral and faceted (Fig. 2a), others are subhedral with rounded crystal face intersections (Fig. 2b). Some also contain inclusions of clinopyroxene and olivine (Fig. 3a). Clinopyroxene macrocrysts are typically 100–1500 µm in length and are readily distinguished from acicular groundmass crystals that reach up to 100 µm in length by their equant and tabular habits. Although some clinopyroxenes are euhedral (Figs. 2c and 3b), highly resorbed anhedral forms are also present (Figs. 2b and 3b), with the most resorbed macrocrysts being found in samples containing trachytic enclaves. Some clinopyroxene macrocrysts contain apatite inclusions. Tabular aenigmatite macrocrysts are typically 200–800 µm in length, subhedral to anhedral in form and frequently associated with clinopyroxene macrocrysts (Figs. 2a, c and 3a). Rare equant olivine macrocrysts 200–500 µm in length are typically the smallest macrocryst phase and sometimes host apatite inclusions (Fig. 2c). The groundmass is mostly glassy, though microlites of alkali feldspar and clinopyroxene are common. In some samples, microlites are aligned and appear to define flow banding (Fig. 2d). Variations in the back-scattered electron (BSE) intensity of the glass around some macrocrysts and within some macrocryst embayments reflect differences in the mean atomic number (i.e., mean Z) of the sample and indicate that matrix glasses are chemically variable over lengthscales of 10 to 100 µm (Fig. 3b; Supplementary Fig. 1).
Trachytic enclaves have porphyritic textures characterised by macrocrysts of, in order of decreasing abundance, alkali feldspar, clinopyroxene, olivine, aenigmatite, Fe–Ti oxide and apatite in a largely crystalline groundmass. Indeed, enclaves are readily distinguished from their host lava by their crystalline groundmass (Fig. 2e). Tabular alkali feldspar macrocrysts are typically 1000–10000 µm in length and thus larger on average than alkali feldspar macrocrysts in the host lava (Figs. 2e, 3e, f). Equant clinopyroxene and olivine macrocrysts are 400–1000 µm in length and are frequently associated with all macrocryst phases apart from alkali feldspar (Figs. 2f and 3d). Clinopyroxene and olivine macrocrysts contain abundant melt, apatite, Fe–Ti oxide and sulphide inclusions (Fig. 3d). Tabular aenigmatites sometimes occur as individual macrocrysts up to 400 µm in length (Fig. 2e), but are more frequently present in complex intergrowths with Fe–Ti oxides, apatite and sulphide that are closely associated with clinopyroxene and olivine (Fig. 3d). Macrocrysts of apatite and Fe–Ti oxide sometimes occur as individual macrocrysts but are mostly found intergrown with clinopyroxene, olivine and aenigmatite. The groundmass within trachytic enclaves is largely crystalline, consisting of alkali feldspar, clinopyroxene and aenigmatite crystals up to 50 µm in length that are often organised in spherulitic arrangements. As described by Landi and Rotolo (2015), glass lines and fills many enclave-hosted vesicles (Supplementary Fig. 2).
Analytical results
Matrix glass and whole-rock compositions
Major elements
The major element systematics of matrix glasses and whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone are summarised in Fig. 4. Variations in key major element oxide concentrations [SiO2, Al2O3, FeO* (total Fe expressed as FeO), CaO and Na2O] are shown as functions of sample peralkalinity [(Na + K)/Al on a molar basis]. New data are plotted alongside literature data from the same eruption (Neave et al. 2012; Landi and Rotolo 2015) and from eruptions elsewhere on Pantelleria (Civetta et al. 1998; Neave et al. 2012). The systematics of minor elements (TiO2, MnO, MgO, P2O5) are summarised in Supplementary Fig. 3.
Matrix glass analyses were performed in three different contexts (Fig. 4): matrix glasses in the Khaggiar lava flow, matrix glasses in pumice clasts from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone and a glass embayment within an alkali feldspar macrocryst from the Khaggiar lava flow. Lava matrix glass compositions are rhyolitic and strongly peralkaline [SiO2 > 70 wt.%; (Na + K)/Al ~ 2.0]. They also lie towards the peralkaline end of reported pantescan glass compositions, indicating that the Khaggiar lava flow is comparatively differentiated for a pantescan rhyolite (Fig. 4; Civetta et al. 1998; Neave et al. 2012). Pumice matrix glass compositions reported by Neave et al. (2012) and Landi and Rotolo (2015) contain less Na2O than lava matrix glass compositions and are consequently less peralkaline [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.7]. They also contain more SiO2 and FeO*. However, their Na2O, CaO and K2O contents are similar to those reported from other pantescan eruptions, indicating that differences in Na2O contents between lava and pumice matrix glass compositions are not the result of Na volatilisation (Fig. 4a, c). Moreover, the high totals (> 98.5 wt.%) of analyses reported by Neave et al. (2012) suggest that they were not compromised by devitrification or secondary hydration. The single glass embayment measured within an alkali feldspar macrocryst from the Khaggiar lava flow has a major element composition between those of lava and pumice matrix glasses [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.9].
