Partition coefficients for calcic plagioclase - Implications for Archean anorthosites

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Jun 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990gecoa..54.1639p&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 54, June 1990, p. 1639-1654.

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Anorthosite, Basalt, Calcium Compounds, Concentration (Composition), Rare Earth Elements, Chondrites, Trace Elements

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In most Archean cratons, cumulates of equant plagioclase megacrysts form anorthositic complexes, including those at Bad Vermilion Lake (Ontario). In this paper, partition coefficients (Ds) of REEs between natural high-Ca plagioclase megacrysts and their basaltic matrices were determined, using a multiple aliquot techique, and megacrystic plagioclases occurring in anorthosites were analyzed for the same components which, in conjunction with their Ds, were applied to calculations of melts in equilibrium with anorthosites. The REE's Ds were found to agree well with experimentally determined values and to predict equilibrium melts for Archean anorthosites that agree well with coeval basaltic flows and dikes. The Ds also appear to be valid for both the tholeiitic and alkali basalts over a wide range of mg numbers and REE concentrations. It is suggested that the moderately Fe-rich tholeiites that are hosts to plagioclase megacrysts in greenstone belts form the parental melts for megacrysts which make up the Bad Vermilion Lake Archean anorthositic complex.

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