Cumulate mush hybridization by melt invasion: Evidence from compositionally-diverse amphiboles in ultramafic-mafic arc cumulates within the eastern Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet

Author(s):  
Wei Xu ◽  
Di-Cheng Zhu ◽  
Qing Wang ◽  
Roberto F Weinberg ◽  
Rui Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Amphibole plays an important role in the petrogenesis and evolution of arc magmas, but its role is not completely understood yet. Here, a field, petrological, geochronological and geochemical study is carried out on ultramafic-mafic arc cumulates with textural and chemical heterogeneities and on associated host diorites from the eastern Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet to explore the problem. The cumulates occur as a large body in diorite host-rocks. The core of the body consists of coarse-grained Cpx hornblendite with a porphyritic texture. Towards the contact with the host diorite, the coarse-grained Cpx hornblendite grades to relatively homogeneous fine-grained melagabbro. Zircon U–Pb dating indicates they all crystallized at 200 ± 1 Ma. Textural features and whole-rock and mineral chemical data reveal that both the Cpx hornblendite and the melagabbro are mixtures of two different mineral assemblages that are not in equilibrium: (1) brown amphibole and its clinopyroxene inclusions; (2) matrix clinopyroxene + green amphibole + plagioclase + quartz + accessory phases. Clinopyroxene and brown amphibole from the first assemblage are enriched in middle rare earth elements (MREE) relative to light REE (LREE) and heavy REE (HREE), and are weakly depleted in Ti, whereas clinopyroxene and green amphibole from the second assemblage are characterized by LREE enrichment over MREE-HREE and more marked Sr and Ti depletion. The higher Mg#, MgO and Cr of the late-formed green amphibole than the early-formed brown amphibole suggest that the two assemblages are not on the same liquid line of descent. Given the close relations of the three rock types in the exposed crustal section, the cumulates are interpreted to have formed in an open system, in which an ultramafic cumulate body consisting of the first assemblage reacted with the host dioritic melt to form new clinopyroxene and amphibole of the second assemblage. The melt calculated to be in equilibrium with the first mineral assemblage resembles an average continental arc basalt, that is less evolved than the host dioritic melt, responsible for the second mineral assemblage. On the basis of whole-rock Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic similarity of the cumulates and a host diorite sample, we argue that the host diorites were formed through crystal fractionation from the parent melt of the first assemblage. Results of least-squares mass-balance calculations suggest the quantities of the host dioritic melts, involved in the generation of these modified cumulates, vary from ~25% to ~44%. The presence of magmatic epidote in the host diorites and Al-in-Hb geobarometry indicate the reaction that occurred when the dioritic melts percolated through the cumulate body was at ~6 kbar. Both the brown and green amphiboles are enriched in MREE relative to HREE, and can impart residual melts with a strong geochemical signature of amphibole fractionation (low Dy/Yb). Thus, we conclude that fractional crystallization and melt-rock reaction are two mechanisms by which amphibole controls arc magma petrogenesis and evolution.

1969 ◽  
Vol 37 (288) ◽  
pp. 472-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Strong

SummaryA study of augite in over three hundred thin sections of mainly alkalic rocks permits the distinction of two main types of hour-glass structure. The common ‘swallow-tailed’, sometimes skeletal augite crystals are found in the fine-grained groundmass of many rock types, and it is suggested that rapid crystallization alone accounts for their formation. Hence, this type of hour-glass structure has been called ‘quench hour-glass’. The hour-glass structures of larger augite crystals of porphyritic and coarse-grained rocks are commonly described as hour-glass ‘zoning’, as they result primarily from compositional differences between the different sectors. These were formed under conditions of relatively slower cooling than the ‘quench hour-glass’, and thus cannot be explained in the same way. They are thought to have formed by a process involving adsorption of impurities on a particular crystal face so as to impede growth of these faces, producing an initial skeleton of hour-glass form, which is completed by later crystallization of augite richer in FeO, Na2O, TiO2, and Al2O3. This hypothesis also explains the patchy zoning of other augite crystals, casting doubt on some petrogenetic interpretations of such zones as core zones.


