Whole rock compositional variations in an upper mantle peridotite (Horoman, Hokkaido, Japan): are they consistent with a partial melting process?

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Feb 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000gecoa..64..695t&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 64, Issue 4, pp.695-716

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Whole rock major and trace element abundances of the Horoman peridotites were used to understand processes forming lithological and compositional variations in the upper mantle. Similar to other orogenic peridotites, Horoman peridotites range from fertile lherzolites (3 to 4% Al 2 O 3 and CaO) to depleted harzburgites (~0.5% Al 2 O 3 and CaO). Abundances of major oxides and compatible to moderately incompatible elements vary systematically with variations in MgO content. Such trends are commonly interpreted as indicating that the peridotites formed as residues from varying degrees of partial melting. The fertile end of these trends coincides with estimates of primitive mantle composition. Because of a mismatch between experimental melting trends for spinel peridotite, especially the Na 2 O-MgO trend, the compositional variations of Horoman peridotites are not consistent with formation as residues from partial melting of spinel peridotite. Non-linear trends in minor and trace element versus major element abundance diagrams also preclude a two-component mixing model. Recent melting experiments on garnet peridotite demonstrate that at 3 GPa the near-solidus peridotite has a large amount of subcalcic clinopyroxene (ca. 27%) coexisting with small amount of garnet (ca. 2%). Residues from polybaric melting of such garnet peridotite are consistent with the abundance variations of major and moderately incompatible elements, such as Na and heavy rare-earth elements, in the Horoman peridotites. A similar conclusion is applicable to other orogenic peridotites such as the Ronda peridotite because their major element compositional variations are similar to the Horoman peridotite.

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