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The products of the activity of the Late Quaternary Kazbek neovolcanic center in the Greater Caucasus are studied by isotopic-geochronological methods. It is found that the youngest magmatism evolved during the last 400–450 k.y. over four discrete phases: 395–435, 200–250, 90–120, and less than 50 ka. The petrological-geochemical and published isotopic data point to the mixed mantle-crustal origin of the Kazbek lavas with the leading role of crystallization differentiation of deep magmas and assimilation of the crustal material. We recorded two episodes (∼100 and less than 50 ka) of replenishment of the subsurface magmatic chamber under the Kazbek center by the main mantle melt and its mixing with the relict dacite magma that led to the formation of highly mobile hybrid andesite lavas and served as a trigger of the renewal of volcanic activity. Reactivation of the mantle source of the Kazbek center at the end of the Neopleistocene and the Holocene age of the last eruptions indicate the potential danger of this region because of the renewal of the volcanic activity. The medium Devdoraki copper deposit is located in the vicinity of the Kazbek volcano. It represents a unique polychronous, currently evolved ore-magmatic system that originated in the Jurassic.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Lebedev, A.V. Parfenov, G.T. Vashakidze, I.V. Chernyshev, Q.A. Gabarashvili, 2014, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2014, Vol. 458, No. 1, pp. 67–73.
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Lebedev, V.A., Parfenov, A.V., Vashakidze, G.T. et al. Major events in evolution of the Kazbek neovolcanic center, Greater Caucasus: Isotope-geochronological data. Dokl. Earth Sc. 458, 1092–1098 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X14090074
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