The cooling kinetics of plagioclase feldspar as revealed by electron-microprobe mapping

American Mineralogist

Volumn 99, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 898-907

  Iezzi, Gianluca ^a,b   Mollo, Silvio ^b   Shahini, Edisa ^a   Cavallo, Andrea ^b   Scarlato, Piergiorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Andesite; Cooling; Crystallization; EPMA map; Plagioclase; Thermometer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; KINETICS; MAPPING; SOLIDIFICATION; TEXTURES; THERMOMETERS; X RAYS;

ANDESITE; COMPOSITIONAL EVOLUTION; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; PLAGIOCLASE; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SOLIDIFICATION CONDITION; TIME TEMPERATURE TRANSFORMATION DIAGRAMS;

COOLING;

ANDESITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; LAVA FLOW; PLAGIOCLASE; REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 84902465524     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2014.4626     Document Type: Article

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