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碳酸岩型稀土矿床是全球稀土最主要的来源。磷酸盐是该成矿体系中常见的组分,但对其在碳酸岩稀土成矿过程中的具体作用仍缺少系统的认识。本文综述了磷酸盐在碳酸岩岩浆形成、演化和稀土富集成矿过程中作用,并提出现存问题和研究展望。磷在碳酸盐熔体中具有很高的溶解度。磷的存在有利于稀土在地幔极低程度部分熔融过程和碳酸盐—硅酸盐液态不混溶过程中优先进入碳酸盐熔体,形成初始碳酸岩熔体中稀土的预富集。碳酸岩岩浆演化过程中,稀土将优先进入到不混溶的磷酸盐熔体或独居石和磷灰石等磷酸盐矿物中,这些熔体和矿物的行为很可能是控制体系中稀土行为和成矿潜力的关键因素。岩浆作用过程中形成的富稀土磷酸盐矿物还可为热液阶段稀土矿化提供成矿物质来源。磷酸盐还是热液过程中稀土的有效沉淀剂,有利于轻重稀土矿物在流体晚期阶段成矿。未来工作应更多关注磷酸盐在碳酸岩岩浆演化过程中的作用及其中重稀土的富集机理研究,针对具体成岩成矿过程开展实验岩石学和熔体包裹体研究。 相似文献
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稀土、铌是对战略性新兴产业至关重要的关键金属。碳酸岩-碱性岩型是极为重要的稀土、铌成矿类型,其成矿机制一直存在争议,主要在于碳酸岩-碱性岩体系中REE、Nb元素的地球化学性质和行为尚不清楚。本文系统综述了全球碳酸岩-碱性岩型稀土、铌资源的基本情况和分布格局、碳酸岩-碱性岩的成因与成矿机制、REE和Nb元素在碳酸岩-碱性岩体系中的地球化学行为等研究进展,并对碳酸岩-碱性岩成因不明、REE和Nb元素富集沉淀机制不清、元素分配行为不明确、络合物结构和稳定性缺乏实验研究等目前存在的问题进行了梳理。本文旨在通过系统总结碳酸岩-碱性岩体系REE、Nb的超常富集机制和碳酸岩-碱性岩体系稀土、铌成矿理论,为强化我国稀土资源优势,缓解铌资源被“卡脖子”困局提供理论支撑。 相似文献
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为探讨长英质岩浆作用过程中金属成矿元素的地球化学行为及其成矿意义，我们进行了常压下花岗岩－ＫＢＦ３－Ｎａ２ＭｏＯ４－ＷＯ３体系的实验研究。结果表明，高温（１２５０℃）条件下呈均一状态的花岗岩－ＫＢＦ４－ＮａＭｏＯ４－ＷＯ３体系，当温度降低时发生液态不混溶，从中分离出含矿熔体的小液滴，体系中的Ｍｏ（Ｗ）几乎全部富集在这种小液滴中。含矿熔体中极富含Ｃａ、Ｍｇ和Ｐ，而贫Ｓｉ、Ａｌ和Ｋ，Ｈ２Ｏ和Ｆ富集在含矿熔体中。此实验结果表明：长英质岩浆中液态不混溶作用的发生可以使成矿元素Ｗ和Ｍｏ富集到与硅酸盐熔体不混溶的独立的非硅酸盐熔体中。这种熔体在适当的地质条件下继续演化可形成类似镁铁质岩浆演化过程中常出现的岩浆熔离型矿床。本实验结果可能为斑岩矿床的形成机理提供一种新的解释。 相似文献
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长英质岩浆中液态不混溶与成矿作用关系的实验研究 总被引：13，自引：6，他引：13
本文的实验研究表明：１２５０℃（１０５Ｐａ）条件下呈均一状态的花岗岩－ＫＢＦ４－Ｎａ２ＭｏＯ４体系，在１０００℃条件下发生液态不混溶形成三种熔体：相对偏酸性的液滴、相对偏基性的熔体和成矿熔体。成矿熔体中富含ＣａＯ、ＭｇＯ和ＭｏＯ２组分。红外光谱研究表明：硅酸盐熔体结构以［ＳｉＯ４］基团为主，而成矿熔体结构中存在Ｃａ—Ｆ、Ｃａ—Ｏ—Ｍｏ、Ｈ—Ｏ—Ｈ以及Ｘ─ＯＨ（Ｘ＝阳离子）基团，说明Ｈ２Ｏ和Ｆ富集在成矿熔体中。液态不混溶作用产生的三种不混溶熔体的结构差异明显，主要表现在结构单元中桥氧数目的变化，相对偏酸性的Ａ类小球体的结构单元中桥氧数最高，基底玻璃熔体中桥氧数则相对较少，而成矿熔体中不存在桥氧。本实验研究结果表明长英质岩浆中的液态不混溶可直接导致成矿熔体的形成。这意味着长英质岩浆中的液态不混溶可直接导致斑岩矿床的形成。 相似文献
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《矿物岩石地球化学通报》2017,(1)
液态不混溶作用是岩浆演化过程中的重要作用之一。本文针对具有普遍意义的硅酸盐岩浆液态不混溶作用的研究历史和进展,对其理论基础,包括熔体结构、相平衡、动力学和元素分配以及同位素分馏等问题进行了阐述。同时还就岩浆混溶作用中涉及到的稳定态和亚稳态液态不混溶不同的相平衡关系,以及从热力学角度液态不混溶作用发生的驱动力,不混溶相从成核到长大再到最终相分离的动力学过程进行了详细介绍。此外,针对岩浆系统,还总结了发生不混溶的条件和不混溶作用过程中元素的地球化学行为。最后以攀枝花层状岩体中部岩相带的形成为例,说明粒间熔体液态不混溶作用在韵律层形成过程中发挥的重要作用。 相似文献
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锡钨多金属矿化多与Li-F碱长花岗岩有关,其岩浆演化晚期常发生较大规模的液态分异作用。广西栗木锡钨铌钽矿与成矿有关的岩体包括肉红色中粒碱长花岗岩以及顶部的白色细粒碱长花岗岩。矿化产于碱长花岗岩顶部附近,主要矿化类型包括花岗岩型钨锡铌钽矿化、似伟晶岩型钨矿化、长石石英脉型钨矿化和石英脉型钨锡矿化。碱长花岗岩中存在大量岩浆液态不混溶现象,包括矿囊、似伟晶岩和细晶岩等。地质地球化学研究发现,岩浆液态不混溶作用贯穿于栗木碱长花岗岩分异演化的全过程,矿囊代表岩体中富含钨锡和挥发份的岩浆,岩体顶部的似伟晶岩和细晶岩是碱长花岗岩岩浆分异的结果。在岩浆液态不混溶作用过程中,W、Sn、Nb、Ta等成矿元素以及挥发份不断富集,形成岩浆岩型、长英质脉型以及石英脉型矿化。不同类型的矿化对应岩浆液态不混溶作用的不同阶段,由此建立了栗木矿床岩浆液态不混溶的成矿演化模型。 相似文献
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硅酸盐熔体结构与岩浆液态不混溶作用 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
本文简述了硅酸盐熔体结构和岩浆液态不混溶作用的基本特征，计算了玄武岩中基质和液态不混溶共轭熔体对的ＮＢＯ／Ｔ值，发现三者具有不同的熔体结构，据此总结出硅酸盐熔体结构与岩浆液态不混溶作用之间的内在联系。同时利用硅酸盐熔体结构解释了组分对岩浆液态不溶混作用的影响。 相似文献
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李建康 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》2014,44(2):518-526
花岗岩浆液态不混溶作用和饱和H2O花岗岩浆的热液出溶作用是花岗岩类矿床成矿流体形成的重要机制。利用最新式热液金刚石压腔,开展了成矿流体形成机制的原位观测实验。在岩浆热液出溶过程的实验中,初始样品为各类硅酸盐和纯H2O或LiCl水溶液,在H2O饱和状态中,硅酸盐熔体珠不断分异出富H2O的流体。花岗岩浆液态不混溶实验的初始样品为NaAlSi3O8-LiAlSiO4-SiO2-LiCl-H2O。在硅酸盐完全重熔后的降温过程中,硅酸盐熔体珠分离出富H2O熔体相和贫H2O熔体相,压力的突然降低促进了相分离的发生。研究表明：岩浆热液的出溶作用发生在H2O饱和的条件下,是岩浆的“第二次”沸腾作用,对花岗岩型稀有金属矿床的形成具有重要意义;花岗岩浆液态不混溶产生的富H2O熔体易于结晶出粗大晶体,暗示岩浆液态不混溶作用可能是一些花岗伟晶岩形成的主要机制。两类成矿流体形成机制实验条件的差异表明,Li是花岗岩浆发生不混溶作用的重要因素。在今后的研究中,应把热液金刚石压腔的原位观测与微束分析技术结合,在高温高压状态下分析成矿元素的迁移和富集规律。 相似文献
