Geochemistry of Granites and Granitic Pegmatites
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Deposits".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2020) | Viewed by 11133
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Interests: granite petrology; rock-forming minerals; granite-related mineral deposits
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Dear Colleagues,
Granite represents one of the most widespread rocks on the Earth’s crust, and together with chemically similar pegmatites, it is also the most important source of several rare metals, such as Nb, Ta, W, Sn, and Li, which are significant for new technologies. Though granite has been studied systematically in all possibly respects for a long time, many aspects of its origin are still matter of controversial debate. In particular, the following issues are unsolved: (i) whether high concentrations of rare elements are the product of pronounced fractionation of common melt or unusually low degree-melting of a special protolith; (ii) the relationship between melt- and fluid-related processes in the final stage of granite evolution and the origin of granite-related mineral deposits; and (iii) the critical parameter for crystallization of acid silicate melt as homogeneous granite, layered rock, or regularly zoned pegmatite.
This Special Issue invites authors to submit papers on geochemical, isotopic, and experimental studies, as well as case studies of magmatic vs. hydrothermal rock textures and the evaluation of mineral zoning. Studies combining high-precision chemical analyses with detailed imaging methods (BSE, CL, automated mineralogical maps) are of special interest.
Dr. Karel Breiter
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- origin of granitic melt
- magmatic fractionation vs. fluid-related processes
- granite vs. pegmatite enigma
- textures, a key to understanding of the rock evolution
- zoning of minerals—snaps from the rock history
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