Origins of compositional heterogeneity in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Baffin Island picrites

• Main Authors: Yaxley, Gregory, Kamenetsky, Vadim S, Kaminska, M, Norman, Marc, Francis, Don
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: Keywords: heterogeneity; melt inclusion; olivine; phenocryst; picrite; Baffin Island; Canada; North America; Nunavut; Western Hemisphere; World; Wall Rocks; Baffin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/86478

The Baffin Island picrites are highly magnesian (< 22 wt% MgO) olivine tholeiites, erupted through felsic continental crust. Plots of most major and minor element oxides against MgO for the lavas define very tight trends consistent with modification of melts parental to the erupted suite by olivi...