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碳酸岩可分为原始地幔原生碳酸岩和广义“碳酸岩”——富氟钡型碳酸岩。相对于原生碳酸岩,富氟钡型碳酸岩含有大量挥发分和碱土元素,产出了众多稀土矿床,具有较高的成矿潜力。理论和实验研究表明,在碳酸岩岩浆演化过程中,挥发分和碱土元素是岩浆发生不混溶作用的关键因素,而且不混溶作用相对结晶分异作用更利于成矿元素的富集。因此,可以推断挥发分和碱土元素是富氟钡型碳酸岩的成矿的关键因素,不混溶模式是富氟钡型碳酸岩岩浆演化和成矿的主要机制。但是,这仅为理论推断的结果,而且许多实验的研究对象是未发生稀土矿化的碳酸岩,数据的说服力较弱。在我国富氟钡型碳酸岩矿床中,山东微山稀土矿床具有成矿元素高度富集,代表了富氟钡型碳酸岩成矿强度大的特点;而白云鄂博铁—稀土矿床则代表了富氟钡型碳酸岩成矿规模大的特点,二者相辅相成,是研究富氟钡型碳酸岩成矿效应的理想对象。 相似文献
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Jindrich Kynicky Martin P.Smith Wenlei Song Anton R.Chakhmouradian Cheng Xu Antonin Kopriva Michaela Vasinova Galiova Martin Brtnicky 《地学前缘(英文版)》2019,10(2):527-537
The Lugiin Gol nepheline syenite intrusion, Mongolia, hosts a range of carbonatite dikes mineralized in rare-earth elements(REE). Both carbonatites and nepheline syenite-fluorite-calcite veinlets are host to a previously unreported macroscale texture involving pseudo-graphic intergrowths of fluorite and calcite. The inclusions within calcite occur as either pure fluorite, with associated REE minerals within the surrounding calcite, or as mixed calcite-fluorite inclusions, with associated zirconosilicate minerals. Consideration of the nature of the texture, and the proportions of fluorite and calcite present(～29 and 71 mol%,respectively), indicates that these textures most likely formed either through the immiscible separation of carbonate and fluoride melts, or from cotectic crystallization of a carbonatefluoride melt. Laser ablation ICP-MS analyses show the pure fluorite inclusions to be depleted in REE relative to the calcite. A model is proposed, in which a carbonate-fluoride melt phase enriched in Zr and the REE, separated from a phonolitic melt, and then either unmixed or underwent cotectic crystallization to generate an REE-rich carbonate melt and an REE-poor fluoride phase. The separation of the fluoride phase(either solid or melt) may have contributed to the enrichment of the carbonate melt in REE, and ultimately its saturation with REE minerals. Previous data have suggested that carbonate melts separated from silicate melts are relatively depleted in the REE, and thus melt immiscibility cannot result in the formation of REE-enriched carbonatites. The observations presented here provide a mechanism by which this could occur, as under either model the textures imply initial separation of a mixed carbonate-fluoride melt from a silicate magma. The separation of an REEenriched carbonate-fluoride melt from phonolitic magma is a hitherto unrecognized mechanism for REE-enrichment in carbonatites, and may play an important role in the formation of shallow magmatic REE deposits. 相似文献
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This paper reviews the results of investigations of melt inclusions in minerals of carbonatites and spatially associated silicate rocks genetically related to various deep-seated undersaturated silicate magmas of alkaline ultrabasic, alkaline basic, lamproitic, and kimberlitic compositions. The analysis of this direct genetic information showed that all the deep magmas are inherently enriched in volatile components, the most abundant among which are carbon dioxide, alkalis, halides, sulfur, and phosphorus. The volatiles probably initially served as agents of mantle metasomatism and promoted melting in deep magma sources. The derived magmas became enriched in carbon dioxide, alkalis, and other volatile components owing to the crystallization and fractionation of early high-magnesium minerals and gradually acquired the characteristics of carbonated silicate liquids. When critical compositional parameters were reached, the accumulated volatiles catalyzed