Introduction: The SNC meteorites and the Pathfinder and MER Rover data represent our only information on individual rocks on the Martian surface, and therefore our only glimpse into Martian igneous processes. Because of this limitation, terrestrial analogues would provide a wealth of additional information. Analogies to terrestrial rocks have been made for the meteorites and Pathfinder rock but...

• Magmatic evolution progressed from mafic to ultramafic. Formation of replacive metasomatic dunites. High MgO melts assimilated limestone forming carbonate and sulfide melts. Late stage magmatic brecciation. Ni-Cu-PGE mineralisation associated with apatite carbonate. The Munali Intrusive Complex is hosted within supracrustal metasedimentary rocks located along a major structural lineament the ...

• New, high-precision Ca isotope date obtained by collision-cell MC-ICP-MS. Lunar mare basalts have similar δ 44 / 40 to terrestrial basalts. Late-stage clinopyroxenite cumulates play a crucial role in magmatism. Notable mixing of the cumulate mantle is required form these hybrid sources. High-Ti require metasomatism melts ilmenite-bearing cumulates. The compositions offer novel insight into he...

[1] Ultramafic xenoliths of spinel dunite, harzburgite, lherzolite, amphibole/phlogopite-bearing pyroxenite, and clinopyroxenite occur in andesitic pyroclastic debris from the 1964 eruption of Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka. Peridotites have coarse/protogranular, porphyroclastic, and granuloblastic textures, abundant kink-banded olivine, and refractory mineral compositions with forsteritic olivin...

The Hunt Mo skarn deposit is one of the best examples of a late tectonic, granitic pegmatite-related, skarn system in the Grenville province. An Re-Os age of 1069 ± 11 Ma was obtained from a molybdenite crystal (6.4 ppm Re) hosted in proximal skarn (sample 50O) consistent with a contact metasomatic origin related to the granitic body. Although less evolved than other Grenvillian pegmatites, the...

Introduction: Twelve Martian meteorites that have been recovered so far are classified into five groups (basalt, lherzolite, clinopyroxenite, dunite, or-thopyroxenite) mainly from petrology and chemistry [e.g., 1]. Among them, the dunite and orthopyroxenite groups consist of only one meteorite, respectively (dunite: Chassigny, orthopyroxenite: ALH84001). The basalt group is the largest group an...

Introduction: MIL 03346 is a newly discovered clinopyroxenite belonging to the nakhlite class of SNC (martian) meteorites [1]. Although the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of MIL 03346 are broadly similar to those of previously known nakhlites, there are also some differences. In particular, it has the highest abundance of glassy mesostasis among the nakhlites, possibly indicative ...

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...

introduction geological background ophiolites have played a major role in our understanding of earth’s processes ranging from seafloor spreading, melt evolution and magma transport in oceanic spreading centers, and hydrothermal alteration and mineralization of oceanic crust to collision tectonics, mountain building processes, and orogeny. they provide the essential structural, petrological, geo...

This paper presents results of modelling reaction between peridotite and fractionating tholeiitic basalt in simple and complex silicate systems. Reactions are outlined in appropriate binary and ternary silicate systems. In these simple systems, the result of reactions between 'basalt' and 'peridotite' may be treated as a combination of Fe-Mg exchange and mass transfer reactions at constant Fe/M...