西藏甲玛铜多金属矿二长花岗斑岩岩浆-热液过渡特征及成矿意义

以原始地质资料为基础,结合电子探针数据和岩石地球化学分析,从岩石学、岩相学和地球化学的角度分析了甲玛矿区二长花岗斑岩岩浆-热液过渡的特征及成矿作用。甲玛二长花岗斑岩岩浆热液过渡以电气石-钠/钙硅酸盐化、似伟晶细晶岩壳(脉)和具"冰长石"结构特征的钾长石、蠕状石及显微晶洞(或空腔)构造为特征;地球化学上表现为Na、K的反消长和挥发分含量的涨落,并伴随着Cu、Mo、Au等成矿物质从晚期岩浆的逃逸。甲玛二长花岗斑岩的岩浆热液过渡过程可划分为以超临界流体为代表的液相不混溶阶段和超临界流体逃逸为特征的气液分馏阶段。其中前者决定了岩浆晚期的矿质分馏程度,而后者控制了含矿蒸汽和成矿热液流体的形成,进而分别形成浸染状矿化和脉状矿化。     

斑岩铜矿床研究进展

斑岩铜矿不但形成于环太平洋成矿域,还形成于特提斯成矿域和中亚成矿域（古亚洲洋成矿域）。成矿物质来源于深部,经过“洋壳一地幔熔岩流”、“原始岩浆”、“浅部富矿岩浆”和“岩浆结晶一成矿”4个阶段,其中在“原始弧岩浆”阶段,通过MASH过程,有大量成矿物质和能量的聚集。成矿流体为富H2O、高温、高压、高盐度、强氧化性、高氧逸...     

滇西北甭哥碱性杂岩体地球化学与成矿作用分析

透岩浆流体成矿理论和地幔流体交代引发壳幔混染叠加成矿的机理,为“小岩体成大矿”这一事实提供了理论依据.滇西北甭哥碱性杂岩体岩石地球化学特征表明其受到强烈的深部流体作用,且成矿物质并非岩浆本身所携带,相应引发矿质富集的流体作用与岩浆作用分属不同的体系,初步推测甭哥金矿成矿受制于透岩浆流体与壳幔混染叠加这一深部流体作用过程.其机制可以理解为含矿地幔流体与岩浆互不混溶并同步运移,伴随岩浆结晶成岩而交代岩体成矿,或在一定条件下与岩体分离,运移至物理化学边界层等有利部位聚集成矿,在此过程中,含矿地幔流体也可沿途交代、活化围岩,导致壳幔混染叠加使成矿元素进一步富集.基于此,该岩体具有良好的深部成矿潜力.     

双辽新生代玄武岩及地幔捕虏体内流体的组成、碳同位素特征及其来源

幔源玄武岩及地幔捕虏体中所含的地幔流体挥发分对于认识岩浆源区特征及岩石圈地幔演化具有重要意义。本文对东北地区双辽新生代玄武岩及其携带的地幔捕虏体中流体挥发分进行研究,探究地幔流体特征与来源。双辽玄武岩橄榄石斑晶和地幔捕虏体内发育早期、晚期两类流体包裹体,早期流体包裹体中的挥发分代表矿物形成时捕获的岩浆原始流体挥发分,主要在高温段(600~1200℃)释出,晚期流体包裹体中的挥发分代表矿物形成后捕获的交代或蚀变流体挥发分,主要在低温段(200~600℃)释出。地幔捕虏体原始流体挥发分主要为H_2O、CO和H_2,其次为CO_2,并含有少量CH_4等烃类。地幔捕虏体交代流体挥发分与双辽玄武岩橄榄石斑晶原始流体挥发分相似,主要为CO_2和H_2O,其次为CO和H_2,含有少量烃类。地幔捕虏体原始流体挥发分、交代流体挥发分及玄武岩橄榄石斑晶原始流体挥发分中,CO_2和烃类碳同位素均具有有机成因特征,表明岩石圈地幔及玄武岩岩浆源区内均存在有机质热解产物的混入,玄武岩岩浆源区及岩石圈地幔交代流体中的有机成因挥发分主要来自于俯冲太平洋板片之上的沉积有机质。双辽玄武岩斜长石斑晶和基质流体挥发分含量较高,主要为H_2O和CO_2,相对于橄榄石原始流体挥发分具有较轻的CO_2碳同位素组成,这种现象表明岩浆上升过程中发生了明显的脱气作用。     

