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Journal of Petrology Advance Access published online on February 22, 2007
Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egm001
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Liquidus Equilibria in the System K2O–Na2O–Al2O3–SiO2–F2O–1–H2O to 100 MPa: I. Silicate–Fluoride Liquid Immiscibility in Anhydrous Systems

David DolejS* and Don R. Baker

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mcgill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada

Received October 7, 2005; Revised typescript accepted January 9, 2007


  Abstract

Liquidus relations in the four-component system Na2O–Al2O3–SiO2–F2O–1 were studied at 0·1 and 100 MPa to define the location of fluoride–silicate liquid immiscibility and outline differentiation paths of fluorine-bearing silicic magmas. The fluoride–silicate liquid immiscibility spans the silica–albite–cryolite and silica–topaz–cryolite ternaries and the haplogranite-cryolite binary at greater than 960°C and 0·1–100 MPa. With increasing Al2O3 in the system and increasing aluminum/alkali cation ratio, the two-liquid gap contracts and migrates from the silica liquidus to the cryolite liquidus. The gap does not extend to subaluminous and peraluminous melt compositions. For all alkali feldspar–quartz-bearing systems, the miscibility gap remains located on the cryolite liquidus and is thus inaccessible to differentiating granitic and rhyolitic melts. In peralkaline systems, the magmatic differentiation is terminated at the albite–quartz–cryolite eutectic at ~ 770°C, 100 MPa, ~5 wt % F and cation Al/Na = 0·75. The addition of topaz, however, significantly lowers melting temperatures and allows strong fluorine enrichment in subaluminous compositions. At 100 MPa, the binary topaz–cryolite eutectic is located at 770°C, 39 wt % F, cation Al/Na ~ 0·95, and the ternary quartz–topaz–cryolite eutectic is found at 740°C, 32 wt % F, 30 wt % SiO2 and cation Al/Na ~ 0·95. Such location of both eutectics enables fractionation paths of subaluminous quartz-saturated systems to produce fluorine-rich, SiO2-depleted and nepheline-normative residual liquids.

KEY WORDS: silicate melt; granite; rhyolite; fluorine; liquid immiscibility

*Present address: Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany. Telephone: +49-(0)921-553718. Fax: +49-(0)921-553769. E-mail: david.dolejs{at}uni-bayreuth.de


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