Whole-rock analyses were performed on three different sample types (Fig. 4): lava samples from the Khaggiar lava flow, an enclave sample from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone, and a lithic sample from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone. These are compared with two pumice samples and four enclave samples from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone measured by Landi and Rotolo (2015). Most lava samples and the single lithic sample define a main population in major element space that spans trachytic and rhyolitic compositions [SiO2 ~ 67.9–69.1 wt.%; (Na + K)/Al ~ 1.5–1.8]. Enclave samples are trachytic and only mildly peralkaline [SiO2 ~ 63.9–64.6 wt.%; (Na + K)/Al ~ 1.1–1.2], and thus represent the least differentiated samples considered here. One enclave sample is also notably enriched in CaO (Fig. 4d; Landi and Rotolo 2015). Three lava samples fall outside of the main population, especially in terms of their Na2O contents, and instead have compositions that lie between those of enclaves and matrix glasses from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.3–1.4]. Finally, two pumice whole-rock compositions reported by Landi and Rotolo (2015) are compositionally closer to matrix glasses in pumice clasts from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone than most lava whole-rock compositions [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.6].
Trace elements
Trace element systematics of matrix glasses and whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone are summarised in Fig. 5. Ba and Zr were selected as typical trace elements because they were measured precisely and behave contrastingly during the differentiation of peralkaline magmas (Iddon et al. 2018): Ba is compatible in alkali feldspar, which leads to the rapid depletion of melt Ba contents during the crystallisation of trachytic magmas, whereas Zr is highly incompatible in all phases crystallising from peralkaline magmas, meaning that Zr provides an excellent index of magmatic differentiation. Although trace element data have been reported from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone (Neave et al. 2012), no matrix glass data are available for the Khaggiar lava flow. I, therefore, predicted the mean Ba and Zr contents of lava matrix glasses from their mean peralkalinity [(Na + K)/Al ~ 2.0] by regressing literature data from highly peralkaline [(Na + K)/Al > 1.8] pantescan glasses (Civetta et al. 1998; Neave et al. 2012).
Most lava samples, the single lithic sample, and pumice samples from Landi and Rotolo (2015) have low Ba contents (67–99 ppmw) that decrease slightly with increasing peralkalinity (Fig. 5a). Two low-peralkalinity lava samples with [(Na + K)/Al < 1.4] have higher Ba contents (169 and 295 ppmw), and enclave samples have still higher Ba contents: most enclave samples contain 429–295 ppmw Ba, but one contains 1941 ppmw. The two Ba-rich lava samples also appear to lie on the same trend as enclave samples.
Almost all matrix glass and whole-rock compositions form a continuous trend in Zr that extends from ~ 400 ppmw in enclave samples to ~ 2000 ppmw in lava samples; lava matrix glass Zr contents are estimated to be slightly higher at ~ 2300 ppmw. Only two moderately peralkaline lava samples [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.3–1.4] fall slightly above the main trend. Both new and literature data for the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone have Zr contents consistent with those reported for other pantescan glasses.
Macrocryst compositions
Mean compositions of lava-hosted alkali feldspars plot largely within the anorthoclase field, consistent with crystallisation at the albite (Ab, NaAlSi3O8)-orthoclase (Or, KAlSi3O8) minimum ~ Or35, where Or = molar K/(Ca + Na + K) × 100 (Fig. 6a; Tuttle and Bowen 1958; Macdonald et al. 2011; Wilke et al. 2017); only three macrocrysts plot within the sanidine field (~ Or37–40). Lava-hosted alkali feldspars also contain very little to no anorthite (An, CaAl2Si2O8) component: An contents [where An = molar Ca/(Ca + Na + K) × 100] vary from ~ An0 to ~ An1 (referred to as An-free in subsequent discussions). Mean compositions of enclave-hosted alkali feldspars also plot within the anorthoclase field. Although enclave-hosted alkali feldspar compositions overlap with those from lava-hosted alkali feldspars, they also extend to lower Or contents (Or24) and higher An contents (~ An4; referred to as An-bearing in subsequent discussions). However, averaging across whole macrocrysts causes some compositions to fall off the pantescan trend defined by literature data (White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012; Liszewska et al. 2018). This is because some mean compositions reflect mixtures of An-free and An-bearing compositions with pantelleritic and trachytic affinities, respectively. Alkali feldspar An contents correlate positively with their Ba contents (Fig. 6b), with Ba ranging from below the EPMA detection limit (< 100 ppmw) at ~ An0 to ~ 650 ppmw at An1 in lava-hosted alkali feldspars, and from ~ 400 ppmw at ~ An1 to ~ 3800 ppmw at ~ An4 in enclave-hosted macrocrysts. These variations are consistent with those reported from other pantescan alkali feldspars (Liszewska et al. 2018).
Some alkali feldspars are compositionally zoned (Fig. 7). Although variations in alkali feldspar Or, An and Ba contents rarely exceed analytical uncertainty in lava-hosted macrocrysts (Fig. 7a), they often do in enclave-hosted macrocrysts (Fig. 7b). Or and An contents correlate negatively and, although high Ba contents are always associated with high An contents, high An contents are not always associated with high Ba contents. Overall, the nature and extent of compositional zoning in alkali feldspars varies greatly. Although a systematic characterisation of alkali feldspar zonation is beyond the scope of this study, the observations presented here demonstrate the degree of microscale complexity in the Khaggiar lava flow’s macrocryst and enclave cargoes.
