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• Intermittent mixing processes occurring before Plinian eruptions of Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico: insights from textural-compositional variations in plagioclase and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes

  Authors:G. Sosa-Ceballos, J.E. Gardner, and J.C. LassiterFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 167, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20148,185 words Author abstract 1380LVolcan Popocatepetl has explosively erupted in Plinian style at least five times in the last 23,000 years. Extreme deviations in composition and the occurrence of dissolution features in plagioclase and pyroxene, and...

• Spinel inclusions in olivine and plagioclase crystals in a layered gabbro: a marker and a tracer for primary phenocrysts in a differentiating magma reservoir

  Authors:Takashi Hoshide and Masaaki ObataFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 168, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20145,102 words Article 1560LThe problem of whether cumulate rocks were formed by crystal settling or by in situ crystallization after magma emplacement is an important issue concerning the mechanisms of magmatic differentiation. However, it is...

• Formation of plagioclase-bearing peridotite and plagioclase-bearing wehrlite and gabbro suite through reactive crystallization: an experimental study

  Authors:Lee Saper and Yan LiangFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 167, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20149,160 words Report 1510LPlagioclase-bearing peridotites are commonly associated with gabbroic rocks sampled around the Moho Transition Zone. Based on mineral chemistry, texture, and spatial relations, the formation of plagioclase-bearing...

• Mechanisms of myrmekite formation: case study from the Weinsberg granite, Moldanubian zone, Upper Austria

  Authors:Rainer Abart, David Heuser, and Gerlinde HablerFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 168, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20148,398 words Article 1550LMyrmekites have attracted the attention of petrographers over more than a century, and several genetic models have been proposed. We report on myrmekites from the Weinsberg granite of the Moldanubian zone of Upper...

• Reactive flow as dominant evolution process in the lowermost oceanic crust: evidence from olivine of the Pineto ophiolite (Corsica)

  Authors:Alessio Sanfilippo, Riccardo Tribuzio, Massimo Tiepolo, and Davide BernoFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 170, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20157,059 words Article 1440LThe Jurassic Pineto ophiolite from Corsica exposes a ~1-km-thick troctolite-olivine-gabbro sequence, interpreted to represent a lowermost sector of the gabbroic oceanic crust from a (ultra-)slow spreading system. To...

• Significance of "stretched" mineral inclusions for reconstructing P-T exhumation history

  Authors:Kyle T. Ashley, Robert S. Darling, Robert J. Bodnar, and Richard D. LawFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 169, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 9, 20156,563 words Article 1420LAnalysis of mineral inclusions in chemically and physically resistant hosts has proven to be valuable for reconstructing the P-T exhumation history of high-grade metamorphic rocks. The occurrence of cristobalite-bearing...

• Testing solution models for phase equilibrium (forward) modeling of partial melting experiments

  Authors:Felix Gervais and Pierre-Henri TrapyFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 176, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20217,989 words Report 1510LThis study compares four sets of solution (or activity-composition) models using two internally consistent thermodynamic datasets for calculating isochemical phase diagram sections of six partial melting experiments...

• Experimental settling, floatation and compaction of plagioclase in basaltic melt and a revision of melt density.

  Authors:Giuliano Krättli and Max W. SchmidtFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 176, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 202114,457 words Article 1540LCentrifuge-assisted piston cylinder experiments were conducted on plagioclase in basaltic melt at 1140-1250 °C, 0.42-0.84 GPa and mostly 1000 g. One set of experiments assesses the settling velocity of a dilute...

• The Blacktail Creek Tuff: an analytical and experimental study of rhyolites from the Heise volcanic field, Yellowstone hotspot system

  Authors:Torsten Bolte, Francois Holtz, Renat Almeev, and Barbara NashFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 169, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 1, 201515,589 words Article 1490LThe magma storage conditions of the 6.62 Ma Blacktail Creek Tuff eruption, belonging to the Heise volcanic field (6.62-4.45 Ma old) of the Yellowstone hotspot system, have been investigated by combining thermobarometric...

• Dynamics of a second-order phase transition: P1-bar to PI1-bar phase transition in anorthite, CaAl2Si2O8

  Authors:Subrata Ghose, G. Van Tendeloo, and S. AmelinckxFrom:Science (Vol. 242, Issue 4885) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 16, 19881,330 words Article Dynamics of a Second-Order Phase Transition: P1 to I1 Phase Transition in Anorthite, CaAl.sub.2.Si.sub.2.O.sub.8 STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITIONS OCcur when a material changes its crystallographic structure as a function...

• The evolution and storage of primitive melts in the Eastern Volcanic Zone of Iceland: the 10 ka Grimsvotn tephra series (i.e. the Saksunarvatn ash)

  Authors:David A. Neave, John Maclennan, Thorvaldur Thordarson, and Margaret E. HartleyFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 170, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 7, 201515,281 words Article 1440LMajor, trace and volatile elements were measured in a suite of primitive macrocrysts and melt inclusions from the thickest layer of the 10 ka Grimsvotn tephra series (i.e. Saksunarvatn ash) at Lake Hvitarvatn in central...

