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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.1997.061.409.03</article-id>
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<subj-group>
<subject>Petrology</subject>
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<title-group>
<article-title>Carbonate-Carbonate Immiscibility, Neighborite and Potassium Iron Sulphide in Oldoinyo Lengai Natrocarbonatite</article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Mitchell</surname>
<given-names>Roger H.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of Geology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>12</month>
<year>1997</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>61</volume>
<issue>409</issue>
<fpage>779</fpage>
<lpage>789</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>27</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>1996</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>7</day>
<month>3</month>
<year>1997</year>
</date></history>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1997, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1997</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Porphyritic natrocarbonatite lavas erupted from the Oldoinyo Lengai volcano (Tanzania) on 17 October 1995 and 15&#x2013;19 December 1995 differ from previously studied lavas in that they preserve textures indicative of groundmass carbonate-carbonate immiscibility. The immiscible fractions are considered to involve: a Na-K-Ca-CO<sub>2</sub>-Cl-rich, F-bearing fluid crystallizing gregoryite, sodian sylvite, potassium neighborite as well as a complex Ba-rich carbonate; and a Na-rich, Cl-poor carbonate liquid approximating to a nyerereite-gregoryite cotectic composition. Compositional data are given for potassium neighborite, this mineral being the first recognized occurrence of a fluorine-based perovskite group mineral in a magmatic environment. New compositional data are also given for a previously recognized potassium iron sulphide which indicate that this phase is probably a solid solution between the ternary sulphides, KFe<sub>3</sub>S<sub>4</sub>, K<sub>2</sub>Fe<sub>3</sub>S<sub>4</sub>, and KFe<sub>2</sub>S<sub>3</sub>. Textural and paragenetic data are interpreted to suggest that these recent lavas are more evolved than previously investigated Oldoinyo Lengai lavas and that natrocarbonatite is a highly evolved rather than a primitive magma.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>carbonatite</kwd>
<kwd>liquid immiscibility</kwd>
<kwd>neighborite</kwd>
<kwd>potassium iron sulphide</kwd>
<kwd>sylvite</kwd>
<kwd>Oldoinyo Lengai</kwd>
<kwd>Tanzania</kwd>
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