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Evolution of the Kap Edvard Holm Complex: a Mafic Intrusion at a Rifted Continental Margin |
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| Authors: | BERNSTEIN STEFAN; KELEMEN PETER B; BROOKS C KENT |
| Institution: | 1DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE STER VOLDGADE 10, DK-1350 COPENHAGEN K, DENMARK 2WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION WOODS HOLE, MA 02543, USA 3GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN STER VOLDGADE 10, DK-1350 COPENHAGEN K, DENMARK |
| Abstract: | The Kap Edvard Holm Layered Series forms part of the East GreenlandTertiary Province, and was emplaced at shallow crustal level(at depths corresponding to a pressure of 1–2 kbar) duringcontinental break-up. It consists of two suites: a gabbro suitecomprising olivine and oxide gabbros, leucocratic olivine gabbrosand anorthosites, and a suite of wehrlites that formed fromthe intrusion of the gabbros during their solidification bya hydrous, high-MgO magma. Ion microprobe analyses of clinopyroxenereveal chemical contrasts between the parental melt of the wehrlitesuite and that of the gabbro suite. Thin sills (1–2 mthick) of the wehrlite suite, however, have clinopyroxene compositionssimilar to the gabbro suite, and were formed by interactionwith interstitial melts from the host layered gabbros. All evolvedmembers of the gabbro suite have elevated Nd, Zr and Sr concentrationsand Nd/Yb ratios, relative to the melt parental to the gabbrosuite. These characteristics are attributed to establishmentof a magma chamber at depths corresponding to a pressure of10 kbar, where melts evolved before injection into the low-pressuremagma chamber. Anorthosites of the gabbro suite are believedto have crystallized from such injections. The melts becamesupersaturated in plagioclase by the pressure release that followedtransportation to the low-pressure magma chamber after initialfractionation at  10 kbar. The most evolved gabbros formed bysubsequent fractionation within the low-pressure magma chamber.Our results indicate that high-pressure fractionation may beimportant in generating some of the lithological variationsin layered intrusions. KEY WORDS: fractionation; ion microprobe; layered intrusions; rift processes; trace elements
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