Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992gecoa..56.3571m&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 56, no. 9, Sept. 1992, p. 3571-3582.
Mathematics
Logic
57
Inclusions, Magma, Petrology, Pyroxenes, Shergottites, Amphiboles, Crystallization, Lava, Magnesium
Scientific paper
Results of petrologic studies of new large samples of the Zagami shergottite are presented. Pyroxene crystals have homogeneous Mg-rich pigeonite and augite cores, overgrown by Fe-rich zoned pyroxene rims. Amphibole-bearing magmatic inclusions occur exclusively in the cores. It is concluded that Zagami experienced a two-stage crystallization history. The first stage occurred in a deep-seated, slowly cooling magma chamber. There, the homogeneous Mg-rich cores of the pyroxenes crystallized during relatively slow cooling. During the second stage, the Mg-rich pyroxenes were entrained into a magma that either intruded to the near-surface and cooled in a relatively thin dike or sill, or extruded to the surface and crystallized in a lava flow greater than 10 m thick, again without indications of crystal settling. The estimated depth of the magma chamber for Zagami of greater than 7.5 km and thickness of the putative lava flow of greater than 10 m are consistent with calculations and observations of volcanic constructs and flows in the Tharsis region of Mars.
Jeffrey Taylor G.
Keil Klaus
McCoy Timothy James
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