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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 100, NO. Bt, PAGES 455-474, JANUARY 10, t995

Petrogenesis of -- composite ignimbrite PI, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

Armin Freundt and Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

GEO~fAR. Forschungszentrum fUr marine Geowissenschaften, Abteilung Vulkanologie und Petrologie Kiel, Germany

Abstract. The 14 Ma -forming composite ignimbrite PI on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) represents the first voluminous eruption of highly differentiated on top of the basaltic Miocene shield . Compositional zonation of the ignimbrite is the result of vertically changing proportions of four component magmas, which were intensely mixed during eruption: (I) Crystal-poor to highly phyric rhyolite 3 3 ( -10 km ), (2) sodic trachyandesite through to evolved trachyte ( -6 km ), (3) 3 Nafoor trachyandesite (