滇西马厂箐钼铜金矿床深部地质过程的系列成矿效应

[摘 要] 马厂箐钼铜金矿床是金沙江-哀牢山断裂带上与喜马拉雅期富碱斑岩有关的典型矿床之一,其成矿作用具有特殊性。本文应用透岩浆流体成矿理论,重点探讨了马厂箐钼铜金矿床深部地质过程中成岩与由地幔流体作用引发壳幔混染并形成系列成矿的关系。通过对马厂箐矿床成岩成矿时代的厘定、岩矿石稀土和微量元素、稀有气体及Pb-Sr-Nd 同位素研究,论证了成矿流体和岩浆流体均来自于富集地幔,这种成矿流体是包含于富碱岩浆并与其互不混溶的地幔流体。在上升运移过程中,地幔流体可随富碱岩浆的结晶成岩过程对岩体进行同步自交代蚀变而在斑岩体内或其深部形成矿床;也可与岩浆分离而独立运移,在岩体与围岩的接触带及地层围岩中进行交代蚀变成矿。在这一成岩成矿过程中, 引发并促进壳幔物质混染和叠加成矿,由此导致了马厂箐矿区成矿分带表现为从岩体到围岩、从高温到低温的不同矿种和不同类型的系列成矿效应。     

新疆哈密黄山杂岩体岩浆动力学计算及成岩模式

本文通过岩浆粘度、密度、不混溶分离速度及岩浆沿裂隙上升速度等的计算,论证了黄山杂岩体第二侵入期岩浆发生液态不混溶的流体动力学条件,从而推断存在一个次级岩浆房,并认为这个次级岩浆房为液态不混溶分离提供了稳定空间。在此基础上,结合地幔中硫化物的分布特点和地幔岩块底辟上升模式,提出了第二侵入期岩浆的形成演化模式。     

滇西马厂箐钼铜金矿床中赋矿斑状花岗岩定年及其地质意义

马厂箐钼铜金多金属矿床是滇西地区金沙江-哀牢山构造带内与新生代富碱斑岩有关的典型矿床之一。根据赋矿斑状花岗岩中锆石的阴极发光图像、LA-ICP-MS微量元素分析和U-Pb定年以及辉钼矿Re-Os法测年研究等,结合前人研究成果,应用透岩浆流体成矿理论,进一步讨论了马厂箐矿床的成因机制。研究表明：该矿床的多金属成矿与赋矿斑状花岗岩的成岩基本同时,其成岩成矿过程统一受制于与该区大规模活动的新生代富碱岩浆和深部地壳重熔的花岗质岩浆同步运移的成矿流体作用。这种成矿流体是包含于岩浆并与其互不混溶的含矿地幔流体。但在上侵运移过程中,伴随岩浆的成岩作用,流体与岩浆发生不同程度分离,表现为：产于富碱斑状花岗岩体内,形成正岩浆成矿的斑岩型钼矿;产于岩体与围岩接触带,形成接触交代成矿的矽卡岩型铜（钼）矿;产于地层围岩中则形成构造破碎蚀变岩型金矿。在这一成岩成矿过程中,地幔流体可以运载和沿途活化成矿物质至适宜容矿部位集中,并随其对地壳岩石的交代蚀变以及深度和环境变化引起的物理化学条件变化,其流体属性由熔浆流体→超临界流体→热液流体转化,促使壳幔物质相互作用而叠加成矿,导致在不同部位形成不同矿种和不同类型的系列成矿效应。     

金顶超大型铅锌矿床中的地幔流体现实踪迹与壳幔混染叠加成矿机制

通过对金顶超大型铅锌矿床的砂岩型矿石和角砾岩型矿石较为系统的岩相学、电子探针、扫描电镜和能谱分析,初步揭示了黑色不透明物质为赋载成矿物质的主体,其本质为不均匀混溶硫化物和硅酸盐的碳酸盐熔浆快速冷凝的超显微隐晶固体,是地幔流体作用的现实微观踪迹。结合矿石矿物铅同位素组成的壳幔混染渐变特点及流体包裹体稀有气体同位素组成的壳幔混合特征进行的综合研究表明,与富碱岩浆成岩成矿背景相关的地幔流体自身携带成矿物质沿深大断裂向上运移并以交代蚀变引发壳幔混染叠加的方式参与地壳中的成矿作用,这是形成金顶超大型铅锌矿床的重要地球化学机制。     