immiscibility, the magmas became heterogeneous, and two-phase carbonate-silicate liquid immiscibility occurred at temperatures of ≥1280–1250°C. The immiscibility was accompanied by the partitioning of elements: the major portion of fluid components partitioned together with Ca into the carbonate-salt fraction (parental carbonatite melt), and the silicate melt was correspondingly depleted in these components and became more silicic. After spatial separation, the silicate and carbonate-silicate melts evolved independently during slow cooling. Differentiation and fractionation were characteristic of silicate melts. The carbonatite melts became again heterogeneous within the temperature range from 1200 to 800–600°C and separated into immiscible carbonate-salt fractions of various compositions: alkali-sulfate, alkali-phosphate, alkali-fluoride, alkali-chloride, and Fe-Mg-Ca carbonate. In large scale systems, polyphase silicate-carbonate-salt liquid immiscibility is usually manifested during the slow cooling and prolonged evolution of deeply derived melts in the Earth’s crust. It may lead to the formation of various types of intrusive carbonatites: widespread calcite-dolomite and rare alkali-sulfate, alkali-phosphate, and alkali-halide rocks. The initial alkaline carbonatite melts can retain their compositions enriched in P, S, Cl, and F only at rapid eruption followed by instantaneous quenching. 相似文献
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The evolution of a carbonated nephelinitic magma can be followed by the study of a statistically significant number of melt inclusions, entrapped in co-precipitated perovskite, nepheline and magnetite in a clinopyroxene- and nepheline-rich rock (afrikandite) from Kerimasi volcano (Tanzania). Temperatures are estimated to be 1,100°C for the early stage of the melt evolution of the magma, which formed the rock. During evolution, the magma became enriched in CaO, depleted in SiO2 and Al2O3, resulting in immiscibility at ~1,050°C and crustal pressures (0.5–1 GPa) with the formation of three fluid-saturated melts: an alkali- and MgO-bearing, CaO- and FeO-rich silicate melt; an alkali- and F-bearing, CaO- and P2O5-rich carbonate melt; and a Cu–Fe sulfide melt. The sulfide and the carbonate melt could be physically separated from their silicate parent and form a Cu–Fe–S ore and a carbonatite rock. The separated carbonate melt could initially crystallize calciocarbonatite and ultimately become alkali rich in composition and similar to natrocarbonatite, demonstrating an evolution from nephelinite to natrocarbonatite through Ca-rich carbonatite magma. The distribution of major elements between perovskite-hosted coexisting immiscible silicate and carbonate melts shows strong partitioning of Ca, P and F relative to FeT, Si, Al, Mn, Ti and Mg in the carbonate melt, suggesting that immiscibility occurred at crustal pressures and plays a significant role in explaining the dominance of calciocarbonatites (sövites) relative to dolomitic or sideritic carbonatites. Our data suggest that Cu–Fe–S compositions are characteristic of immiscible sulfide melts originating from the parental silicate melts of alkaline silicate–carbonatite complexes. 相似文献
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Carbonatites are believed to have crystallized either from mantle-derived primary carbonate magmas or from secondary melts
derived from carbonated silicate magmas through liquid immiscibility or from residual melts of fractional crystallization
