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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1997.061.409.01</article-id>
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<subject>Petrology</subject>
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<article-title>The Minastira Peraluminous Granite, Puno, Southeastern Peru: A Quenched, Hypabyssal Intrusion Recording Magma Commingling and Mixing</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Kontak</surname>
<given-names>Daniel J.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="FN1">1</xref></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Clark</surname>
<given-names>Alan H.</given-names>
</name></contrib>
<aff>Department of Geological Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6</aff></contrib-group>
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<fn fn-type="present-address" id="FN1"><label>1</label><p>Present address: Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 698, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2T9.</p></fn></author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1997</year>
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<volume>61</volume>
<issue>409</issue>
<fpage>743</fpage>
<lpage>764</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>10</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>1996</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>16</day>
<month>4</month>
<year>1997</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1997, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1997</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>The Minastira granite, a <italic>c.</italic> 25 Ma subvolcanic plug of fine-grained granitic rock in the Cordillera Oriental of SE Peru, has preserved textures indicative of a history involving mixing of at least two magmas, a volumetrically dominant felsic component and a less voluminous mafic one. The felsic component is represented by variably fractured, altered and embayed crystals of quartz, feldspar, biotite with minor coarsegrained melt- and fluid-inclusion rich apatite, and possible cordierite (now a pseudomorphous Fe-Mg phase), whereas the mafic component is represented by calcic plagioclase. The process of magma mixing is reflected by: (1) ubiquitous sieved-textured plagioclase with complex textural relationships; (2) a large range in plagioclase compositions with reversals and spike patterns in profiles; (3) embayed and internally fractured (thermal shock?) quartz; (4) the rare occurrence of pyroxene coronas on quartz; and (5) textures within biotite suggestive of its incipient breakdown. The lack of mafic enclaves indicates that physico-chemical conditions of the mixing were conducive to homogenization (i.e. chemical diffusion) and a superficially homogeneous rock is now observed. The association of glomeroclasts of crystals originating from both the mafic and felsic end members and a quenched quartz-feldspar matrix indicate that the mixing occurred in an underlying magma chamber.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>granite</kwd>
<kwd>peraluminous</kwd>
<kwd>magma mixing</kwd>
<kwd>Minastira</kwd>
<kwd>Peru</kwd>
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