Zoned Amphibole in the Yirri Intrusive Complex, Manus Island, Papua, New Guinea

D. R. Mason
Department of Geology, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

Synopses: Five representative probe analyses of zoned hornblendes in a dioritic suite and two rock analyses are tabulated and about sixty analysed hornblendes plotted to reveal petrogenetic relationships that are interpreted as showing that the brown amphibole cores are from a partially melted mafic source (base of the crust?) while the green margins have crystallized from the magma produced by partial melting.

Mineralogical Magazine; December 1977 v. 41; no. 320; p. 528; DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1977.041.320.18
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