Simulation of primary phase relations and mineral compositions in the Partridge River intrusion,Duluth Complex,Minnesota: implications for the parent magma composition |
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| Authors: | Christopher I Chalokwu Norman K Grant Alexei A Ariskin Galina S Barmina |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geology, Auburn University, 36849 Auburn, AL, USA;(2) Department of Geology, Miami University, 45056 Oxford, OH, USA;(3) Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Kosygin 19, Moscow, Russia |
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| Abstract: | In order to describe the composition and crystallinity of the initial (parental) magma of the Partridge River intrusion of the Keweenawan Duluth Complex, and thereby understand the mode of emplacement and solidification of the intrusion, we have applied a numerical simulation technique called geochemical thermometry (Frenkel et al. 1988). The parental magma was a low-alumina, high-Ti-P olivine tholeiite similar to typical Keweenawan low-alumina, high-Ti-P basalts associated with the Duluth Complex and from the nearby Portage Lake area of the Lake Superior region. The parental magma was emplaced as a crystal-liquid suspension, followed by chilling of an evolved, leading edge ferrodioritic liquid in the basal zone of the intrusion. The conditions of emplacement at the present crustal location were  1,150°C, 2 kbar, and f
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2 slightly above the wustite-magnetite (WM) buffer. The main differentiation process after emplacement was the sorting and redistribution of plagioclase and olivine crystals on a local scale accompanied by less efficient convection and minor settling of olivine. Calculated crystallization sequence for the parental magma is olivine+plagioclase (1,240°C) olivine+plagioclase+magnetite (1,146°C, WM+0.5)olivine+plagioclase+magnetite+augite (1,140°C, WM+0.5). The calculated compositions of the cumulus olivine and plagioclase in equilibrium with the parent magma at 1,150°C are Fo66.7±1.1 and An64.5±2.5, respectively, and are similar to the estimated average composition of primary olivine (Fo69.1±2.8) and the average composition of plagioclase core (An66.3±2.8) measured in drill core samples through the intrusion (Chalokwu and Grant 1987). |
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