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Alkaline magmas from the late-Cenozoic Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province, West Antarctica, have entrained lithospheric xenoliths which vary from spinel lherzolites to supracrustal rocks. Lower crustal xenoliths have been collected from the Executive Committee Range (Mounts Hampton in the north and Mount Sidley in the south) in central Marie Byrd Land, and their petrological characteristics together...
A suite of garnet-two pyroxene granulites, garnet pyroxenites and garnet peridotites from the pyroclastic facies of the Shavaryn-Saram volcanic centre in the Tariat depression in the northern part of the Hangai dome, Central Mongolia, yields pressure and temperature information for the lower crust and upper mantle in that region. Although a real geotherm cannot be constructed because of the common...
Rare lower crustal xenoliths found in Cenozoic alkali basalts from the Tariat region in central Mongolia and the Dariganga Plateau in south-eastern Mongolia are the only direct samples of lower crustal material known so far from central and eastern Asia. They are two-pyroxene granulites, including some garnet granulites, as well as scarce amphibolite-facies rocks. The xenoliths are broadly basaltic...
A wide variety of xenoliths has been entrained in Miocene-to-Recent alkali olivine and hypersthene-normative basalts in the San Francisco Volcanic Field (SFVF), northern Arizona, U.S.A. Based on petrography, mineralogy, bulk rock chemistry and Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics, SFVF xenoliths can be divided into two major groups: cumulates and granulites. The cumulates are genetically related to the...
Lower crustal xenoliths entrained in a Paleozoic ultramafic lamprophyre breccia pipe on Elovy island, Kola peninsula, Russia, represent some of the oldest lower crustal material yet investigated from Europe. The xenoliths vary from feldspar-poor, garnet-rich rocks which resemble eclogites, to feldspar-rich garnet granulites. Quartz-rich felsic granulites, as well as pyroxenites and amphibole-rich...
The use of cathodoluminescence (CL) and/or back-scattered electron (BSE) imaging techniques with in situ ion probe analyses of zircons can help unravel complex crustal histories of metamorphic rocks that otherwise might remain elusive. Using these techniques we have imaged zircons from three lower crustal xenolith suites that have previously been dated by SHRIMP (sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe)...
Lower-crustal suite xenoliths occur in on-craton and off-craton kimberlites located across the south-western margin of the Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa.Rock types include mafic granulite (plagioclase-bearing assemblages), eclogite (plagioclase-absent assemblages with omphacitic clinopyroxene) and garnet pyroxenite ( orthopyroxene-bearing eclogite ). The mafic granulites are subdivided...
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