Chromite geochemistry of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu sulfide-bearing ultramafic intrusion (NW China) and its petrogenetic implications
Chromite geochemistry of the Jinchuan Ni-Cu sulfide-bearing ultramafic intrusion (NW China) and its petrogenetic implications
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中国西北金川含镍铜硫化物超镁铁质岩体的铬铁矿地球化学及其成岩意义
DOI:
10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104644
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发表时间:
2021-12
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Ai Qi-Xing
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作者:
Kang Jian;Chen Lie-Meng;Yu Song-Yue;Zheng Wen-Qin;Dai Zhi-Hui;Zhou Sheng-Hua;Ai Qi-Xing
Chromite, as an early-fractionation phase, has good potential to trace the petrogenesis and tectonic setting of mafic-ultramafic cumulate rocks. The Jinchuan ultramafic intrusion in NW China contains one of the world’s largest magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits. Many studies have been carried out on this intrusion, however, the geochemical features of chromite and its related petrogenetic implications are still poorly constrained. In this study, the geochemistry of chromite enclosed in olivine from the Jinchuan intrusion is investigated. The chromite grains have large variations in Fe# (100*Fe3+/(Fe3++Al + Cr) = 1.3–47.0), Cr# (100*Cr/(Cr + Al) = 44.9–92.4), and Mg# (100*Mg/(Mg + Fe2+) = 4.7–25.7). They are depleted in Ni (142–1704 ppm) and Co (214–538 ppm) and enriched in Ti (3507–66298 ppm), accompanied by highly variable contents of Zn (1186–10726 ppm) and Mn (1362–4579 ppm). In the MORB-normalized patterns, chromite grains within the most primitive olivine are characterized by positive anomalies of Ti, V, Zn, and Mn and negative anomalies of Ni, similar to those in the Hawaiian tholeiitic basalts and typical layered intrusions. Variable correlations among the major, minor, and trace elements indicate that all these elements, except for Zn and Mn, may have been governed by multistage magmatic processes with little overprint from postmagmatic hydrothermal alteration. The strong Ni and Co depletions in chromite indicate prior removal of sulfide liquids at depth. The wide range of Ti in chromite may have been caused by thefO2change during magma fractionation. The variable contents of Zn and Mn, by contrast, may be related to postcumulus processes. Furthermore, the relatively high TiO2but low Al2O3contents of the primitive chromite are comparable with those of mantle plume-related cumulate rocks. This feature, coupled with the MORB-normalized patterns in chromite, implies that the Jinchuan intrusion is similar to typical tholeiitic layered intrusions genetically related to a mantle plume.
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影响因子:
5.8
作者:
J. Lehmann;N. Arndt;B. Windley;Mei‐Fu Zhou;C. Wang;C. Harris
通讯作者:
J. Lehmann;N. Arndt;B. Windley;Mei‐Fu Zhou;C. Wang;C. Harris
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
P. Roeder;I. Campbell
通讯作者:
P. Roeder;I. Campbell
DOI:
10.5382/econgeo.2018.4566
发表时间:
2018-05
期刊:
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists
影响因子:
--
作者:
Yao Jun-Hua;Zhu Wei-Guang;Li Chusi;Zhong Hong;Bai Zhong-Jie;Ripley Edward M.;Li Chao
通讯作者:
Li Chao
影响因子:
3.5
作者:
张招崇
通讯作者:
张招崇
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
G. Chai;A. J. Naldrett
通讯作者:
G. Chai;A. J. Naldrett