Mean compositions of lava-hosted clinopyroxenes range from augite to aegirine-augite and lie close to the hedenbergite (Hd, CaFe2+Si2O6) apex of the pyroxene quadrilateral (Fig. 8a), overlapping with some but not all compositions reported from evolved pantescan rocks (White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012; Liszewska et al. 2018). Most lava-hosted clinopyroxenes are Fe-rich, with Mg# values of 0.05–0.10 (Fig. 8b), where Mg# = molar Mg/(Mg + Fe*) and Fe* is total Fe. Four clinopyroxenes (aegirine-augites) are enriched in aegirine component (Ae, NaFe3+Si2O6) at the expense of quadrilateral components (Fig. 8c). Zoned lava-hosted clinopyroxene macrocrysts are on average poorer in Fe than their unzoned counterparts, with mean Mg# values of 0.10–0.15. However, these lower mean Fe contents primarily reflect a compositional dichotomy between Fe-rich rims (Mg# ≤ 0.1) and Fe-poor cores (Mg# > 0.2) that is also reflected in correlated variations in Ae component (Figs. 3a and 9). Clinopyroxene inclusions found within some lava-hosted alkali feldspars have very similar compositions to the mean compositions of zoned lava-hosted clinopyroxenes (i.e., Mg# ~ 0.10–0.15; Figs. 3a and 8b). Enclave-hosted clinopyroxenes are augitic and notably poorer in Fe than their lava-hosted counterparts (Mg# ~ 0.22–0.24; Fig. 8b). They are also poor in Ae component and similar in composition to the cores of zoned lava-hosted clinopyroxenes (Figs. 8c and 9).
Mean compositions of lava-hosted aenigmatites are distinguished from those of enclave-hosted aenigmatites by their higher Si + Na contents and lower Al + Ca contents (Fig. 10a) that reflect compositional differences in their carrier magmas: pantelleritic lavas are Si-rich and trachytic enclaves are Si-poor (Figs. 4). The presence of aenigmatite in trachytic enclaves is however somewhat surprising given that aenigmatite is typically stable in only strongly peralkaline magmas (Macdonald et al. 2011). Indeed, Landi and Rotolo (2015) did not report aenigmatite in their enclave samples from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone. Nevertheless, comparisons with literature data indicate that the aenigmatites I describe here probably reflect the limit of pantescan aenigmatite stability (Fig. 10a; Mahood and Stimac 1990; White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012; Liszewska et al. 2018); enclave-hosted aenigmatites define the low-Si + Na, high-Al + Ca bound of pantescan compositions but do not extend much beyond published values.
All measured olivines are rich in fayalite (Fa, Fe2SiO4) and tephroite (Tp, Mn2SiO4) components (Fig. 10b, c). The single lava-hosted olivine measured is highly fayalitic (~ Fa93) and appreciably tephroitic (~ Tp5), but comparable to compositions reported in the literature from other pantescan eruptions (White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012; Liszewska et al. 2018). In contrast, enclave-hosted olivines are slightly less fayalitic (~ Fa86) but slightly more tephroitic (~ Tp7). Olivine inclusions found within some lava-hosted alkali feldspars are more fayalitic than enclave-hosted olivines but less fayalitic than the single lava-hosted olivine measured (~ Fa87–89; Fig. 10b). Although previous studies reported Fe–Ti oxide (ilmenite) and apatite in the Khaggiar lava flow (White et al. 2009), neither were observed as macrocryst phases in the lava samples investigated here. Fe–Ti oxide (ilmenite and magnetite) and apatite nevertheless occur in trachytic enclaves (Figs. 2f and 3d), with apatite also occurring as inclusions within some lava-hosted clinopyroxene and olivine macrocrysts (Fig. 2c). Calculations with the two-oxide oxybarometer of Andersen and Lindsley (1988) suggest that the trachyte enclave shown in Figs. 2f and 3d last equilibrated at a temperature ~ 910 °C and an oxygen fugacity (\({{f}}_{{\text{O}}_{2}}\)) 1.2 log units below the quartz–fayalite–magnetite buffer. Although these values are in good agreement with published values (White et al. 2005), the large uncertainties associated with temperature and \({{f}}_{{\text{O}}_{2}}\) estimates from individual oxide pairs (≥ 50 °C and ≥ 0.4 log units, respectively) imply imperfect equilibrium and these results should be treated with caution.
Discussion
Chemical variability in the Khaggiar lava flow
Signal-to-noise ratios [σt/σr, where σt is the true variability estimated from the observed variability (σo) and analytical uncertainty (σr) using the relationship σt2 = σo2 − σr2] allow the true, geological variability in geochemical datasets to be distinguished from the variability associated with analytical uncertainty (Maclennan et al. 2003). Signal-to-noise ratios estimated for whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow are provided in Table 1. Evaluating the significance of σt/σr values with the χ2 distribution demonstrates that SiO2, Al2O3, FeO* and CaO vary significantly at p < 0.05 (i.e., σt/σr > 1.83) while Na2O and K2O do not (i.e., σt/σr < 1.83). Precisely determined trace elements vary with high degrees of significance (p < < 0.01), and σt/σr exceeds 100 for both Ba and Zr. Whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow, therefore, show significant intra-flow chemical variability that approaches the magnitude of that described from the much more voluminous ~ 45 ka Green Tuff (Williams et al. 2013; Liszewska et al. 2018).
