Figure 4. Identification of volcanic rock types in the Marshall Zone, using binary plots of one immobile-element ratio versus another. Altered samples are also included. The ratios remove the effects of mass change -- remaining chemical variations in each volcanic rock type are likely due to primary magmatic fractionation.

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