Melt Enrichment of Shallow Depleted Mantle: a Detailed Petrological, Trace Element and Isotopic Study of Mantle-Derived Xenoliths and Megacrysts from the Cameroon Line |
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Authors: | LEE DER-CHUEN; HALLIDAY ALEX N; DAVIES GARETH R; ESSENE ERIC J; FITTON J GODFREY; TEMDJIM ROBERT |
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Institution: | 1DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2534 C. G. LITTLE BUILDING, ANN ARBOR, MI 481091063, USA
2FACULTEIT DER AARDWETENSCHAPPEN, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT 1081 HV AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
3DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH EDINBURGH EH93JW, UK
4DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE YAOUNDE, CAMEROON |
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Abstract: | Major element, trace element and SrNdPb isotopiccompositions of ultramafic xenoliths and megacrysts from thecontinental Cameroon line provide evidence for metasomatismof the upper most lithospheric mantle by enriched melts duringthe Mesozoic The megacrysts probably crystallized within thelower continental crust from melts similar to the host magmas.All the xenoliths originated as depleted residues after theextraction of basaltic melts, but some indicate evidence ofinteraction with enriched partial melts before entrainment.The UPb isotopic data on garnet are consistent with coolingthrough >900C at >300 Ma. The SmNd isotope systematicsin constituent phases appear to have been in equilibrium ona xenolith scale at the time of entrainment, indicating derivationfrom mantle that remained at temperatures >600C until eruption.Spinel therzolies that show simple light rare earth element(LREE) depletions are characterized by isotopic compositionsthat are comparable with, but slightly more depleted than AtlanticN-MORB, suggesting that the unmetasomatized sub-continentallithosphere of the Cameroon line may be isotopically similarto that of sub-oceanic lithosphere. The Nd-depleted mantle modelages of these xenoliths are consistent with late Proterozoicdepletion, similar in age to much of the overlying continentalcrust. In contrast, samples that have LREE-enriched clinopyr-oxenes(La/Yb =4.79.4) contain trace amounts of amphibole, areenriched in U and have more radiogenic Pb and Sr. These xenolithsyield UPb and SmNd model ages consistent withMesozoic enrichment, in agreement with the age of enrichmentof the source regions of the basalts, as deduced from Pb isotopiccompositions. Clinopyroxenes record three orders of magnitudeenrichment in U and LREE accompanied by progressive K depletionassociated with the growth of trace amphibole, with K/U ratiosthat range from 12000 to 1. The ratios of the trace elementsthought to have similar bulk D in mantle melting, Ce/Pb, Ba/Rband Nd/Sr ratios, display regional variations related to thetime integrated history of enrichments indicated by Nd isotopiccompositions. Mass balance calculations suggest that the meltsresponsible for the most recent enrichment of the lithospherehad higher La/Yb and U/Pb than Cameroon line host magmas, andwere probably the product of small degrees of partial meltingassociated with the earliest stages of the breakup of Pangea. KEY WORDS: Cameroon line; mantle xenoliths; megacrysts; REE; isotopic composition; trace element |
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