An unmetasomatized source for the Malaitan alnöite (Solomon Islands): Petrogenesis involving zone refining, megacryst fractionation, and assimilation of oceanic lithosphere

Details An unmetasomatized source for the Malaitan alnöite (Solomon Islands): Petrogenesis involving zone refining, megacryst fractionation, and assimilation of oceanic lithosphere An unmetasomatized source for the Malaitan alnöite (Solomon Islands): Petrogenesis involving zone refining, megacryst fractionation, and assimilation of oceanic lithosphere

Aug 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989gecoa..53.1975n&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 53, Issue 8, pp.1975-1990

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The Malaitan alnöite contains a rich and varied megacryst suite of unprecedented compositional range. We have undertaken trace element and isotope modeling in order to formulate a petrogenetic scheme which links the host alnöite to its entrained megacrysts. This requires that a proto-alnöite magma is the product of zone refining initiated by diapiric upwelling (where the initial melt passes through 200 times its volume of mantle). Isotopic evidence indicates the source of the proto-alnöite contains a time-integrated LREE-depleted signature ( 143 Nd / 144 Nd = 0.51274). Impingement upon the rigid lithosphere halts or dramatically slows the upward progress of the mantle diapir. At this point, the magma cools and megacryst fractionation begins with augites crystallizing first , followed by subcalcic diopsides and finally phlogopites. Garnet probably crystallizes over the entire range of clinopyroxene fractionation. Estimated proportions of fractionating phases are 30% augite, 24.5% subcalcic diopside, 27% garnet, 12.9% phlogopite, 5% bronzite, 0.5% ilmenite, and 0.1% zircon. As this proto-alnöite magma crystallizes, it assimilates a subducted component of seawater-altered basalt which underplates the Ontong Java Plateau. This is witnessed in the isotopic composition of the megacrysts and alnöite.

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