Igneous Rocks Rocks & Minerals Notes: Page 7. How are igneous rocks formed?
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Igneous Rocks
Geology 200Geology for Environmental
Scientists
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Magma Compositions
• Ultramafic - composition of mantle• Mafic - composition of basalt, e.g. oceanic
crust. 900-1200oC, 50% SiO2
• Intermediate - mix of oceanic and continental crust
• Felsic or Silicic or Sialic - composition of continental crust. <850oC, 75% SiO2
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Two Major Divisions
• Intrusive igneous rocks - magma that solidifies below the surface of the earth
• Extrusive igneous rocks - magma that cools on the surface of the earth
• The rock textures are different for each division.
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Texture of Igneous Rocks
• Glassy: caused by rapid cooling; no crystals• Pyroclastic: fragments of glass and crystals;
volcanic ash and bombs• Aphanitic: microscopic crystals• Phaneritic: macroscopic crystals• Porphyritic: grains of two distinct sizes; can
occur in phaneritic or aphanitic matrix
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Can you fill in the question marks?
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Can you fill in the question marks?
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Classification of Igneous Rocks - Fig. 4.4based on both composition and texture
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Felsic and intermediate igneous rocks
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Mafic and ultramafic igneous rocks
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Granite --K-feldspar, quartz, plagioclase, hornblende, biotite
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Rhyolite -- an extrusive felsic igneous rock
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Basalt -- an extrusive mafic rock
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Andesite -- an extrusive intermediate igneous rock
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A welded tuff formed from hot ash and glass.
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A composite volcano composed of ash layers and lava flows.
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Pillow lavas - formed by underwater
eruption of basalt
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Physical weathering of columnar basalt
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Genesis of different types of intrusive igneous bodies
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Archean plutons, western Australia
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Close-up of last slide showing
Archean granitic plutons and
greenstone belts (ancient oceanic
crust)
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WVU Students on a Gabbro Dike in Maine during Geology Field Camp
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A Xenolith in a Magma Chamber or Pluton, Maine
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Origin and Differentiation of Magma• Source rock composition - what rocks were
melted?• Partial melting - produces magmas of
different composition than source rocks; more felsic or silicic.
• Fractional crystallization - increases silica content of remaining melt.
• Magma mixing• Assimilation - xenoliths fall into magma
chamber
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Figure 4.22 - The Order of Crystallization: Bowen’s Reaction Series
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Bowen’s Reaction Series
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Bowen’s Reaction SeriesThe order of crystallization for the discontinuous series from olivine to pyroxene to amphibole to biotite to quartz and K-feldspar follows a sequence of increasingly complex arrangements of silicon-oxygen tetraheda. These arrangements progress from single tetrahedra, to single chains, to double chains, to sheets, and finally to framework arrangement of tetrahedra.
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Figure 3.18 -- The silicon-oxygen tetrahedron
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Figure 3.19 -- Silicon-oxygen tetrahedral groups
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Igneous Rocks and Plate Tectonics• Divergent plate boundaries - convection
cells move mantle peridotite closer to the surface. These rocks are at high temperatures so the pressure reduction causes partial melting and production of basaltic magmas.
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Igneous Rocks and Plate Tectonics
• Convergent plate boundaries - the subduction of oceanic crust produces partial melting of the hydrated basalt. This produces intermediate (andesitic) magmas which rise to form mountains (e.g. Andes). These magmas can in turn melt continental crust producing granitic magmas.
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Types of Convergent Boundaries
Oceanic-Continental
Oceanic-Oceanic
Continental-Continental
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Igneous Rocks and Plate Tectonics
• Over geologic time these processes first created oceanic crust from ultramafic mantle rocks. In turn, the mafic oceanic crust created felsic continental crust from partial melting of hydrated basalt. Continental crust is less than 1% of earth’s mass, so there isn’t a lot of felsic material in the earth. Most has risen to the crust.
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Continental crust is less than 1% of Earth’s mass