新疆西天山智博铁矿床地球化学及同位素特征

智博铁矿位于新疆西天山阿吾拉勒铁成矿带东段,矿体以层状、似层状、透镜状产出于下石炭统大哈拉军山组玄武质安山岩中。智博铁矿成矿作用主要划分为岩(矿)浆期和热液期2个成矿期次,包括3个成矿阶段:磁铁矿+透辉石阶段、磁铁矿+绿帘石+钾长石阶段和石英+硫化物+碳酸盐阶段。智博铁矿地球化学特征表明,其成矿构造背景为早石炭世南天山洋向伊犁板块俯冲形成的岛弧环境;火山岩与磁铁矿石具有相同的物质来源,均来源于受俯冲带流体交代的亏损地幔楔部分熔融形成的玄武质岩浆。智博铁矿为岩浆(主要)-热液(次要)复合型矿床,受俯冲流体交代的亏损地幔楔部分熔融形成富铁的玄武质岩浆,岩浆沿深大断裂上侵形成早期火山岩,上侵过程中由于物理化学条件的改变在不混溶作用下形成铁矿浆,铁矿浆侵入早期火山岩地层形成岩浆期磁铁矿体;后期富铁的岩浆或矿浆热液使围岩发生矿化与蚀变,形成热液期磁铁矿体。     

地幔岩中流体包裹体研究

地幔岩石中的流体包裹体代表地幔流体的样品。地幔流体包裹体可以存在从地幔来的金刚石,地幔捕虏体和岩浆碳酸岩中。研究这些岩石和矿物中的流体包裹体可以得出其所代表的地幔流体的温度、压力、成分和同位素。我们目前见到的这三类地幔岩石的包裹体主要可在橄榄石、辉石、金刚石、方解石和磷灰石中见到。这些包裹体可以粗略地分为CO2包襄体和硅酸盐熔融体包裹体。又可细分为四类包裹体：（1）富碳酸盐的硅酸盐熔融包裹体。这种包裹体在金刚石、地幔岩捕虏体和岩浆碳酸盐岩中见到,它又可分为结晶质熔融包裹体和玻璃包裹体。（2）CO2包裹体。这种包裹体大多见于地幔捕虏体中,在金刚石和岩浆碳酸岩中也可见到。（3）含硫化物的包裹体。这种包裹体见于地幔捕虏体中,与纯CO2包裹体和含CO2的熔融包裹体共存。（4）高密度的流体包裹体。这种包裹体见于金刚石中,是一种高盐度、高密度的含K、Cl和H2O的流体包裹体,又可分为高卤水包裹体和含卤水的富硅的碳酸盐岩浆包裹体。从对金刚石、地幔捕虏体和岩浆碳酸盐岩中流体包裹体的研究表明,地幔流体存在不均匀性和不混溶性。     

花岗岩类矿床成矿流体形成过程的原位观测实验

花岗岩浆液态不混溶作用和饱和H₂O花岗岩浆的热液出溶作用是花岗岩类矿床成矿流体形成的重要机制。利用最新式热液金刚石压腔,开展了成矿流体形成机制的原位观测实验。在岩浆热液出溶过程的实验中,初始样品为各类硅酸盐和纯H₂O或LiCl水溶液,在H₂O饱和状态中,硅酸盐熔体珠不断分异出富H₂O的流体。花岗岩浆液态不混溶实验的初始样品为NaAlSi₃O₈-LiAlSiO₄-SiO₂-LiCl-H₂O。在硅酸盐完全重熔后的降温过程中,硅酸盐熔体珠分离出富H₂O熔体相和贫H₂O熔体相,压力的突然降低促进了相分离的发生。研究表明：岩浆热液的出溶作用发生在H₂O饱和的条件下,是岩浆的“第二次”沸腾作用,对花岗岩型稀有金属矿床的形成具有重要意义;花岗岩浆液态不混溶产生的富H₂O熔体易于结晶出粗大晶体,暗示岩浆液态不混溶作用可能是一些花岗伟晶岩形成的主要机制。两类成矿流体形成机制实验条件的差异表明,Li是花岗岩浆发生不混溶作用的重要因素。在今后的研究中,应把热液金刚石压腔的原位观测与微束分析技术结合,在高温高压状态下分析成矿元素的迁移和富集规律。     