2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Stylianos Aspiotis ◽  
Jochen Schlüter ◽  
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu ◽  
Boriana Mihailova

Abstract. Raman spectroscopy has been applied to check if there are detectible material differences beneath the inscribed and non-inscribed areas of marble-based written artefacts, which could be further used to visualize lost or hardly readable text via suitable mapping. As a case study, marble segments with ∼ 2000-year-old inscribed letters from Asia Minor (western Turkey) and marble gravestones with 66 ± 14-year-old inscriptions from the cemetery of Ohlsdorf (Hamburg, Germany) have been subjected to Raman spectroscopy, as well as to complementary X-ray diffraction, wavelength-dispersive electron probe microanalysis, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, to thoroughly study the effect of different environmental conditions, grain size, and inscription age on the nature and penetration depth of marble alteration. The results demonstrate that environmental conditions rule over the type of dominant weathering changes, which are carotenoid molecular inclusions produced by lichen and amorphous carbon for marbles from Hamburg and Asia Minor, respectively. The alteration is much stronger in medium- and coarse-grained than in fine-grained marble, but it is suppressed by letter colouring. In the absence of letter colouring, the weathering-related products in both ancient and modern engraved marbles are more abundant beneath than away from the engraved areas, and the penetration depth is larger due to the enhancement of fissures and micro-cracks around the inscribed areas. We show that the Raman intensity ratio between the strongest peak of the weathering-related product (ν(C=C) ∼ 1520 cm−1 for carotenoids or the G peak ∼ 1595 cm−1 for soot-like carbon) and the strongest peak of marble (CO3 stretching near 1087 cm−1) can serve as a quantitative marker to indirectly map the lateral distribution of cracks induced during the inscribing process and hence can potentially be used to trace lost text on vanished marble inscriptions. This approach can be applied to other rock types, but further studies are required to identify the corresponding autochthonous weathering-related products.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-453
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Dolníček ◽  
Michal Kovář ◽  
Jana Ulmanová

A new occurrence of axinite at the locality Jezuitský rybník near Sirákovice (ENE from Golčův Jeníkov), situated in rocks of the Variegated (Drosendorf) Series (Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif), is a nice example of contaminated pegmatite in a Ca-skarn with intense superimposed hydrothermal overprint. Axinite [axinite-(Fe) to axinite-(Mg)] forms young hydrothermal infill of pocket/fissure in pegmatite cutting a brecciated Ca-skarn. The hydrothermal assemblage includes amphibole II (actinolite to ferro-actinolite), albite, K-feldspar II, chlorite, epidote (locally containing 0.20 - 0.30 apfu REE), muscovite and Al,F-enriched titanite (with up to 2 % SnO2) passing exceptionally to unnamed CaAlFSiO4. Quartz, plagioclase (andesine), K-feldspar I and amphibole I (mostly K-rich or even potassian ferro-pargasite to ferro-tschermakite) originated in magmatic stage associated with intrusion of externally derived pegmatite melt. Sporadic garnet (grossular-rich almandine) represents relics of mineral assemblage of the host skarn. Dominance of Nd among REE in the REE-rich epidote is explained in terms of chemical fractionation of REE, probably caused by the presence of strong REE-complexing ligands (F-, OH- and/or CO32-) in aqueous fluids enriched in MREE/HREE due to alteration of garnet. With regard to the presence of B, Cr and elevated XMg in some hydrothermal phases compared to the older Fe-Mg minerals, we suggest circulation of fluids affecting host rocks as well as additional rock types.


Clay Minerals ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Wilson ◽  
John Keeling

