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The Kallithea intrusive complex on Samos forms part of the Miocene granitoid province of the central Aegean. The complex consists of numerous composite dikes consisting of different I-type diorites, monzodiorites, (quartz) monzonites, granodiorites, and granites, as well as rare pegmatites. Within individual dikes the different rock types display various structural relationships to each other, most of which indicate that multiple intrusion was the main process responsible for the association of different rock types. Petrographical, geochemical, and Sr isotope data prove that at least some of the different magma pulses were genetically unrelated. For others, a comagmatic relationship cannot be excluded. The most spectacular feature of the composite dikes are net-veined parts in which spherical (pillow-like) to angular bodies of microdiorite are surrounded by a network of more felsic rocks of varying compositions (monzonites, granodiorites, and monzogranites). — For the microdiorite/monzogranite pairs, a formation by unmixing due to liquid immiscibility is suggested by the following facts: (a) the presence of monzogranite ocelli within the microdiorite bodies, (b) similar compositions of those minerals present in both the basic and felsic parts, (c) the enrichment of HFS elements in the basic parts and the depletion of these elements in the acid parts, (d) similar Sr isotope initial ratios. Such an origin, however, is excluded for the other net-veined parts having felsic veins of either monzonitic or granodioritic compositions. In these pairs, the HFS elements are enriched in the acid parts, common minerals may have different compositions, and Sr isotope initial ratios are different. These net-veined parts can only be explained by the model of multiple injections whereby a felsic melt intruded into a basic magma.
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Mezger, K., Altherr, R., Okrusch, M. et al. Genesis of acid/basic rock associations: a case study The Kallithea intrusive complex, Samos, Greece. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 90, 353–366 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384714
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