A cross-correlation matrix for whole-rock data from the Khaggiar lava flow (including the lithic sample from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone) is provided in Supplementary Fig. 4 and constitutes a powerful summary of highly correlated chemical variability. For example, SiO2 correlates positively with MnO (r ~ 0.97), Zr (r ~ 0.96), rare earth elements (REEs; r ~ 0.90–0.94) and FeO* (r ~ 0.64), but negatively with CaO (r ~ − 0.90), Al2O3 (r ~ − 0.88), K2O (r ~ − 0.85), TiO2 (r ~ − 0.82), MgO (r ~ − 0.73) and Ba (r ~ − 0.68). Na2O does not correlate strongly with any elements and only weak negative correlations with FeO* (r ~ − 0.39) and MgO (r ~ − 0.30) can be resolved.
Principal component analysis (PCA) allows entwined signatures of chemical variability to be identified and disentangled; the application of PCA to geological problems is discussed in detail by Allègre et al. (1995), Slater et al. (2001) and Neave et al. (2012). Elemental weightings for the first three principal components of whole-rock data from the Khaggiar lava flow are shown in Fig. 11. The first principal component, which accounts for 85.3% of the total variance, is defined by weightings corresponding to much the correlated variability described above (i.e., SiO2, REEs and FeO* versus CaO, A2O3, K2O and Ba). The second principal component, which accounts for 7.5% of the total variance, is defined by a strongly negative weighting for Na2O and weak positive weightings for FeO* and MgO, which mirrors Na2O’s correlation pattern (Supplementary Fig. 4). The third principal component, which accounts for 4.3% of the total variance, is defined by positive weightings for MgO, P2O5, Ba, TiO2 and Na2O and negative weightings for K2O and to a lesser extent MnO and Al2O3. Overall, the first three principal components account for > 97% of the total variance in the Khaggiar lava flow, indicating that three distinct processes account for most of the variability observed.
Matrix glass and whole-rock records of crystallisation, mixing and accumulation
Mass balance calculations indicate that lava and pumice matrix glass compositions are unlikely to be related by crystallisation along a liquid line of descent. Attempts to reproduce lava matrix glass compositions from pumice matrix glass compositions by the removal of observed macrocryst phases (i.e., alkali feldspar + aenigmatite + clinopyroxene ± olivine) through least squares modelling returned unacceptably high misfits (RMS > 0.4) and geologically implausible crystallising assemblages dominated by aenigmatite; peralkaline magma evolution is driven primarily by the crystallisation of alkali feldspar not aenigmatite (White et al. 2009; di Carlo et al. 2010). I, therefore, suggest that lava and pumice matrix glass compositions probably reflect distinct magma batches that evolved in isolation along slightly different liquid lines of descent under different conditions. For example, even slight differences in \({{f}}_{{\text{O}}_{2}}\) and magmatic volatile contents (i.e., \({{a}}_{{\text{H}}_{2}{\text{O}}}\) and \({{a}}_{\text{F}}\)) can result in different residual melt compositions by changing the compositions and proportions of alkali feldspar, clinopyroxene, aenigmatite, olivine and Fe–Ti oxides in crystallising assemblages (Scaillet and Macdonald 2001, 2003; di Carlo et al. 2010; Macdonald et al. 2011). Differences in pressure can also affect relative degrees of Na or K enrichment by changing alkali feldspar–melt equilibria (Tuttle and Bowen 1958; Macdonald et al. 2011), but are unlikely to have been important in the generation of pantescan pantellerites that differentiate within a narrow pressure interval centred at 100 MPa (di Carlo et al. 2010; Gioncada and Landi 2010; Neave et al. 2012; Romano et al. 2018).
Mixing and accumulation trends were calculated to identify the processes responsible for creating chemical variability in matrix glasses and whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone. Three endmembers were used for calculating mixing trends: the mean lava matrix glass composition, the mean pumice matrix glass composition and the new enclave whole-rock composition reported here. Crystal accumulation trends were calculated using mean mineral compositions (lava-hosted alkali feldspar, enclave-hosted alkali feldspar and lava-hosted clinopyroxene), the new enclave whole-rock composition reported here and the composition defining variability along the first principal component of whole-rock data from the Khaggiar lava flow.
The composition of the single glass embayment measured within an alkali feldspar in the Khaggiar lava flow can be reproduced by mixing lava and pumice matrix glasses in a 9:11 ratio (Fig. 12, solid light red lines). Differences in BSE intensity within the embayment and around its host macrocryst are consistent with the presence of multiple melt compositions (Supplementary Fig. 1). Sinuous variations in BSE intensity around other lava-hosted macrocrysts also attest to the presence of variable and incompletely mixed melts in the Khaggiar lava flow over lengthscales of 10–100 µm at the time of quenching (Fig. 3b). Importantly, the feathery texture and heterogeneous distribution of high-BSE patches implies that they do not represent compositional boundary layers. It thus appears likely that compositionally distinct melts supplying the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone interacted shortly before and possibly during eruption. Comparisons with textures in both natural and experimental systems suggest that compositional heterogeneities as fine as those observed in Khaggiar flow can only be preserved over very short timescales, perhaps on the order of hours (De Campos et al. 2008). Future work characterising compositional heterogeneities within matrix glasses from the Khaggiar lava flow could provide quantitative insights into the timescales over which magma mingling occurred prior to lava flow solidification (Perugini et al. 2003, 2010).
