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Mineralogy of the Nandewar Volcano, northeastern New South Wales, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. J. Stolz
A. J. Stolz*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia
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Abstract

The paper discusses the mineralogy of eruptives from the Nandewar Volcano, which range in composition from hawaiite and trachyandesite to comendite via tristanite and mafic and peralkaline trachyte. Olivine, Ca-rich pyroxene, and amphibole display marked decreases in 100 Mg/(Mg + Fe) ratios in the sequence trachyandesite to comendite, reflecting variation in host rock compositions. The presence of tscher-makitic subcalcic pyroxene and aluminous bronzite megacrysts in several trachyandesites indicates that these experienced intratelluric crystallization at elevated pressures (6–8 kbar). Some titanomagnetite and plagioclase phenocrysts in trachyandesites may also be moderate pressure cognate precipitates. Groundmass pyroxenes of some trachytes and comendites are strongly acmitic. The presence or absence of coexisting alkali amphiboles and aenigmatite appears to reflect stability over a relatively broad range of fO2 conditions. Aenigmatite rims on titanomagnetite and ilmenite microphenocrysts in several peralkaline eruptives provides support for a ‘no-oxide’ field in T-fO2 space. The Fe-Ti oxide compositional data indicate that magmas spanning the spectrum trachy-andesite-comendite crystallized under conditions of decreasing T and fO2 which broadly coincided with the FMQ synthetic buffer curve. However, a voluminous group of slightly older associated rhyolites appear to have crystallized under significantly more oxidizing conditions.

Keywords

olivinepyroxeneamphibolefeldspartitanomagnetiteaenigmatiteilmeniteNandewar VolcanoNew South WalesAustralia
Type
Mineralogy
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 50 , Issue 356 , June 1986 , pp. 241 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1986

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Present address: Department of Geology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001.

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