Chapter 14. Layered basic and ultrabasic complexes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Chapter 1. Olivine Mastoids in olivinefels with nematoblastic (velonblastic) tremolite. (Olivine megablasts along shearing planes of olivinefels) 1
5. Chapter 2. Metasomatic transformations of marbles. (Olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, mica and plagioclase blastesis) 4
6. Chapter 3. Metasomatic serpentine in marbles 7
7. Chapter 4. Basic and ultrabasic rocks related with granite and as inclusions in the granite (e.g. example provided by considering the Seriphos granite and skarns) 10
8. Chapter 5. Eclogites and eclogites 14
9. Chapter 6. Blastic magnetite with ilmenite ex-solutions in epizonal chlorite with anthophyllite blastic growths 17
10. Chapter 7. Mafic crystalloblast 22
11. Chapter 8. Gabbroic rocks - Essexites 25
12. Chapter 9. Norites — Troctolites - Shonkinites - Theralites - Jacubirangites 30
13. Chapter 10. Peridotites 35
14. Chapter 11. Lamprophyres 40
15. Chapter 12. Feldspathisation (Anorthositisation) 43
16. Chapter 13. Kimberlites 46
17. Chapter 14. Layered basic and ultrabasic complexes 51
18. Chapter 15. Volcanic or subvolcanic hypothesis of the basic and ultrabasic intrusive plutonics 55
19. Chapter 16. Metamorphic-metasomatic hypothesis (Metasomatic and blastogenic textural patterns in layered ultramafic plutonics) 57
20. Chapter 17. Is the Bushveld complex igneous? 59
21. Chapter 18. Banded dunites with bands of chromite 62
22. Chapter 19. The ultrabasic archean greenstone peridotitic volcanic flows and the significance of spinifex textures 65
23. Chapter 20. Intrusive ring complexes 68
24. Chapter 21. Tectonic deformation textures in basic and ultrabasic rocks 70
25. Chapter 22. The mineralogy, geochemistry, ore-microscopy of ore minerals and bodies associated with basic and ultrabasic bodies 73
26. Chapter 23. Chromite ores in ultrabasics (The Controversy of the Genesis of Chromite-Ores in Dunites) 75
27. Chapter 24. The distribution of Pt-group elements and the Pt-group minerals in the basic and ultrabasic rocks 79
28. Chapter 25. The mineralogical and geochemical distribution of sulphides in basic and ultrabasic bodies 83
29. Chapter 26. The significance of magnetite and magnetite with titaniferous "ex-solution" in basic and ultrabasic rocks 86
30. Chapter 27. On the alteration and weathering of basic and ultrabasic rocks 89
31. Chapter 28. Textures of olivine serpentinisation 92
32. Chapter 29. The reaction chromite-serpentine 94
33. Chapter 30. Differential leaching of elements from ultrabasic rocks and birbiritisation of dunites 96
34. Chapter 31. Low-temperature mobilisation of the Pt-group elements in lateritic covers (Synoptical discussion) 99
35. Chapter 32. Alteration of dunite, magnesite formation 101
36. Chapter 33. Lateritisation processes of serpentine and altered dunitic rocks 103
37. Chapter 34. Metasomatic alterations of ultrabasics (e.g. Rodingites) 106
38. Illustrations
39. Fig. 1–Fig. 258 111
40. Fig. 259–Fig. 515 199
41. Fig. 516–Fig. 733b 287
42. References 373
43. Author Index 381
44. Subject Index to the Text Part 383
45. Subject Index to the Illustrations 388