The pressure and temperature conditions and timing of glass formation in mantle-derived xenoliths from Baarley, West Eifel, Germany: the case for amphibole breakdown, lava infiltration and mineral – melt reaction |
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| Authors: | C S J Shaw A Klügel |
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| Institution: | Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universit?t Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany, DE
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universit?t Bremen, Federal Republic of Germany, DE
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| Abstract: | Summary Mantle-derived xenoliths from Baarley in the Quaternary West Eifel volcanic field contain six distinct varieties of glass
in veins, selvages and pools. 1) Silica-undersaturated glass rich in zoned clinopyroxene microlites that forms jackets around
and veins within the xenoliths. This glass is compositionally similar to groundmass glass in the host basanite. 2) Silica-undersaturated
alkaline glass that contains microlites of Cr-diopside, olivine and spinel associated with amphibole in peridotites. This
glass locally contains corroded primary spinel and phlogopite. 3) Silica-undersaturated glass associated with diopside, spinel ± olivine
and rh?nite microlites in partly to completely broken down amphibole grains in clinopyroxenites. 4) Silica-undersaturated
to silica-saturated, potassic glass in microlite-rich fringes around phlogopite grains in peridotite. 5) Silica-undersaturated
potassic glass in glimmerite xenoliths. 6) Silica-rich glass around partly dissolved orthopyroxene crystals in peridotites.
Geothermometry of orthopyroxene–clinopyroxene pairs (P = 1.5 GPa) gives temperatures of ∼ 850 °C for unveined xenoliths to
950–1020 °C for veined xenoliths. Clinopyroxene – melt thermobarometry shows that Cr-diopside – type 2 glass pairs in harzburgite
formed at 1.4 to 1.1 GPa and ∼ 1250 °C whereas Cr-diopside – type 2 glass pairs in wehrlite formed at 0.9 to 0.7 GPa and 1120–1200 °C.
This bimodal distribution in pressure and temperature suggests that harzburgite xenoliths may have been entrained at greater
depth than wehrlite xenoliths.
Glass in the Baarley xenoliths has three different origins: infiltration of an early host melt different in composition from
the erupted host basanite; partial melting of amphibole; reaction of either of these melts with xenolith minerals. The composition
of type 1 glass suggests that jackets are accumulations of relatively evolved host magma. Mass balance modelling of the type
2 glass and its microlites indicates that it results from breakdown of disseminated amphibole and reaction of the melt with
the surrounding xenolith minerals. Type 3 glass in clinopyroxenite xenoliths is the result of breakdown of amphibole at low
pressure. Type 4 and 5 glass formed by reaction between phlogopite and type 2 melt or jacket melt. Type 6 glass associated
with orthopyroxene is due to the incongruent dissolution of orthopyroxene by any of the above mentioned melts.
Compositional gradients in xenolith olivine adjacent to type 2 glass pools and jacket glass can be modelled as Fe–Mg interdiffusion
profiles that indicate melt – olivine contact times between 0.5 and 58 days. Together with the clinopyroxene – melt thermobarometry
calculations these data suggest that the glass (melt) formed over a short time due to decompression melting of amphibole and
infiltration of evolved host melt. None of the glass in these xenoliths can be directly related to metasomatism or any other
process that occurred insitu in the mantle.
Received November 23, 1999; revised version accepted September 5, 2001 |
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