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Title: Chemical transport through continental crust: (Annual) progress report, 1988

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6453866· OSTI ID:6453866

The main objective of these studies is to understand the extent and mechanisms of chemical migration over a range of temperatures and in diverse geologic media. During 1988--1989 we continued to attack these problems through studies in the granite-pegmatite systems of the Black Hills, South Dakota. Mineral chemistry, major element chemistry and trace element modeling of the Harney Peak Granite (Black Hills, South Dakota) suggest that 75% to 80% fractional crystallization was the dominant mechanism in producing evolved tourmaline-bearing granite (high B, Li, Rb, Cs, Be, Nb) from a biotite-muscovite granite. To evaluate the petrogenetic-evolutionary relations between the granite and the surrounding rare-element pegmatite field, over 500 K-feldspars (Kf) were analyzed from 60 unzoned to complexly zoned pegmatites. Pegmatites with Kf relatively high in Ba (>140 ppM) and relatively low in Rb (<1000 ppM) and Cs (<30 ppM) are distributed in regions of high pegmatite density (>200 pegmatites/sq. mile), whereas highly evolved pegmatites with Kf enriched in Rb (>4000 ppM) and Cs (>500 ppM) are distributed in regions of low pegmatite density (<100 pegmatites/sq. mile). The extent of pegmatite evolution as reflected in the Kf documents the relation between the degree of fractionation and internal zoning characteristics. Modeling of these data is a major task for the next grant year to provide new insights into chemical and thermal transport in the midcrust.

Research Organization:
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-88ER13982
OSTI ID:
6453866
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/13982-1; ON: DE89008763
Resource Relation:
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Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English