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Yagi 1960
Yagi, K. (1960). Petrochemistry of the alkalic rocks of the Ponape island, western Pacific Ocean. In: Report of the ... Session - International Geological Congress. International Geological Congress. Part 13: 108-122.
Ponape, a dissected shield volcano in the Caroline islands, is composed of alternating basalt flows and pyroclastics, whose types form an alkaline suite, with soda predominating over potash, representing crystallization differentiation of an olivine basalt parent magma. Quartz-bearing rocks are absent.
Keywords
alkaline rocks; Caroline Islands; chemistry; Micronesia; Oceania;, petrology; Ponape, 05, Igneous and metamorphic petrology
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