Tuscan Magmatic Province

• Tuscan Magmatic Province
• Gavorrano Granite
• Montecatini Lamproite
• Orciatico Lamproite
• Radicofani Volcano
• Roccastrada Rhyolites
• S.Vincenzo Rhyolites
• Sisco Lamproite

Intra Appennine Province

• Intra Appennine Province
• Cupaello
• San Venanzo
Venanzite
Melilitolite

Roman Magmatic Province

• Roman Magmatic Province
• Alban Hills
• Vulsini

Ernici-Roccamonfina Magmatic Province

• Roccamonfina

Mount Vulture Province

• Mount Vulture
• Alvikites (carbonatite)
• Melilitite
• Haüynophyre
• Tephrite

Sicily Magmatic Province

• Sicily Magmatic Province
• Etna
• Iblei
• Ustica

Aeolian Arc

• The Aeolian Arc
• Alicudi
• Lipari
• Vulcano

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Haüynophyre

The Melfi haüynophyre consists of clinopyroxene, abundant hauyne, leucite, and apatite phenocrysts set in a holocrystalline groundmass of the same phases plus nepheline, Na-Fe-Sr-rich melilite and magnetite.

Fig.1: Melfi castle.

Fig.3: Melfi haüynophyre quarry Note the columnar jonts.

Fig.4: Haüyne crystals in the Melfi haüynophyre.

Bibliography

• De Fino, M., La Volpe, L., Peccerillo, A., Piccarreta, G., & Poli, G. (1986). Petrogenesis of Monte Vulture volcano (Italy): inferences from mineral chemistry, major and trace element data. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 92(2), 135-145.
• D'Orazio, Massimo, et al.(2007). "Carbonatites in a subduction system: the Pleistocene alvikites from Mt. Vulture (southern Italy)." Lithos 98.1: 313-334.
• Jones, A. P., Kostoula, T., Stoppa, F., & Woolley, A. R. (2000). Petrography and mineral chemistry of mantle xenoliths in a carbonate-rich melilititic tuff from Mt. Vulture volcano, southern Italy. Mineralogical Magazine, 64(4), 593-613.
• Beccaluva, L., Coltorti, M., Di Girolamo, P., Melluso, L., Milani, L., Morra, V., & Siena, F. (2002). Petrogenesis and evolution of Mt. Vulture alkaline volcanism (Southern Italy). Mineralogy and Petrology, 74(2-4), 277-297.
• Peccerillo, A. (2005). Plio-quaternary volcanism in Italy (Vol. 365). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Photo

Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 1x (Field of view = 9mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). XPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). XPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). XPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). XPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne, Andradite and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne, Andradite and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Haüyne and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne, sanidine (gray) and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). XPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)	Haüyne, Andradite and clinopyroxene crystals. Melfi's Haüynophire (Italy). PPL image, 2x (Field of view = 7mm)
Sanidine and pyroxene crystals. XPL image, 10x (Field of view = 2mm)	Sanidine and pyroxene crystals. XPL image, 10x (Field of view = 2mm)	Sanidine and pyroxene crystals. XPL image, 10x (Field of view = 2mm)