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Main Author: Kushiro, I
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Language:en
Published: PANGAEA 1982
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.820211
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author Kushiro, I
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contents A high-MgO andesite which is texturally similar to boninite and a variolitic basalt collected from Site 458, about 100 km west of the Mariana Trench, have been studied through microprobe analyses and melting experiments at high water pressures. The boninite-type andesite is very similar in composition and texture to a boninite from Bonin Islands, except that the former is more calcic than the latter. The variolitic basalt contains magnesian pigeonite (Ca12Mg74Fe14) in cores of augite microphenocrysts. This pigeonite crystallized at temperatures above 1200°C. In the melting experiments of the boninite-type rock, clinopyroxene crystallizes as a liquidus phase at pressures at least above 8 kbar. No olivine crystallizes near the liquidus temperatures, indicating that the magma of this rock cannot be in equilibrium with the upper mantle periodotite (lherzolite) at depths at least greater than 25 km. The boninite-type rock is probably a product of fractional crystallization of a more primitive magma (e.g., olivine-bearing boninite magma) by separation of olivine and orthopyroxene. The magma of the variolitic basalt also cannot be in equilibrium with the upper mantle peridotite, and may be a product of fractional crystallization of a more primitive basaltic magma.
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spellingShingle Petrology of high-MgO bronzite andesite resembling boninite at DSDP Hole 60-458
Kushiro, I
60-458; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg60; North Pacific/TRENCH
A high-MgO andesite which is texturally similar to boninite and a variolitic basalt collected from Site 458, about 100 km west of the Mariana Trench, have been studied through microprobe analyses and melting experiments at high water pressures. The boninite-type andesite is very similar in composition and texture to a boninite from Bonin Islands, except that the former is more calcic than the latter. The variolitic basalt contains magnesian pigeonite (Ca12Mg74Fe14) in cores of augite microphenocrysts. This pigeonite crystallized at temperatures above 1200°C. In the melting experiments of the boninite-type rock, clinopyroxene crystallizes as a liquidus phase at pressures at least above 8 kbar. No olivine crystallizes near the liquidus temperatures, indicating that the magma of this rock cannot be in equilibrium with the upper mantle periodotite (lherzolite) at depths at least greater than 25 km. The boninite-type rock is probably a product of fractional crystallization of a more primitive magma (e.g., olivine-bearing boninite magma) by separation of olivine and orthopyroxene. The magma of the variolitic basalt also cannot be in equilibrium with the upper mantle peridotite, and may be a product of fractional crystallization of a more primitive basaltic magma.
title Petrology of high-MgO bronzite andesite resembling boninite at DSDP Hole 60-458
topic 60-458; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg60; North Pacific/TRENCH
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.820211