• The influence of melt composition on the partitioning of trace elements between anorthite and silicate melt

  Authors:Louise Schoneveld and Hugh St. C. O'NeillFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 174, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 2, 201910,465 words Article 1610LThe effect of melt composition on the partitioning of trace elements between anorthite and silicate melts has been studied experimentally in five compositions in the system CaO-Al.sub.2O.sub.3-SiO.sub.2 (CAS) at ~ 1400...

• Experimental investigation of phase relations in the system NaAlSi.sub.3O.sub.8-H.sub.2O at high temperatures and pressures: liquidus relations, liquid-vapor mixing, and critical phenomena at deep crust-upper mantle conditions.

  Authors:Adam R. Makhluf, R. C. Newton, and C. E. ManningFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 175, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  July 23, 202013,151 words Article 1570LSupercritical fluids in rock-H.sub.2O systems have been proposed to be important agents of mass transfer in subduction zone environments. New experimental studies were conducted on the simple model granite system...

• Unraveling the hidden origin and migration of plagioclase phenocrysts by in situ Sr isotopes: the case of final dome activity at Nisyros volcano, Greece

  Authors:Eleonora Braschi, Lorella Francalanci, Simone Tommasini, and George E. VougioukalakisFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 167, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 201410,695 words Article 1510LThis contribution reports a detailed study on in situ Sr isotope analyses, along with textural and compositional characteristics, of plagioclase phenocrysts occurring in the rhyodacitic dome-lavas and associated mafic...

• Magma evolution beneath Bequia, Lesser Antilles, deduced from petrology of lavas and plutonic xenoliths

  Authors:Michal Camejo-Harry, Elena Melekhova, Jon Blundy, William Attridge, Richard Robertson, and Thomas ChristopherFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 173, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 5, 201815,020 words Article 1390LExtrusive and intrusive igneous rocks represent different parts of a magmatic system and ultimately provide complementary information about the processes operating beneath volcanoes. To shed light on such processes, we...

• Mantle and crustal sources of Archean anorthosite: a combined in situ isotopic study of Pb-Pb in plagioclase and Lu-Hf in zircon

  Authors:A. Kate Souders, Paul J. Sylvester, and John S. MyersFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 165, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 201314,687 words Article 1530LIsotopic analyses of ancient mantle-derived magmatic rocks are used to trace the geochemical evolution of the Earth's mantle, but it is often difficult to determine their primary, initial isotope ratios due to the...

• [sup.10]Be, [sup.18]O and radiogenic isotopic constraints on the origin of adakitic signatures: a case study from Solander and little Solander islands, New Zealand

  Authors:Fiona V. Foley, Simon Turner, Tracy Rushmer, John T. Caulfield, Nathan R. Daczko, Paul Bierman, et al.From:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 168, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 201414,672 words Article 1390LSubduction-related Quaternary volcanic rocks from Solander and Little Solander Islands, south of mainland New Zealand, are porphyritic trachyandesites and andesites (58.20-62.19 wt% Si[O.sub.2]) with phenocrysts of...

• Cordierite formation during the experimental reaction of plagioclase with Mg-rich aqueous solutions

  Authors:J. Hovelmann, H. Austrheim, and A. PutnisFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 168, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20146,590 words Article 1380LThe reaction between plagioclase (labradorite and oligoclase) and Mg-rich aqueous solutions was studied experimentally at hydrothermal conditions (600-700 [degrees]C, 2 kbar). During the experiments, plagioclase grains...

• Syn-kinematic hydration reactions, grain size reduction, and dissolution-precipitation creep in experimentally deformed plagioclase-pyroxene mixtures

  Authors:Sina Marti, Holger Stunitz, Renee Heilbronner, Oliver Plumper, and Rudiger KilianFrom:Solid Earth (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 9, 2018246 words Author abstract, Bri...

  It is widely observed that mafic rocks are able to accommodate high strains by viscous flow. Yet, a number of questions concerning the exact nature of the involved deformation mechanisms continue to be debated. In...

• Origin of peraluminous minerals (corundum, spinel, and sapphirine) in a highly calcic anorthosite from the Sittampundi Layered Complex, Tamil Nadu, India

  Authors:Shreya Karmakar, Subham Mukherjee, Sanjoy Sanyal, and Pulak SenguptaFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 172, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  July 7, 201711,267 words Article 1360LThe highly calcic anorthosite (An.sub.>95) from the Sittampundi Layered Complex (SLC) develops corundum, spinel and sapphirine that are hitherto not reported from any anorthositic rocks in the world. Petrological...