AbstractHalloysite with tubular morphology is formed in a wide range of geological environments from the alteration of various rock types. Intrusive acidic coarse-grained rocks, such as granites, pegmatites and anorthosite, with large potash and sodic feldspars contents, are subsequently altered to kaolinite, halloysite and other clay minerals by weathering or shallow hydrothermal fluid activity. Processing to separate the halloysite-kaolinite fraction from the altered host rock provides a product which can be used as a paper filler and in ceramics and fibreglass, among other uses, with various deposits in Brazil, China, Thailand and elsewhere. In the Kerikeri-Matauri Bay district of Northland, North Island, New Zealand, volcanic alkali rhyolite was extruded as domes and cooled rapidly with fine-grained feldspar subsequently altered to halloysite. The IMERYS plant in Matauri Bay separates the clay from the quartz-cristobalite matrix with an ∼20% yield of halloysite. The principal market is for high-quality porcelain and bone china that require low levels of Fe2O3 and TiO2. Deposits with high levels of halloysite occur in China, Turkey and the USA. The Dragon mine in Utah, USAwas recently reopened by Applied Minerals Inc. and now produces halloysite from zones of up to 100% white halloysite. Smaller occurrences of tubular halloysite are mined in China, Turkey and elsewhere from masses of comparatively pure clay that appear to have crystallized directly from solutions in which Al and Si were soluble.


2015 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 802-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. GRANT CAWTHORN

AbstractThe circular 625 km2 alkaline Pilanesberg Complex, South Africa, contains coeval eruptive and several distinctive intrusive syenitic and foyaitic components, concentrically arranged at the surface. However, owing to poor outcrop the relationships between the different intrusive rocks, and their shape in the third dimension cannot be convincingly determined in the field. The original interpretation was a laccolith, whereas later models suggested a funnel shape, and appealed to ring-dyke and cone-sheet emplacement mechanisms. However, the radial widths of these coarse-grained bodies are over 1 km and so cannot have been emplaced as ring dykes or cone sheets, which are usually quite thin and fine grained. Creating the space for emplacement and removal of pre-existing country rocks for each postulated subsequent intrusive event presents a major challenge to this latter hypothesis. Extensive previously published and new field relationships are re-evaluated here to suggest that the body is a gently inward-dipping sheet and that subsequent injections of magma merely pumped up an existing and evolving magma chamber rather than intruded into solid rocks. A Bouguer gravity anomaly model is presented that supports the concept of a shallow, flat-bottomed body rather than one that continues to significant depth. There are many analogies with the Kangerlussuaq Intrusion, Greenland.


Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 962
Author(s):  
Wenlong Liu ◽  
Yi Cao ◽  
Junfeng Zhang ◽  
Yanfei Zhang ◽  
Keqing Zong ◽  
...  

The Val Malenco peridotite massif is one of the largest exposed ultramafic massifs in Alpine orogen. To better constrain its tectonic history, we have performed a comprehensive petro-structural and geochemical study. Our results show that the Val Malenco serpentinized peridotite recorded both pre-Alpine extension and Alpine convergence events. The pre-Alpine extension is recorded by microstructural and geochemical features preserved in clinopyroxene and olivine porphyroblasts, including partial melting and refertilisation, high-temperature (900–1000 °C) deformation and a cooling, and fluid-rock reaction. The following Alpine convergence in a supra-subduction zone setting is documented by subduction-related prograde metamorphism features preserved in the coarse-grained antigorite and olivine grains in the less-strained olivine-rich layers, and later low-temperature (<350 °C) serpentinization in the fine-grained antigorite in the more strained antigorite-rich layers. The strain shadow structure in the more strained antigorite-rich layer composed of dissolving clinopyroxene porphyroblast and the precipitated oriented diopside and olivine suggest dissolution and precipitation creep, while the consistency between the strain shadow structure and alternating less- and more-strained serpentinized domains highlights the increasing role of strain localization induced by the dissolution-precipitation creep with decreasing temperature during exhumation in Alpine convergence events.


Geophysics ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Kariya ◽  
T. J. Shankland

This study provides values of electrical conductivity of possible lower crustal materials to assist interpretation of lower crustal magnetotelluric soundings. We present mean values of conductivity measurements collected from the literature for dry mafic and silicic rocks in the temperature range of 500°C to 1000°C. We observe statistically significant differences between rock types: mafic rocks are better conductors than granites by about half an order of magnitude and within the mafic group, aphanitic (fine‐grained) rocks have higher conductivity than phaneritic (coarse‐grained) ones. “Best‐fitting” curves of log conductivity versus temperature are presented for each rock type to show mean log conductivity values together with standard deviations so that most probable temperature ranges can be inferred from conductivity. Because the laboratory rocks are dry, their conductivities are lower at a given temperature than they would be if fluids or volatiles were present; hence any temperatures inferred from magnetotelluric (MT) contivities are upper bounds.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
May Thwee Aye ◽  
Subagyo Pramumijoyo ◽  
Arifudin Idrus ◽  
Lucas Donny Setijadji ◽  
Akira Imai ◽  
...  

