Porous Melt Flow in Continental Crust-A Numerical Modeling Study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00025798%3A_____%2F23%3A10168692" target="_blank" >RIV/00025798:_____/23:10168692 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11320/23:10475416
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026523" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026523</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026523" target="_blank" >10.1029/2023JB026523</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Porous Melt Flow in Continental Crust-A Numerical Modeling Study
Original language description
In continental crust, rapid melt flow through macroscopic conduits is usually envisaged as the most efficient form of melt transport. In contrast, there is growing evidence that in hot continental crust, grain-scale to meso-scale porous melt flow may operate over long distances and over millions of years. Here, we investigate the dynamics of such porous melt flow by means of two-dimensional thermo-mechanical numerical models using the code ASPECT. Our models are crustal-scale and describe the network of pores through which the melt flows by permeability that depends on the spacing of the pores. Our results suggest that assuming realistic material properties, melt can slowly migrate in the hot and thick continental crust through pores with a characteristic spacing of 1 mm or larger. Despite its low velocity (millimeters to centimeters per year), over millions of years, such flow can create large partially molten zones in the middle-lower crust and significantly affect its thermal state, deformation, and composition. We examined the role of the permeability, melt and solid viscosities, the slope of the melting curve and temperature conditions. We obtained contrasting styles of melt distribution, melt flow, and solid deformation, which can be categorized as melt-enhanced convection, growth of partially molten diapirs and melt percolation in porosity waves. Our numerical experiments further indicate that grain-scale porous flow is more likely in rocks where the melt productivity increases slowly with temperature, such as in metaigneous rocks.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10505 - Geology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-07821S" target="_blank" >GA23-07821S: Pervasive melt migration in continental crust: a micro-scale process with large-scale implications</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Geophysical Research -Solid Earth
ISSN
2169-9313
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
128
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001044732700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85167358403