Author : Jacob Evan Poletti
Release : 2015
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Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Petrochronology of Ultrapotassic Intrusive Rocks and Associated Rare Earth Element-Bearing Carbonatite, Mountain Pass, California by : Jacob Evan Poletti
Download or read book Petrochronology of Ultrapotassic Intrusive Rocks and Associated Rare Earth Element-Bearing Carbonatite, Mountain Pass, California written by Jacob Evan Poletti. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although carbonatite is the youngest rock type in the intrusive complex based on cross-cutting relationships, at the resolution of the LA-MC-ICPMS technique, Th-Pb monazite ages of carbonatite are not resolvable from titanite and zircon ages in ultrapotassic rocks, eliminating the previously inferred time gap between ultrapotassic and carbonatite magmatism at Mountain Pass. These new geochronologic data combined with whole rock elemental and mineral-scale isotope data imply that the ultrapotassic -- carbonatite rocks at Mountain Pass are part of a genetically-related suite that formed via extreme fractional crystallization and/or silicate-carbonatite liquid immiscibility processes.