Evaluation of crustal recycling during the evolution of Archean-age Matachewan basaltic magmas

Details Evaluation of crustal recycling during the evolution of Archean-age Matachewan basaltic magmas Evaluation of crustal recycling during the evolution of Archean-age Matachewan basaltic magmas

Feb 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989asee....2q....n&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/American Society for Engineering E

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Basalt, Earth Crust, Geochemistry, Magma, Planetary Evolution, Rock Intrusions, Chemical Composition, Crystallization, Evaluation, Volcanoes

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The simplest model for the Matachewan-Hearst Dike (MHD) magmas is assimilation-fractional crystallization (AFC), presumably occurring at the base of the crust during underplating. Subduction zone enriched mantle sources are not required. Trace elements suggest that the mantle sources for the MHD were depleted, but possessed a degree of heterogeneity. Rates of assimilation were approximately 0.5 (= Ma/Mc); the contaminant mass was less than 20 percent. The contaminant was dominated by tonalites-randodiorites, similar to xenoliths and rocks in the Kapuskasing Structural Zone (KSZ). Assimilation of partial melts of light-rare earth and garnet-bearing basaltic precursors may have produced some the MHD magmas. Apparently, previous underplating-AFC processes had already produced a thick crust. The silicic granitoid assimilant for the MHD magmas was probably produced by earlier processing of underplated mafic crust (4, 5, 10, 21 and 30). Calculations suggest that the derived silicic rocks possess negative Ta and Ti anomalies even though they were not the product of subduction.

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