Affiliation:
1. National Research Tomsk State University
2. National Research Tomsk State University; University of Salamanca
Abstract
Mineralogical and geochemical study was performed on peridotite xenolith hosted by amygdaline basalts of Lanzarote Island (Canary archipelago). Their modal composition corresponds to harzburgite. Remarkably, the petrographic composition of the rocks is marked by presence of plagioclase. The isochron shows the age of 267±35 Ma, which might be the initial stage of opening a fragment of the Atlantic Ocean. The peridotites were apparently derived in the magmatic chamber formed by "underplating" triggered by interaction of mantle substrate with the lower crust material.
Publisher
Institute of Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Subject
Earth-Surface Processes,Geophysics,Geology,Economic Geology