Mineral-melt-fluid composition of carbonate-bearing cumulate xenoliths in Tertiary alkali basalts of southern Slovakia

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Hurai ◽  
M. Huraiová ◽  
P. Konečný ◽  
R. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Melt Inclusions ◽  
Fluid Composition ◽  
Alkali Basalts ◽  
Mantle Mineral ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Multiphase Fluid ◽  
Textural Evidence ◽  
Metasomatized Mantle

AbstractTwo types of carbonatic cumulate xenoliths occur in alkali basalts of the northern part of the Carpatho-Pannonian region, Central Europe. One is dominated by Ca-Fe-Mg carbonates with randomly distributed bisulphide globules (Fe1+xS2, x = 0–0.1), Mg-Al spinel, augite, rhönite, Ni-Co-rich chalcopyrite, and a Fe(Ni,Fe)2S4 phase. The second, carbonatic pyroxenite xenolith type, is composed of diopside, subordinate fluorapatite, interstitial Fe-Mg carbonates, and accessory K-pargasite, F-Al-rich ferroan phlogopite, Mg-Al spinel, albite and K-feldspar. All accessory minerals occur in ultrapotassic dacite-trachydacite glass in primary silicate melt inclusions in diopside, together with calcio-carbonatite and CO2-N2-CO inclusions. Textural evidence is provided for multiphase fluid-melt immiscibility in both xenolith types. The carbonatic pyroxenite type is inferred to have accumulated from differentiated, volatile-rich, ultrapotassic magma derived by a very low-degree partial melting of strongly metasomatized mantle. Mineral indicators point to a genetic link between the carbonatite xenolith with olivine-fractionated, silica-undersaturated alkalic basalt ponded at the mantle-crust boundary.

scholarly journals Niobium Mineralogy of Pliocene A1-Type Granite of the Carpathian Back-Arc Basin, Central Europe

Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 488
Author(s):  
Monika Huraiová ◽  
Patrik Konečný ◽  
Vratislav Hurai
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Phosphorus Content ◽  
Parental Magma ◽  
Critical Metals ◽  
Alkali Basalts ◽  
Low Phosphorus ◽  
Type Granite ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
Back Arc ◽  
Metasomatized Mantle

A1-type granite xenoliths occur in alkali basalts erupted during Pliocene–Pleistocene continental rifting of Carpathian back-arc basin (Central Europe). The Pliocene (5.2 Ma) peraluminous calc-alkalic granite contains unusually high concentrations of critical metals bound in Nb, Ta, REE, U, Th-oxides typical for silica-undersaturated alkalic granites, and syenites: columbite-Mn, fergusonite-Y, oxycalciopyrochlore, Nb-rutile, and Ca-niobate (fersmite or viggezite). In contrast, it does not contain allanite and monazite—the main REE-carriers in calc-alkalic granites. The crystallization of REE-bearing Nb-oxides instead of OH-silicates and phosphates was probably caused by strong water deficiency and low phosphorus content in the parental magma. Increased Nb and Ta concentrations have been inherited from the mafic parental magma derived from the metasomatized mantle. The strong Al- and Ca-enrichment probably reflects the specific composition of the mantle wedge modified by fluids, alkalic, and carbonatitic melts liberated from the subducted slab of oceanic crust prior to the Pliocene-Pleistocene rifting.

Mechanisms of Partial Melting of Metasomatized Mantle Ultramafic Rocks beneath Avacha Volcano, Kamchatka, and the Growth of Minerals from a Gas Phase in Fractures

Petrology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-590
Author(s):  
V. N. Sharapov ◽  
A. A. Tomilenko ◽  
G. V. Kuznetsov ◽  
Yu. V. Perepechko ◽  
K. E. Sorokin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Ultramafic Rocks ◽  
Metasomatized Mantle

scholarly journals Joint analysis of the magnetic field and Total Gradient Intensity in Central Europe

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Milano ◽  
Maurizio Fedi ◽  
J. Derek Fairhead
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
East European ◽  
Long Wavelength ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Total Gradient ◽  
Synthetic Models ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Different Altitudes

