Английская Википедия:Amalia Tuff

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The Amalia Tuff is a geologic formation exposed in and around Questa, New Mexico.Шаблон:Sfn It has a radiometric age of 25.39 ± 0.04 million years, corresponding to the Oligocene epoch.Шаблон:Sfn

Description

The Amalia Tuff is a weakly to densely welded ash-flow tuff erupted during the formation of the Questa caldera 25.39 ± 0.04 million years ago (Ma),Шаблон:Sfn which erupted some Шаблон:Convert of magma.Шаблон:Sfn It originally formed an outflow sheet Шаблон:Convert thickШаблон:Sfn that extended as far as Шаблон:Convert to the southwest and Шаблон:Convert to the northeast. Within the caldera the tuff pooled to a depth of Шаблон:Convert. The tuff appears to be a single cooling unit.Шаблон:Sfn

The tuff is silicic and alkaline, though its silica content of 77-80% likely reflects some secondary silicification. It contains 10-20% quartz and alkali feldspar phenocrysts. Rare occurrences of a vitrophyric tuff at the base of the main bed contain ferrohedenbergite and fayalite, while the upper beds sometimes preserve sodic amphibole phenocrysts. The intracaldera tuff contains lenticular megabreccia blocks up to Шаблон:Convert across. The tuff includes a lithic-rich lower facies that is nonwelded to partially welded and up to Шаблон:Convert thick. This contains up to 5% andesite and sparse Proterozoic rock fragments. This grades into the main bed of the formation.Шаблон:Sfn

Ar-Ar dating of the tuffs and associated plutons indicates the magma that formed the tuff was not generated in place in the upper crust.Шаблон:Sfn Isotope evidence suggests the original basaltic magma assimilated considerable crust material and underwent crystal fractionation at a deeper level of the crust than that of the magma chamber responsible for the Questa eruption.Шаблон:Sfn

• Sample of Amalia Tuff from the type area, Amalia, New Mexico

  Sample of Amalia Tuff from the type area, Amalia, New Mexico

• Exposure of intracaldera Amalia Tuff at mouth of Cabresto Canyon

  Exposure of intracaldera Amalia Tuff at mouth of Cabresto Canyon

• A fragment of Amalia Tuff from an outcropping near Petaca, New Mexico

  A fragment of Amalia Tuff from an outcropping near Petaca, New Mexico

History of investigation

The unit was first designated the Amalia Formation in 1956 by P.F. McKinlay. Шаблон:Sfn As originally defined, it included basalt flows and sedimentary beds dating from before the Questa eruption. These were removed from the unit definition by Lipman in 1983, who restricted the unit to the densely welded tuff outflow sheet from the Questa eruption and renamed the unit the Amalia Tuff.Шаблон:Sfn

References

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