A Descriptive Petrography of the Igneous Rocks

Magma Composition and Igneous Rocks

Introduction In the following chapters we will find that nearly all of the varied aspects of volcanism are either directly or indirectly controlled by the chemical composition of magma and the rate at which it cools and solidifies. If you are to understand and appreciate subsequent discussions of volcanoes and related volcanic phenomena, it is essential that you have a good grasp of the basic c...

A paleointensity technique for multidomain igneous rocks

[1] We developed a paleointensity technique to account for concave-up Arai diagrams due to multidomain (MD) contributions to determine unbiased paleointensities for 24 trial samples from site GA-X in Pleistocene lavas from Floreana Island, Galapagos Archipelago. The main magnetization carrier is fine-grained low-titanium magnetite of variable grain size. We used a comprehensive back-zero-forth ...

Petrography, geochemistry, magmatic evolution and tectenomagmatic setting of igneous rocks associated with Nikuyeh epithermal mineralization (west of Qazvin)

The Nikuyeh district is located south of the Tarom-Hashtjin metallogenic province in Western Alborz. Oligo-Miocene subvolcanic intrusion and Mid-Eocene volcanic rocks with composition of dacite to andesite are main igneous settings associated with Nikuyeh polymetallic epithermal ore mineralization. Igneous phase in the Nikuyeh district are porphyritic granodiorite, monzodiorite, quartz monsonit...

Occurrence, Texture, and Classification of Igneous Rocks

AGeochemical Classification for Feldspathic Igneous Rocks

In this paper we classify the range of feldspathic igneous rocks using five geochemical variables: the FeO/(FeOþMgO) ratio or Fe-index, the modified alkali^lime index, the aluminum-saturation index, the alkalinity index, and the feldspathoid silica-saturation index.The Fe-index distinguishes between melts that have undergone extensive iron enrichment during differentiation from those that have ...