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Peralkaline Acid Tendencies in Gran Canaria. (Canary Island)

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dc.creator Araña, Vicente
dc.creator Rodríguez Badiola, Eduardo
dc.creator Hernán, Francisco
dc.date 2008-03-02T09:57:27Z
dc.date 2008-03-02T09:57:27Z
dc.date 1973-03
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:32Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:32Z
dc.identifier Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Volume 40, Number 1 / marzo de 1973, pp. 53-62
dc.identifier 0010-7999
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3128
dc.identifier 10.1007/BF00371763
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3128
dc.description The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
dc.description The study of a volcanic series from the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) in which alkaline and peralkaline, saturated and undersaturated rocks coexist, is reported here. Materials with high volatile content (ignimbritic trachytes) were first emitted and the series ended with the eruption of phonolitic lavas. The average peralkalinity index in these rocks is typically about 1.0 and, therefore, peralkaline rocks coexist with non-peralkaline ones. However, a maximum in peralkalinity is found in the ignimbritic rocks of the lower part of the series. In spite of the evident acid peralkaline tendencies of these rocks, it does not seem appropriate to classify them as pantellerites or comendites. Nor are they consistent with the genetic processes proposed for rocks of similar composition and oceanic environment. The crystallization of the feldspars controls the variation trends among the different magmas but the fractionation alone does not sufficiently explain the genesis of successive fluids. Various factors seem to point to the important role which a gas-transfer process causing a geochemical stratification inside the magmatic chamber may have played. The occurrence of peralkaline silicics at Gran Canaria, which is located for away from the active Mid-Atlantic ridge, is not related to transitional basalts. These rocks are a deviation from the main undersaturated alkalic trend which characterizes the volcanism of the Canary Islands, their genesis being related to the realization of favourable local volcanic conditions.
dc.description Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, University of Madrid, Spain
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Springer
dc.rights closedAccess
dc.subject Alkaline
dc.subject Peralkaline rocks
dc.subject Phonolitic lavas
dc.subject Ignimbritic trachytes
dc.subject Gran Canaria
dc.subject Canary Islands
dc.title Peralkaline Acid Tendencies in Gran Canaria. (Canary Island)
dc.type Artículo


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