Qara Aqaj titanium potential is one of the two major known titanium resources in Iran. The main host rocks of the ore body are ultramafics including wehrlite and lherzolite with minor clinopyroxenite. Qara Aqaj intrusion is composed mainly of ultramafic-mafic rocks, layered gabbro, diorite, microdiorite and some monzonite and alkali syenite. This intrusion has intruded the basement complex (amp...

Abstract We present a new experimental dataset for reaction experiments between natural amphibole-clinopyroxene metasomes (hornblendite) and synthetic lherzolite that produced Na-rich alkaline melts. Experiments were conducted at 1, 3 4 GPa 1000–1300 °C. The generated melts range from foidite over basanite to phonotephrite. At 1 1000 1100 °C amphibole decompression-breakdown products generate p...

[1] Abstract: We studied trace element geochemistry and petrology of the crust-mantle transition zone (MTZ) in the Samail massif of the Oman ophiolite to constrain the location where different primitive magmas mix beneath an oceanic spreading ridge. The MTZ is the deepest location where crystallization took place and thus is an ideal place to determine the compositional diversity of melts leavi...

Two occurrences of platinum-group elements (PGEs) along the northern margin of the Skaergaard intrusion include a sulfide-bearing gabbro with slightly less than 1 ppm PGE + Au and a clinopyroxene-actinolite-plagioclase-biotiteilmenite schist with 16 vol% sulfide and 1.8 ppm PGE + Au. Both have assemblages of pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite typical for orthomagmatic sulfides. Matching ...

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Abstract The composition of spinel lherzolite xenolith KLB-1 from the Kilbourne Hole volcanic crater, United States, which is close to Earth’s primitive mantle, was used for thermodynamic modeling phase relations in Na 2 O–CaO–FeO–MgO–Al O 3 –SiO system (NCFMAS) using Perple_X software package temperature range 900–2000 °C and pressures 0.0001–30 GPa. calculated diagram good agreement with publ...