Dissolved Cl, oxygen fugacity, and their effects on Fe behavior in a hydrous rhyodacitic melt

We have conducted a series of experiments to evaluate the intrinsic effects of dissolved chlorine on Fe 3+ /∑Fe and magnetite solubility in hydrous chloride-rich rhyodaciticliquids. The addition of Cl to the melt appears to have two prominent effects on iron in the melt: (1) dissolved Cl appears to perturb the magnetite-melt equilibrium, such that greater FeO total contents are required to support magnetite saturation in Cl-bearing melts than in Cl-free melts of equivalent bulk compositions; and (2) a systematic and progressive decrease of the measured Fe 3+ /∑Fe as f O₂ is increased. These two intimately related effects each have important implications for redox processes occurring in Cl-enriched arc magmas.