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Chemistry of chromian spinel in volcanic rocks as a potential guide to magma chemistry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Shoji Arai
Shoji Arai*
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Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920, Japan
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Abstract

Chromian spinel in volcanic rocks is a potential discriminant for magma chemistry. The TiO2 content of spinel, compared at similar Fe3+/(Cr + Al + Fe3+) ratios, can distinguish island arc basalts from intraplate basalts. MORB spinels are low in this ratio and are intermediate for the TiO2 level at comparable Fe3+ ratios. Spinels from back-arc basin basalts, although similar in TiO2/Fe3+ ratio, are more enriched in Fe3+ than the MORB spinels. Spinels in the oceanic plateau basalts are distinctly lower in TiO2 than other intraplate basalt spinels and even slightly lower in TiO2 than the MORB spinels. The data were successfully applied to estimate the kind of the magma from which spinelbearing cumulates, especially dunites, were formed. Original magma chemistry of altered or metamorphosed volcanics in which spinels survive can also be estimated by the chemistry of relict spinel alone. It is possible to estimate the magma type of source volcanics for detrital spinel particles of volcanic derivation.

Keywords

chromian spinelTiO2 contentMORBisland-arc basalt and andesiteintraplate basaltmagma chemistry
Type
Petrology and Geochemistry
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 56 , Issue 383 , June 1992 , pp. 173 - 184
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1992

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