Radiogenic Isotope Constraints on Relationships between Carbonatites and Associated Silicate Rocks—a Brief Review
Radiogenic Isotope Constraints on Relationships between Carbonatites and Associated Silicate Rocks—a Brief Review
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10.1093/petroj/39.11-12.1987
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发表时间:
1998-11
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3.9
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K. Bell
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K. Bell
The diversity of silicate rocks in alkaline–carbonatite complexes isotopic similarities to ocean island basalts (OIBs), and cannot be attributed to differentiation of parent magmas operating that parental melts to most carbonatites are generated under closed chemical conditions. Constraints imposed by Nd, Pb from an isotopically depleted mantle. However, debate and Sr isotope data require discrete partial melting events coupled, continues about the origin of carbonatites and their in some cases, with open-system behaviour that involves mixing relationship to associated silicate rocks. Models proposed either with other mantle melts or sources, or with lower continental for the origin of carbonatites include: (1) melting of crust. Patterns shown by isotope ratio diagrams for carbonatites carbonate-bearing mantle to generate a primary carand some nephelinites from East Africa indicate mixing dominated bonatitic melt (e.g. von Eckermann, 1948; Sweeney, by two mantle end-members (broadly similar to HIMU and EMI), 1994), (2) fractional crystallization of a carbonated first recognized in oceanic basalts. Mixing is on a scale sufficient alkaline silicate liquid (e.g. King & Sutherland, 1960; to generate: (1) coherent but variable ratios in carbonatites from Lee & Wyllie, 1994), and (3) immiscible separation from much of East Africa, and (2) variable isotope ratios among some a carbonated silicate melt (e.g. Koster van Groos & of the silicate rocks from the same eruptive centre (e.g. Oldoinyo Wyllie, 1963; Kjarsgaard & Hamilton, 1989). Although Lengai, Shombole). Overlapping isotope ratios between carbonatites melting experiments have now shown that carbonatitic and some nephelinites from complexes from East Africa and elsewhere melts can be produced in different ways, what are lacking are consistent with magmatic differentiation (crystal fractionation, are robust criteria that can be used to separate primary liquid immiscibility), or the melting of the same or isotopically carbonatitic melts from those produced by differentiation similar sources. The wide isotopic variation shown by the ijolites, of a parent silicate melt. phonolites, syenites and even some of the nephelinites requires the The occurrence of carbonatites and associated silicate involvement of other mantle components and/or continental crust. rocks as flows, plugs, dykes, cone sheets, and sills, lends overall support to a magmatic origin for both groups of rocks. Although the volume of carbonatite in most complexes is relatively small, normally <10%, most of