Metasomatic enrichment of Proterozoic mantle south of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: origin of sinusoidal REE patterns in clinopyroxene and garnet
Metasomatic enrichment of Proterozoic mantle south of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: origin of sinusoidal REE patterns in clinopyroxene and garnet
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南非卡普瓦尔克拉通南部元古代地幔的交代富集:单斜辉石和石榴石中正弦稀土元素模式的起源
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
C. Class
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作者:
A. Roex;C. Class
Abstract
Xenoliths of mantle peridotite have been sampled from four kimberlite intrusions, Melton Wold, Hebron, Uintjiesberg and Markt, emplaced through the Mesoproterozoic Namaqua-Natal Belt, along the southern border of the Kaapvaal Craton. Although many of the xenoliths are heavily altered, constituent clinopyroxene, garnet and phlogopite are fresh and have been analysed by electron microprobe for major elements and by laser ablation ICP-MS for trace elements. Primitive mantle-normalised REE abundances in clinopyroxene are all strongly LREE enriched and show a range of patterns including uniformly MREE–HREE sloped (referred to here as ‘normal’), sinusoidal and humped sinusoidal patterns. HREE abundances are extremely low (Yb = 0.3–0.06 × PM). REEN patterns in coexisting garnets show a similar range of patterns. When normalised to primitive mantle values, trace element patterns in some clinopyroxenes show strong relative depletion in Rb–Ba, Ta–Nb and Ti, with some samples also being relatively depleted in Zr–Hf. These trace element characteristics are indistinguishable from those found in clinopyroxene and garnet from peridotites from the adjacent cratonic mantle. Numerical modelling of reactive porous flow of an enriched metasomatic melt through a geochemically depleted peridotite matrix can account for the full range in observed REEN patterns. The relative depletion in Rb–Ba, Ta–Nb and Ti can be accounted for by an early crystallisation of phlogopite from the percolating melt. The relative depletion in Zr–Hf in some clinopyroxenes requires either zircon to crystallise in the proximal metasomatic assemblage, or metasomatism by a carbonatitic melt. Modelling results, together with the absence of clinopyroxene with depleted or even partially enriched REEN patterns, suggest that all clinopyroxene has been modally introduced through metasomatism into an initially highly depleted harzburgitic protolith. The range in Sr and Pb isotopic composition of the clinopyroxenes indicates regional metasomatism by melts of various compositions. The strong HREEN depletion is interpreted to reflect the effect of initial melt depletion in the early Proterozoic, with melting extending into the spinel stability field requiring an oceanic realm, and again later in the Mesoproterozoic (Namaqua Orogeny). The superimposed incompatible element enrichment indicates subsequent multiple enrichment events by rising alkaline melts similar in composition to kimberlite or ultramafic alkaline lamprophyre, possibly related to Mesozoic plume upwelling beneath the region, that reintroduced clinopyroxene into the depleted Proterozoic harzburgite protolith.
影响因子:
3.5
作者:
Girnis, A. V.;Bulatov, V. K.;Hoefer, H. E.
通讯作者:
Hoefer, H. E.
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Luchs T;Brey G.P;Gerdes A;Höfer H.E.
通讯作者:
Höfer H.E.