The accumulation of alkali feldspar into the mean lava matrix glass composition from the Khaggiar lava flow can account for the sense of compositional variability in most matrix glasses and whole-rock samples [i.e., (Na + K)/Al correlating positively with SiO2 and FeO* but negatively with Al2O3 and CaO; Fig. 12, blue lines]. Indeed, the appreciable Stokes’ settling velocity of alkali feldspar crystals in a melt with the mean Khaggiar matrix glass composition and a H2O content of 4.0 wt.% (e.g., Neave et al. 2012) indicates that crystal accumulation (including via crystal mush formation and disaggregation) can concentrate crystals within evolved pantescan magma reservoirs: alkali feldspars with diameters of 1 mm are estimated to sink at a rate of ~ 0.35 m/year assuming a temperature of 750 °C (see below), a melt viscosity calculated following Giordano et al. (2008), a crystal density of 2.58 g/cm3 from Deer et al. (2013) and a melt density of 2.49 g/cm3 calculated using molar volumes from Lange and Carmichael (1990), Lange (1997) and Ochs and Lange (1997) and thermal expansivities from Bottinga and Weill (1970) and Bottinga et al. (1982). However, the concurrent accumulation of one or more CaO- and FeO*-rich phases like clinopyroxene alongside alkali feldspar is required to relate matrix glass and whole-rock compositions accurately. Specifically, least squares modelling indicates that variability along the first principal component of whole-rock data from the Khaggiar lava flow is defined by adding an assemblage containing 84% alkali feldspar, 11% aenigmatite, 5% clinopyroxene and negligible olivine, consistent with petrographic observations (Fig. 2). Accumulating ~ 20–50 wt.% of this assemblage can explain much of the variability in lava whole-rock samples (85.3% of total variance; Fig. 11) as well as the difference between lava matrix glass and whole-rock compositions (Fig. 12). Although the proportions of phases defining variability along the first principal component are, aenigmatite aside, broadly similar to those proposed for the crystallising assemblages driving the fractionation of silicic magmas at Pantelleria, (White et al. 2009; Neave et al. 2012), the elevated Al2O3, CaO and Na2O contents of lava whole-rock samples with respect to literature glass data confirm that variability in whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow is controlled by crystal accumulation rather than crystal removal (Fig. 12b, c). This is because whole-rock trends are oblique to the liquid line of descent defined by pantescan glasses.
Mixing calculations suggest that the compositions of three modestly peralkaline lava whole-rock samples [i.e., (Na + K)/Al ~ 1.3–1.4] can be accounted for by mixing between enclave whole-rock and mean pumice matrix glass compositions (Fig. 12, dashed dark red lines). Namely, mixing along this trajectory is able to account for the Na2O-poor but Ba- and CaO-rich nature of these samples that defines variability along the second principal component of lava whole-rock data; variations in Na2O are oblique to the first principal component (Fig. 12e). Two pumice whole-rock compositions reported by Landi and Rotolo (2015) also lie close to this mixing trend, reflecting the incorporation of enclave-derived material into the magmas from which erupted pumices formed.
Lava whole-rock compositions fall either on a trend of macrocryst accumulation into the mean lava matrix glass composition or on a mixing trend between enclave whole-rock and mean pumice matrix glass compositions. Thus, while much of the Khaggiar lava flow is highly peralkaline [(Na + K)/Al ~ 2.0 in the lava matrix glass], some parts of the flow share a compositional affinity with less peralkaline pumice matrix glasses [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.7] that are in turn associated with a more primitive, enclave-derived signature [(Na + K)/Al ~ 1.1–1.2]. These observations thus corroborate the inference from a single glass embayment that lava and pumice matrix glasses interacted shortly before or during the emplacement of the Khaggiar lava flow.
Literature data from whole-rock enclave samples demonstrate that trachytic enclaves in the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone are compositionally diverse (Landi and Rotolo 2015). Performing mixing calculations using the single new enclave whole-rock composition reported here as a mixing endmember is thus a simplification, albeit one that can still account for much of the observed variability outside the main population of whole-rock data. Although most elements including SiO2, Al2O3, FeO*, Na2O, K2O and Zr show little variability beyond analytical precision within the enclaves measured, others including TiO2, MnO, MgO, CaO, P2O5 and, in particular, Ba show considerable variability (Figs. 4 and 5, and Supplementary Fig. 3). This variability reflects differences in enclave macrocryst contents: CaO and Ba reflect the presence of An-bearing and Ba-rich alkali feldspars (e.g., Figs. 3f and 7b), TiO2 reflects the presence of ilmenite (Fig. 3f), MnO and MgO reflect the presence of relatively high-Mg# clinopyroxene and Tp- and forsterite (Fo, Mg2SiO4)-bearing olivine (Figs. 3f, 8, 10b, c) and P2O5 reflects the presence of apatite (Fig. 3f). Interestingly, these elements define variability along the third principal component of lava whole-rock data (Fig. 11), suggesting that weak enclave signatures in some lava whole-rock samples are also associated with variability in enclave-derived macrocryst proportions and compositions.
