Experimental phase and melting relations of metapelite in the upper mantle: implications for the petrogenesis of intraplate magmas |
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| Authors: | Carl Spandler Greg Yaxley David H Green Dean Scott |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia;(2) Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
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| Abstract: | We performed a series of piston-cylinder experiments on a synthetic pelite starting material over a pressure and temperature
range of 3.0–5.0 GPa and 1,100–1,600°C, respectively, to examine the melting behaviour and phase relations of sedimentary
rocks at upper mantle conditions. The anhydrous pelite solidus is between 1,150 and 1,200°C at 3.0 GPa and close to 1,250°C
at 5.0 GPa, whereas the liquidus is likely to be at 1,600°C or higher at all investigated pressures, giving a large melting
interval of over 400°C. The subsolidus paragenesis consists of quartz/coesite, feldspar, garnet, kyanite, rutile, ±clinopyroxene
±apatite. Feldspar, rutile and apatite are rapidly melted out above the solidus, whereas garnet and kyanite are stable to
high melt fractions (>70%). Clinopyroxene stability increases with increasing pressure, and quartz/coesite is the sole liquidus
phase at all pressures. Feldspars are relatively Na-rich K/(K + Na) = 0.4–0.5] at 3.0 GPa, but are nearly pure K-feldspar
at 5.0 GPa. Clinopyroxenes are jadeite and Ca-eskolaite rich, with jadeite contents increasing with pressure. All supersolidus
experiments produced alkaline dacitic melts with relatively constant SiO2 and Al2O3 contents. At 3.0 GPa, initial melting is controlled almost exclusively by feldspar and quartz, giving melts with K2O/Na2O ~1. At 4.0 and 5.0 GPa, low-fraction melting is controlled by jadeite-rich clinopyroxene and K-rich feldspar, which leads
to compatible behaviour of Na and melts with K2O/Na2O ≫ 1. Our results indicate that sedimentary protoliths entrained in upwelling heterogeneous mantle domains may undergo melting
at greater depths than mafic lithologies to produce ultrapotassic dacitic melts. Such melts are expected to react with and
metasomatise the surrounding peridotite, which may subsequently undergo melting at shallower levels to produce compositionally
distinct magma types. This scenario may account for many of the distinctive geochemical characteristics of EM-type ocean island
magma suites. Moreover, unmelted or partially melted sedimentary rocks in the mantle may contribute to some seismic discontinuities
that have been observed beneath intraplate and island-arc volcanic regions. |
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