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Ferrian high sanidine in a lamproite from Cancarix, Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Kees Linthout  and
Wim J. Lustenhouwer
Kees Linthout
Affiliation:
Department of Petrology and Isotope Geology, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wim J. Lustenhouwer
Affiliation:
Department of Petrology and Isotope Geology, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Na-poor, Fe-bearing high sanidine from a lamproite near Cancarix (Spain) has 2Vα‖(010) = 37-43° and C2/m, a = 8.598(15), b = 13.050(26), c = 7.209(17) Å, β = 116.00(18)° V = 727(2) Å3. Rims of sanidine crystals against vugs contain up to 60 mole % KFeSi3O8 and up to 10 at.% Si and 6 at.% K above the stoichiometric requirement; otherwise, they have up to 4 mole % □Si4O8 and 3 mole % K2O.Si4O8 in solid solution. Their MgO content may reach 0.46 wt.%. The skeletons of mm sized blocky crystals (Baveno habit) indicate formation under moderate undercooling at temperatures not much above 725°C Feldspar formation was facilitated by a high diffusion rate due to low viscosity in a highly perpotassic melt, supersaturated by pressure release and diopside fractionation, upon extrusion of a huge volume of lava in a crater. After titanian potassium-richterite largely filled the interstices in the sanidine fabric, crystals of dalyite (K2ZrSi6O15) and Fe-rich rims of sanidine and amphibole crystals were formed from an increasingly hydrous, silicic, ferric, and peralkaline residual melt. High rate nonequilibrium crystallisation caused the incorporation of excess SiO2 and K2O in the defect structure of the sanidine. Retrograde boiling initiated the escape of volatiles, causing the quenching, by which the disordered structural state and the nonstoichiometric composition of the sanidine were preserved.

Keywords

ferrian sanidinelamproitedalyiteCancarixSpain
Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 57 , Issue 387 , June 1993 , pp. 289 - 299
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1993

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