4931, 8678, 7156, 0665, 5041, 7311, 7939, 4115, 6387, 5563, 9594, 6532, 6881, 9411, 9581, 8289, 5319, 8225, 7062, 9370, 2002, 2006, English, Data set edition: Explosive release of gases and rocks from the top of molten rock bodies (magma)

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  • Explosive release of gases and rocks from the top of molten rock bodies (magma)
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  • Fluid Mixing in hydrothermal systemsFluid mixing in hydrothermal systems (isOutputOf)
  • RiddPeterProf (hasAssociationWith)
  • BlenkinsopTomProf (hasAssociationWith)
  • OliverNickProf (hasAssociationWith)
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  • Spatial:kmlPolyCoords:140.493186787,-20.7156066532 140.504173115,-20.7939411519 140.638755634,-20.9594653253 140.688194111,-20.9581828943 140.531982258,-20.7062937086 140.493186787,-20.7156066532
  • Spatial::Roxmere cattle station, approx. 30km south of Cloncurry in NW Queensland
  • Temporal: from 2002-01-31
  • Temporal: to 2006-07-31
Summary
  • Coinvestigators: None Related JCU Research Themes: Industries and Economies in the Tropics
  • The source and transport regions of fluidized (transported) breccias outcrop in the Cloncurry Fe-oxide-Cu-Au district. Discordant dykes and pipes with rounded clasts of metasedimentary calc-silicate rocks and minor felsic and mafic intrusions extend several kilometres upwards and outwards from the contact aureole of the 1530 Ma Williams Batholith into overlying schists and amphibolites. We used analytical equations for particle transport to estimate clast velocities (≥ 20m s-1), approaching volcanic ejecta rates. An abrupt release of overpressured magmatic-hydrothermal fluid is suggested by the localisation of the base of the breccias in intensely veined contact aureoles (at around 10 km, constrained by mineral equilibria), incorporation of juvenile magmatic clasts, the scale and discordancy of the bodies, and the wide range of pressure variation (up to 150 MPa) inferred from CO2 fluid inclusion densities and related decrepitation textures. The abundance of clasts derived from depth, rather than from the adjacent wallrocks, suggests that the pressure in the pipes was sufficient to restrict the inwards spalling of fragments from breccia walls; that is, the breccias were explosive rather than implosive, and some may have vented to the surface. At these depths, such extreme behaviour may have been achieved by release of dissolved fluids from crystallizing magma, in combination with a strongly fractured and fluid-laden carapace, sitting under a strong, low permeability barrier. The relationship of these breccias to the Ernest Henry iron-oxide-Cu-Au deposit suggests they may have been sources of fluids or mechanical energy for ore genesis, or alternately provided permeable pathways for later ore fluids.
  • Gases dissolved in molten rock (“magma”) leave the magma as it crystallizes to form solid, igneous rocks underground. Near Cloncurry in western Queensland, Australia, there is evidence in ancient rocks that this process occurred extremely rapidly, which is highly unusual. Pipe-like bodies of fragmental rock, cemented by small rock pieces and minerals precipitated from these gases, are found extending out from the tops of crystallized igneous rocks. We calculated ‘fluidization’ velocities of particle and gas transport in these pipes to be > 10m/​s, approaching the velocities sometimes observed in volcanic eruptions. These processes are important to explain some of the features of copper-gold deposits in the region and elsewhere in the world.
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