The effects of variable bulk composition on the melting systematics of fertile peridotitic assemblages |
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| Authors: | J Pickering-Witter A D Johnston |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geological Sciences, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA e-mail: witter@geology.ucdavis.edu Tel.: +1-530-7525041; Fax: +1-530-7520951, US |
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| Abstract: | Experiments were conducted at 1 GPa on four starting materials to investigate the effects of variable mineral proportions
on the melting systematics of compositionally fertile peridotitic assemblages. Starting materials were constructed by recombining
Kilbourne Hole xenolith mineral separates by weight into four mixtures with mineral proportions olivine (Ol): orthopyroxene
(Opx): clinopyroxene (Cpx): spinel (Sp) of 0.50:0.07:0.40:0.03 (FER-B), 0.50:0.46:0.01:0.03 (FER-C), 0.50:0.30:0.10:0.10 (FER-D),
and 0.50:0.235:0.235: 0.03 (FER-E). Experiments were performed on a 1.27-cm (0.5 in.) piston-cylinder apparatus over the temperature
interval 1270–1390 °C, using a variation of the diamond aggregate melt extraction technique employing vitreous carbon spheres
in place of diamonds as the melt extraction layer. The solidus temperatures are similar for all the starting materials, with
an average value of 1250 °C. In FER-D and -E, the near-solidus melting reaction for a lherzolite assemblage was determined
to be of the form Cpx + Opx + Sp → melt + Ol. A subsequent reaction of the form Opx + Sp → melt + Ol was determined for FER-D
after the exhaustion of Cpx. Over the entire temperature interval investigated for FER-B and -C, reactions were determined
to be of the form Cpx + Sp → melt + Ol and Opx + Sp → melt + Ol, respectively. Melt percent (F) vs temperature (T) curves
are concave up for all starting materials, demonstrating that isobaric melt productivity increases with progressive batch
melting. At any given melt fraction, (dF/dT)P increases with increasing amount of Cpx in the starting material, indicating that the modal proportion of Cpx is one of the
primary controls on isobaric melt productivity of upwelling peridotite. The concave up melt productivity functions for peridotitic
assemblages determined in this study suggest that assuming linear or concave down melt productivity functions for modeling
mantle melting may not be appropriate.
Received: 2 August 1999 / Accepted: 7 June 2000 |
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