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Compositional evolution and cryptic variation in pyroxenes of the peralkaline Lovozero intrusion, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

L. N. Kogarko ,
C. T. Williams  and
A. R. Woolley
L. N. Kogarko
Affiliation:
Vernadsky Institute, Kosygin Street 19, Moscow 117975, Russia
C. T. Williams*
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
A. R. Woolley
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
*
*E-mail: T.Williams@nhm.ac.uk
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Abstract

The Lovozero alkaline massif is the largest of the world's layered peralkaline intrusions (∼650 km2). We describe the evolution of clinopyroxene from the liquidus to the late residual stage throughout the whole vertical section (2.5 km thick) of the Lovozero Complex. Microprobe data (∼990 analyses) of the clinopyroxenes define a relatively continuous trend from diopside containing 15–20% hedenbergite and 10–12% aegirine components, to pure aegirine. The main substitutions during the evolution of the Lovozero pyroxenes are (Na,Fe3+,Ti) for (Ca,Mg,Fe2+). The composition of the pyroxene changes systematically upwards through the intrusion with an increase in Na, Fe3+ and Ti and decrease in Ca and Mg.

The compositional evolution of the Lovozero pyroxene reflects primary fractionation processes in the alkaline magma that differentiated in situ from the bottom to the top of the magma chamber as a result of magmatic convection, coupled with the sedimentation of minerals with different settling velocities.

The temperature interval of pyroxene crystallization is very wide and probably extends from 970 to 450°C. The redox conditions of pyroxene crystallization in the Lovozero intrusion were relatively low, approximating the QFM buffer.

Keywords

Lovozeroevolution of alkaline clinopyroxenescryptic layeringperalkaline magma
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 347 - 359
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2006

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