Metasomatism in Oceanic and Continental Lithospheric Mantle
Twenty years have passed since Menzies & Hawkesworth extended the concept of metasomatism to mantle processes. The aim of this book is to gather together progress made on this topic since then. Most of the 14 papers reported in the volume rely on in situ major and trace element analyses of minerals and glasses in mantle xenoliths, and deal with different kinds of metasomatic agents at variable fluid/rock ratios in tectonic settings as different as intra-plate, mid-ocean ridge (ophiolites) and supra-subduction. The book contributes to the wide debate on the nature of the fluids migrating into the mantle wedge, as well as on the different residential times of the subduction signature. In addition papers on intra-plate settings deal with the problem of relating various metasomatic signatures to one single metasomatic event through an infiltration-reaction process.
Asthenospheric signature in fertile spinel lherzolites from the Viliga Volcanic Field in NE Russia
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Published:January 01, 2008
Abstract
Mantle xenolith bearing olivine melanephelinites from the Okhotsk sector of the Okhotsk–Chukotka Volcanic Belt (OCVB), northeastern Russia, occur as small isolated volcanoes emplaced within massive late Early to Late Cretaceous subduction-related calc-alkaline rocks. The xenoliths are typical medium- to fine-grained anhydrous mainly spinel lherzolites that are strongly to weakly foliated with intensive to minor recrystallization to equigranular texture. The primitive mantle normalized whole-rock REE have flat patterns or patterns with slightly elevated light REE (LREE) ((La/Yb)N=0.48–1.38). The REE in clinopyroxenes have systematically decreasing normalized abundances from Sm to La, implying that the LREE enrichments in the whole-rock REE patterns are attributed to circulation of minor intergranular fluids or melts. Equilibration temperatures and pressures calculated for the Viliga samples are in the range of 1050–1160 °C and 15–21 kbar, respectively. Ca diffusion rates in olivine reveal a rapid transport to the surface (2–6 days) of these peridotites. Model calculations have shown that the fertile lherzolites can be produced by 2–9% batch melting, whereas the depleted peridotites require 15% batch melting of a primitive source. The cessation of the interaction between the palaeo-Pacific plate and the NE Russian margin at c. 87 Ma apparently caused a ‘piecemeal’ collapse of the former followed by intrusion and ascent of olivine melanephelinitic magma, which entrained xenoliths from the asthenospheric mantle of the subducted plate during the Pliocene through the generated window(s). Moreover, clinopyroxenes that have low 87Sr/86Sr and high 143Nd/144Nd and plot in and above the mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) field are consistent with an upwelling asthenospheric mantle through the window(s) created by the ‘piecemeal’ collapse of the palaeo-Pacific plate.
- alkaline earth metals
- Asia
- asthenosphere
- basalts
- Cenozoic
- chain silicates
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Cretaceous
- genesis
- igneous rocks
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- lower Tertiary
- Magadan Russian Federation
- magmas
- mantle
- Mesozoic
- metals
- mid-ocean ridge basalts
- Nd-144/Nd-143
- neodymium
- Neogene
- nesosilicates
- Okhotsk-Chukchi volcanic belt
- olivine
- olivine group
- orthopyroxene
- orthosilicates
- oxides
- Pacific Plate
- peridotites
- plate tectonics
- Pliocene
- plutonic rocks
- pyroxene group
- rare earths
- Russian Far East
- Russian Federation
- silicates
- spinel
- spinel lherzolite
- Sr-87/Sr-86
- stable isotopes
- strontium
- Tertiary
- ultramafics
- upper mantle
- volcanic rocks
- Viliga volcanic field