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Wehrlite from
Macquarie Island, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Island
Classification
Type:Wehrlite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wehrlite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Macquarie Island, Huon Valley municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1583557
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1583557:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
global biogeochemical cycles: Insights from the Macquarie Island ophiolite Rosalind M. Coggon a,āŽ, Damon A...Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart 7001, Australia d Earth and Environmental...Hydrothermal alteration Biogeochemical cycles Macquarie Island Ophiolite a b s t r a c t Hydrothermal circulation...submarine exposures or drill core. Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island comprises ~10 Ma ocean crust formed at a slow...formed. Hydrothermally altered rocks from Macquarie Island therefore provide a unique opportunity to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amsterdam -- Printed in The Netherlands 285 THE MACQUARIE ISLAND OPHIOLITE COMPLEX: MID-TERTIARY OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE...f Geology, The University o f Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001 (Australia) (Accepted for publication June...ABSTRACT Griffin, B.J. and Varne, R., 1980. The Macquarie Island ophiolite complex: mid-Tertiary oceanic lithosphere...Provinces. Chem. Geol., 30: 285--308. The rocks of Macquarie Island are part of the mid-Tertiary oceanic lithosphere...affinities of basalts. The upper parts of the Macquarie Island oceanic lithosphere section can be thought
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fractionation and degassing (a case study of Macquarie Island glasses) Vadim S. Kamenetsky a,āŽ, Stephen...Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Research School of Earth Sciences...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Accepted...Reisberg Keywords: Mid-ocean ridge basalts Macquarie Island Geochemistry Mantle Melting Crystallisation...Magnesian basaltic glasses from the Miocene Macquarie Island ophiolite (SW Pacific) are used for understanding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
primary MORB melts in a single volcanic suite (Macquarie Island, SW Pacific): Implications for mantle source...University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia b Mineral Resources Tasmania, 30 Gordons...Gordons Hill Road, Hobart, TAS 7018, Australia Abstract Compositional diversity of basalts forming the oceanic...studies of the Miocene Macquarie Island ophiolite, an uplifted part of the Macquarie Ridge at the boundary...ultra-depleted primary melts in the origin of the Macquarie Island porphyritic rocks. The trace element composition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 3 Institute of Experimental...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 5 Oulu Mining School, P.O. Box 3000, 90014 University...suites covering various tectonic settings including island arc picrites, boninites, large igneous province...komatiitic basalts from the Agnew-Wiluna Belt, Australia using in situ laser ablation (LA)-ICP-MS. They...komatiitic Cr-spinels from the Yilgarn Craton, Australia contain 200-500 ppb of Ru. Park et al. (2012)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intruding the lower oceanic crust (e.g., in Oman, Macquarie Island). At 100 MPa, plagioclase crystallizes before...lid us - Ol MELTS This study Wehrlite stability field - MELTS Wehrlite stability field - This study QFM+1...940 900 Comagmat This study Wehrlite stability field - Comagmat Wehrlite stability field - This study...temperatures of ~ 1,100C would result in typical wehrlite. This aspect is discussed in detail in the next...therein). For instance, in the Oman ophiolite, wehrlite bodies were found at different crustal levels
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
results with previous studies (Oman, Chile, Macquarie Island, etc.) in which the " j l s o signature" has...isotropic gabbros in serpentinized peridotites; WH = wehrlite; D = dunite; SH = serpentinized harzburgite; H...p l e s D 3 9 4 , D8) together with m i n o r wehrlite ( D 2 7 4 ) a n d feldspar d u n i t e ( D 7 2...1981 ), Macquarie Island (Griffin and Varne, 1980), Chile (Stern and Elthon, 1979), Bay of Island (Girardeau...comparable to other ophiolite sequences (Samail, Macquarie Island, etc.), this 180 enrichment is significantly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comprise 27 hydrothermally-altered samples, one fresh wehrlite of the cumulate sequence,three samples of pegmatitic...websterite. gabbro; pig= plagiogranite; wrh = wehrlite; d= dike; p.g. =pegmatitic gabbro; lg=layered...surrounding cumulate gabbros. The fresh sample of wehrlite (TR252) has a 6r80-value of +5.5%0 typical of...Taylor, 1973; Bottinga and Javoy, 1975) in the wehrlite sample TR222 located at the base of the plutonic...composition. This is the case for rocks such as wehrlite TR2.52 found in the deep part of the layered gabbros
