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American Mineralogist's Special Collection on "Rates and Depths of Magma Ascent on Earth"
From: Georg Zellmer <g.f.zellmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>American Mineralogist's Special Collection on "Rates and Depths of Magma Ascent on Earth"
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Dear colleagues,
The American Mineralogist is looking for contributions to its Special
Collection on "Rates and Depths of Magma Ascent on Earth". Please find
the section description at the end of this email.
The guest-editors, Georg Zellmer and Renat Almeev, have decided to keep
this section open until the end of 2016.
An important aspect is that American Mineralogist is set to become a
more general journal for the Earth Science, as reflected in the subtitle
of "A Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials". This means that
manuscripts are now accepted that could go to Geochim CosmochimActa,
Contrib Mineral Petrol, G-cubed, Earth Planet Sci Lett, J Volcanol
Geotherm Res, etc.
Here are some facts that to assist your potential decision to
contribute to this volume:
- -- American Mineralogist offers print-on-demand which means that papers
are published online as they are accepted, without waiting for the
closure date for the Special Section*. Once the section is closed, a
journal-formatted collection of all the papers will be printed. The
online publication date of the paper will be retained.
- -- Shorter papers are encouraged. While American Mineralogist accepts
long papers as well, the regular articles have a 30 printed page limit
(or a rough limit of 100 manuscript pages, when text, figures, tables
etc. are taken together).
- -- American Mineralogist offers unlimited color in the on-line version
of the journal and is free to all MSA members ($80/year, and that
includes Elements and American Mineralogist subscriptions).
- -- Color in the print version is $450/paper - not per page, but per an
entire paper. However, if a paper has a huge amount of color maps, the
fee may increase.
- -- American Mineralogist is cited in ISI and Scopus
Please feel free to send questions to the collection editors
(Zellmer/Almeev) anytime.
Best wishes,
Georg F. Zellmer, Massey University, New Zealand
(g.f.zellmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Renat R. Almeev, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
(r.almeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Section description: "Rates and Depths of Magma Ascent on Earth"
Magmas are the principle source of information of the Earth interior.
Igneous rocks (solidified probes of magmas) are used to characterize
the compositions of the source and the physical conditions of melt
generation. Parental magmas, originally derived from the mantle,
evolve during their ascent through the lithosphere to shallow level
magma reservoirs and volcanic conduits. Thus, the fundamental
petrological questions are where and how igneous systems operate and
what the principal controls are on magma generation and diversification.
In recent years, significant advances have been made in deciphering
the rates of magmatic processes for a variety of magmatic systems,
ranging from small scale mafic eruptions to felsic supereruptions.
Progress has been based on short-lived U-series nuclide constraints
and diffusion modelling (geospeedometry) within crystals and - more
recently - within melt inclusions. Timescales range from millennia to
minutes, depending on the dating method employed and the magmatic
system investigated. Large efforts have been also made in experimental
determination of the pre-eruptive conditions for variety of magmas
from different volcanic settings, with depths of magma storage ranging
from subcrustal to shallow crustal levels.
In this special section in celebration of the American Mineralogist
centennial, we invite contributions that may elucidate magma ascent
rates to their ultimate storage depths (if storage occurs) and to the
surface at the onset of eruption, and that can put tight constraints
on the magma source.
We welcome studies employing geochemical and geophysical methods, and
combinations of techniques, but particularly encourage novel
approaches that may provide additional insights on problems of magma
thermobarometry, the timescales of magma transfer, remobilization, and
eruption in the entire range of tectonic settings present on Earth.
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