of silicate magmas. Although the observed coexistence of carbonatites and alkaline silicate rocks in most complexes, their
coeval emplacement in many, and overlapping initial87Sr/86Sr and143Nd/144Nd ratios are supportive of their cogenesis; there have been few efforts to devise a quantitative method to identify the magmatic
processes. In the present study we have made an attempt to accomplish this by modeling the trace element contents of carbonatites
and coeval alkaline silicate rocks of Amba Dongar complex, India. Trace element data suggest that the carbonatites and alkaline
silicate rocks of this complex are products of fractional crystallization of two separate parental melts. Using the available
silicate melt-carbonate melt partition coefficients for various trace elements, and the observed data from carbonatites, we
have tried to simulate trace element distribution pattern for the parental silicate melt. The results of the modeling not
only support the hypothesis of silicate-carbonate melt immiscibility for the evolution of Amba Dongar but also establish a
procedure to test the above hypothesis in such complexes. 相似文献
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火成碳酸岩的实验岩石学研究及对地球深部碳循环的意义 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
火成碳酸岩是地表出露较少的幔源岩石之一。实验岩石学研究表明碳酸盐化的橄榄岩和循环的地壳物质(如碳酸盐化榴辉岩或泥质岩)的低程度(<1%)部分熔融均可以产生碳酸岩质的熔体,其中碳酸盐化泥质岩具有最低的熔融温度且更加富碱质、CO2和不相容元素;富CO2的霞石质等硅酸盐岩浆也可以通过不混溶或分离结晶作用产生碳酸岩,用于解释碳酸岩在空间中常与碱性硅酸岩的共生关系。由于碳酸岩熔体具有极低的粘度和高的活性,形成后在上升过程中会将二辉橄榄岩转变为异剥橄榄岩,是引起地幔交代作用和地幔地球化学不均一性的重要介质之一。实验表明在俯冲作用过程中,大多数的碳酸盐在位于岛弧之下的含水熔融并不分解而是被带入到深部地幔并且稳定存在,含碳地幔的熔融又会形成碳酸岩质的熔体,这说明俯冲循环物质可能对碳酸岩的成因也起着重要的作用。然而,对于碳酸岩的初始熔体成分、岩浆演化、地幔交代作用、成矿特征以及碳从地球深部返回到地表的途径和过程等都存在着很大的争议。我国火成碳酸岩出露相对较多,分布广泛,因此,加强我国碳酸岩以及伴生硅酸岩的成因研究,同时开展与碳酸岩相关的实验岩石学工作,不仅可以检验现有的成因理论,而且有助于提高我国对火成碳酸岩的研究水平;由于其特殊的成因背景,还可为许多存在很大争议的重大地质事件提供新的科学依据。 相似文献
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Melt inclusions in clinopyroxenes of olivine foidite bombs from Serra di Constantinopoli pyroclastic flows of the Vulture volcano (Southern Italy) were studied in detail. The rocks contain abundant zoned phenocrysts and xenocrysts of clinopyroxene, scarce grains of olivine, leucite, haüyne, glass with microlites of plagioclase and K-feldspar. The composition of clinopyroxene in xenocrysts (Cpx I), cores (Cpx II), and in rims (Cpx III) of phenocrysts differs in the content of Mg, Fe, Ti, and Al. All clinopyroxenes contain two types of primary inclusion-pure silicate and of silicate-carbonate-salt composition. This fact suggests that the phenomena of silicate-carbonate immiscibility took place prior to crystallization of clinopyroxene. Homogenization of pure silicate inclusions proceeded at 1 225 – 1 190°C. The composition of conserved melts corresponded to that of olivine foidite in Cpx I, to tephrite-phonolite in Cpx II, and phonolite-nepheline trachyte in Cpx III. The amount of water in them was no more than 0.9 wt.%. Silicate-carbonate inclusions decrepitated on heating. Salt globules contained salts of alkali-sulphate, alkali-carbonate, and Ca-carbonate composition somewhat enriched in Ba and Sr. This composition is typical of carbonatite melts when decomposed into immiscible fractions. The formation of sodalite-haüyne rocks from Vulture is related to the presence of carbonate-salt melts in magma chamber. The melts conserved in clinopyroxenes were enriched in incompatible elements, especially in Cpx III. High ratios of La, Nb, and Ta in melts on crystallization of Cpx I and Cpx II suggest the influence of a carbonatite melt as carbonatites have extremely high La/Nb and Nb/Ta and this is confirmed by the appearance of carbonatite melts in magma chamber. Some anomalies in the concentrations and relatives values of Eu and especially Ga seems typical of Italian carbonatite related melts. The mantle source for initial melts was, most likely, rather uniform, undepleted and was characterized by a low degree of melting and probable presence of garnet in restite. 相似文献
