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Permian K-rich volcanic rocks of Devon: petrogenesis, tectonic setting and geological significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

R. S. Thorpe
R. S. Thorpe
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Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
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Abstract

Potassium (K)-rich volcanic rocks occur within Permian sedimentary rocks in SW England and are approximately contemporaneous with the emplacement of the Cornubian granite batholith. The volcanic rocks have chemical characteristics of subduction-related magmas and may have been derived by small amounts of partial melting of heterogeneous large-ion lithophile (LIL) enriched mantle with the assemblage olivine–pyroxene–garnet–phlogopite–titanate. The LIL enrichment may have occurred during shallow or oblique subduction of oceanic lithosphere below SW England during the Devonian and Carboniferous. Such LIL-enriched mantle may have contributed some components to the Cornubian granite batholith.

Keywords

Hercynian orogenyK-rich volcanic rockslamprophyresmantle heterogeneity.
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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , 1987 , pp. 361 - 366
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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