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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">10.1180/002646198547855</article-id>
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<article-title>Phenocrystic Fluorite in Peralkaline Rhyolites, Olkaria, Kenya Rift Valley</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Marshall</surname>
<given-names>A. S.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Environmental Science Division, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK</aff></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Hinton</surname>
<given-names>R. W.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Department of Geology and Geophysics, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK</aff></contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Macdonald</surname>
<given-names>R.</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Environmental Science Division, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>8</month>
<year>1998</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>62</volume>
<issue>4</issue>
<fpage>477</fpage>
<lpage>486</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>18</day>
<month>8</month>
<year>1997</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>23</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>1997</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1998, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1998</copyright-year>
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<title>Abstract</title>
<p>The first occurrence of phenocrystic fluorite in a peralkaline rhyolite is reported from Quaternary lavas (agpaitic index 1.11&#x2013;1.37) erupted from the Greater Olkaria Volcanic Complex, Kenya. Fluorite compositions are almost stoichiometric, with 0.65&#x2013;1.49 &#x03A3;<italic>REE</italic> + Y oxides. Relative to coexisting glass (melt), the fluorites are enriched in <italic>REE</italic>, Y and Sr, are strongly depleted in all other trace elements and concentrate <italic>MREE</italic> relative to <italic>LREE</italic> and <italic>HREE</italic>. Y partitions into fluorite more strongly than the <italic>HREE</italic>. Fractionation of fluorite in its modal abundance would not significantly affect the <italic>REE</italic> abundances in the residual liquids, nor result in stronger Sr depletion. The <italic>P, T</italic> and composition conditions which stabilize fluorite in rhyolitic magmas are still obscure.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>fluorite phenocrysts</kwd>
<kwd>peralkaline rhyolites</kwd>
<kwd>Kenya Rift Valley</kwd>
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