This research investigates the origin of biotite modal layering and primary pseudo sedimentary structures in felsic magmas by using a combination of crystal size distribution csd analysis and electron probe microanalysis epma.
Magmatic layering granites crystal size.
Modal layering in igneous rocks uniquely record dynamic processes operating in magma chambers and also host a large proportion of earth s strategic mineral deposits.
Magmas in transit erode sfs and thoroughly charge the magma with crystals facilitating fractionation and differentiation especially if the body occasionally comes to rest.
Csd slope is a measure of the overall spread in crystal size.
The variation in crystal size and modal abundance in these cumulate piles are intimate records of prior crystallization transport and filling.
A standard gauge or standard state of crystal size relative to body size is available in the relation of csd crystal size distribution slope s and intercept i e g marsh 1988.
Parsons becker 1987.
Petrogenesis of the nechalacho layered suite canada.
Tobisch et al 1997.
1 processes related to crystallization of the magma such as crystal fractionation.
A value of c cum melt c o means that the trapped melt fraction in the cumulate is zero while a value of 1 means that the cumulate is represented by 100 melt e g a frozen melt.
4 sub magmatic processes as a.
Nevertheless the evidence that all granites are magmatic or that plutonic rocks cannot be altered to granites after emplacement and solidification is based on flimsy logic.
In this paper geometry of microgranular enclaves hosted in the granites has been examined from the leh sabu chang la and surrounding regions of the eastern ladakh batholith to infer the mechanism and schedule of mafic.
Returning to the case of more silicic and alkaline magmatic rocks noteworthy examples of igneous layering are well known in syenite and granite plutons with rhythmic units mineral grading cross stratification and trough layering wager brown 1968.
2 hydrodynamic processes that redistribute crystals and include but are not restricted to various kinds of density flows erosion and slumping.
The lower the slope the larger the overall crystal size.
3 growth in a boundary layer.
Fraction of residual melt f m e that is extracted to form a layer of crystal poor high silica granite plotted versus concentration of an incompatible element in the cumulate c cum melt c o.
The existence of magmatic granites is not doubted because natural environments do produce temperatures above eutectic point s of granites in many places in the earth s crust.
Diorites granites and associated magmatic enclaves and dykes constitute the bulk of the ladakh batholith which is an integral part of the trans himalayan magmatic arc system.
