- Title
- Some geochemical constraints upon models for the crystallization of the upper critical zone-main zone interval, northwestern Bushveld complex
- Creator
- Eales, Hugh V, Marsh, Julian S, Mitchell, Andrew A, de Klerk, William J, Kruger, Floris J, Field, Matthew
- Date
- 1986
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136044
- Identifier
- vital:37331
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1986.050.358.03
- Description
- Ratios between elements Mg, Fe, Co, Cr, Ni, V, and Sc are consistently different in mafic rocks of the upper critical zone, and those above the Bastard unit. Within the 300 m section above the Merensky Reef, 87Sr/86Sr ratios increase from c.0.7063 to c.0.7087, irrespective of rock type. Decoupling of Mg/(Mg + Fe2+) ratios and the Ca contents of plagioclase, and wide variations in the proportions of anorthosite within the Bastard, Merensky, and Merensky Footwall units, are inconsistent with anorthosite formation by simple fractional crystallization of magma batches of limited volume.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mineralogical Magazine, Eales, H.V., Marsh, J.S., Mitchell, A.A., De Klerk, W.J., Kruger, F.J. and Field, M., 1986. Some geochemical constraints upon models for the crystallization of the upper critical zone-main zone interval, northwestern Bushveld complex. Mineralogical Magazine, 50(358), pp.567-582., Mineralogical Magazine volume 50 number 358 567 582 December 1986 1471-8022
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