Classification of Altered Volcanic Island Arc Rocks using Immobile Trace Elements: Development of the Th–Co Discrimination Diagram
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The K2O^SiO2 diagram, used to divide volcanic arc rocks into rock types (basalts, basaltic andesites, dacites and rhyolites) and volcanic series (tholeiitic, calc-alkaline and shoshonitic), is particularly susceptible to the effects of alteration as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Many diagrams conventionally used to classify igneous rocks utilize
mobile elements, which commonly renders them unreliable for classifying
rocks from the geological record.The K2O^SiO2 diagram, used to
subdivide volcanic arc rocks into rock type (basalts, basaltic andesites,
andesites, dacites and rhyolites) and volcanic series (tholeiitic,
calc-alkaline, high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic), is particularly
susceptible to the effects of alteration.However, by usingTh as a proxy
for K2O and Co as a proxy for SiO2 it is possible to construct
a topologically similar diagram that performs the same task but is
more robust for weathered and metamorphosed rocks. This study
uses 41000 carefully filtered Tertiary^Recent island arc samples
to construct aTh^Co classification diagram. A‘testing set’comprising
data not used in constructing the diagram indicates a classification
success rate of c. 80%.When applied to some hydrothermally altered,
then tropically weathered Cretaceous volcanic arc lavas from
Jamaica, the diagramdemonstrates the presence ofa tholeiitic volcanic
arc series dominated by intermediate^acid lavas overlain by a
calc-alkaline series dominated by basic lavas.read more
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