DOUBLE DATING AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF SILICIC LAVAS AND IGNIMBRITES FROM THE SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE (MEXICO): INSIGHTS INTO THE SOURCES AND TIMESCALES OF MAGMA GENERATION IN AN ARC FLARE-UP

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Pack ◽  
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Graham D.M. Andrews ◽  
Sarah R. Brown ◽  
Willis E. Hames ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Large Igneous Province ◽  
Sierra Madre Occidental ◽  
Magma Generation ◽  
Sierra Madre ◽  
Igneous Province

Geochemical and O-C-Sr-Nd Isotopic Constraints on the Petrogenetic Link between Aillikites and Carbonatites in the Tarim Large Igneous Province

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhong Wang ◽  
Zhaochong Zhang ◽  
Andrea Giuliani ◽  
Zhiguo Cheng ◽  
Bingxiang Liu ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Trace Element ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Large Igneous Province ◽  
Nd Isotope ◽  
Isotopic Analyses ◽  
Igneous Province ◽  
Secondary Ion ◽  
Tarim Large Igneous Province

Abstract Aillikites are carbonate-rich ultramafic lamprophyres often associated with carbonatites. Despite their common field relationships, the petrogenetic links, if any, between aillikites and carbonatites remain controversial. To address this question, this study reports the results of a detailed geochemical and isotopic examination of the Permian Wajilitag aillikites in the northwestern Tarim large igneous province, including bulk-rock major-, trace-element and Sr-Nd isotope compositions, olivine major- and trace-element and (in-situ secondary ion mass spectrometry) oxygen isotope compositions, oxygen isotope data for clinopyroxene separates, and bulk-carbonate C-O isotopic analyses. Olivine in the aillikites occurs in two textural types: (i) microcrysts, 0.3-5 mm; and (ii) macrocrysts, 0.5-2.5 cm. The microcrysts exhibit well-defined linear correlations between Fo (79-89), minor and trace elements (e.g., Ni = 1304-3764 μg/g and Mn = 1363-3042 μg/g). In contrast, the olivine macrocrysts show low Fo79-81, Ni (5.3-442 μg/g) and Ca (477-1018 μg/g) and very high Mn (3418-5123 μg/g) contents, and are displaced from the compositional trend of the microcrysts. The microcrysts are phenocrysts crystallized from the host aillikite magmas. Conversely, the lack of mantle-derived xenoliths in these aillikites suggests that the macrocrysts probably represent cognate crystals (i.e., antecrysts) that formed from earlier, evolved aillikite melts. Olivine phenocrysts in the more primitive aillikite dykes (Dyke 1) have relatively higher Fo82-89 and mantle-like oxygen isotope values, whereas those in the more evolved dykes (Dyke 2 and 3) exhibit lower Fo79-86 and oxygen isotope values that trend toward lower than mantle δ18O values. The decreasing δ13C values of carbonate from Dyke 1 through to Dyke 2 and 3, coupled with the indistinguishable Sr-Nd isotopes of these dykes, suggest that the low δ18O values of olivine phenocrysts in Dyke 2 and 3 resulted from carbonate melt/fluid exsolution from a common progenitor melt. These lines of evidence combined with the overlapping emplacement ages and Sr-Nd isotope compositions of the aillikites and carbonatites in this area suggest that these exsolved carbonate melts probably contributed to the formation of the Tarim carbonatites thus supporting a close petrogenetic relationship between aillikites and carbonatites.

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