6 Jul 2025 – 11 Jul 2025
Location: Prague, Czechia
Main Event: Goldschmidt 2025
VIPS-Sponsored session at Goldschmidt 2025
Integrating mineralogical-textural, geochemical, experimental, and modelling approaches to understand magmatic plumbing systems and magma evolution processes
Magmas represent mixtures of liquids, solids, and gases that undergo complex processes during their ascent from the mantle to their final resting places within the crust or on Earth’s surface. Understanding magmatic plumbing systems is fundamental to unravelling key processes driving volcanic eruptions, crustal evolution, and mineralisation with critical metals. Recent advances in analytical, experimental, and computational modelling techniques provide new insights into magma storage, transport, and differentiation. Ongoing research efforts aim to more accurately constrain the complex architecture of magmatic plumbing systems, investigate the evolution of magma storage systems in space and time, and quantify dynamic processes leading to eruptions. However, current challenges include, but are far from limited to, understanding the relationships between crystals and their carrier melts, precisely estimating depths of magma storage, improving the performance of computational approaches used to simulate magmatic systems, as well as generating the experimental observations required to meaningfully calibrate these models and interpret observations from natural samples.
In this session we invite contributions aimed at improving our understanding of magma generation, transport, storage, and evolution processes. These contributions may draw on any combination of field observations, mineral-textural petrological investigations, high-resolution geochemical analysis, geophysical data integration, thermodynamic and numerical modelling, machine-learning, and experimental petrology. We especially welcome innovative contributions that integrate different approaches as well as studies that develop and refine petrological tools needed to enable a deeper understanding of magmatic plumbing systems and magma evolution.
This session is sponsored by the IAVCEI commission on Volcanic and Igneous Plumbing Systems (VIPS).
Invited Speaker:
Catherine Annen, Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechia)
Conveners:
Felix Marxer, Leibniz University Hannover (Germany)
David Neave, University of Manchester (UK)
Mónica Ágreda López, Università degli Studi di Perugia (Italy)
Bibhuti Gogoi, Cotton University Guwahati (India)
Teresa Ubide, University of Queensland (Australia)
Hiredya Chauhan, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (India)