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...

Analyses by the Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Spirit, of Martian basalts from Gusev crater show that they are chemically very different from terrestrial basalts, being characterized in particular by high Mgand Fe-contents. To provide suitable analog basalts for the International Space Analogue Rockstore (ISAR), a collection of analog rocks and minerals for preparing in situ space missions, espe...

Abstract A detailed petrological study is presented to constrain the origin of a suite alkali olivine basalt and hawaiite (>5 wt% MgO) lavas that were erupted in rift zone within western Mexican arc (Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt), adjacent Sangangüey andesitic stratovolcano, together with more evolved (mugearites benmoreites; <5 MgO). As previously documented literature, mafic are ...

kuh-e-siah is located in the north of gavkhuni lagoon and east of the varzaneh (se of isfahan) and is a part of urumieh-dokhtar magmatic arc (udma). the volcanic rocks of this area are vesicular basalt and basaltic andesite with late miocene age. the most common textures of these rocks are porphyry, microlitic porphyritic, hyaloporphyric and vesicular. plagioclase, olivine and clinopyroxene are...

Introduction: Elephant Moraine (EET) 87521 is a polymict mare basalt breccia containing very-low-titanium (VLT) basalt components and rarer KREEP components. [1] showed that within pyroxene from VLT lithic clasts of EET87521, there were two distinct trends in a plot of Ti/(Ti+Cr) versus Fe/(Fe+Mg) (Figure 1). They suggested that the two fractionation trends (A and B) were the result of differen...

High-magnesian andesite occurs at Hachimantai, northern Honshu, Japan. Disequilibrium zoning features indicate that the phenocryst minerals were derived from three different magmas. Chemical compositions and zoning profiles are accounted for by two-stage magma mixing: the first mixing occurred between a crystal-free basalt magma and a more differentiated olivine basalt magma; the second stage o...

105 Abstract: Origin of A-type alkali feldspar granites is currently the subject of a world-wide debate. Contrasting hypotheses have been proposed, which range from an entirely crustal origin to an almost complete mantle derivation. A-type alkali feldspar granites belong to either unimodal granite (rhyolite)-dominated association, or bimodal gabbro (basalt)-granite (rhyolite) suite. It is argue...

Olivine-basalt aggregates sintered at high P/T have been used as a simplest approximation of partially molten upper mantle peridotite. In the past, geometry of partial melt in polycrystalline olivine (and other materials) has been characterised by dihedral (wetting) angles which depend upon surface free energy. However, since olivine (like most other crystalline materials) is distinctively anis...

Western Turkey has been dominated by N–S extension since the Early Miocene. The timing and cause of this N–S extension and related basin formation have been the subject of much debate, but new data from the Bigadiç borate basin provide insights that may solve this controversy. The basin is located in the Bornova Flysch Zone, which is thought to have formed as a major NEtrending transform zone d...