Spinel-peridotite xenoliths, hosted in alkali basalts (∼15 Ma), were collected from Adam's Diggings in the western margin of the Rio Grande Rift (RGR), New Mexico, USA. We selected five representative spinel-peridotite xenoliths, showing abundant fluid inclusions (FIs). Petrographic observations allowed the distinction of two generations of fluid-inclusion assemblages, both hosted in orthopyroxenes, namely Type-1 (earlier) and Type-2 (later). Both types of fluid inclusions were characterized combining microthermometry, high-resolution Raman micro-spectroscopy, and focused ion beam–scanning electron microscopy. The results of this study indicate that the timing and depth of entrapment, as well as the composition of trapped fluid were different between Type-1 and Type-2 FIs. The earlier fluid infiltration (C–O–N–S) happened before or during formation of exsolution lamellae and was trapped as Type-1 FIs in the cores of orthopyroxenes, whereas the later fluid infiltration (C–O–H–S) was trapped as Type-2 FIs after the formation of the orthopyroxene porphyroclasts with exsolution lamellae. The two fluid percolation events in the Adam's Diggings peridotites indicate the complexity of mantle fluids around the RGR. During ascent of the xenoliths within a basaltic lava, post-entrapment reactions produced magnesite and quartz in Type-1 FIs and magnesite and talc in Type-2 FIs as reaction products of the fluid and its host mineral (orthopyroxene).
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June 09, 2017
Fluid infiltration in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Rio Grande Rift, USA: a fluid-inclusion study
Munjae Park;
Munjae Park
1
Tectonophysics Lab, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University
, Seoul
, Republic of Korea
2
Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab, Eötvös University
, Pazmany Peter setany 1/c
, 1117 Budapest
, Hungary
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Márta Berkesi;
2
Lithosphere Fluid Research Lab, Eötvös University
, Pazmany Peter setany 1/c
, 1117 Budapest
, Hungary
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Haemyeong Jung;
1
Tectonophysics Lab, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University
, Seoul
, Republic of Korea
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Youngwoo Kil
Youngwoo Kil
3
Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, Chonnam National University
, Gwangju
, Republic of Korea
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European Journal of Mineralogy (2017) 29 (5): 807–819.
Article history
received:
02 Oct 2016
rev-recd:
01 Feb 2017
accepted:
29 Mar 2017
first online:
15 Dec 2017
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Munjae Park, Márta Berkesi, Haemyeong Jung, Youngwoo Kil; Fluid infiltration in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Rio Grande Rift, USA: a fluid-inclusion study. European Journal of Mineralogy 2017;; 29 (5): 807–819. doi: https://doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2658
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