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Textures in Partially Solidified Crystalline Nodules: a Window into the Pore Structure of Slowly Cooled Mafic Intrusions |
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| Authors: | Holness Marian B; Anderson Alfred T; Martin Victoria M; Maclennan John; Passmore Emma; Schwindinger Kathleen |
| Institution: | 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK 2Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University Of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, USA 3Department of Earth Sciences, University Of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK 4School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK |
| Abstract: | Abundant glass is present along grain boundaries in coarse-grained,glass-bearing, crystalline gabbroic and peridotitic nodulesentrained and erupted in lavas from Iceland, Santorini and MaunaLoa (Hawaii), even when the total porosity is less than a fewvolume per cent. The glass films vary from a few microns toa few tens of microns thick, and are associated with stringsof small lensoid grain boundary pockets formed by impingementduring crystal growth. Additional porosity occurs as extensiveliquid-filled pockets adjacent to included grains within oikocrystsand as large triangular pockets formed by impingement of planar-sidedgrains. Interstitial material within glass films, and the irregularityof film thickness along a single grain boundary, suggest thatthe present pore structure is representative of the pore structurebefore entrainment and eruption. Pore geometry is consistentwith a dominant control by crystal growth during solidification,with little or no evidence for control by minimization of internalenergies driven by textural equilibration. Similarities betweenliquid distribution in the crystalline nodules and that of late-stage,interstitial phases in fully solidified mafic cumulates fromthe Rum and Skaergaard intrusions demonstrate that the crystallinenodules provide information about the latest stages of solidificationin slowly cooled mafic plutons. The highly permeable networkof intersecting liquid films, lenses and pockets may promotein situ crystallization in the solidifying mush, explainingthe common presence of adcumulates in such intrusions. KEY WORDS: textures; liquid distribution; mafic cumulates; crystalline nodules |
| Keywords: | : textures liquid distribution mafic cumulates crystalline nodules |
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