Abstract. In the European region, the magnetic field at satellite altitudes (~ 350 km) is mainly defined by a long-wavelength magnetic-low called here the Central Europe Magnetic Low (CEML), located to the southwest of the Trans European Suture Zone (TESZ). We studied this area by a joint analysis of the magnetic and total gradient (∇T) anomaly maps, for a range of different altitudes of 5 km, 100 km and 350 km. Tests on synthetic models showed the usefulness of the joint analysis at various altitudes to identify reverse dipolar anomalies and to characterize areas in which magnetization is weak. By this way we identified areas where either reversely or normally magnetized sources are locally dominant. At a European scale these anomalies are sparse, with a low degree of coalescence effect. The ∇T map indeed presents generally small values within the CEML area, indicating that the Palaeozoic Platform is weakly magnetized. At 350 km altitude, the TESZ effect is largely dominant: with intense ∇T highs above the East European Craton (EEC) and very small values above the Palaeozoic Platform, this again denoting a weakly magnetized crust. Small coalescence effects are masked by the trend of the TESZ. Although we identified sparsely located reversely magnetized sources in the Palaeozoic Platform of the CEML, the joint analysis does not support a model of a generally reversely magnetized crust. Instead, our analysis strongly favors the hypothesis that the CEML anomaly is mainly caused by a sharp contrast between the magnetic properties of EEC and Palaeozoic Platform.

Platinum-group element geochemistry of intraplate basalts from the Aleppo Plateau, NW Syria

2012 ◽  
Vol 150 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE S.-K. MA ◽  
JOHN MALPAS ◽  
JIAN-FENG GAO ◽  
KUO-LUNG WANG ◽  
LIANG QI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Primitive Mantle ◽  
Element Geochemistry ◽  
Alkali Basalts ◽  
Melt Extraction ◽  
Mid Ocean Ridge ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Platinum Group ◽  
Ocean Ridge

AbstractEarly–Middle Miocene intraplate basalts from the Aleppo Plateau, NW Syria have been analysed for their platinum-group elements (PGEs). They contain extremely low PGE abundances, comparable with most alkali basalts, such as those from Hawaii, and mid-ocean ridge basalts. The low abundances, together with high Pd/Ir, Pt/Ir, Ni/Ir, Cu/Pd, Y/Pt and Cu/Zr are consistent with sulphide fractionation, which likely occurred during partial melting and melt extraction within the mantle. Some of the basalts are too depleted in PGEs to be explained solely by partial melting of a primitive mantle-like source. Such ultra-low PGE abundances, however, are possible if the source contains some mafic lithologies. Many of the basalts also exhibit suprachondritic Pd/Pt ratios of up to an order of magnitude higher than primitive mantle and chondrite, an increase too high to be attributable to fractionation of spinel and silicate minerals alone. The elevated Pd/Pt, associated with a decrease in Pt but not Ir and Ru, are also inconsistent with removal of Pt-bearing PGE minerals or alloys, which should have concurrently lowered Pt, Ir and Ru. In contrast, melting of a metasomatized source comprising sulphides whose Pt and to a lesser extent Rh were selectively mobilized through interaction with silicate melts, may provide an explanation.

Rhönite in alkali basalts: silicate melt inclusions in olivine phenocrysts

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 1334-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Sharygin ◽  
K. Kóthay ◽  
Cs. Szabó ◽  
T.Ju. Timina ◽  
K. Török ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Melt Inclusions ◽  
Silicate Melt ◽  
Alkali Basalts

scholarly journals Alkali basalt from the Seifu Seamount in the Sea of Japan: post-spreading magmatism in a back-arc setting

Solid Earth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Tomoaki Morishita ◽  
Naoto Hirano ◽  
Hirochika Sumino ◽  
Hiroshi Sato ◽  
Tomoyuki Shibata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Sea Of Japan ◽  
Alkali Basalt ◽  
Spinel Peridotite ◽  
The Sea Of Japan ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Tsushima Basin ◽  
Arc Setting ◽  
Element Enrichment ◽  
Back Arc

Abstract. We present geochemical and 40Ar∕39Ar age data for a peridotite xenolith-bearing basalt dredged from the Seifu Seamount (SSM basalt) in the northeast Tsushima Basin, southwest Sea of Japan. An 40Ar∕39Ar plateau age of 8.33±0.15 Ma (2σ) was obtained for the SSM basalt, indicating that it erupted shortly after the termination of back-arc spreading in the Sea of Japan. The SSM basalt is a high-K to shoshonitic alkali basalt that is characterized by light rare earth element enrichment. The trace element features of the basalt are similar to those of ocean island basalt, although the Yb content is much higher, indicating formation by the low-degree partial melting of spinel peridotite. The Nd, Sr, and Pb isotopic compositions of the SSM basalt differ from those of back-arc basin basalts in the Sea of Japan. The Sr–Nd isotopic composition of the SSM basalt suggests its source was depleted mid-ocean ridge mantle containing an enriched mantle (EM1) component. The SSM basalt was formed in a post-back-arc extension setting by the low-degree partial melting of an upwelling asthenosphere that had previously been associated with the main phase of back-arc magmatism.

