New experimental determination of Li and B partition coefficients during upper mantle partial melting |
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| Authors: | Luisa Ottolini Didier Laporte Nicola Raffone Jean-Luc Devidal Brieuc Le Fèvre |
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| Institution: | (1) CNR-Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse (IGG), Sezione di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy;(2) Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, CNRS and Université Blaise Pascal, OPGC, 5 rue Kessler, 63038 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France;(3) Present address: rue Molière, 22000 St-Brieuc, France |
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| Abstract: | Despite the growing interest for Li and B as geochemical tracers, especially for material transfer from subducting slabs to
overlying peridotites, little is known about the behaviour of these two elements during partial melting of mantle sources.
In particular, mineral/melt partition coefficients for B and to a lesser extent Li are still a matter of debate. In this work,
we re-equilibrated a synthetic basalt doped with ~10 ppm B and ~6 ppm Li with an olivine powder from a spinel lherzolite xenolith
at 1 GPa–1,330°C, and we analyzed Li and B in the run products by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). In our experiment,
B behaved as a highly incompatible element with mineral/melt partition coefficients of the order of 10−2 (D
ol/melt = 0.008 (0.004–0.013); D
opx/melt = 0.024 (0.015–0.033); D
cpx/melt = 0.041 (0.021–0.061)), and Li as a moderately incompatible element (D
ol/melt = 0.427 (0.418–0.436); D
opx/melt = 0.211 (0.167–0.256); D
cpx/melt = 0.246 (0.229–0.264)). Our partition coefficients for Li are in good agreement with previous determinations. In the case
of B, our partition coefficients are equal within error to those reported by Brenan et al. (1998) for all the mineral phases analyzed, but are lower than other coefficients from literature for some of the phases (up to
5 times for cpx). Our measurements complement the data set of Ds for modelling partial melting of the upper mantle and basalt generation, and confirm that, in this context, B is more incompatible
than previously anticipated. |
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| Keywords: | Lithium Boron Partition coefficients Upper mantle conditions SIMS |
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