Primary fluids entrapped at blueschist to eclogite transition: evidence from the Tianshan meta-subduction complex in northwestern China |
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| Authors: | Jun Gao Reiner Klemd |
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| Institution: | Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Postfach 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany,
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| Abstract: | Orthopyroxene and olivine exposed along the rim of a harzburgite xenolith from La Palma (Canary Islands) show polycrystalline selvages and diffusion zones that result from contact with mafic, alkaline, silica-undersaturated melts during at least 10-100 years before eruption. The zoned selvages consist of a fine-grained reaction rim towards the xenolith and a coarser grained, cumulate-like layer towards the melt contact. The diffusion zones are characterized by decreasing magnesium number from about 89-91 in the xenolith interior to 79-85 at the rims, and clearly result from Fe-Mg exchange with surrounding mafic melt. The width of the diffusion zones is 80-200 µm in orthopyroxene and 1,020-1,730 µm in olivine. Orthopyroxene also shows decreasing Al2O3 and Cr2O3 and increasing MnO and TiO2 towards the reaction rims. Textural relations and comparisons with dissolution experiments suggest that orthopyroxene dissolution by silica-undersaturated melt essentially ceased after days to weeks of melt contact, possibly because of decreasing temperature and formation of the reaction rims. The short dissolution phase was followed by prolonged growth of diffusion zones through cation exchange between xenolith minerals and melt across the reaction rims, and by the growth of cumulus crystals. The observations indicate that orthopyroxene xenocrysts and harzburgite xenoliths can survive in mafic, silica-undersaturated, subliquidus magmas at 1,050-1,200 °C and 200-800 MPa for tens of years. Modeling and comparison of the diffusion zones indicate that the average Fe-Mg interdiffusion coefficient DFeMg in orthopyroxene is 2 log units lower than that in olivine; at 1,130 °C and QFM-buffered oxygen fugacity, DFeMgopx = 3 ×10 - 19 m2 s- 1D_{FeMg}^{opx} = 3 \times 10^{ - 19} \,{\rm m}^2 \,{\rm s}^{{\rm - 1}} . The new data overlap well with recently published data for DFeMg in diopside, and indicate that DFeMg opxD_{FeMg\,}^{opx} (as predicted by previous authors) may be extrapolated to higher temperatures and oxygen fugacities. It is suggested that DFeMg opx D_{FeMg\,}^{opx} and DFeMg in Mn-poor ferromagnesian garnet are similar within 0.5 log units at temperatures between 1,050 and 1,200 °C. |
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