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Empirical calibration of the sulphur valence oxygen barometer from natural and experimental glasses: method and applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

S. J. Matthews ,
D. H. S. Moncrieff  and
M. R. Carroll
S. J. Matthews
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
D. H. S. Moncrieff
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
M. R. Carroll
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
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Abstract

New data on sulphur valence and magmatic oxidation state for Central Andean volcanic rocks, in combination with published data for experimental and natural samples, allow derivation of a simple relationship between magma oxidation state and sulphur speciation. For a number of highly oxidized Central Andean volcanic rocks fO2 has been calculated using magnetite-ilmenite or olivine-spinel pairs and the sulphur valence in glasses has been measured using the peak shift of S-Kα radiation relative to a pyrite standard. Previously published experimental and natural data have been incorporated with a wider range in fO2 and S valence. The variation in sulphur speciation (as S2- or SO42-) as a function of log fO2 is described by an empirical polynomial fit which reproduces the data to within ±0.5 log units and allows use of electron microprobe measurements of the S-Kα wavelength shift for estimation of magmatic oxygen fugacities. This approach is applicable for fO2 between FMQ-2 and FMQ+6, encompassing most terrestrial magmas. The method has been used to calculate the in fO2 conditions under which melt inclusions were trapped in andesitic magmas before magma mixing in two Central Andean volcanoes, and to calculate the oxygen fugacity of a slowly-cooled pyroclastic flow in which the Fe-Ti oxide phases have subsequently re-equilibrated. In combination with Fe-Ti oxide data, two distinct trends emerge for Lascar volcano. Basaltic andesite-andesitic magma chambers follow T-fO2 trends which parallel the FMQ buffer curve, indicating ferrous-ferric iron buffering of oxygen fugacity. Dacitic anhydrite-bearing magmas with admixed basaltic andesite and andesite follow trends of increasing fO2 with decreasing temperature, indicative of buffering of fO2 by SO2-H2S in a co-magmatic gas phase. This trend continues into the metamorphic aureole of the magma chamber, resulting in highly oxidized (close to magnetite-hematite) conditions.

Keywords

sulphur valencesilicate meltsoxygen fugacity
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 421 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1999

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Present address: Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Avenida Santa Maria 0104, Casilla 10465, Santiago, Chile.

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