• journal_title：Mineralogical Magazine
• Contributor：R. Macdonald ; N. W. Rogers ; A. G. Tindle
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Date：2007-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1180/minmag.2007.071.6.703
• journal_abbrev：Mineralogical Magazine
• issn：0026-461X
• volume：71
• issue：6
• firstpage：703
• section：Articles

Germanium abundances, determined by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, are presented for phenocrysts and glass matrices from a metaluminous trachyte and four peralkaline rhyolites from the Greater Olkaria Volcanic Complex, Kenya Rift Valley, Africa. Abundances (in ppm) are: sanidine 0.45–0.61; fayalite 4.8–11.7; hedenbergite 5.1–9.0; titanomagnetite 2.7; ilmenite 0.48; amphibole 8.3–8.9; biotite 7.0; chevkinite-(Ce) 309; trachyte glass 3.0; rhyolitic glasses 2.3–3.9. These values are generally greater than those recorded for silicic rocks in the literature, whilst the chevkinite-(Ce) value is the largest yet found in a magmatic mineral. Apparent partition coefficients range from 0.15–0.26 in sanidine to 124 in chevkinite-(Ce). Those for fayalite and hedenbergite increase with whole-rock peralkalinity and Fe content. The possibility of a role for accessory phases in influencing Ge distribution in rock-forming minerals is also raised.