Macrocryst records of magma-magma interactions
The Khaggiar lava flow hosts multiple macrocryst populations, indicating that lava-hosted macrocrysts formed in multiple magmatic environments. Evolved lava-hosted alkali feldspar macrocrysts (i.e., An-free and Ba-poor macrocrysts; Fig. 6) are inclusion poor while less-evolved lava-hosted alkali feldspar macrocrysts (i.e., An-bearing and Ba-rich macrocrysts; Fig. 6) are often inclusion rich (Fig. 3a). This dichotomy is also reflected in the other phases associated with different alkali feldspar populations: evolved alkali feldspars are typically associated with aenigmatites and evolved clinopyroxenes (aegirine-augites; Figs. 3a and 8c) whereas less-evolved alkali feldspars are associated with less-evolved clinopyroxenes (augites; Fig. 3a) whose compositions approach those observed in enclave-hosted macrocrysts (Figs. 8 and 9). Clinopyroxene inclusions within less-evolved lava-hosted alkali feldspars also have similar, augitic compositions to less-evolved clinopyroxene macrocrysts (Figs. 3c and 8). Similarly, Tp-bearing olivine inclusions within the same lava-hosted alkali feldspars have compositions that approach those of enclave-hosted macrocrysts more closely than those of lava-hosted macrocrysts (Figs. 3b, 10b, c). High-BSE intensity and thus presumably FeO*-rich domains around many less-evolved alkali feldspar macrocrysts suggest that less-evolved lava-hosted macrocrysts (i.e., An-bearing and Ba-rich alkali feldspars, Ae-poor clinopyroxenes and Tp-bearing olivines) crystallised from melts closer in composition to pumice matrix glasses than lava matrix glasses. Similarly, the relatively FeO*-rich composition of a single measured glass embayment demonstrates that melts with a pumice matrix glass affinity were transferred into melts that ultimately formed the lava matrix glass alongside less-evolved macrocrysts (Fig. 4c). The euhedral, faceted nature of many less-evolved, lava-hosted macrocrysts (Fig. 3b) provides independent evidence for coupled melt-macrocryst transfer because it implies that they were in textural and chemical equilibrium with their immediate carrier melts (FeO*-rich melt films of pumice matrix glass affinity) at the time of quenching. Observations from macrocrysts, therefore, support evidence from whole-rock data that the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone were fed from a reservoir containing at least two compositionally distinct pantelleritic magmas.
Some evolved lava-hosted macrocrysts (i.e., An-free and Ba-poor alkali feldspars, aenigmatites and Ae-bearing clinopyroxenes) have resorbed morphologies; alkali feldspars are often subhedral while aenigmatites and clinopyroxenes are often fully anhedral (Figs. 2b and 3a). Evolved macrocrysts were, therefore, out of textural equilibrium with their carrier melts (lava matrix glasses) at the point of quenching. However, evaluating the exact cause of this disequilibrium is challenging because the effects of pressure–temperature–\({{f}}_{{\text{O}}_{2}}\) variations on the phase relations of evolved peralkaline magmas remain to be fully defined (cf. Scaillet and Macdonald 2001, 2003; di Carlo et al. 2010; Romano et al. 2018). Comparing glass and macrocryst compositions from the Khaggiar lava flow with compositions from other peralkaline systems, both natural and experimental, nevertheless suggests that the evolved macrocryst assemblage could have crystallised from the lava matrix glass composition (Scaillet and Macdonald 2003; White et al. 2005, 2009; di Carlo et al. 2010; Macdonald et al. 2011; Neave et al. 2012). Specifically, experimental data indicate that Or-rich alkali feldspar, aegirine-augite and aenigmatite co-crystallise from peralkaline melts [(Na + K)/Al > 1.5] at temperatures close to 700 °C (di Carlo et al. 2010). It is thus unlikely that macrocryst accumulation resulted in significant chemical disequilibrium. Apparent chemical near-equilibrium between evolved macrocrysts and their carrier melts must, therefore, be reconciled with textural disequilibrium in order to explain how the magmas feeding the Khaggiar lava flow were assembled.
The juxtaposition of evolved macrocrysts of lava matrix glass affinity with less-evolved macrocrysts of pumice matrix glass affinity and trachytic enclaves suggests that magma mingling took place before or during eruption and that it brought thermally distinct magmas into contact with each other (Landi and Rotolo 2015). I thus suggest that the interaction of hot, less-evolved magmas (850–950 °C in the case of trachytes and ~ 820 °C in the case of less-evolved pantellerites; White et al. 2005) with cool, evolved magmas (≤ 750 °C in the case of evolved pantellerites; White et al. 2005) caused evolved macrocrysts to resorb upon mingling (Fig. 3a). Importantly, the amoeboid form of trachytic enclaves shows that they were hot and fluid (i.e., super-solidus) upon injection, maximising their capacity to transfer heat into their cooler pantelleritic hosts (Landi and Rotolo 2015).
Compositional zoning within both lava- and enclave-hosted macrocrysts demonstrates that the magma plumbing system which fed the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone experienced multiple recharge events before the one that ultimately led to eruption. Compositional zoning suggests that some domains of less-evolved lava-hosted macrocrysts may have crystallised from trachytic melts (Figs. 6 and 9). In particular, high-Ba zones (up to ~ 600 ppmw) within some lava-hosted alkali feldspars indicate that they crystallised in a magmatic environment containing Ba-rich trachytic melts, at least transiently (Figs. 6b and 7a). This is because Ba partitions so strongly into alkali feldspars during the crystallisation of peralkaline magmas (DBa ~ 5.5 in trachytic magmas; Mahood and Stimac 1990) that Ba is efficiently stripped from residual pantelleritic melts; pantellerites contain insufficient Ba to crystallise Ba-rich alkali feldspars (Fig. 5a; Iddon et al. 2018).
