GEOL 3000 IGNEOUS ROCK TEXTURES f rate of cooling crustal environment Plutonic Volcanic 1 mm Degree of Undercooling 1 mm Magma Creation by Partial Melting Melting the mantle makes MAFIC Magma Melting the crust makes FELSIC Magma Igneous rocks crystallize over a range of temperatures Map Attributes of Volcanic and Volcaniclastic Rocks Volcanic Rocks crystallized from lava flows Volcaniclastic Rocks air fall accumulations of lava ash and pre existing volcanic rock Rock types tuff lahar agglomerates Areal distribution more limited than sedimentary units Map unit shapes controlled by gravity landscape volume of material erupted explosiveness of eruption proximity to vent and fluidity viscosity of lava Tabular shapes distal areas of volcaniclastic deposits fluid lava flows Lensoid Triangular Fan Irregular shapes proximal areas of volcaniclastic deposits and lava flows especially viscous lavas and low volume eruptions assive Ash fall Events from Caldera Colla Tabular Lava Flows Typical of Low Viscosity Magmas Up Indicators in Volcanic and Volcaniclastic Rocks Pillow structures Vesicular Amygdaloidal upper zones Distinctive Flow Tops Brecciation AA Billowing ropey tops Pahoehoe Oxidation Sediment infiltration Pipe vesicles amygdules at base Pipe vesicles amygdules at base Graded bedding in volcaniclastic deposits and clastic dikes Pillowed Basalts Submarine Eruptions BASALT FLOW SURFACES AA AA Pahoehoe HAWAII Pahoehoe NORTH SHORE Other Up Indicators Pipe Amygdules Oxidized Pahoehoe surface Amygdule Cylinders Graded bedding of tuff Bedded siltstone in a clastic dike Map Attributes of Intrusive Rocks Shape not controlled by gravity but often by weaknesses and stresses in the crust As such may be discordant or locally concordant with structures in country rock For large intrusions will create a zone of thermal metamorphism and local melting in surrounding country rock Commonly shows internal structure zonation related to the shape of the magma chamber Chilled margins Layering phase textural modal cryptic Igneous Foliation alignment of tabular minerals Jointing orthogonal to the cooling surfaces or internal structure of the magma body These features are commonly controlled by gravity Multiple composite intrusions are common because magmas are prone to reuse the same plumbing system Intrusion Shapes Generally Concordant Sill Laccolith Lopolith Phacolith Generally Disconcordant Dike Dike Swarm co parallel or radial Ring Dike Cone Sheet Volcanic Neck Sheets Stock Boss Batholith Indicators of Style of Magma Shape of intrusionEmplacement Shape and distribution of Inclusions Xenoliths Internal zoning and structure Primary and secondary structures in the country rock Large scale structures in the intrusion folds and faults Emplacement Styles Forceful Magma forces entry by deforming and displacing the country rock Permissive the country rock under stress dilates or moves apart as magma wells into the space Stoping rising magma detaches blocks of country rock which sinks into it Timing of Emplacement relative to deformation Pre kinematic Pre kinematic Intrusion is deformed in the same way as the rocks it intrudes Syn kinematic Intrusion shape conforms to regional structures Intrusions of Northern Minnesota Post Kinematic Pre Syn Kinematic Post Kinematic Discriminating a Sill From a Flow Typically lacks amygdules Never pillowed May contain inclusions of hanging wall and footwall rocks Thermal metamorphism of hanging wall and footwall rocks Zoning or layering common Upper amygdaloid zone May be pillowed May contain inclusions only of footwall rocks May cause weak contact metamorphism of footwall rocks May show zoning but rarely displays layering Mafic Layered Intrusions Skaergaard Intrusion East Greenland Bushveld Complex South Africa Fractional Crystallizationdriven Magma Differentiation Phase Layering In Mafic Layered Intrusions Duluth Complex The 2nd Largest Mafic Complex in the World Layered Series at Duluth Internal Structure in the DLS Modal Layering Modal Layering Igneous Foliation Lithostratigraphic Classification for Keweenawan Rocks of NE Minnesota Miller Severson and Green 2002