Significance of rare hydrous alkaline melts in Hawaiian xenoliths |
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| Authors: | Gautam Sen Andrew Macfarlane N Srimal |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geology, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199, USA, US |
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| Abstract: | Two types of melt pockets occur in Hawaiian mantle xenoliths: amphibole-bearing (AMP) and spinel-bearing (SMP). AMPs contain
amphibole (kaersutite), olivine (Fo92), clinopyroxene (with 7–11% Al2O3), vesicles and glass. SMPs contain olivine, clinopyroxene, spinel, glass, and vesicles. The glasses in SMPs (SiO2=44–45%, 11–12% alkalis, La=90–110 ppm) and AMPs (SiO2=49–54%, 6–8.5% alkalis, La=8–14 ppm) are distinct in color and composition. Both glasses are generally characterized by LREE-enriched
(chondrite-normalized) patterns. Amphibole and clinopyroxene have gently convex upward-to-moderately LREE-enriched patterns.
Mineral/glass trace element abundance ratio plots show a strong negative Ti anomaly and a gentle negative Zr anomaly for clinopyroxene/glass;
whereas amphibole/glass patterns show a distinctive positive Ti spike. The amphibole/glass trace element ratios are similar
to published megacryst/lava values. An earlier study showed that the Hawaiian spinel lherzolites (lithosphere) have largely
been metasomatized during post-erosional Honolulu magmatic activity. REE abundances of SMP glasses (melts) overlap the REE
abundances calculated for such metasomes. The occurrence of hydrous, alkaline, mafic melt pockets in Hawaiian upper mantle
xenoliths implies that (1) such hydrous liquids are generated in the upper mantle, and (2) water plays a role in magmatic
activity associated with the Hawaiian plume. Although we are uncertain about the source (plume, lithosphere, or asthenosphere)
of this water, we speculate that such melts and other alkalic lavas erupted on Oahu and on the sea-floor over the Hawaiian
arch were generated from a broad „wet“ rim of a radially layered Hawaiian plume, whose hot and „dry“ core supplied the shield-forming
magmas.
Received: 6 February 1995 / Accepted: 28 August 1995 |
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