Compositional zoning in enclave-hosted macrocrysts reveals that analogous recharge events also took place in less evolved regions of the plumbing system. Specifically, compositional zoning in some enclave-hosted alkali feldspars suggests that their host magmas must have been recharged by highly Ba-rich melts in order to crystallise macrocrysts with up to ~ 3800 ppmw Ba (Fig. 3e, f and 6b): alkali feldspar Ba contents of ~ 3800 ppmw may translate into melt Ba contents of ~ 700 ppmw (Mahood and Stimac 1990). These new observations are consistent with previous findings that demonstrated the importance of mingling between mafic (potentially hawaiitic) and evolved (trachytic) magmas in creating diverse enclave textures and compositions in the products of pantescan eruptions (Ferla and Meli 2006). Such magma mingling processes also thought to be responsible for the creation of rare intermediate eruption products on Pantelleria (Romengo et al. 2012). The Ba-rich nature of some enclaves, as well as of pantescan trachytes more widely (> 1000 ppmw Ba), suggests that the accumulation of Ba-rich alkali feldspar (alongside apatite, ilmenite and relatively Mg-rich augite and olivine) exerts a major control over the composition of trachytic magmas on Pantelleria, as reflected by the third principal component of lava whole-rock data presented here (Fig. 11; Prosperini et al. 2000; White et al. 2009). Conversely, the relatively low Ba content (≤ 400 ppmw) of some enclave-hosted alkali feldspars suggests that they may have crystallised from Ba-poor melts of pantelleritic affinity and were subsequently transferred into Ba-rich melts of trachytic affinity. Although documenting the full complexity of enclave-hosted macrocrysts is beyond the scope of this study, it would nevertheless appear that trachytic magma bodies beneath Pantelleria are highly dynamic, experiencing recharge by more primitive magmas as well as the accumulation of both relatively more and less evolved macrocrysts. Similar complexity in magma reservoir processes has been identified in the peralkaline eruption products from the Kenya and Main Ethiopian Rifts, where Ba-rich alkali feldspar cargoes are thought to reflect the entrainment of relatively primitive macrocrysts into relatively evolved melts (Macdonald 2012; Iddon et al. 2018). Peralkaline magma reservoirs thus share many characteristics with their calc-alkaline counterparts in which magma mixing, macrocryst entrainment and petrological cannibalism are widespread (e.g., Cashman and Blundy 2013). Similarities may also be drawn with primitive, tholeiitic magma reservoirs, in which macrocrysts often experience multiple crystal mush formation and disaggregation events prior to their eventual eruption (e.g., Passmore et al. 2012; Neave et al. 2014).
Pre-eruptive magma assembly
Chemical variability in matrix glasses and whole-rock samples and their enclave and macrocryst cargoes demonstrates that erupted magmas were assembled from at least three distinct magma types: trachytes, less-evolved pantellerites and evolved pantellerites. Differences in matrix glass compositions imply that less-evolved and evolved pantellerites were stored in discrete melt-rich regions of the pantescan plumbing system (Fig. 13a). Comparisons with other silicic systems suggest that these melt-rich regions were likely nested within a large, crystal-rich magma reservoir (Ellis et al. 2014; Bachmann and Huber 2016). The equilibrium phase assemblage of evolved pantellerites (Or-rich alkali feldspar, aegirine-augite and aenigmatite) indicates that they were stored under relatively cool conditions, most likely at the roof of the plumbing system (≤ 750 °C; White et al. 2005; di Carlo et al. 2010). In contrast, less-evolved pantellerites were stored in hotter and presumably slightly deeper parts of the magmatic system (~ 820 °C; White et al. 2005). However, the equilibrium phase assemblage of less-evolved pantellerites (mainly An-bearing alkali feldspar and augite) indicates that they were stored at broadly similar pressure to evolved pantellerites (~ 100 MPa; White et al. 2005; di Carlo et al. 2010). It thus appears likely that the distinct characteristics of the different pantelleritic magmas identified arose from differences in \({{f}}_{{\text{O}}_{2}}\), temperature, melt composition and volatile content rather than significant differences in pressure. Indeed, Romano et al. (2018) estimate that pantescan trachytes also evolved at ~ 100 MPa, implying that the pantelleritic domain of the pantescan magma plumbing system must have been small in volume and limited in vertical extent.
Trachytic enclaves constitute up to 20 vol.% of the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone, suggesting that the injection of trachytic magmas into pantelleritic magmas probably played a major role in eruption triggering (Mahood and Baker 1986; Prosperini et al. 2000; Landi and Rotolo 2015). The injection of 20 vol.% hot (850–950 °C; this work; White et al. 2005; Romano et al. 2018) trachytes into cooler pantellerites (≤ 750–820 °C) would have heated the latter considerably (Fig. 13b). Such heating would have reduced magma viscosity, increased convective vigour and ultimately increased magma eruptibility. Importantly, the release of latent heat during enclave crystallisation–trachytic magmas were fluid at the time of injection (Landi and Rotolo 2015)—would have resulted in more sustained heat release than could have been achieved through the dissipation of sensible heat alone. Moreover, the exsolution of volatiles from trachytic enclaves by both decompression and crystallisation-induced second boiling would have further enhanced the ability of a recharge event to trigger an eruption (Landi and Rotolo, 2015). Contrasting the resorbed nature of evolved lava-hosted macrocrysts with the euhedral nature of less-evolved lava-hosted macrocrysts suggests that pre-eruptive temperatures of different pantellerites may have eventually converged towards the liquidus temperature of the pumice matrix glass (~ 820 °C; Fig. 3a, b). This overall heating of evolved pantellerites would have also helped to facilitate the accumulation of evolved macrocrysts because mushes formed during earlier phases of cooling and crystallisation would have disaggregated through the resorption of grain boundaries and low-temperature interstitial phases (Fig. 13c, d; Burgisser and Bergantz 2011; Cooper and Kent 2014).
