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Kuo, Lung-Chuan; Kirkpatrick, R James (1982): Chemical composition of plagioclase from DSDP Legs 45 and 46, Atlantic Ocean [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.667342, Supplement to: Kuo, L-C; Kirkpatrick, RJ (1982): Pre-eruption history of phyric basalts from DSDP Leg 45 and 46: evidence from morphology and zoning patterns in plagioclase. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 79(1), 13-27, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376957

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Abstract:
Phyric basalts recovered from DSDP Legs 45 and 46 contain abundant plagioclase phenocrysts which occur as either discrete single grains (megacrysts) or aggregates (glomerocrysts) and which are too abundant and too anorthitic to have crystallized from a liquid with the observed bulk rock composition. Almost all the plagioclase crystals are complexly zoned. In most cases two abrupt and relatively large compositional changes associated with continuous internal morphologic boundaries divide the plagioclase crystals into three parts: core, mantle and rim. The cores exhibit two major types of morphology: tabular, with a euhedral to slightly rounded outline; or a skeletal inner core wrapped by a slightly rounded homogeneous outer core. The mantle region is characterized by a zoning pattern composed of one to several spikes/plateaus superimposed on a gently zoned base line, with one large plateau always at the outside of the mantle, and by, in most cases, a rounded internal morphology. The inner rim is typically oscillatory zoned. The width of the outer rim can be correlated with the position of the individual crystal in the basalt pillow. The presence of a skeletal inner core and the concentration of glass inclusions in low-An zones in the mantle region suggest that the liquid in which these parts of the crystals were growing was undercooled some amount. The resorption features at the outer margins of low-An zones indicate superheating of the liquid with respect to the crystal.
It is proposed that the plagioclase cores formed during injection of primitive magma into a previously existing magma chamber, that the mantle formed during mixing of a partially mixed magma and the remaining magma already in the chamber, and that the inner rim formed when the mixed magma was in a sheeted dike system. The large plateau at the outside of the mantle may have formed during the injection of the next batch of primitive magma into the main chamber, which may trigger an eruption. This model is consistent with fluid dynamic calculations and geochemically based magma mixing models, and is suggested to be the major mechanism for generating the disequilibrium conditions in the magma.
Project(s):
Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 22.744642 * Median Longitude: -44.798550 * South-bound Latitude: 22.481300 * West-bound Longitude: -46.081700 * North-bound Latitude: 22.985667 * East-bound Longitude: -43.515000
Date/Time Start: 1975-12-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1976-02-06T00:00:00
Event(s):
45-395A * Latitude: 22.755800 * Longitude: -46.081700 * Date/Time: 1975-12-09T00:00:00 * Elevation: -4484.0 m * Penetration: 664.1 m * Recovery: 112 m * Campaign: Leg45 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 68 cores; 624.1 m cored; 9.4 m drilled; 17.9 % recovery
45-396 * Latitude: 22.481300 * Longitude: -43.515800 * Date/Time: 1976-01-11T00:00:00 * Elevation: -4450.0 m * Penetration: 221.5 m * Recovery: 132.8 m * Location: North Atlantic/SEDIMENT POND * Campaign: Leg45 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 22 cores; 194 m cored; 27.8 m drilled; 68.5 % recovery
46-396B * Latitude: 22.985667 * Longitude: -43.515000 * Date/Time: 1976-02-06T00:00:00 * Elevation: -4459.0 m * Penetration: 405.5 m * Recovery: 63.56 m * Campaign: Leg46 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL)
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  1. Kuo, L-C; Kirkpatrick, RJ (1982): (Table 2) Chemical composition of complexly zoned plagioclases from DSDP Hole 45-395A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.667339
  2. Kuo, L-C; Kirkpatrick, RJ (1982): (Table 1) Chemical composition of simply zoned plagioclases from DSDP Site 45-395A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.667338
  3. Kuo, L-C; Kirkpatrick, RJ (1982): (Table 2) Chemical composition of complexly zoned plagioclases from DSDP Hole 45-396. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.667340
  4. Kuo, L-C; Kirkpatrick, RJ (1982): (Table 2) Chemical composition of complexly zoned plagioclases from DSDP Hole 46-396B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.667341