The Importance of the Size and Distribution of Mantle Heterogeneities to the Interpretation of Isotope Ratios and Trace Element Abundances in Basalts

地幔异质性的大小和分布对玄武岩同位素比和微量元素丰度解释的重要性

• 批准号: 1852088
• 负责人: Yan Liang
• 金额: $ 35.74万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852088&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Importance; Size; Distribution; Mantle; Heterogeneities

Oceanic islands such as Hawaii are formed by volcanic eruptions. Magmas that feed the volcanos are produced by partial melting in the interior of the Earth. Oceanic basalts, which are sampled at oceanic islands and along mid-ocean ridges on the seafloor, provide important clues to understanding the composition of the inaccessible Earth and the processes and time scales of magma generation and transport in the mantle. A fundamental observation in geochemistry is that the source regions of oceanic basalts in the mantle are heterogeneous and consist of chemically and lithologically distinct domains of variable size and distribution. Partial melting of such heterogeneous mantle sources gives rise to a diverse range of basaltic magmas erupted on the surface. The size and distribution of mantle heterogeneities are unknown, but may have played an important role in controlling chemical variations observed in basalts. One of the long-standing problems of geochemistry is the mapping of heterogeneities observed in basalts into the chemical and lithological heterogeneities in the mantle source. Such a mapping is nonlinear and its mathematical expression is unknown. The thesis of this project is to investigate how the size and distribution of mantle heterogeneities affect the isotope ratios and trace element abundances in oceanic basalts. Results from this project will enable geochemists to establish the nonlinear mapping between basalts and their mantle sources. The project would advance STEM education by providing research opportunities for undergraduate students and by developing of a competitive STEM workforce through training of graduate students and postdoc scholar. The primary objectives of this proposed study are (1) to find the functional forms for the nonlinear mapping between basalts and their mantle sources; (2) to develop a framework for understanding and interpreting variations in isotope ratios and trace element abundances in spatially and temporally associated oceanic basalts; and (3) to test the new models through selected case studies where temporal or spatial geochemical data are available. To establish the nonlinear mapping, one needs to know the nature of heterogeneity (chemical vs. lithological, size and distribution), the style of melting (batch vs. fractional), the process of melt migration (channelized vs. grain-scale porous flow), and the extent of chemical disequilibrium between residual minerals and the percolating melt. Time and spatial variables will be added to the widely used melting models in the geochemical literature. These time-dependent melting models will enable geochemists to systematically study the roles of the size and distribution of heterogeneities in the mantle source in controlling the variations of isotope ratios and incompatible trace element abundances in extracted melts. Two-dimensional models will be constructed using the one-dimensional time-dependent melting models. These physically more realistic models will be used to examine variations of Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotope and selected incompatible trace element ratios in mid-ocean ridge basalts and ocean island basalts. An important outcome of the proposed work is a set of new interpretation tools to petrologists and geochemists in their studies of spatially and temporally correlated mantle and mantle-derived samples.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

像夏威夷这样的海洋岛屿是由火山爆发形成的。 火山的岩浆是由地球内部的部分熔融产生的。在大洋岛屿和海底中脊沿着取样的大洋玄武岩为了解人迹罕至的地球的组成以及地幔中岩浆生成和迁移的过程和时间尺度提供了重要线索。 地球化学中的一个基本观察结果是，地幔中大洋玄武岩的源区是不均匀的，由化学和岩性不同的区域组成，这些区域的大小和分布各不相同。 这种异质地幔源的部分熔融产生了不同范围的玄武岩岩浆喷发的表面。地幔不均匀性的大小和分布尚不清楚，但可能在控制玄武岩中观察到的化学变化方面发挥了重要作用。 地球化学长期存在的问题之一是将玄武岩中观察到的不均匀性映射到地幔源区的化学和岩性不均匀性。 这种映射是非线性的，其数学表达式是未知的。 本项目的主要目的是研究地幔不均匀性的大小和分布对大洋玄武岩同位素比值和微量元素丰度的影响。 该项目的研究结果将使地球化学家能够建立玄武岩与地幔源区之间的非线性映射。该项目将通过为本科生提供研究机会，并通过培训研究生和博士后学者来培养有竞争力的STEM劳动力，从而推动STEM教育。 本研究的主要目的是：（1）寻找玄武岩与地幔源区非线性映射的函数形式，（2）建立一个理解和解释空间和时间相关的大洋玄武岩同位素比值和微量元素丰度变化的框架;（3）在有时间或空间地球化学数据的情况下，通过选定的案例研究来检验新模型。 为了建立非线性映射，需要了解非均匀性的性质（化学与岩性，大小和分布），熔融的风格（批次与分数），熔体迁移的过程（渠道与颗粒尺度的多孔流动），以及残留矿物和溶解熔体之间的化学不平衡程度。 地球化学文献中广泛使用的熔融模型将增加时间和空间变量。 这些与时间相关的熔融模型将使地球化学家能够系统地研究地幔源区非均质性的大小和分布在控制提取熔体中同位素比值和不相容微量元素丰度变化方面的作用。 二维模型将使用一维随时间变化的熔化模型来构建。 这些物理上更真实的模型将被用来检查变化的Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb同位素和选定的不相容微量元素比值在洋中脊玄武岩和洋岛玄武岩。 这项工作的一个重要成果是为岩石学家和地球化学家提供了一套新的解释工具，帮助他们研究时空相关的地幔和地幔衍生样品。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Calcium diffusion in enstatite, with application to closure temperature of the Ca-in-opx thermometer

顽辉石中的钙扩散，适用于 Ca-in-opx 温度计的闭合温度

• DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.06.018
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Cherniak, D.J.;Liang, Y.
• 通讯作者: Liang, Y.

Mixing Loops, Mixing Envelopes, and Scattered Correlations among Trace Elements and Isotope Ratios Produced by Mixing of Melts Derived from a Spatially and Lithologically Heterogenous Mantle

空间和岩性异质地幔熔体混合产生的混合环、混合包络线以及微量元素和同位素比率之间的分散相关性

• DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egac092
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Petrology
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Liang, Yan

Trace element fractionation and isotope ratio variation during melting of a spatially distributed and lithologically heterogeneous mantle

• DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116594
• 发表时间: 2020-12
• 期刊: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: Yan Liang

Importance of permeability and deep channel network on the distribution of melt, fractionation of REE in abyssal peridotites, and U-series disequilibria in basalts beneath mid-ocean ridges: A numerical study using a 2D double-porosity model

渗透率和深水通道网络对熔体分布、深海橄榄岩中稀土元素分馏以及大洋中脊下玄武岩 U 系不平衡的重要性：使用二维双孔隙模型的数值研究

• DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115788
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: Liu, Boda;Liang, Yan
• 通讯作者: Liang, Yan

Importance of the size and distribution of chemical heterogeneities in the mantle source to the variations of isotope ratios and trace element abundances in mid-ocean ridge basalts

地幔源化学异质性的大小和分布对洋中脊玄武岩同位素比和微量元素丰度变化的重要性

• DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.10.013
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Liu, Boda;Liang, Yan
• 通讯作者: Liang, Yan