| CRYSTALLOCHEMICAL VARIATION AND GENESIS OF MORDENITE, MARYSVALE, UTAH | ||
|
BARTLETT, Emily1, GRIFFEN, Dana T.2, NELSON, Stephen T.3, DORAIS, Michael J.2, and KARLSSON, Haraldur R.4, (1) Department of Geology, Brigham Young Univ, 430 W. 1100 N, Cedar City, UT 84720, eb254@email.byu.edu, (2) Department of Geology, Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT 84602, (3) Brigham Young Univ, PO Box 24606, Provo, UT 84602-4606, (4) Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053 Approximately 6.5 km west of Marysvale, Utah, in Beaver Creek Canyon, is an outcrop of mordenite and volcanic glass. In a roadcut, the outcrop consists of both pink and green form of mordenite, brown glass, and quartz-feldspar spherulites. The pink mordenite seems to be associated with the brown glass. The green mordenite is massive and is not in contact with the brown glass, but is always separated from it by the pink mordenite. Green volcanic glass is found cropping out up the slope in association with the green mordenite. Variations in exchangeable cation (Na, Ca, and K) and trace element (Rb, Sr, and Y) concentrations result from known crystallochemical preferences. Principle components analyses of electron microprobe data reveal an inverse relationship between Si and Ca+Na+Al, as well as an inverse relationship between Ca and Na. Pink mordenite hand samples containing remnants of the brown glass were extracted from Beaver Creek outcrop. Fe2+/Fe3+ ratios for green mordenite and green glass are similar and ratios for pink mordenite and brown glass are the same. The field relations and the Fe2+/Fe3+ ratios indicate a genetic relationship between the green glass and green mordenite and the brown glass and pink mordenite. K in the glass exchanged with Ca and Na in the fluid, thus enriching the mordenite in Ca and Na. Rb concentration is higher in the glass due to the relatively high concentration of K. Sr concentration is higher in the mordenites due to substitution for Ca and Na. Stable isotope data for structural oxygen reveal that the mordenites inherited most of their oxygen from the glass rather than the fluid involved in the alteration process. | ||
|
Rocky Mountain - 54th Annual Meeting (May 7–9, 2002)
| ||
| Session No. 4 Volcanology and Mineral Resources of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau Transition Zone Sharwan Smith Center: Cedar Breaks 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, May 7, 2002 | ||
© Copyright 2002 The Geological Society of America (GSA), all rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted to the author(s) of this abstract to reproduce and distribute it freely, for noncommercial purposes. Permission is hereby granted to any individual scientist to download a single copy of this electronic file and reproduce up to 20 paper copies for noncommercial purposes advancing science and education, including classroom use, providing all reproductions include the complete content shown here, including the author information. All other forms of reproduction and/or transmittal are prohibited without written permission from GSA Copyright Permissions. | ||