The Chemical Variability of some Common Igneous Rocks

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Journal of Petrology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | Pages 589-598 | 1976
© Oxford University Press 1976

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The Chemical Variability of some Common Igneous Rocks

R. W. LE MAITRE

Department of Geology, University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia

Received June 23, 1935; Revised February 25, 1976; ABSTRACT

The chemical variability of 39 groups of igneous rocks has beeninvestigated using a data base of 26,373 published analyses.Each group was extracted from the data base using the name givenin the reference from which the analysis was collected. Thenumerical data for each group includes wt. per cent and molecularper cent means, standard deviations, C.I.P.W. norms, Nigglivalues, the first three eigenvalues and eigenvectors togetherwith a breakdown of the geographical distribution of the analysesused. Nine variation diagrams are also given for each group.

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