Masters Theses
Alternative Title
The origin of quartz glomerocrysts: insights from the rhyolite dike at Medicine Park, Oklahoma
Keywords and Phrases
Glomerocryst
Abstract
"The origin of quartz glomerocrysts a distinctive petrographic feature of the rhyolite dike in Medicine Park, Oklahoma, was investigated using transmitted light and cathodoluminescence microscopy to determine if quartz glomerocrysts formed during quartz crystallization or during quartz dissolution. Quartz glomerocrysts are typically comprised of two to six individual phenocrysts of quartz and commonly exhibit subhedral partially embayed crystal forms with very rare euhedral phenocrysts in both glomerocrysts and individual quartz phenocrysts. The size range of the individual quartz phenocrysts are 0.08mm to 1.7mm while the size range is 0.08mm to 3.25mm for quartz glomerocrysts . Cathodoluminescence revealed that individual quartz phenocrysts which comprise glomerocrysts showed abrupt truncation of internal compositional growth zonation along the shared resorbed crystal surfaces, demonstrating the quartz glomerocrysts formed after initiation of quartz dissolution. The driving force behind quartz dissolution is consistent with decompression during magma ascent resulting in a decrease in the stability field for quartz due to the shift in the position of the coetectic in the system Q-Ab-Or-H₂O. Juxtaposition of dissolving quartz phenocrysts during magma ascent leads to the formation of glomerocrysts as a result of crystallization of the overlapping boundary layer melts that surround the dissolving quartz phenocrysts. The common occurrence of glomerophyric quartz phenocrysts in granites, akin to those observed in the rhyolite dike, may have also formed as a result of decompression dissolution, thus providing a textural record of magmatic ascent"--Abstract, page iii.
Advisor(s)
Hogan, John Patrick
Committee Member(s)
Seeger, Cheryl M.
Wronkiewicz, David J.
Department(s)
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Degree Name
M.S. in Geology and Geophysics
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publication Date
Fall 2011
Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation
- Insights from the rhyolite dike at Medicine Park, Oklahoma
Pagination
viii, 56 pages
Geographic Coverage
Oklahoma
Medicine Park (Okla.)
Rights
© 2011 Sedeg Ahmed E. Ahmed, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
CathodoluminescenceCrystallizationGeology, Structural -- Oklahoma -- Medicine ParkLuminescence spectroscopyPhenocrystsQuartzRhyolite -- Oklahoma
Thesis Number
T 9913
Print OCLC #
794670736
Electronic OCLC #
765399924
Recommended Citation
Ahmed, Sedeg Ahmed E., "The origin of quartz glomerocrysts: insights from the rhyolite dike at Medicine Park, OK" (2011). Masters Theses. 5032.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/5032