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Aegirine-augite from
Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Aegirine-augite
Formula:(NaaCabFec2+Mgd)(Fee3+AlfFeg2+Mgh)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aegirine-augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1418839
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1418839:6
GUID (UUID V4):5a993d8e-4f0e-4c61-8030-7cd56730e051
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 4 (1968) 103-106. NORTH-HOLLAND PUBLISHING COMP., AMSTERDAM INTERMEDIATE...INTERMEDIATE OCEANIC VOLCANIC ROCKS AND THE 'DALY GAP' Ian BAKER * Department of Geology, Imperial College...basalt - trachyte - phonolite assemblage on Saint Helena demonstrate a decrease from basic to salic ends... resulted in bimodal distributions of collected and analyzed rock types. Volumetric data of this type...abundant than end members o f the series (i.e. basalt and trachyte, phonolite or rhyolite). Largely as a result
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 66, 9 1 - 104 (1978) 9 by Springer-Verlag...Group Division of igneous rocks into subalkalic and alkalic groups was made first by Iddings (I892)....Harker (1896, 1909). By his thesis, the subalkalic and alkalic groups represent two large branches of igneous...includes rocks ranging from basic to acidic composition and represents a genetic series. The tectonic conditions...subalkalic and alkalic branches were regarded (by mistake) as being characteristic of the Pacific and Atlantic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lavas and Associated Plutonic Inclusions of Ascension Island by CHRIS HARRIS1 Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy...in revisedform 5 May 1983) INTRODUCTION Ascension Island is a large composite volcano situated at approximately...the South Atlantic Ocean (Fig. 1). The Island is 98 km2 in area and represents the uppermost portion of...March 29, 2014 ABSTRACT The lavas and pyroclastics of Ascension Island contain a suite of plutonic inclusions...trachyandesite and trachyte to comendite. Basalt sensu stricto is relatively rare and there is a scarcity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
m / l o c a t e / l i t h o s The geochemistry and evolution of Palaeogene phonolites, central Namibia...collectively exhibit a narrow compositional range and represent a single magma system of highly evolved...Na2O, Rb, Th, Zr, Zn, Pb, and REE and very low abundances of MgO, P2O5, Sr and Ba. No mafic rocks are associated...associated with the Aris phonolites and their ultimate petrogenetic origin remains obscure. The more abundant...sanidine (and nepheline) and pyroxene. The behaviour of REE is decoupled from Zr, Nb, and Th in this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phenocrysts from Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island lavas: variation with fractional crystallization and evidence...clinopyroxene and plagioclase) present in lavas from Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island. These islands...mantle plume, have enriched radiogenic isotope ratios and are, therefore, prime candidates for an oxygen isotope...pyroxene and feldspar in the Gough lavas show that the phenocrysts in the ma®c Gough Island lavas are...contained <2% recycled sediment. In contrast, the Tristan lavas with SiO2 >48 wt% contain phenocrysts which
Report (volume)
Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia DISTRIBUTORS USA and Canada Blackwell Scientific Publications Inc PO Box...granted by The Geological Society for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Clearance...Typeset, printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London Library of...metasomatism--perspective and prospect vii ix 1 MENZIES, M. Alkaline rocks and their inclusions: a window...experimental studies 29 LE Bhs, M. J. Nephelinites and carbonatites 53 TWYMAN, J. D. & GITTINS, J. Alkalic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe–Mg-rich clays, aegirine–augite, ± zeolites, titanite, apatite, magnetite, and hydrothermal zircon...(700– 1600 ppm) and F (N 500 ppm) were also detected in the glass. Careful macroscopic and microscopic observations...assemblages and the feldspar grains, along with comparisons between chemical compositions of the glass and the...Na-rich alkali feldspar, Fe–Mgrich clays and aegirine–augite. Halogens had probably played an important...A number of within-plate volcanoes from oceanic and continental geodynamic settings erupts modest amounts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2089^2120 2010 doi:10.1093/petrology/egq050 Shona and Discovery Aseismic Ridge Systems, South Atlantic:...ANTON LE ROEX1*, CORNELIA CLASS2, JOHN O’CONNOR3 AND WILFRIED JOKAT4 1 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES...Ridge^Meteor Rise^Agulhas Ridge^Cape Rise seamounts) and the Discovery Rise to the north have been argued...to represent the surface expressions of the Shona and Discovery mantle plumes, based on enriched samples...Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a single sample from Discovery Rise and tectonic reconstructions. Leg PS69 ANT XXIII/5 of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (2018) 173:8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-017-1433-2 ORIGINAL...Springer Nature 2017 Abstract Peralkaline syenite and granite dykes cut the Straumsvola nepheline syenite...29) and manifests itself in the presence of the Zr silicates eudialyte, dalyite and vlasovite, and the...nepheline syenite pluton, and the petrogenetic relationship of the dykes and the pluton cannot be related...exists between silicaundersaturated and oversaturated magmas. Major and trace element variations in the dykes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leading to unmixing of carbonatites on Brava Island (Cape Verde) and a general model of carbonatite genesis...Heidelberg 2016 Abstract The carbonatites of Brava Island, Cape Verde hot spot, allow to investigate whether...fractions or form through extreme fractionation and/or liquid immiscibility from CO2-bearing silicate...silicate magmas. The intrusive carbonatites on Brava Island are part of a strongly silica-undersaturated pyroxenite...combeite–foiditite, carbonatite series. The major and trace element composition of this suite is reproduced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Ejected Granitic Blocks from Ascension Island1 by EDWIN ROEDDER and D. s. COOMBS U.S. Geological...D.C., 20242 and Geology Department, University of Otago, New Zealand ABSTRACT Quartz and alkali feldspar...glass, with a small, very low-pressure gas bubble and sometimes a crystal offluorite(?).The original material...crystal (usually with other crystalline phases), and a large gas bubble containing some CO2. The original...temperature it consists of a dilute water solution and a very large, high-pressure CO2 gas bubble. Type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGY, TEMPERATURE, AND OXYGEN FUGACITY IN A SUITE OF STRONGLY PERALKALINE LAVAS AND TUFFS, PANTELLERIA...ABSTRACT Eight samples of pantelleritic lava and tuff and a lithic inclusion of trachyte from Pantelleria...aenigmatite, ilmenite, and magnetite: (1) augite + fayalite + ilmenite + magnetite, (2) augite + fayalite + ilmenite...hedenbergite or aegirine-augite + ilmenite + aenigmatite + quartz ± ferrorichterite, and (5) aegirine-augite + aenigmatite...phyric phase in each assemblage. Whole-rock silica and peralkalinity correlate strongly with the mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript Magmatic age of rare-earth element and zirconium mineralisation at the Norra Kärr alkaline...Sweden, determined by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope analyses of metasomatic zircon and eudialyte Axel S.L. Sjöqvist...Johan T. Berg , Magmatic age of rare-earth element and zirconium mineralisation at the Norra Kärr alkaline...Sweden, determined by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope analyses of metasomatic zircon and eudialyte. The address for...manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crustal Contamination CHRIS HARRIS1∗, JULIAN S. MARSH2 AND SIMON C. MILNER3 1 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES...sub-alkaline suite, (2) an outer quartz syenite suite, and (3) an inner silicaundersaturated suite dominated...explained by fractional crystallization, but Sr- and O-isotope data indicate that these rocks contain...syenites trend towards the 0·1 GPa phonolite minimum and appear to have evolved by closed system fractional...element and Nd- and Sr-isotope characteristics that are similar to those of basanites from Tristan da Cunha
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlands 201 THE TIMEDJELALEN ALKALINE RING-COMPLEX AND RELATED N-S DYKE SWARMS (ADRAR DES IFORAS, MALl)...Pb-Sr-O ISOTOPIC STUDY D. WEIS 1'2'*, J.P. LII~GEOIS 3 and M. JAVOY 1 ~Laboratoire de G~ochimie des Isotopes...D., Li~geois, J.P. and Javoy, M., 1986. The Timedjelalen alkaline ring-complex and related N-S dyke swarms...Mali) - - A Pb-Sr-O isotopic study. In: S. Deutsch and A.W. Hofmann (Editors), Isotopes in Geology - - Picciotto...acid dyke swarms, plateaux of ignimbritic and rhyolitic lavas, and silica-oversaturated ring-complexes. This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Islands) F. RIDOLFI1, A. RENZULLI1,*, P. SANTI1 1 2 AND B. G. J. UPTON2 Istituto di Vulcanologia e Geochimica...Urbino, I-61029 Urbino, Italy Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JW Edinburgh...Islands) are divisible into (1) silica-undersaturated and (2) silica-saturated/oversaturated groups. The first...syenites of both groups crystallized at shallow depths and whole-rock geochemistry shows that they have compositions...during which most of the feldspar growth occurred; and (3) a late interstitial stage. Crystallization of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Nb and REE Distribution in the Monte Verde Carbonatite–Alkaline–Agpaitic Complex (Angola)...Antonio Olimpio Gonçalves 3 , Joan-Carles Melgarejo 1 and Joan Martí Molist 4 1 2 3 4 * Departament de Mineralogia...complex of Monte Verde has a semi-circular shape and is comprised of a central intrusion of foidolite...concentrically arranged minor bodies of other alkaline rocks and carbonatite magmatic breccias. This rock association...