Silica-enriched mantle sources of subalkaline picrite-boninite-andesite island arc magmas

2017 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 287-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bénard ◽  
R.J. Arculus ◽  
O. Nebel ◽  
D.A. Ionov ◽  
S.R.B. McAlpine

The results of recent geochemical investigations of several island arc - marginal basin systems in the Scotia Sea area and in the western Pacific are outlined. Marginal basins in different stages of evolution are represented, from those in the initial stages of formation to those with an extensive and multiple history of back-arc spreading. Some are completely intraoceanic, others have developed at continental margins. Basalts erupted at back-arc spreading centres seem to be as geochemically varied as those from normal mid-ocean ridges, and record evidence for similar processes of partial melting, fractional crystallization and magma mixing in their genesis. They appear to have been derived from mantle sources with incompatible trace element characteristics ranging from ‘depleted’ to ‘enriched’, but with the ‘enriched’ mantle sources being sampled during the earlier stages of back-arc spreading. Submarine back-arc basalts are more vesicular than their normal ocean ridge equivalents, and their corresponding glasses have higher water contents. This, together with other geochemical features such as the higher ratios of lithophile to high field strength elements in some back-arc basalts, suggests that a component from the subducted slab may be involved in their petrogenesis. The chemistry of the corresponding arc volcanics is described in relation to the subduction and extensions history of marginal basin development. In intraoceanic arcs the early stages of arc magmatism are dominated by the eruption of large volumes of island arc tholeiites and subsidiary high-Mg andesites. In the Mariana region, after the initial volcanic arc is split and separated by back-arc spreading, the later frontal arc volcanics have calc-alkaline characteristics. Basalts erupted during the early stages of back-arc spreading more commonly have arc-like geochemical features when the marginal basin has developed through splitting of a calc-alkaline volcanic arc. The secular variation in the geochemistry of the arc volcanics may be related to the progressive development of a lithophile element enriched mantle source beneath the arc. This source contributes to the basalts produced during the early stages of arc rifting and back-arc spreading. Ophiolite complexes which represent marginal basin floor may well carry these arc-like geochemical features.


2021 ◽  
Vol 562 ◽  
pp. 116848
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Iveson ◽  
Madeleine C.S. Humphreys ◽  
Ivan P. Savov ◽  
Jan C.M. de Hoog ◽  
Stephen J. Turner ◽  
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Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 711
Author(s):  
Irina Nedosekova ◽  
Nikolay Vladykin ◽  
Oksana Udoratina ◽  
Boris Belyatsky

The Ilmeno–Vishnevogorsk (IVC), Buldym, and Chetlassky carbonatite complexes are localized in the folded regions of the Urals and Timan. These complexes differ in geochemical signatures and ore specialization: Nb-deposits of pyrochlore carbonatites are associated with the IVC, while Nb–REE-deposits with the Buldym complex and REE-deposits of bastnäsite carbonatites with the Chetlassky complex. A comparative study of these carbonatite complexes has been conducted in order to establish the reasons for their ore specialization and their sources. The IVC is characterized by low 87Sr/86Sri (0.70336–0.70399) and εNd (+2 to +6), suggesting a single moderately depleted mantle source for rocks and pyrochlore mineralization. The Buldym complex has a higher 87Sr/86Sri (0.70440–0.70513) with negative εNd (−0.2 to −3), which corresponds to enriched mantle source EMI-type. The REE carbonatites of the Chetlassky сomplex show low 87Sr/86Sri (0.70336–0.70369) and a high εNd (+5–+6), which is close to the DM mantle source with ~5% marine sedimentary component. Based on Sr–Nd isotope signatures, major, and trace element data, we assume that the different ore specialization of Urals and Timan carbonatites may be caused not only by crustal evolution of alkaline-carbonatite magmas, but also by the heterogeneity of their mantle sources associated with different degrees of enrichment in recycled components.


2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 2089-2120 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. le Roex ◽  
C. Class ◽  
J. O'Connor ◽  
W. Jokat

1995 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Bridges ◽  
H. M. Prichard ◽  
C. A. Meireles

AbstractThe Upper Allochthonous Thrust Complex (UATC) of the Bragança massif in northern Portugal contains a set of ultrabasic rocks interthrust with granulites. The ultrabasic rocks have refractory silicate mineral and whole rock compositions which indicate an origin as depleted mantle. Phase relationships of harzburgite samples suggest that they formed in equilibrium with high-Mg picritic melts created through a high degree of mantle partial melt extraction. Chromite in small podiform deposits has 100 Cr/(Cr + Al) ratios of 62–85, which are consistent with crystallization from such melts. Most of the chromite composition parameters are similar to those of ophiolite deposits except for the high ferric iron contents (2.77–8.95 wt% Fe2O3). Such enrichment is a feature of chromite from island arc magmas. It is suggested that the extensive partial melt extraction and chromite mineralization in the ultrabasic rocks occurred in the upper few kilometres of island arc mantle. The ultrabasic rocks were tectonically emplaced into a granulite and eclogite-bearing arc-continent collision complex during the Early Ordovician and subsequently, in the mid-Devonian emplaced over the Central-Iberian terrane.


Island Arc ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-486
Author(s):  
Fernando G. Sajona ◽  
Rene C. Maury ◽  
Gaëlle Prouteau ◽  
Joseph Cotten ◽  
Pieree Schiano ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. R. Moore

AbstractMelt compositions in equilibrium with peridotite assemblages were determined in the analogue system Na2O–CaO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–CO2 at 3 GPa with Ca/Ca + Mg = 0.56–0.43 and up to 6 wt.% Na2O. There is a greater compositional range generated isobarically over a larger temperature interval than in a sodium-absent system: increasing sodium content drives liquids to compositions with lower CaO and higher SiO2 concentrations. A positive correlation between silica and Na2O content of liquids produced at constant temperature is due to the depolymerization of silicate tetrahedra in the presence of monovalent cations, as in the volatile-free system. Liquids with Na2O >6 wt.% occur in association with wehrlites as the composition of diopsidic pyroxene expands towards enstatite with addition of Na2O, decreasing the orthopyroxene content of peridotite. The orthopyroxene-out curve intersects an enriched mantle solidus at 3 GPa where near-solidus liquids have Na2O = 7 1.5 wt.%. Sodium partitioning between a metaluminous liquid and clinopyroxene follows the jadeite partitioning models calculated for the dry silicate system but sodium partitions into peralkaline carbonated liquids as both the pyroxene and the carbonate molecules. The peralkaline liquids generated are essentially carbonated silicate melts that are analogous to silica-bearing carbonatites and silicocarbonatites from a range of possible metasomatized mantle sources.


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