Book
of Earth and Planetary Sciences Macquarie University NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA Nikki Bohan and Carol McMahon...Zircon — a brilliant petrological recorder 9 Island Arc-Oceanic Plateau Collision;Santa Isabel, Solomon...and mineralisation of the plutonic roots of an island arc magmatic system - the Greenhills Complex...Griffin and Shixin Yao; funded by Rio Tinto, Macquarie University, Industry consulting Part of GEMOC’s...diamonds from several localities in eastern Australia have revealed that while all diamonds have similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GAEBROS WITH GRADED WEHRLITE SILLS AND DIKES CAEERO AMPHlSOUTES ā€œNIT WEHRLITE SEGGlNG GASBRONORITE...dike complex of the Pinde ophiolite and the Macquarie Island ophiolite [16,17] or from Hole 504B [49] but...for seawater-hydrothermal alteration of the Macquarie Island ophiolite, Earth Planet. Sci. Iett. 61, 112-122
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intra-oceanic settings (mid-oceanic ridge, ocean island and oceanic plateau). The geological value in the...Ti–Zr–Y variations to distinguish intra-plate ocean island basalts (OIB) from mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB)...variations to distinguish oceanic basalts from island arc basalts on the basis of their lower Ta/Th ratios...1993); the depleted plateau basalt is from Gorgona Island (RĆ©villon et al., 2000); and the continental margin...ratio, giving a range of Th/Nb ratios for ocean island basalts. As Th/Nb is a proxy for crustal input
Report (article/chapter)
ophiolites have the geochemical characteristics of island arcs but the structure of oceanic crust and are...plagioclase which is reflected in the high abundance of wehrlite relative to troctolite in their cumulate sequences...subduction proceeds, the magma composition changes to island-arc tholeiite, probably because the hydrated asthenosphere...the roots of ocean islands, aseismic ridges and island arcs. In the few cases where a complex is autochthonous...be most easily deduced. Good examples are: Macquarie Island in the Tasman Sea (Griffiths & Varne 1972)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mafic–ultramafic intrusions in the Arunta Region, central Australia Part 1: Geological setting and mineral potential...Claoué-Long Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Received 10 June 2004; received...and tectonically long-lived terrane in central Australia. New U–Pb zircon geochronology data highlight...basement terrane covering ∼200,000 km2 in central Australia. It forms the southern part of the North Australian...from other Proterozoic provinces of northern Australia by the marked intensity and frequency of its deformation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia. b Central Science Laboratory...Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia. c BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide...Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia PT E D MA NU SC a *Corresponding author; e-mail: adam.abersteiner@utas.edu...(Shimizu et al., 2016). On the other hand, ocean island basalt (OIB) F/Nd ratios are estimated to be ~29...A’s Ph.D. We thank Jay Thompson (University of Tasmania) for NU his assistance in LA-ICPMS analyses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Baffin Island picrites Received: 21 January 2004 / Accepted:...2004  Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract The Baffin Island picrites are highly magnesian ( £ 22 wt% MgO) olivine...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia E-mail: greg.yaxley@anu.edu.au E-mail: marc.norman@anu...Kamenetsky CODES, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia E-mail: dima.kamenetsky@utas...crystallised from mafic and ultramafic magmas from Padloping Island, Baffin Bay, Canada. Our broad aim is to establish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sequences to have f o r m e d at an early stage in island-arc evolution. Similarly, Miyashiro (1973) showed...Troodos massif, as a whole, as belonging to an island are environment. Miyashiro's observations, which...immature island arcs. Their work has precluded the origin of the massif in an oceanic island or mature...mature island arc setting. Pearce and Cann (1971) believe that abundances of Ti, Zr, and u characterise basalts...with lower abundances of Ti and Zr, fall in the island are tholeiite group. Pearce considered the Axis
Book
