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Magma Fractionation and Mixing in Nephelinite Plug Associated with Deccan Magmatism at Murud-Janjira, South of Bombay, India
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The nephelinite occurs as a N-S trending plug (500 × 200 m.) intrusive into basalts. The rock is porphyritic and principally composed of complexly zoned phenocrysts of clinopyroxene, Fe-Ti oxide and olivine <5%) in a fine grained groundmass dominated by clinopyroxene, nepheline and Fe-Ti oxides. Mineralogically and chemically the rocks vary between pyroxene melanephelinites and nephelinites.
The mineral chemistry implies that the magma has undergone varying degrees of polybaric crystallisation in a subcrustal magma chamber with mixing of more fractionated magma with primitive pulses in which are incorporated disaggregated mantle xenolith phases.
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Nephelinite, Igneous Petrology, Deccan Traps, Bombay, Maharashtra.
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