Genesis of compositional characteristics of Stillwater AN-I and AN-II thick anorthosite units

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Mar 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992gecoa..56.1187h&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 56, no. 3, March 1992, p. 1187-1212.

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Anorthosite, Feldspars, Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Pyroxenes, Correlation, Crystallization, Petrology, Trace Elements

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Compositional variations among samples of the thick Stillwater anorthosite units are used here to model the mechanism by which the anorthosite formed. Suspended plagioclase, on reaching a volumetric crystal concentration of about 65 percent, formed a plagioclase framework here called cumulus plagioclase (CP). Within the interstices among the crystals, some plagioclase and pyroxene precipitated, producing what is here called adcumulus plagioclase and pyroxene (APP). The final materials consists mainly of plagioclase and pyroxene formed from complete crystallization of trapped supporting liquid and called intercumulus plagioclase and pyroxene (IPP). Where the CP framework was relatively open initially, bulk liquid communicated with the interior of the framework to produce APP. Where this communication with the bulk liquid stopped or was prevented initially, the intercumulus liquid froze. Where the CP framework was more tightly packed initially, a relatively higher proportion of IPP to APP was produced.

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