Clacic gold-copper bearing skarn in the Batu Hijau porphyry deposit is located in the western part of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. Skarn mineralizations were found at the deep level of the deposit (-450m to -1050mL) by drilling program 2003. No evidence around Batu Hijau has limestone although most skarn are metasomatiz ed from carbonate-rich rock as limestone or marble. Most skarn-type metasomatic alteration and mineralization occurs at the contact of andesitic volcanic rock and intermediate tonalite porphyry intrusion and within intermediate tonalite in some. Although both endoskarn and exoskarn can be developed, it has no clear minerals to known the endoskarn. Exoskarn is more principle skarn zone. The formation of skarn occurred two min stages: (1) prograde and (2) retrograde. The prograde stage is temporally and spatially divided into two sub-stages as early prograde (sub-stage I) and prograde metasomatic (sub-stage II). Sub-stage I begin immediately after the intrusion of the tonalite stock into the calcium rich volcanic rocks. Then, sub-stage II originated with segregation and evolution of a fluid phase in the pluton and its invasion into fractures and micro-fractures of host rocks developed during sub-stage I. The introduction of considerable amount of Fe, Si and Mg led to the large amounts of medium- to coarse-grained anhydrous calc-silicates. From the texture and mineralogy, the retrograde metasomatic stage can be divided into two sub-stages: (a) early retrograde and (sub-stage III) and (b) late retrograde (sub-stage IV). During sub-stage III, the previously formed skarn zones were affected by intense multiple hydro-fracturing phases in the gold-copper bearing stocks. Therefore, the considerable amounts of hydrous calc-silicates (epidote), sulfides (pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite), oxides (magnetite, hematite) and carbonates (calcite) replaced the anhydrous calc-silicates. Sub-stage IV was coexisting with the intrusion of relatively low temperature, more highly oxidizing fluids into skarn system, bringing about partial alteration of the early-formed calc-silicates and developing a series of very fine-grained aggregrates of chlorite, clay, hematite and calcite.


1995 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Einfalt ◽  
K. P. Kaphle ◽  
P. R. Joshi

The pegmatites of Hyakule, and to a lesser extent, of Phakuwa area. Sankhuwa Sabha district. Eastern Nepal, have been a source for gem quality tourmaline since about 60 years. Only 4 pegmatite bodies, 2 each in Hyakule and Phakuwa, out of about 40 dikes altogether, yielded this precious stones despite at least 5 larger openings and probably some smaller ones in other dikes. The Phakuwa and Hyakule area occupies the eastern limb of the Arun anticline and consists of high grade metamorphic rocks of possibly Precambrian age belonging to the basal part of the Higher Himalayan crystalline. These rocks thrust south­ ward along the Main Central Thrust over the rocks of the Nawakot complex belonging to the Lesser Himalaya. The metamorphic sequence, about 2500 m thick, consists mainly of gneisses, garnet-kyanite and game-staurolite mica schist, quartzites and marbles with intercalated minor calc-silicate rocks. Pegmatites occur in the mica schist and interbedded calc-silicate schist sequence (approximately 1000 m thick) as scattered lenses or possibly dikes of a few min thickness, which cut discordantly through the host rocks. Internal zoning has developed generally into an upper blocky feldspar zone, a central quartz core with tourmaline and beryl (partly as aquamarine) and a lower fine grained, garnet bearing muscovite-quartz­ feldspar zone. Schorl is quite frequent as is biotite, the latter is often more abundant than muscovite. Uraninite and Ta-Nb minerals (tantalite, wodginile, pyrochlore) as well as cassiterite have been found in heavy mineral concentrates of a few investigated pegmatite samples. The current paper deals with several questions: what is the type of these pegmatites in terms of a classification? Do all pegmatites belong to the same generation and/or stage of evolution? Why are gem quality tourmalines known only from a few dikes? Is there an exploration method to distinguish between barren and gem tourmaline pegmatites in these areas? Could this method possibly be applied to other pegmatite areas in Nepal? We used trace and some major element characteristics of 24 coarse grained muscovite samples from 19 pegmatite dikes in Phakuwa and Hyakule and from localities nearby to answer these questions. Additional 4 muscovite samples from gem tourmaline   bearing   and   barren   pegmatites   in   the    Ilam   district    have   been    included    for   comparison. The trace element characteristics, some main elements and some element ratios of coarse grained muscovites in Hyakule and Phakuwa distinguish clearly between a group of gem producing and barren pegmatites. The most powerful distinguishing geochemical features are the concentration ranges of Rb, Ba, MnO and MgO and the element ratios K/Rb and Li/Mg. Less useful are the concentrations of Cs, Sn and Ta because of a somewhat irregular behaviour. Surprisingly, Li is rather low in all samples and does not discriminate very distinctly between the two pegmatite groups. The results of this study can probably be used as a rapid exploration tool in sorting out barren pegmatites from pegmatites with a potential for gem quality tourmaline.


