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Myers et al. 1975
Myers, C.W., Bence, A.E., Papike, J.J. and Ayuso, R.A. (1975). Petrology of an alkali-olivine basalt sill from site 169 of DSDP leg 17: The central pacific basin. Journal of Geophysical Research 80: doi: 10.1029/JB080i005p00807. issn: 0148-0227.

An 8-m-thick alkali-olivine basalt still intrudes sediments that overlie oceanic tholeiitic flows. The average modal mineralogy is plagioclase (46.9% fresh, 5.1% zeolite and smectite replaced), clinopyroxene (23.8%), olivine (4.8% fresch, 6.0% smectite replaced), interstitial smectic (7.1%), titanomagnetite (3.4%), interstitial zeolite (2.4%), amphibole (0.3%), apatite (0.1%), chromian spinel (<0.1%), and sulfides (<0.1%). The cooling of the sill was slow enough to permit minor olivine settling but rapid enough to produce extreme compositional zoning in plagioclase and ferromagnesian minerals. Late-stage deuteric zeolitization was locally extensive. Development of an ophitic texture is related mainly to the relative position of clinopyroxene in the paragenetic sequence. Variation in Fe + Mg in plagioclase is sentitive to clinopyroxene crystallization. Clinopyroxenes are calcic aluminous augites showing an overall trend of Fe enrichment, with no Ca depletion, and a decrease in components other than Wo-En-Fs. Amphiboles (arfvedsonites, Ti arfvedsonites, ferrorichterities, ferroactinolites, and grunerites) crystallized as late-stage deuteric phases and are not the result of postcrystallization alteration. The paragenetic sequence is chromian spinel + olivine (Fo80 - Fo65(?) + plagioclase (An80 - An65) → olivine (Fo65(?) - (Fo15) + plagioclase (65) + clinopyroxene (Wo65En39Fs15-Wo45En9Fs46) + titanomagnetic → plagioclase (5) + amphibole + apatite + smectite + zeolite + calcite ¿ titanomagnetic ¿ sulfides.

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