Title: Internally heated pressure vessels (IHPVs) - key experimental facilities to study crustal magmatism
Abstract: Internally heated pressure vessels (IHPVs) represent invaluable and crucial experimental tools to study crustal magmatic processes. However, although IHPVs have been established more than 50 years ago, the worldwide number of experimental labs still running them on a daily basis is limited despite the numerous scientific possibilities they offer.
In this talk, I will provide a general introduction to the working principles of IHPVs but also show some insights into the daily business of IHPV operation. IHPVs offer distinct advantages compared to other facilities that reach similar pressure ranges (e.g., piston cylinder presses or cold seal pressure vessels) and, thus, my presentation intends to motivate the FORCE community to intensify the incorporation of IHPV experiments in their future research projects.
In the second part of the seminar, I will present some of my own research exemplifying how we can use IHPVs to improve our understanding of phase equilibria in calc-alkaline magmatic systems. We conducted a systematic experimental study on the effect of various parameters (e.g. bulk magma composition, H2O content, temperature, and pressure) on crystallization systematics of basaltic magmas to improve our capabilities of predicting silicate mineral stability (e.g. for clinopyroxene or plagioclase) in arc systems.