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Title: Compositions of melts coexisting with plagioclase, augite, and olivine,or low-calcium pyroxene, at anhydrous and hydrous conditions and pressures from 1 atm. to 8 kbar: application to the petrogenesis of Aleutian and Mariana Island arc rocks and Columbia River basalts

Conference · · Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States)
OSTI ID:6898740

Anhydrous and hydrous, 2% water in the melt, experiments have been performed on a suite of high-alumina basalts and andesites from the Aleutian and Mariana island arcs. Compositions of experimentally produced melts coexisting with plagioclase (plag), augite (aug), and olivine (ol), or low-calcium pyroxene (lpx) have been used to construct liquid lines of multiple saturation (LLMS's) on pseudoternary diagrams. Anhydrous LLMS's at 1 atm. and 8 kbar and hydrous LLMS's at 2 and 5 kbar were determined. At 1 atm. and under hydrous conditions orthopyroxene (opx) is the stable lpx; at 8 kbar pigeonite (pig) is the stable lpx. Comparison of the plotted positions of the LLMS's and the compositions of rocks from the Aleutians suggest that basaltic andesites and andesites were produced by crystal fractionation of plag+aug+ol or plag+aug+opx from basaltic magmas with less than 2% water content at pressure between 2 and 5 kbar. Comparison of the LLMS's with the compositions of Columbia River Basalts indicates that crystal fractionation of plag+aug+ol (or lpx) in magma chambers at Moho depths cannot alone account for the observed compositional trend; instead the trend is probably due to some combination of polybaric fractionation, contamination, and possibly mixing of magmas between deep and shallow magma chambers.

Research Organization:
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (USA)
OSTI ID:
6898740
Report Number(s):
CONF-8510489-
Journal Information:
Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States), Vol. 17; Conference: 98. annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Orlando, FL, USA, 28 Oct 1985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English