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Also, it is often not possible to use one of the only reliable thermometers, which is based on the equilibrium between two Fe-Ti oxides, because of post-eruptive alteration. In Chapter 2, a new biotite-melt thermometer is presented. New biotite-melt equilibrium experiments were conducted on high-SiO2 rhyolite between 675-800 \u00b0C and P H2O = 225-125 MPa. These experimental data were combined with biotite analyses in natural high-SiO2 rhyolites, for which high-quality Fe-Ti two-oxide temperatures are available (660-800 \u00b0C), to calibrate the new thermometer. It was successfully deployed on four Jurassic high-SiO2 rhyolite dikes, which contained pristine biotite, demonstrating its utility on samples for which Fe-Ti two-oxide thermometry is not possible.\n\nIn Chapter 3, the biotite-melt and Fe-Ti two-oxide thermometers were applied to a suite of high-SiO2 rhyolite domes and flows (from Glass Mountain, CA), which preceded a climactic, supervolcano eruption. A puzzling feature of these rhyolites is their highly variable phenocryst abundances (<1 to 20%), despite little change in their major-element compositions. One sample grew ~8% phenocrysts at a remarkably low temperature (660 \u00b1 10 \u00b0C), which is below the water-saturated solidus at upper crustal conditions (\u2264300 MPa). Three hypotheses were tested to explain the variable phenocryst abundances: (1) they reflect equilibrium temperature, pressure, and melt H2O contents during crystal growth in magmatic reservoir(s), (2) the H2O-saturated granitic solidus is lower than previously documented, or (3) rapid phenocryst growth, following a kinetic delay to nucleation, occurred during magma ascent. Based on new experiments\nconducted in this chapter, along with documented phenocryst compositions and textures, it shown that phenocrysts in the Glass Mountain high-SiO2 rhyolites grew during dike transport to the surface and not in a magma chamber.\n\nIn Chapter 4, U-Pb zircon crystallization ages (162-169 Ma) were obtained on a high-SiO2 rhyolite dike swarm in the Sierra Nevada, CA, which dates an episode of extension within the long-lived Mesozoic arc. These results are unexpected for two reasons: (1) this age range overlaps a magmatic flare-up Sierra Nevada arc (145-175 Ma), and (2) they differ from\npreviously published K-Ar ages for these dikes (168-209 Ma), which overlaps a lull in Sierran arc magmatism. However, the zircon ages for the dike swarm directly overlap the age (160-170 Ma) of the Coast Range Ophiolites, which formed in the forearc region due to trench-parallel spreading. 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