(HFSE) and rare earth elements (REE) are concentrated in pyrochlore crystals in the carbonatite and alkaline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DOI : 10.3749/canmin.51.4.537 THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS ABU KHURUQ ALKALINE...essexite, nepheline syenite, and quartz syenite, as well as quartz- and nephelinebearing pegmatites....dominantly metaluminous and enriched in both large-ion lithophile (LIL) and high-field-strength (HFS)...fractionated REE patterns [5.6 < (La/Yb)n < 18.6], and possess the geochemical characteristics of anorogenic...significantly different from those of the essexite unit and the essexitic xenoliths found in the nepheline syenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Exceptionally Abundant Phonolites on Ua Pou Island (Marquesas, French Polynesia): Partial Melting...cover 65% of the surface of the island whereas mafic lavas cover 27% and intermediate ones 8%. The silica-undersaturated...primitive basanites, leaving an amphibole-rich residuum and producing tephriphonolitic magmas. These tephriphonolitic...E-mail: christelle.legendre@univ-nantes.fr (Group C) and extreme fractionation coupled with assimilation of...volcanics). They are generally associated in space and time with basanitic lavas, whereas trachytes are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitoids: A review of their occurrence and chemical characteristics and speculations on their petrogenesis...occurrence and chemical charactenstics and speculations on theIr petrogenesIs. In: A.R. Woolley and M. Ross...Ross (EdItors), Alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites. Lithos, 26: 115-134. A variety of granitoid sUItes...composition from quartz syenites to peralkaline granites and their respective volcamc equivalents. These sUItes...emplaced mto non-orogenic settmgs - both within plate and along plate margins during the waning stages of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 28, 340---351 (1970) 9 by Springer-Verlag 1970 Petrochemical Variations...(Comendite) Obsidians from the Oceans and Continents D. K. B ~ L v . r and R. M~CDO~ALD * Department of Geology...Abstract. Eleven new analyses and modes of comendite obsidians are presented, and compared with all available...commonly alkali feldspar. The oxides Si02, M~O3, Na~O and K~O total over ninety percent by weight in all analyses...projected into the system Na~OK20-AI~Oa-SiO2, oceanic and continental samples group differently. Oceanic specimens
Book
Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Fakenham and Reading Library of Congress cataloguing in publication...rocks and their textures The classification of igneous rocks Granitic rocks Silicic volcanic and hypabyssal...hypabyssal rocks Syenites Trachytes and microsyenites Monzonites, monzodiorites, monzogabbros Latites, latite-andesites...latite-andesites, allied volcanics and their hypabyssal equivalents Diorites Andesites and their hypabyssal equivalents...Gabbros and related rocks Basalts and dolerites Ultramafic igneous rocks Nepheline syenites and allied
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
X-Ray and Optical Data for a Rare Earth-Poor Eudialyte from the North-Central Alaska Range By Neil E...Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, U.S...S.A. Mickey E. Gunter Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow...A. Diana N. Solie Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 3700 Airport Way, Fairbanks...U.S.A. Charles R. Knowles Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cumulophyric aggregates from silicic ignimbrites: Sr and Ba zoning profiles of plagioclase phenocrysts from...54), augite, pigeonite and Ti-magnetite, instead of anorthoclase, sodic sanidine, aegirine-augite and...isolated within a glassy matrix or forming gabbroic and dioritic cumulophyric clots. Plagioclase is partially...normal with An-rich core (An45–54) and more sodic rim (An19–28). Ba and Sr concentration profiles of two...with compositions ranging from 250 ppm to 1,060 ppm and from 400 ppm to 1,590 ppm, respectively. The matrix
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contr. l~iineral, and Petrol. 44, 85--100 (1974) 9 by Springer-Verlag 1974 Petrology and Geochemistry of...of Easter Island P. E. B a k e r * a n d F. B u c k l e y Department of Earth Sciences, University of...Durham Received November 13, 1973 Abstract. Easter Island has developed around three volcanoes Poike, an...strato-volcano, Rano Kau, a caldera, and the fissure complex of Terevaka and its associated cones. The lavas...from tholeiites and olivine *holeiites to hawaiites, mugearites, benmoreites, trachytes and rhyolites (comendites)
 
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