TEXTURAL AND MICROANALYSIS OF IGNEOUS ROCKS: TOOLS ...
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asalt at Site 1185 of ODP Leg 192 [91]. Although the magma chamber system<br />
may have been thinner along the margins of the plateau, variations in magma res-<br />
idence time in the system did not preclude formation and eruption of Kwaimbaita<br />
magmas along the OJP margins. Differences, however slight, in the densities of<br />
Kroenke, Kwaimbaita, and Singgalo magmas would have lead to different rates<br />
and patterns of magma ascent, pooling, and crystallization en route to the surface.<br />
2.7 Summary and Conclusions<br />
Anorthite-rich (An80−86) portions of plagioclase crystals from cumulate xeno-<br />
liths and phenocrysts in host basalts were formed primarily by crystallization in<br />
shallow (low pressure, 2-7 km depth) regions of the OJP magma chamber system<br />
from more primitive magmas than those basalts sampled from the OJP that were<br />
low in H2O and at relatively high temperature (liquidus temperature near 1200 ◦ C).<br />
Evidence from this study shows that the role of H2O-rich evolved boundary layer<br />
interstitial melts in the formation of An-rich plagioclase was, at best, minor. Par-<br />
ent liquid compositions derived from OJP xenolith and phenocryst plagioclase<br />
crystals contain a wider compositional record of magma evolution than that re-<br />
vealed by OJP whole-rock basalt data. Cumulate xenoliths and phenocrysts gen-<br />
erally are pieces of disrupted solidification fronts. Solidification fronts would have<br />
been ubiquitous throughout the OJP magma chamber system. The OJP magma<br />
chamber system was composed of interconnected dikes and sills and consisted of<br />
regions dominated by liquid (magma chamber interior) and regions dominated by<br />
crystal-liquid mush (along magma chamber floors and walls, within dikes and con-<br />
duits). Crystals and crystalline debris were extensively recycled throughout the<br />
OJP magma chamber system. This recycling accounts for the wide compositional<br />
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