Layered intrusions: Fundamentals, novel observations and concepts, and controversial issues

RM Latypov, O Namur, Y Bai, SJ Barnes… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Layered intrusions are fossilized natural laboratories that historically have constrained many
fundamental principles of igneous petrology. Layered intrusions are typically stratiform …

Dynamics of evolving magma chambers: textural and chemical evolution of cumulates at the arrival of new liquidus phases

RM Latypov, SY Chistyakova, O Namur, S Barnes - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Basaltic magma chambers are best exemplified by layered intrusions–fossilized natural
laboratories that historically constrain most fundamental principles of igneous petrology …

Paleoproterozoic gabbronoritic and granitic magmatism in the northern margin of the North China Craton: evidence of crust–mantle interaction

P Peng, J Guo, M Zhai, W Bleeker - Precambrian Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Paleoproterozoic Xuwujia gabbronorites in the northern margin of the North China craton
occur as dykes, sills and small plutons intruded into khondalite (aluminous paragneisses …

Dating the Bushveld Complex: timing of crystallization, duration of magmatism, and cooling of the world's largest layered intrusion and related rocks

JS Scoates, CJ Wall, RM Friedman, D Weis… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Bushveld Complex, including the world's largest layered
intrusion and host to world-class stratiform chromium, platinum group element, and …

A chill sequence to the Bushveld Complex: insight into the first stage of emplacement and implications for the parental magmas

AH Wilson - Journal of Petrology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A rare occurrence of a chill sequence in drill core from the eastern Bushveld Complex has
been discovered at the base of a thick succession of ultramafic rocks that forms part of the …

The Stillwater Complex: integrating zircon geochronological and geochemical constraints on the age, emplacement history and crystallization of a large, open-system …

CJ Wall, JS Scoates, D Weis, RM Friedman… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Neoarchean Stillwater Complex, one of the world's largest known layered
intrusions and host to a rich platinum-group element deposit known as the JM Reef …

Multistage evolution of dolerites in the Karoo large igneous province, Central South Africa

ER Neumann, H Svensen, CY Galerne… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Early Jurassic sheet-like intrusions (sills and dykes) are abundant in the Karoo Basin in
South Africa, and were emplaced as a part of the Karoo Large Igneous Province. Here we …

Geochronologic-petrochemical studies of the Hongshishan mafic–ultramafic intrusion, Beishan area, Xinjiang (NW China): petrogenesis and tectonic implications

B Su, K Qin, PA Sakyi, D Tang, P Liu… - International Geology …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The Hongshishan mafic–ultramafic intrusion (SIMS zircon U–Pb age 286.4±2.8 Ma) consists
of dunite, clinopyroxene peridotite, troctolite, and gabbro. Major elements display systematic …

Parental magma composition inferred from trace element in cumulus and intercumulus silicate minerals: an example from the Lower and Lower Critical Zones of the …

B Godel, SJ Barnes, WD Maier - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
Major and trace element concentrations in whole-rock and cumulus and intercumulus
minerals were determined in cumulate rocks from the Lower and the Lower Critical Zones of …

The role of cooling rate in the origin of high temperature phases at the chilled margin of magmatic intrusions

S Mollo, V Misiti, P Scarlato, M Soligo - Chemical Geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Both large (ie from hundreds to thousands of metres thick) and small (ie from centimetres to
a few metres thick) magmatic intrusions are characterized by mineral compositional …