- America, and
young ultramafic lamprophyres from
Gympie in
Australia with 18.5% MgO at ~250 Ma.
Modern science treats lamprophyres as a catch-all term for ultrapot****ic...
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otherwise inaccessible mantle. Basalts, kimberlites,
lamproites and
lamprophyres,
which have
their source in the
upper mantle,
often contain fragments...
- diorites,
lamprophyres, alkali-syenites and rhyolites. The
parent gabbroic magma is
shown to have
given rise in
sequence to diorites,
lamprophyres and alkali-syenites...
- rock Lamproite –
Mantle rock
expulsed to the
surface in
volcanic pipes Lamprophyre – Ultrapot****ic
igneous rocks – An ultramafic, ultrapot****ic intrusive...
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greater than 90% amphiboles,
which have a
feldspar groundm****, may be
lamprophyres.
Metamorphic rocks composed primarily of amphibole, plagioclase, with...
- Vaselli, O. (October 1999). "Petrology and
geochemistry of
xenoliths in
lamprophyres from the
Deccan Traps:
implications for the
nature of the deep crust...
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continental crust above upwelling mafic magma, such as at rift zones.
Lamprophyres and
melilitic rocks Kimberlite Lamproite Orangeite (see
Group II kimberlite)...
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Southern Kerguelen Plateau, the
Rajmahal Traps/Indian
lamprophyres,
Antarctic lamprophyres, and the
Central Kerguelen Plateau/Broken Ridge. In the late...
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classified as
diabases or dolerites. Rare
ultramafic hypabyssal rocks called lamprophyres have
their own
classification scheme.
Intrusive rocks are characterized...
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considered "ultramafic". Ultrapot****ic,
ultramafic igneous rocks such as
lamprophyre,
lamproite and
kimberlite are
known to have
reached the
surface of the...
