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Science 7 June 1974:
Vol. 184. no. 4141, pp. 1069 - 1072
DOI: 10.1126/science.184.4141.1069
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Meteoric Water in Magmas

Irving Friedman 1, Peter W. Lipman 1, John D. Obradovich 1, Jim D. Gleason 1, and Robert L. Christiansen 2

1 U. S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225
2 U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025

Oxygen isotope analyses of sanidine phenocrysts from rhyolitic sequences in Nevada, Colorado, and the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field show that dgr18O decreased in these magmas as a function of time. This decrease in dgr18O may have been caused by isotopic exchange between the magma and groundwater low in 18O. For the Yellowstone Plateau rhyolites, 7000 cubic kilometers of magma could decrease in dgr18O by 2 per mil in 600,000 years by reacting with water equivalent to 3 millimeters of precipitation per year, which is only 0.3 percent of the present annual precipitation in this region. The possibility of reaction between large magmatic bodies and meteoric water at liquidus temperatures has major implications in the possible differentiation history of the magma and in the generation of ore deposits.


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