Ore Elements in Arc Lavas

This book is concerned with the behaviour of the `ore elements' - copper, zinc, lead, cobalt, nickel, barium and others - in young unmetamorphosed, volcanic arc lava suites as these evolve from high-magnesium basalts to rhyolites. The author considers the patterns of abundance of these elements both in the whole rocks and their consitituent minerals, and the ways in which the metals may be enriched or impoverished in the residual melt as the lava evolves from basalts to rhyolites.