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Abstract

The samples of partly or completely altered basaltic extrusive rocks from Mt Medvednica ophiolite melange were analysed by the optical microscopy and by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The chemical composition of minerals from different paragenetic assembleges were determinated by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and the measured microdomains were documented by back-scattered electrons (BSE) imagery. The most widespread alteration processes that affected analysed rocks are albitization, chloritization, epidotization, prehnitization, ptunpellyitization, zeolitization and titanitization. Subordinate processes that include formation of limonite, calcite, zoisite, siderite, hematite, :Mn-oxydes, pyrite and SiO^sub 2^-phases were not constrained in this paper. Albitization is fairly dominant alteration process in all rock and its progradation throughout a plagioclase grain is clearly doctunented by ESE microphotographs and microprobe chemical analysis. Prelmite and laumontite are sporadic alteration products of plagioclases. The chemical components released during the alterations of plagioclases andfor clinopyroxenes along with components from circulating and percolating heated see water and fluids enable formation of chlorites, epidote and pumpellyite. Chlorites and ptunpellyiteformed also by devitrification of volcanic glass in vitric rim of pillow lavas. Small patches of leucoxene, that is abundant in all samples, represent dense aggregates of titanite nanocrystals replacing ilmenite andfor Ti-magnetite. Epidote-bearing paragenesis in the analyzed rocks record comparatively the highest alterations grade that correspond to the middle grade of greenschist facies metamorphism typical of upper sequence ofa see floor crnst. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
SEKUNDARNE MINERALNE PARAGENEZE U MAFITNIM EKSTRUZIVNIM STIJENAMA IZ OFIOLITNOG MELANZA MEDVEDNICE (HRVATSKA)/SECONDARY MINERAL PARAGENESIS IN THE MAFIC EXTRUSIVE ROCKS FROM THE MT. MEDVEDNICA OPHIOLITE MÉLANGE (CROATIA)
Author
Slovenec, Damir; Lugovic, Bosko; Slovenec, Dragutin
Pages
33-46
Section
Originalni znanstveni rad/Original scientific paper
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Zagreb
ISSN
03534529
e-ISSN
18490409
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English, Serbo-Croatian
ProQuest document ID
1458308191
Copyright
Copyright University of Zagreb 2012