2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 986-1009
Author(s):  
Jaco H. Baas ◽  
Niall D. Tracey ◽  
Jeff Peakall

ABSTRACT Deposits of sediment gravity flows in the Aberystwyth Grits Group (Silurian, west Wales, United Kingdom) display evidence that sole marks are suitable for reconstructing depositional processes and environments in deep-marine sedimentary successions. Based on drone imagery, 3D laser scanning, high-resolution sedimentary logging, and detailed descriptions of sole marks, an outcrop 1600 m long between the villages of Aberarth and Llannon was subdivided into seven lithological units, representing: a) mudstone-poor, coarse-grained and thick-bedded submarine channel fills, dominated by the deposits of erosive high-density turbidity currents with flute marks; b) mudstone-rich levee deposits with thin-bedded, fine-grained sandstones formed by low-density turbidity currents that scoured the bed to form flute marks; c) channel–lobe transition-zone deposits, dominated by thick beds, formed by weakly erosive, coarse-grained hybrid events, with pronounced mudstone-rich or sandstone-dominated debritic divisions and groove marks below basal turbiditic divisions, and with subordinate amounts of turbidites and debris-flow deposits; d) tabular, medium- to thick-bedded turbiditic sandstones with flute marks and mixed sandstone–mudstone hybrid event beds mainly with groove marks, interpreted as submarine lobe-axis (or off-axis) deposits; and e) tabular, thin- to medium-bedded, fine-grained, mainly turbiditic sandstones mostly with flute marks, formed in a lobe-fringe environment. Both lobe environments also comprised turbidites with low-amplitude bed waves and large ripples, which are interpreted to represent transient-turbulent flows. The strong relationship between flute marks and turbidites agrees with earlier predictions that turbulent shear flows are essential for the formation of flute marks. Moreover, the observation as part of this study that debris-flow deposits are exclusively associated with groove marks signifies that clay-charged, laminar flows are carriers for tools that are in continuous contact with the bed. A new process model for hybrid event beds, informed by the dominance of tool marks, in particular grooves, below the basal sand division (H1 division of Haughton et al. 2009) and by the rapid change from turbidites in the channel to hybrid event beds in the channel–lobe transition zone, is proposed. This model incorporates profound erosion of clay in the channel by the head of a high-density turbidity current and subsequent transformation of the head into a debris flow following rapid lateral flow expansion at the mouth of the channel. This debris flow forms the groove marks below the H1 division in hybrid event beds. A temporal increase in cohesivity in the body of the hybrid event is used to explain the generation of the H1, H2, and H3 divisions (sensuHaughton et al. 2009) on top of the groove surfaces, involving a combination of longitudinal segregation of bedload and vertical segregation of suspension load. This study thus demonstrates that sole marks can be an integral part of sedimentological studies at different scales, well beyond their traditional use as indicators of paleoflow direction or orientation.


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