Abstract
Crustal magmatic systems likely consist of magmatic reservoirs dominated
by crystal mush. Recent studies suggest that the physical processes
occurring in crystal mush could alter the response of magmatic
reservoirs during volcanic unrest. Here, we present a magma chamber
deformation model that incorporates two new aspects in crystal mush:
heat and exsolved gas. The model is based on earlier studies by Liao et.
al. (2021) with additional processes including thermal-mechanical
coupling, dependence of material properties on gas content, and
temperature evolution following an injection of hotter magma. The
post-injection time-dependent evolution of the system can be grouped
into three periods, which are dominated by poroelastic diffusion (short
term), viscoelastic relaxation (mid term), and thermal equilibration
(long term). All three time-regimes are strongly affected by gas
distribution, which alters the relative compressibility of the
crystal-rich and crystal-poor regions in the chamber. The contribution
of thermal evolution emerges during the mid-term evolution. The
time-dependent evolution of the system highlights the intrinsic ability
of a gas-bearing mushy magma chamber to generate non-monotonic time
series of stresses, deformation, and magma transport.