Twenty-seven representative volcanic rocks from Chokai volcano, Northeast Japan, were analysed for Co, Sc, Sr, Ce, Y, Zr, Nb, Rb, Cs, and Ba to discuss the origin of the rocks in combination with the previously reported geochemical and mineralogical data. The major and trace element variations are indicative of a considerable difference in the origin between olivinefree rock (OLF) suite and olivine-bearing rock (OLB) suite.
The OLF sequence was formed by crystallization differentiation from the associated olivinefree mafic andesite. The most evolved andesite of the OLF suite can be produced after approximately 31% fractionation of the phenocryst minerals from the parental mafic andesite magma. Their mineralogical features are consistent with this model.
The OLB suite has two sets of mineral group as apparent phenocrysts but neither can be in equilibrium with another. They make straight variation trend in MgO-K
2O diagram; crystallization differentiation cannot account for. An internal magma mixing model was proposed to solve all the conflicts. Basaltic melts mixed with felsic andesitic magma and a series of the OLB suite was produced. Before the mixing, the basaltic melts contained phenocrysts of Mg-rich olivine, augite, spinel and Ca-rich plagioclase, while less Mg-rich augite, hypersthene, and Na-rich plagioclase were crystallizing with magnetite and ilmenite in the felsic ones. Consequently, the mixtures included the disequilibrated sets of the mineral group. All the elemental variation trends should make simple lines between the end members. Mineralogical and geochemical consanguinitie indicate that the felsic end members were the differentiation products of the OLF suite. The basaltic end component cannot be the parental magma of OLF suite, because the Zr/Rb ratio of the latter is larger than that of the former.
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