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Journal of Petrology Volume 43 Number 2 Pages 243-270 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002
Magma Mixing and Crustal Recycling Recorded in Ternary Feldspar from Compositionally Zoned Peralkaline Ignimbrite ‘A’, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
ABTEILUNG FÜR VULKANOLOGIE UND PETROLOGIE, GEOMAR FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM DER CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITÄT ZU KIEL, WISCHHOFSTRAßE 1–3, 24148 KIEL, GERMANY
Miocene Ignimbrite ‘A’ on Gran Canaria contains three compositional endmember fiamme types(two rhyolites and one trachyte) each of which crystallized distinct feldspar. Various textural and compositional criteria are interpreted as reflecting a complex scenario within the magma chamber in which the crystals formed. About 25–30% of the feldspar phenocrysts contain evidence for magma mixing in the form of (1) partial to severe dissolution–resorption rims, (2) distinct zones of drastically different compositions and (3) overgrowth textures on formerly resorbed crystals. Four major types of zoning in the oligoclase to anorthoclase feldspars of ignimbrite ‘A’ include a normal and a reversely zoned type and two complexly zoned types. The feldspars with normal and reverse zonation show only minor compositional amplitudes between individual zones (
Ab, Or 
4%), whereas the complexly zoned types show compositional differences between zones of up to 18 mol % Ab and 20 mol % Or and are commonly associated with an internal dissolution surface. Complex zoning with large compositional amplitudes and dissolution textures is taken as evidence of crystal movements within the magma and across compositional boundaries between magma batches. A multiple ‘step-cycle’ model, involving growth and transport of a crystal into another magma batch and its return to the original host magma, is suggested by the data. Moreover, feldspars from one rhyolite compositional group are found to be substantially elevated in 
18O, suggesting an input of a high 18O component to this rhyolite. The other endmember rhyolite appears to be related to the endmember trachyte by mainly crystal fractionation of anorthoclase feldspar. This observation is consistent with trace element and rare earth element concentrations for the magma endmembers and their feldspars, where contamination led to a depletion in incompatible trace elements and light rare earth elements in the contaminated rhyolite and its feldspar phenocrysts. We suggest that the combination of textural and compositional variation in ternary feldspar of peralkaline rhyolitic systems is well suited to reconstruct dynamic processes such as magma mixing and contamination in evolving rhyolitic magma chambers.
KEY WORDS: ternary feldspar; peralkaline ignimbrites; ocean islands; Gran Canaria
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