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Tapira is an alkaline silicate–carbonatite complex belonging to the kamafugite-carbonatite association in the Late-Cretaceous Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province (APIP). It is dominated by coarse-grained plutonic rocks (bebedourite – a phlogopite-, apatite-, and perovskite-rich clinopyroxenite – with subordinated dunites, wehrlites, carbonatites and phoscorites). The plutonic rocks are crosscut by fine-grained ultramafic alkaline rocks (phlogopite picrites, bebedouritic dikes) and fine-grained carbonatites. Both types of dike-rocks show petrographic evidence of the coexistence of immiscible silicate and carbonatite liquids, such as carbonate ocelli present in the silicate rocks and, more rarely, silicate ocelli within carbonatites. A detailed geochemical study of the rock types in the complex, with emphasis on the fine-grained varieties, showed that whilst some rocks may be related to each other through crystal fractionation (e.g. phlogopite picrites and bebedouritic dikes), others display anomalous trace-element behaviour that cannot be readily explained by the fractionation of a particular phase or combination of phases. We interpret such anomalous geochemical signatures as produced by silicate–carbonate liquid immiscibility, on the basis of available experimental data on partition coefficients between coexisting immiscible liquids. The immiscibility signatures comprise: (a) decoupling of geochemical pairs, such as Nb–Ta and Zr–Hf; (b) rotation of REE patterns, which cross over the patterns of the primitive liquids; and (c) matching and opposite enrichment-depletion trace elements relationships in spider diagrams of conjugate immiscible liquids. We suggest that, once established, such geochemical signatures are very difficult to erase during the subsequent petrogenetic evolution processes, which may result in superimposed conflicting signatures. 相似文献
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The study of melt microinclusions in olivine megacrysts from meimechites and alkali picrites of the Maimecha–Kotui alkali ultramafic and carbonatite province (Polar Siberia) revealed that the melt compositions corrected for loss of olivine due to post-entrapment crystallization of olivine on inclusion walls (differentiates of primary meimechite magma) match well to the composition of nephelinites and olivine melilitites belonging to carbonatite magmatic series. Modeling of fractional crystallization of meimechite magmas results in the high-alkali melt compositions corresponding to the silicate–carbonate liquid immiscibility field. The appearance of volatile-rich melts at the base of magma-generating plume systems at early stages of partial melting can be explained by extraction of incompatible elements including volatiles, by near-solidus melts at low degrees of partial melting, and meimechites are an example of such magmas. Subsequent accumulation of CO2 in the residual melt results in generation of carbonate magma. 相似文献
