Carbonatitic melts along the solidus of model lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 from 3 to 7 GPa |
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| Authors: | John A Dalton Dean C Presnall |
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| Institution: | (1) Magmalogy Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, U.S.A. Telephone: 972-883-6396, Fax: 972-883-2537 E-mail: dalton@utdallas.edu, US |
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| Abstract: | We have experimentally determined the solidus position of model lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-CO2 (CMAS.CO2) from 3 to 7 GPa by locating isobaric invariant points where liquid coexists with olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene,
garnet and carbonate. The intersection of two subsolidus reactions at the solidus involving carbonate generates two invariant
points, I1A and I2A, which mark the transition from CO2-bearing to dolomite-bearing and dolomite-bearing to magnesite-bearing lherzolite respectively. In CMAS.CO2, we find I1A at 2.6 GPa/1230 °C and I2A at 4.8 GPa/1320 °C. The variation of all phase compositions along the solidus has also been determined. In the pressure range
investigated, solidus melts are carbonatitic with SiO2 contents of <6 wt%, CO2 contents of ˜45 wt%, and Ca/(Ca+Mg) ratios that range from 0.59 (3 GPa) to 0.45 (7 GPa); compositionally they resemble natural
magnesiocarbonatites. Volcanic magnesiocarbonatites may well be an example of the eruption of such melts directly from their
mantle source region as evidenced by their diatremic style of activity and lack of associated silicate magmas. Our data in
the CMAS.CO2 system show that in a carbonate-bearing mantle, solidus and near-solidus melts will be CO2-rich and silica poor. The widespread evidence for the presence of CO2 in both the oceanic and continental upper mantle implies that such low degree SiO2-poor carbonatitic melts are common in the mantle, despite the rarity of carbonatites themselves at the Earth's surface.
Received: 9 April 1997 / Accepted: 25 November 1997 |
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