Abstract
Five representative cumulative samples of basal flows were chemically analysed. Normative composition (CIPW),DI, FI, MI, SI, f (norms) and ‘S’ indices have been calculated therefrom.
It is concluded that the Linga flows are tholeiitic in nature with slightly more FeO, MgO and Al2O3 than most tholeiitic basalts. They represent eariy-middle stage basalts with DI less than 30. Thef-norms put these flows in the pyroxene field indicating an early fractionation of pyroxenes causing relative iron enrichment. Textural evidences, also, support a late fractionation of feldspar with overlapping periods of crystallisation of pyroxene and feldspar. The similarity in composition of the lower flows is more apparent than true. The trend of differentiation is characteristically tholeiitic. Oxygen and vapour fugacity may have been responsible for a shift in the general trend of differentiation. Explosive eruption of the magma, which was well mixed and which cooled rapidly, is borne by the features exhibited by these flows.
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Prasad, A.K. Petrochemistry of the deccan trap flows of linga, Chhindwara district, M.P., India. Bull Volcanol 35, 1051–1068 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02596865
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