Li contents [Li] and isotopic composition (δLi) of mafic minerals (mainly amphibole and clinopyroxene) from the alkaline to peralkaline Ilímaussaq plutonic complex, South Greenland, track the behavior of Li and its isotopes during magmatic differentiation and final cooling of an alkaline igneous system. [Li] in amphibole increase from b10 ppm in Caamphiboles of the least differentiated unit to ...

Abstract The crust of southern Tibet shows strong azimuthal and radial seismic anisotropies. However, their origin has remained ambiguous. Here we characterized the composition, microstructure, properties amphibole-rich deep-crust xenoliths exhumed rocks from a terrane in Tibet. show typical magmatic textures have amphiboles with homogenous chemical low intracrystalline deformation, but crystal...

The differences between chrysotile asbestos, a serpentine mineral, and amphibole asbestos have been debated extensively. Many studies have shown that chrysotile is cleared from the lung more rapidly than amphibole. In order to quantify the comparative clearance of chrysotile and the amphibole asbestos tremolite, both fibers were evaluated in an inhalation biopersistence study that followed the ...

Noble gas isotopic composition of fluid inclusions was analyzed in amphibole, plagioclase and clinopyroxene phenocrysts from the shoshonitic dacitic volcanic products Ciomadul dome field, youngest system within Carpathian-Pannonian Region. The highest Rc/RA ratios (3.0–3.8 RA) were obtained for high-mg Malnaş shoshonite. High-Al amphiboles Bixad pumices have between 1.16 2.11 RA. These values o...

The Sedemte Prestola pluton is an intermediate to acid plutonic body of Variscan age (308.7 ± 9.1 Ma). Despite its small size, several petrographic varieties are present: syenites, quartzsyentes and granites. It composed potassium feldspar, quartz, sodic-calcic amphibole; biotite, when present, often rimmed by amphibole or strongly altered; zircon, titanite, apatite ilmenite the accessory phase...

Poikiloblastic amphibole schists from an ophiolite series in the vicinity of the Tertiary Bergell granite contain the assemblage albite (An 0)-anorthite (An 95), actinolite-pargasite, together with clinozoisite. TEM illustrates how large andesine crystals with a periodic APB (anti-phase boundaries) structure of e plagioclase change over a few hundred angstroms to pure albite and pure PT anorthi...

Matlab scripts that apply the Bence & Albee (1968) matrix correction algorithm to X-ray intensity data collected as element maps on a Cameca SX-50 microprobe are used to produce two-dimensional maps of oxide weight percent and cation proportions for SiO2, Al2O3, FeO, MnO, MgO, CaO, Na2O and K2O. Once generated, large data sets of mapped oxide weight percent values or cation numbers that retain ...