The temporal evolution of less-evolved matrix glasses erupted from the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone into evolved matrix glasses emplaced in the Khaggiar lava flow demonstrates that different magma batches interacted with each other to different degrees during the course of the eruption. Early pumice-forming phases of the eruption were dominated by interactions between trachytes and less-evolved pantellerites, with ascending magmas largely bypassing the evolved pantellerites (Fig. 13c). The magnitudes of volatile exsolution and heat transfer associated with the injection of hot trachytes would have been greatest during the earliest phases of magma-magma interaction when thermal gradients were greatest. This may explain how magma initially ascended fast enough to fragment and create the Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone (Hughes et al. 2017). As the eruption continued, magmas became more evolved and the eruption style became more effusive. This switch may indicate that new magma ascent pathways were opened at depth by mush erosion, as reflected by the accumulation of 20–50 wt.% macrocrysts into evolved pantellerites (Fig. 13d). The presence of less-evolved macrocrysts within FeO*-rich melt films as well as a partially mixed glass embayment in the Khaggiar lava flow nevertheless demonstrate that some less-evolved pantelleritic material was transferred into the volumetrically dominant evolved pantelleritic magmas, potentially alongside the trachytic enclaves that are found throughout the Khaggiar lava flow.
Conclusions
Matrix glasses and whole-rock samples from the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone on Pantelleria exhibit significant chemical variability. Lava and pumice samples have different matrix glass compositions, indicating that at least two discrete pantelleritic magmas contributed to the eventual eruption. Although these two magmas are variably peralkaline and can thus be characterised according to their degree of evolution, they cannot be related by crystallisation along a liquid line of descent. Instead, they probably reflect the residual melts of different parental magmas evolving along slightly different liquid lines of descent within largely isolated domains of the pantescan magma reservoir. Pantelleria would, therefore, appear to possess a magma reservoir compartmentalised in a similar way to those in other silicic settings (Ellis et al. 2014; Bachmann and Huber 2016). Combining PCA of whole-rock data with contextualised microanalyses of macrocryst and enclave cargoes reveals that chemical variability in the Khaggiar lava flow was created by at least three distinct processes: the accumulation of an evolved macrocryst assemblage into evolved pantelleritic melts; the injection of trachytic magmas into less-evolved pantelleritic magmas; and the creation of variability within trachytic magmas by the accumulation of more primitive macrocryst cargoes. Magma assembly prior to the emplacement of the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone was, therefore, complex in ways that would have been difficult to identify from a single sample. Overlooking intra-eruption chemical variability, especially within the products of small eruptions, may thus result in the development of oversimplified models of magma reservoir architectures and incomplete descriptions of volcanic behaviour.
Trachytic and pantelleritic magma bodies within the pantescan magma reservoir underwent multiple recharge events prior to the one that ultimately triggered eruption. The pantelleritic domains of the reservoir supplying the Khaggiar lava flow and Cuddia Randazzo pumice cone were thus open systems that experienced regular injections of less evolved magmas. Compositional zoning, resorption textures and mineralogical diversity in the macrocryst and enclave cargoes of other pantescan eruptions demonstrate that such open system behaviour is widespread beneath Pantelleria (e.g., Ferla and Meli 2006; Romengo et al. 2012; Liszewska et al. 2018). Similar conclusions have been drawn for peralkaline volcanoes in the Kenya and Main Ethiopian Rifts, albeit from inter-eruption rather than intra-eruption perspectives (Macdonald et al. 2008; Macdonald 2012; Iddon et al. 2018). Peralkaline volcanoes are, therefore, characterised by magma plumbing systems that are equally complex as those beneath calc-alkaline volcanoes (e.g., Hildreth 2004; Cashman et al. 2017; Edmonds et al. 2019). Magma mingling and macrocryst entrainment appear to be ubiquitous in peralkaline magma reservoirs and exert major controls over the petrological diversity of erupted magmas and their crystal cargoes, even if variability in crystal cargoes is not as immediately striking as it is in some calc-alkaline magmas (cf., Streck 2008; Cashman and Blundy 2013). Small peralkaline eruptions like the < 0.1 km3 DRE event investigated here are thus fed from magma reservoirs with similar properties to those that feed much larger events like the > 5 km3 DRE ~ 45 ka Green Tuff eruption. In other words, magma reservoir complexity does not appear to scale with eruption size, at least in silicic peralkaline systems.
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Thanks to Margaret E. Hartley and Michael J. Stock for providing feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript. Thanks also to Ray Macdonald and one anonymous reviewer for their insightful and constructive comments that improved the manuscript’s clarity considerably, as well as to Othmar Müntener for his efficient editorial handling. Many thanks to Agnes F. Upshall, field assistant and knitter in residence, for her help during fieldwork. Fieldwork and XRF analyses were supported by a grant from the Elspeth Matthews Fund of the Geological Society of London. I also acknowledge support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Postdoctoral Research Fellowship) and the University of Manchester (Presidential Fellowship).
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Neave, D.A. Chemical variability in peralkaline magmas and magma reservoirs: insights from the Khaggiar lava flow, Pantelleria, Italy. Contrib Mineral Petrol 175, 39 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-01678-0
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