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I. T. Rass S. S. Abramov V. A. Utenkov V. M. Kozlovskii D. I. Korpechkov 《Geochemistry International》2006,44(7):636-655
In most alkaline-ultrabasic-carbonatite ring complexes, the distribution of trace elements in the successive derivatives of mantle magmas is usually controlled by the Rayleigh equation of fractional crystallization in accordance with their partition coefficients, whereas, that of late derivatives, nepheline syenites and carbonatites, is usually consistent with trends characteristic of silicate-carbonate liquid immiscibility. In contrast to the carbonatites of ring complexes, carbonatites from deep-seated linear zones have no genetic relation with alkaline-ultrabasic magmatism, and the associated alkaline rocks are represented only by the nepheline syenite eutectic association. The geochemical study of magmatic rocks from the Vishnevye Gory nepheline syenite-carbonatite complex (Urals), which is assigned to the association of deep-seated linear zones, showed that neither differentiation of a parental melt nor liquid immiscibility could produce the observed trace element distribution (Sr, Rb, REE, and Nb) in miaskites and carbonatites. Judging from the available fragmentary experimental data, the distribution patterns can be regarded as possible indicators of element fractionation between alkaline carbonate fluid and alkaline melt. Such trace element distribution is presumably controlled by a fluid-melt interaction; it was also observed in carbonatites and alkaline rocks of some ring complexes, and its scarcity can be explained by the lower density of aqueous fluid released from magma at shallower depths. 相似文献
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Hf, Zr and Ti in carbonatites primarily reside in their non-carbonate fraction while the carbonate fraction dominates the Nd and Sr elemental budget of the whole rock. A detailed investigation of the Hf, Nd and Sr isotopic compositions shows frequent isotopic disequilibrium between the carbonate and non-carbonate fractions. We suggest that the trace element and isotopic composition of the carbonate fraction better represents that of the carbonatite magma, which in turn better reflects the composition of the carbonatitic source. Experimental partitioning data between carbonatite melt and peridotitic mineralogy suggest that the Lu/Hf ratio of the carbonatite source will be equal to or greater than the Lu/Hf ratio of the carbonatite. This, combined with the Hf isotope systematics of carbonatites, suggests that, if carbonatites are primary mantle melts, then their sources must be short-lived features in the mantle (maximum age of 10–30 Ma), otherwise they would develop extremely radiogenic Hf compositions. Alternatively, if carbonatites are products of extreme crystal fractionation or liquid immiscibility then the lack of radiogenic initial Hf isotope compositions also suggests that their sources do not have long-lived Hf depletions. We present a model in which the carbonatite source is created in the sublithospheric mantle by the crystallization of earlier carbonatitic melts from a mantle plume. This new source melts shortly after its formation by the excess heat provided by the approaching hotter center of the plume and/or the subsequent ascending silicate melts. This model explains the HIMU-EMI isotope characteristics of the East African carbonatites, their high LREE/HREE ratios as well as the rarity of carbonatites in the oceanic lithosphere. 相似文献