California: Fluid-Rock Interaction in a Rifted Island Arc Schiffmann, P., Evarts, R.C., Williams, A.E...conference, most notably the nature of magma chambers, wehrlite intrusions, mantle diapirism and ridge hydrothermalism...understanding of ridge processes. The abundant wehrlite intrusions seem to have been emplaced near the...Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. RI 02881 Abstract Recent seismic studies...eds., Geology and offshore resources of Pacific island arcsTonga region, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia Institute of Experimental Mineralogy...BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia g Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far...Science Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia SC RI PT b MA NU āŽ Corresponding...Physical Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia. E-mail address: Dima.Kamenetsky@utas...immiscibility, olivine, magma, melt inclusions, volatiles, island-arc, Tolbachik volcano, geochemistry D ABSTRACT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia Institute of Experimental Mineralogy...BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia g Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far...Science Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia MA b a b s t r a c t Olivine-hosted...of the lithophile trace elements 31 typical of island arc magmas. The initial volatile contents in parental...Published by Elsevier B.V. 43 AC CE Keywords: Island arc Magmatism Sulfide melt Volatiles Immiscibility
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deeper and only peridotites are exposed on the axial valley floor for 120 km, and there is sparse volcanism...fr; albarede@ens-lyon.fr) 2 University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, RI 02882 (jgs@gso...into a magmatically starved ridge with a deep rift valley northeastwards. The ridge seems therefore to have... Narrangansett Bay Campus, University of Rhode Island, Narrangansett, RI 02882-1197, USA 3 Laboratoire...of the mantle source beneath Macquarie Ridge revealed by Macquarie Island glasses R.G. TRƘNNES1,2, T
Report (article/chapter)
it can be envisaged that under the African rift valley, where extension is continuing, similar extensive...oceanic materials such as MORB, seamounts, ocean island basalt (OIB), and the carbonates that cap them...North America, South America, Antarctica, eastern Australia and East Asia (Maruyama et al. 1989, 1997). Since...part of the Indonesian region, to the north of Australia (Kaneko et al. 2007). The Australian continent...passive margin deposits on the northern flank of Australia extended underneath the volcanic front. The exhumed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 4Novosibirsk State University...dispersive spectrometry (EDS) system (University of Tasmania), Tescan Mira 3 LMU and JEOL JSM 6510 LV (IGM...2001). In (F), fields for island arc, mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB), ocean island basalt (OIB), and large...Abzalov, M.Z., 1998, Chrome-spinels in gabbro-wehrlite intrusions of the Pechenga area, Kola Peninsula...ophiolite: Cr and REE mobility by hydrothermal solution: Island Arc, v. 23, p. 312–323. Arai, S., and Abe, N.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
online xxx New radiolarian ages show that the island arc-related Acoje block of the Zambales Ophiolite...carapace of the transitional mid-ocean ridge e island arc affiliated Coto block of the ophiolite complex...microcontinent fragment, caused the formation of an island arc-related ophiolite block (Acoje) that migrated...evidence point to the present-day existence of island arc geochemical signatures, mostly inherited or...sequence, exposed along the western seaboard of the island of Luzon and a supra-subduction zone ophiolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia This study presents new Hf, Sr, Nd and Pb isotope...distensive tectonic that formed a graben between the island of Evia and mainland Greece, limited on both sides...SUTTON4,5 1 CODES, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia (l.dan@utas.edu.au) 2 Department...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia 4 Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS)...Department of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (sturner@els.mq.edu.au) Subduction-related
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCIENCES, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, BUNDOORA, VIC. 3083, AUSTRALIA RECEIVED JUNE 1, 2003; ACCEPTED SEPTEMBER 28...monogenetic field situated south of Auckland City, North Island, New Zealand. Two groups of basalts are distinguished...magmas were generated by <8% melting of an ocean island basalt (OIB)-like garnet peridotite source with...continental basaltic intraplate volcanic fields in North Island, New Zealand (Fig. 1). The field formed between...University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic. 3010, Australia. # The Author 2004. Published by Oxford University
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