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Distribution of gallium between phenocrysts and melt in peralkaline salic volcanic rocks, Kenya Rift Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

R. Macdonald ,
N. W. Rogers ,
B. Bagiński  and
P. Dzierżanowski
R. Macdonald
Affiliation:
IMGiP Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA14YQ, UK
N. W. Rogers
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, CEPSAR, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
B. Bagiński
Affiliation:
IMGiP Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland
P. Dzierżanowski
Affiliation:
IMGiP Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland
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Abstract

Gallium abundances, determined by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, are presented for phenocrysts and glassy matrices from a metaluminous trachyte and five peralkaline rhyolites from the Greater Olkaria Volcanic Complex, Kenya Rift Valley. Abundances in the glasses range from 28.9 to 33.3 ppm, comparable with peralkaline rhyolites elsewhere. Phenocryst Ga abundances (in ppm) are: sanidine 31.5–45.3; fayalite 0.02–0.22; hedenbergite 3.3–6.3; amphibole 12; biotite 72; ilmenite 0.56–0.72; titanomagnetite 32; chevkinite-(Ce) 364. The mafic phases and chevkinite-(Ce) are enriched in Ga relative to Al, whereas Ga/Al ratios in sanidine are smaller than in coexisting glass. Apparent partition coefficients range from <0.01 in fayalite to 12 in chevkinite-(Ce). Coefficients for hedenbergite, ilmenite and titanomagnetite decrease as melts become peralkaline. The sharp increase in Ga/Al in the more fractionated members of alkaline magmatic suites probably results from alkali feldspar-dominated fractionation. Case studies are presented to show that the Ga/Al ratio may be a sensitive indicator of such petrogenetic processes as magma mixing, interaction of melts with F-rich volatile phases, mineral accumulation and volatile-induced crustal anatexis.

Keywords

galliummagma mixingvolatile-induced anatexisKenya Rift Valleyperalkaline
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 351 - 363
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2010

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