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Le Bas - Et Al - 1986

The document presents a ternary diagram classifying volcanic rocks based on their silica and total alkali contents. Different fields on the diagram designate common rock types such as basalt, andesite, rhyolite, trachyte and their intermediate varieties. Reference is made to a 1986 paper by Le Bas et al. that proposed this chemical classification system based on the total alkali-silica diagram.

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Le Bas - Et Al - 1986

The document presents a ternary diagram classifying volcanic rocks based on their silica and total alkali contents. Different fields on the diagram designate common rock types such as basalt, andesite, rhyolite, trachyte and their intermediate varieties. Reference is made to a 1986 paper by Le Bas et al. that proposed this chemical classification system based on the total alkali-silica diagram.

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GeoPlotters

16
Na2O + K2O, wt. %

14 Phonolite

Foidite Trachyte if
12 Tephriphonolite Q < 20% in QAPF

10
Phonotephrite
Trachydacite if Rhyolite
Trachyandesite Q > 20% in QAPF
8
Basaltic
Tephrite if trachyandesite
Ol < 10%
6
Trachybasalt
Basanite if
Andesite Dacite
Ol > 10%
4 Basaltic
andesite
Basalt
2 Picro-
basalt

0
40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
SiO2, wt. %
Reference
Le Bas, Michael J., et al. "A chemical classification of
volcanic rocks based on the total alkali-silica
diagram." Journal of petrology 27.3 (1986): 745-
750.

Paper abstract

http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/3/745.short

Rhyolite

70 75 80
X Y
SiO2%a2O+K2O%
41 0
41 3
41 7
45 9.4
48.4 11.5
52.5 14
49 15.5
52.5 14
57.6 11.7
63 14.56
57.6 11.7
63 7
57.6 11.7
53 9.3
48.4 11.5
53 9.3
57 5.9
53 9.3
49.4 7.3
45 9.4
49.4 7.3
52 5
49.4 7.3
45 5
45 0
45 3
41 3
45 3
45 5
52 5
52 0
52 5
57 5.9
57 0
57 5.9
63 7
63 0
63 7
69 8
69 13
69 8
77 0

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