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Nov 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000e%26psl.183...15s&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 183, Issue 1-2, p. 15-26.
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Two groups of primitive melts are observed as inclusions in Cr-spinels in a picrite (Fo88-92.4) from northern Iceland. Group I inclusions have 12.2-13.8 wt% MgO, high CaO (14.6-15.8 wt%), low Al2O3 (10.1-11.8 wt%) and very high CaO/Al2O3 (1.3-1.5) they occur in spinels with a cr# between 0.63 and 0.70. Group II inclusions occur in spinels with slightly lower cr# (0.55-0.60) and they have 13.3-15.8 wt% MgO, 12.0-13.8 wt% CaO, 11.2-13.4 wt% Al2O3 and CaO/Al2O3 0.9-1.1. Both groups have low concentrations of the incompatible minor elements (TiO2, K2O and P2O5) and relatively high SiO2. The two groups converge at MgO approximately 10 wt%. A single inclusion in a low cr# spinel could represent a more evolved member (9.00 wt% MgO) of either group. Group I inclusions are on a clinopyroxene control line while Group II inclusions are close to being on an olivine control line. Groups I and II cannot be derived one from the other. They require high degree of melting from a refractory mantle source which probably is pyroxenitic to account for the high CaO. Melts with such high CaO/Al2O3 cannot be generated by melting commonly assumed lherzolites, so that pyroxenite or wehrlite mantle component is the suggested source.
Grönvold Karl
Sigurdsson Ingvar A.
Steinthorsson Sigurdur
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