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Crystallisation of anhydrite-bearing magmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Leslie L. Baker  and
Malcolm J. Rutherford
Leslie L. Baker
Affiliation:
Leslie L. Baker and Malcolm J. Rutherford, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A.
Malcolm J. Rutherford
Affiliation:
Leslie L. Baker and Malcolm J. Rutherford, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A.
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Abstract:

Anhydrite has been identified as a phenocrystic phase in some silicic volcanic magmas, but it is not commonly described in plutonic rocks. Anhydrite-bearing magmas tend to form in arc environments and to contain hydrous, low-temperature, oxidised mineral assemblages. Phenocrystic anhydrite coexists with sulphur-enriched apatite and sometimes with pyrrhotite, in silicate melt that contains from 50 ppm to 1 wt% S, depending on temperature and conditions. Vapour coexisting with anhydrite- and water-saturated magma may contain from a few tenths of a mole per cent to a few mole per cent sulphur gases (SO2 and H2S), with the exact composition and gas speciation depending on temperature and oxygen fugacity. Samples of one anhydrite-bearing magma, the 1991 Pinatubo dacite, have been experimentally crystallised to determine whether the magma retains its characteristic sulphur-rich mineral phases during solidification. Results show that anhydrite and sulphur-rich apatite are retained throughout crystallisation and vapour phase evolution. This suggests that anhydrite-bearing intrusive equivalents of the Pinatubo dacite should be present in arc plutonic complexes.

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PinatuboEl Chichónsulphurvolatilesarc magmas
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 87 , Issue 1-2: Third Hutton Symposium. The Origin of Ganites and Related Rocks , 1996 , pp. 243 - 250
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1996

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