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Effects of Metasomatism on Mineral Systems and Their Host Rocks: Alkali Metasomatism, Skarns, Greisens, Tourmalinites, Rodingites, Black-Wall Alteration and Listvenites

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Metasomatism and the Chemical Transformation of Rock

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Heat-liberating events, such as igneous intrusions emplaced into cool crustal rocks, will result not only in loss of heat to the surrounding environment, but also in the transport of volatile components, which are responsible for metasomatic processes. Some of the most impressive results of these processes are, for example, fenites (K- and Na-metasomatism), skarns (Ca-metasomatism) and tourmalinisation (B-metasomatism).

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    The concept of boiling in magmas is very important for hydrothermal mineral systems: first boiling is that which occurs in a magma during decompression, causing exsolution of volatiles; second boiling takes place as a result of increasing concentration of volatiles during crystallisation, with continuous increase of H2O and other volatile constituents in the residual melt fractions, such that at some stage, the pressure of H2O equals the confining pressure and retrograde (second) boiling occurs, effectively creating a hydrothermal solution.

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Acknowledgments

I thank Dan Harlov for inviting me to provide a chapter on metasomatic processes associated with mineral systems and for his useful suggestions. Rob Kerrich, Wolfgang Bach, Daniel Harlov and Håkon Austrheim are thanked for their constructive comments, which considerably improved this contribution. I publish this chapter with the permission of the Executive Director of the Geological Survey of Western Australia.

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    Franco Pirajno

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Pirajno, F. (2013). Effects of Metasomatism on Mineral Systems and Their Host Rocks: Alkali Metasomatism, Skarns, Greisens, Tourmalinites, Rodingites, Black-Wall Alteration and Listvenites. In: Metasomatism and the Chemical Transformation of Rock. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28394-9_7

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