A tschermakite-bearing high-alumina olivine tholeiite from the southern Cascades,California |
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Authors: | Stanley A Mertzman Jr |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Earth Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 44106 Cleveland, OH, USA;(2) Present address: Department of Geology, Franklin and Marshall College, 17604 Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | The first occurrence of amphibole-bearing basalt in the southern Cascade volcanic province has been found in the Medicine
Lake area of California. Little Mount Hoffman, a late Pleistocene cinder and scoria cone, has erupted high-alumina olivine
tholeiite, the petrography of which yields a paragenetic phenocryst sequence of amphibole→olivine→plagioclase. The amphibole
is compositionally a tschermakite. Comparison with available experimental data indicates an initial depth of crystallization
somewhere between 40 and 100 km, temperature near 1000 °C, and f
O
2 near the Ni-NiO and QFM buffers.
Contribution No. 124 |
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