Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986e%26psl..80..281s&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 80, Issue 3-4, p. 281-298.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Peridotite xenoliths from the Eifel can be divided into incompatible element-depleted and -enriched members. The depleted group is restricted to dry lherzolites whereas the enriched group encompasses dry harzburgites, dry websterite and amphibole and/or phlogopite-bearing peridotites. Isotopically the depleted group is very diverse with 143Nd/144Nd ranging from ~ 0.51302 to 0.51355 and 87Sr/86Sr from ~ 0.7041 to 0.7019, thus occupying a field larger than expected for oceanic-type subcontinental mantle. These xenoliths are derived from a mantle which appears to have diverged from a bulk-earth Nd and Sr isotopic evolution path ~ 2 Ga ago as a consequence of partial melting. The combination of high 143Nd/144Nd with high 87Sr/86Sr in some members of the depleted-xenoliths suite is likely to be the result of incipient reaction with incompatible element-enriched fluids in the mantle. In the enriched group such reactions have proceeded further and erased any pre-enrichment isotope memory resulting in a smaller isotopic diversity (143Nd/144Nd ~ 0.51256-0.51273, 87Sr/86Sr ~ 0.7044-0.7032). An evaluation of Sm-Hf and Yb-Hf relationships suggests that the amphibole-bearing lherzolites and harzburgites acquired their high enrichment of light rare earth elements by fluid infiltration into previously depleted peridotite rather than by silicate melt-induced metasomatism. Upper mantle composed of such metasomatized peridotites does not represent a potential source for the basanites and nephelinites from the Eifel. The isotopic and chemical diversity of the subcontinental lithospheric part of the mantle may result from it having remained isolated from the convecting mantle for times > 1 Ga.
Lugmair Guenter W.
Stosch Heinz-Günter
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