Chemical variations of abyssal peridotites in the central Oman ophiolite: Evidence of oceanic mantle heterogeneity |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan;2. Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516, Egypt;3. Department of Natural History Science, Hokkaido University, Japan;1. Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Kafrelsheikh University, El-Geish Street, 33516 Kafrelsheikh, Egypt;2. Department of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan;1. School of Earth Sciences, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran;2. Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan;3. Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt;4. Geosciences Dept., University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA;5. Northern Center for Isotopic and Elemental Tracing, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;1. Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n, 18002 Granada, Spain;2. Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Avenida de las Palmeras 4, 18100 Armilla, Granada, Spain;3. Departament de Cristal·Lografia, Mineralogia i Dipòsits Minerals, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;4. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA;1. Department of Earth Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan;2. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan;3. Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan;4. The Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, N10 W8 Kitaku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan;5. Department of Natural History Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8 Kitaku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Basal peridotites above the metamorphic sole outcropped around Wadi Sarami in the central Oman ophiolite give us an excellent opportunity to understand the spatial extent of the mantle heterogeneity and to examine peridotites?slab interactions. We recognized two types of basal lherzolites (Types I and II) that change upward to harzburgites. Their pyroxene and spinel compositions display severely variations at small scales over < 0.5 km, and encompass the entire abyssal peridotite trend; clinopyroxenes (Cpxs) show wide ranges of Al2O3, Na2O, Cr2O3 and TiO2 contents. Primary spinels show a large variation of Cr# = Cr/(Cr + Al)] from 0.04 to 0.53, indicating various degrees of partial melting. Trace-element compositions of peridotites and their pyroxenes also show a large chemical heterogeneity in the base of the Oman mantle section. This heterogeneity mainly resulted from variations of partial-melting degrees due to the change of a mantle thermal regime and a distance from the spreading ridge or the mantle diapir. It was overlapped with subsolidus modification during cooling and fluid metasomatism prior and/or during emplacement. The studied peridotites are enriched in Rb, Cs, Ba, Sr and LREE due to fluid influx during detachment and emplacement stages. Chondrite (CI)-normalized REE patterns for pyroxenes are convex upward with strong LREE depletion due to their residual origin, similar to abyssal peridotites from a normal ridge segment. The Cpxs are enriched in fluid mobile elements (e.g., B, Li, Cs, Pb, Rb) and depleted in HFSE (Ta, Nb, Th, Zr) + LREE, suggesting no effect of melt refertilization. Their HREE contents, combined with spinel compositions, suggest two melting series with 1–5% melting for type II lherzolites, 3– < 10% melting for type I lherzolites and ~ 15% for harzburgites. Hornblendes are enriched in fluid-mobile elements relative to HFSE + U inherited from their precursor Cpx. The clinopyroxenite lens crosscuts the basal lherzolites, forming small-scale (< 5 cm) mineralogical and chemical heterogeneities. It was possibly formed from fractional crystallization of interstitial incremental melt that formed during decompression melting of a normal MORB mantle source. The studied peridotites possibly represent a chemical heterogeneity common to the mantle at an oceanic spreading center. |
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