Petrology Lecture 3 Igneous Rock Textures GLY 4310
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Petrology Lecture 3 Igneous Rock Textures GLY 4310 - Spring, 2019 1
Primary • Form during solidification • They result from interactions between mineral crystals and melt 2
Secondary • Develop by alteration of the rock after crystallization 3
Nucleation • Clusters of a few tens of ions are essentially all surface • Ratio of surface area/volume is fantastically high • Ions on the surface have unbalanced charges because they are not surrounded completely by other ions, and are easily disrupted • Nucleation usually requires undercooling 4
Growth • Involves the addition of ions to the nucleated cluster • Some crystals have preferred directions of growth 5
Rate of Diffusion • Controls movement of ions in many magmas • Determines the rate of dissipation of the heat of crystallization 6
Cooling Rate • Slow cooling allows system to maintain thermodynamic equilibrium • Rapid cooling contributes to a nonequilibrium system 7
Nucleation vs. Growth 8
Blue Glassy Pahoehoe • Large embayed olivine phenocryst with smaller plagioclase laths and clusters of feathery augite nucleating on plagioclase. Magnification ca. 400 X. © John Winter and Prentice Hall. 9
Blue Glassy Pahoehoe • Feathey quenced augite crystal nucleating on plagioclase and growing in a semiradiating form outwards • Mag. 2000 x © John Winter and Prentice Hall. 10
Available Liquid a b • The volume of liquid available to the edge of a crystal is larger than to a face, and a corner has even greater available liquid. (left) • The end of a slender crystal will have the largest available liquid. (right) © Chapman and Hall. London. 11
Zoned Hornblende © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Field of view 1 mm 12
Zoned Plagioclase © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Carlsbad twin • Field of view 0. 3 mm 13
Grain Shape • • Mineral Term Euhedral Subhedral Anhedral Rock Term Idiomorphic Hypidomorphic Xenomorphic 14
Euhedral Crystal © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Euhedral early pyroxene with late interstitial plagioclase • Field of view 5 mm 15
Dimension Relationships • • Mineral term Equant Prismatic Tabular Rock term Massive Lineated Foliated 16
Poikilitic Texture 17
Ophitic Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Pyroxene envelops plagioclase laths • Field of view 1 mm 18
Granophyric Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Quartz-alkali feldspar intergrowth • Field of view 1 mm 19
Graphic Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Single crystal of cuneiform quartz intergrown with alkali feldspar 20
Pyroxene Replacing Olivine • Left – Olivine mantled by pyroxene, ppl • Right – CN – Olivine is extinct, Opx stands out • © John Winter and Prentice Hall. 21
Dehydration Rim © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Hornblende phenocryst dehydrates to Feoxides plus pyroxene due to pressure release on eruption 22 • Width 1 mm
Embayed Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Field of view 0. 3 mm • Partially resorbed olivine phenocryst 23
Sieve Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Plagioclase phenocrysts • Field of view 1 mm 24
Trachytic Texture • Sub-parallel alkali feldspar laths form sheaves and swirls around earliercrystallised minerals • CN, medium power 25
Pilotaxic or Felty Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Microphenocrysts are randomly aligned 26
Flow Banding © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Andesite, Mt. Rainier • Long-handled hammer for scale 27
Cluster Texture • When crystals remain in suspension, a number of cluster textures are possible. § Synneusis - Clustering of suspended phenocrysts - it may result in growth (primary) twin formation, since this may be the lowest energy method by which crystals of the same mineral may adhere. § Cumulophyric - Composed of multiple-grain clusters of adhering phenocrysts § Glomeroporphyritic - Composed of multiple-grain clusters of adhering phenocrysts of the same mineral 28
Intergranular Texture © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Columbia River Basalt Group • Width 1 mm 29
Carlsbad Twin © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Form as the result of mistakes during growth • Field of view ≈ 1 mm 30
Albite Twinning © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Also thought to be form as the result of mistakes during growth • Field of view ≈ 1 mm 31
Tartan Twinning • Microcline • Field of view ≈ 1 mm © John Winter and Prentice Hall. 32
Deformational Albite Twinning © John Winter and Prentice Hall. • Typically occurs in nearly pure Ab • Note that twins “pinch-out” at the edge • Width 1 mm 33
Exsolution Textures • Perthite - The host is K-spar, with albite lamellae appearing as a coherent intergrowth § Coherent means the exsolved phase lattices have a specific relationship to the host lattice. • Antiperthite - The host is albite, with K-spar lamellae showing a coherent intergrowth 34
Types of Perthite • In perthite, intergrowths may sometimes be seen by the unaided eye • In microperthite, however, they are distinguishable only microscopically • In cryptoperthite the crystals are so small that the separation can be detected only by X-ray diffraction • Perthite was originally thought to be a single mineral, described at a locality near Perth, Ontario, from which its name is derived 35
Bronzite Photomicrograph • Bronzite crystal from an ultramafic rock • Thin lamellae of a calciumrich species, probably pigeonite, have separated from the bronzite, and the host (grayish) thus has a very low calcium content (magnified about 40×) 36
Augite Pigeonite • Complex separation of augite from an inverted pigeonite (magnified about 70. 4×) 37
Ocelli • Liquid immiscibility can produce spherical to ovoid inclusions, ranging in size from mm's to a few cm's • Intermixing of magmas may form ocelli by the suspension of blobs of one magma in another 38
Post-Solidification Processes • Autometamorphic • Deuteric • Diagenetic 39
Deuteric Reactions • Uralization § Symplectite • • • Biotitization Chloritization Seritization Saussuritization Serpentization 40
Uralite Pyx Hbl © John Winter and Prentice Hall • Pyroxene largely replaced by hornblende • Width 1 mm 41
Chloritization © John Winter and Prentice Hall • Chlorite (light) replaces biotite (dark) at the rim and along cleavages • Width 0. 3 mm 42
Undulatory extinction • Quartz grain in orthogneiss showing undulatory extinction 43
- Sedimentary rock song
- Petrology is the study of
- Rg 4310/2018
- Igneous metamorphic and sedimentary
- Rock cycle for kids
- Gly
- Coordination isomerism
- Gly
- Rock textures chart
- Intrusive igneous rocks crystal size
- Melted minerals
- What is massive igneous rock
- Rock cycle song for kids
- Pumice extrusive or intrusive
- What is the definition of an igneous rock
- Igneous rock types
- Intrusive activity
- Igneous rock formation
- Describe igneous rocks
- Igneous rock concept map
- Pyroclastic rocks
- Scoria silica content
- What kind of rock is this
- Igneous rock animation
- Rhyolite mafic
- Igneous rock colors
- Non-banded grains
- Types of igneous rock
- Igneous rock comic strip
- Igneous rock
- Felsic composition
- How igneous rocks are formed
- Igneous rock identification lab
- Textura
- Igneous rock concept map
- Extrusive vs intrusive igneous rocks
- Intrusive igneous rocks texture
- Characteristics of igneous rocks
- Igneous rock properties
- Igneous
- Intrusive igneous rock bodies are called
- Composition of igneous rocks
- Igneous rock
- Concept map of igneous rock with answer key