Sr isotopes in peridotite xenoliths and their basaltic host rocks from the northern Hessian Depression (NW Germany) |
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| Authors: | K Mengel U Kramm K H Wedepohl E Gohn |
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| Institution: | (1) Geochemisches Institut der Universität Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1, D-3400 Göttingen, Germany;(2) Institut für Mineralogie der Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 24, D-4400 Münster, Germany |
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| Abstract: | 87Sr/86Sr ratios of alkali olivine basalts, nepheline basanites and olivine nephelinites of Miocene age from the northern Hessian Depression vary between 0.7032 and 0.7036. Tholeiitic rocks from this area, which are possibly affected by crustal contamination, have more radiogenic Sr (0.7035 to 0.7042). Peridotite xenoliths with coarse protogranular (10 samples) and with porphyroclastic textures (2 samples) contain K- and Na-rich glasses which are products of reaction of metasomatic fluids with depleted peridotite. The Sr abundance in xenoliths is related to the amount of glass (and phlogopite).Sr ranges from 11 ppm to 147 ppm and 87Sr/86Sr ratios from 0.7033 to 0.7039. The isotopic ratios are neither correlated with Sr concentrations nor with Rb/Sr ratios. 87Sr/ 86Sr ratios of etched clinopyroxenes range from 0.7028 to 0.7040. In some xenoliths, clinopyroxenes differ from the whole rock samples significantly in their isotopic composition.If almost all of the pre-metasomatic Sr was located in the clinopyroxenes, the metasomatically introduced Sr ranges from 35 to 80% of the whole rock Sr. The calculated isotopic composition ranges from 0.7033 to 0.7040 for the majority of the xenoliths. For two pyroxenes which are not in isotopic equilibrium with the whole rock, the age of the metasomatic event could be estimated on the base of diffusion of Sr in clinopyroxene. Even assuming a diffusion coefficient as low as 10–15 cm2s–1 the time between the metasomatic alteration and the eruption of the basaltic host magma must be shorter than 1 Ma.The 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the basalts are interpreted as products of mixtures of a depleted component ( 0.7028) and metasomatic fluids (0.7035–0.7053) in their source peridotite. |
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