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A Note on Incipient Spilitisation of Central Indian Basin Basalts
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Rocks dredged in the vicinity of the 79°E fracture zone, in the Central Indian Basin, are sub-alkaline basalts, which are regarded as precursors to spilites. The Minerals identified are mainly albitic plagioclase, augite, olivine, and less of chlorite, epidote and opaques. The oxide variation plots indicate a mid-ocean ridge basalt trend for the samples, which have been spilitised to varying degrees. It is suggested that the basalts formed as a result of a fissure type of eruption along the fracture zone. Subsequently, some of the basalts were spilitised probably due to hydrothermal solution, possibly the result of tectonic activity along the fracture zone.
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Basalts, Spilitisation, Fracture Zone, Central Indian Basin, Petrology.
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