Fluid composition and carbon & oxygen isotope geochemistry of Cenozoic alkali basalts in eastern China

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Mingjie ◽  
Wang Xianbin ◽  
Liu Gang ◽  
Wen Qibin ◽  
Li Liwu
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Isotope Geochemistry ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Fluid Composition ◽  
Alkali Basalts

Nature of mantle heterogeneity in the North Atlantic: evidence from deep sea drilling

1980 ◽  
Vol 297 (1431) ◽  
pp. 179-202 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Alkali Basalts ◽  
Upward Migration ◽  
The North ◽  
Subduction Zone Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mantle Sources ◽  
The North Atlantic

Studies of dredged and drilled samples from the North Atlantic ocean have revealed that basalts with a wide range of major and trace element compositions have been generated at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (M.A.R.). Many of the basalts erupted between latitudes 30° and 70° N do not have the geochemical characteristics of normal mid-ocean ridge basalts (m.o.r.b.) depleted in the more-hygromagmatophile (hyg.) elements. Drilling along mantle flow lines transverse to the ridge has shown that different segments of the M.A.R. have produced basalts with a distinct compositional range for tens of millions of years. As more data have become available, the nature and scale of this variation have been established and tighter constraints can now be placed on the petrogenetic processes involved. The rare earth elements are used to test quantitatively the effects of open and closed system fractional crystallization, equilibrium partial melting (including continuous melting), zone refining and mantle mixing processes on basalt chemistry. When evaluated in terms of the more-hyg. elements, the results show that major heterogeneities must exist in the mantle sources feeding the M.A.R. Ratios of many of the more-hyg. elements remain consistent in space and time in basalts erupted at a particular ridge segment, but vary widely between different ridge segments. These ratios are not significantly modified by the processes of basalt generation. The hyg. element relations provide a major constraint on the nature of heterogeneity in the Earth’s mantle and the processes producing it. The mantle sources of anomalous ridge segments can be best explained in terms of variable veining of a hyg. element depleted host by a hyg. element enriched liquid or fluid generated by very small degrees of partial melting. Such incipient melting, as well as subduction zone processes, may be viable mechanisms for changing hyg. element ratios in the mantle source regions on the scale observed. These processes can be integrated into a model for mantle evolution which involves (1) upward migration of incipient melts to provide a hyg. element enriched source for alkali basalts and a hyg. element depleted source for normal m.o.r.b., and (2) extraction of continental crust and recycling of the depleted residue into the mantle at subduction zones. Also, some recycling of continental material into the mantle may be required to explain Pb isotope patterns.

Pleistocene alkaline rocks of Martin Vaz volcano, South Atlantic: low-degree partial melts of a CO2-metasomatized mantle plume

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson C. Santos ◽  
Mauro C. Geraldes ◽  
Wolfgang Siebel ◽  
Julio Mendes ◽  
Everton Bongiolo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mantle Plume ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Alkaline Rocks ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Partial Melts ◽  
Metasomatized Mantle

Carbonates of the magnesite–siderite series from four carbonatite complexes

1990 ◽  
Vol 54 (376) ◽  
pp. 413-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Buckley ◽  
A. R. Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Solid Solution ◽  
Partial Melting ◽  
Solid Solution Series ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Liquidus Phase ◽  
Solution Series ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complete Solid Solution ◽  
Textural Evidence

AbstractCarbonates of the magnesite-siderite series have been found and analysed in carbonatites from the Lueshe, Newania, Kangankunde, and Chipman Lake complexes. This series has been represented until now only by a few X-ray identifications of magnesite and three published analyses of siderite and breunnerite (magnesian siderite). Most of the siderite identified in carbonatites in the past has proved to be ankerite, but the new data define the complete solid-solution series from magnesite to siderite. They occur together with dolomite and ankerite and in one rock with calcite. The magnesites, ferroan magnesites and some magnesian siderites may be metasomatic/hydrothermal in origin but magnesian siderite from Chipman Lake appears to have crystallized in the two-phase calcite + siderite field in the subsolidus CaCO3-MgCO3-FeCO3 system. Textural evidence in Newania carbonatites indicates that ferroan magnesite, which co-exists with ankerite, is a primary liquidus phase and it is proposed that the Newania carbonatite evolved directly from a Ca-poor, Mg-rich carbonatitic liquid generated by partial melting of phlogopite-carbonate peridotite in the mantle at pressures >32 kbar.

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