The relationship between major element chemistry and tectonic environment of basic and intermediate volcanic rocks

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Aug 1977

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 36, Issue 1, p. 121-132.

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This work reports the preliminary results of a study of the relationship between tectonic environment and major element chemistry of volcanic rocks. Using a file of 8400 analyses of rocks of varying ages and geographic distribution it has been found that a simple ternary plot of MgO-FeO(total)-Al2O3 may be used to distinguish five tectonic environments: ocean ridge and floor, ocean island, continental, orogenic, and spreading center island. Subalkaline ``basaltic-andesites'' (51-56% SiO2 calculated anhydrous) are used in this study. Alkaline rocks do not generally show the simple patterns of tholeiitic or subalkaline rocks. The ocean island suite is bimodal with one mode tholeiitic and the other alkaline. A bimodal age/chemistry relationship in the continental suite is tentatively related to different conditions during and after active breaking up of continents (rifting and drifting stages). Most of the Archean rocks in our file generally do not fall in the orogenic field. It is unlikely that modern island arc models can be generally applied to Archean greenstone belts. Locally, however, there may be Archean rocks analogous in some respect to modern calc-alkali rocks.

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