Melt inclusions in basalts of Ross Island area,Antarctica

There are many melt and fluid inclusions (mainly CO₂-rich) in olivine and pyroxene phenocrysts in basalts from the Ross Island area. The melt inclusions can be classified as follows: (1) crystalline melt inclusions (type I), (2) fluid-melt inclusions (type II) and (3) glass inclusions (type III). The daughter minerals in type I include olivine, plagioclase, ilmenite, etc. Fluid-melt inclusions are a new type which represent the immiscibility of magma and fluid at a particular stage of evolution. Three types of fluid-melt inclusions were examined in this study: a) crystal + liquid + gas, b) inclusions coexisting with glass inclusions and fluid inclusions, and c) crystal + daughter mineral (dissolved salt) + gas. Both primary and secondary melt inclusions are recognizable in the samples. The secondary melt inclusions were formed during healing of fractures in the host minerals in the process of magma rise. The homogenization temperatures (both Leitz 1350 stage and quench method were used) of melt inclusions in basalts range from 1190 to 135°C at high pressure (about 7 kbars), indicating that the basalts may have come from the upper mantle. Melt-fluid immiscibility in basaltic magma shows that the CO₂-rich fluids may be the main fluid phase in the upper mantle, which are of significance in understanding the evolution of magma and various processes in the deep levels of the earth. The homogenization temperatures of melt and aqueous fluid inclusions in granites and metamorphic rocks in this area vary from 980 to 1100°C and 279 to 350°C, respectively.     

A melt and fluid inclusion assemblage in beryl from pegmatite in the Orlovka amazonite granite, East Transbaikalia, Russia: implications for pegmatite-forming melt systems

Beryl crystals from the stockscheider pegmatite in the apical portion of the Li-F granite of the Orlovka Massif in the Khangilay complex, a tantalum deposit, contain an assemblage of melt and fluid inclusions containing two different and mutually immiscible silicate melts, plus an aqueous CO₂-rich supercritical fluid. Pure H₂O and CO₂ inclusions are subordinate. Using the terminology of Thomas R, Webster JD, Heinrich W. Contrib Mineral Petrol 139:394–401 (2000) the melt inclusions can be classified as (i) water-poor type-A and (ii) water-rich type-B inclusions. Generally the primary trapped melt droplets have crystallized to several different mineral phases plus a vapor bubble. However, type-B melt inclusions which are not crystallized also occur, and at room temperature they contain four different phases: a silicate glass, a water-rich solution, and liquid and gaseous CO₂. The primary fluid inclusions represent an aqueous CO₂-rich supercritical fluid which contained elemental sulfur. Such fluids are extremely corrosive and reactive and were supersaturated with respect to Ta and Zn. From the phase compositions and relations we can show that the primary mineral-forming, volatile-rich melt had an extremely low density and viscosity and that melt-melt-fluid immiscibility was characteristic during the crystallization of beryl. The coexistence of different primary inclusion types in single growth zones underlines the existence of at least three mutually immiscible phases in the melt in which the large beryl crystals formed. Moreover, we show that the inclusions do not represent an anomalous boundary layer.     

Compositions of magmas and carbonate–silicate liquid immiscibility in the Vulture alkaline igneous complex, Italy

This paper presents a study of melt and fluid inclusions in minerals of an olivine-leucite phonolitic nephelinite bomb from the Monticchio Lake Formation, Vulture. The rock contains 50 vol.% clinopyroxene, 12% leucite, 10% alkali feldspars, 8% hauyne/sodalite, 7.5% nepheline, 4.5% apatite, 3.2% olivine, 2% opaques, 2.6% plagioclase, and < 1% amphibole. We distinguished three generations of clinopyroxene differing in composition and morphology. All the phenocrysts bear primary and secondary melt and fluid inclusions, which recorded successive stages of melt evolution. The most primitive melts were found in the most magnesian olivine and the earliest clinopyroxene phenocrysts. The melts are near primary mantle liquids and are rich in Ca, Mg and incompatible and volatile elements. Thermometric experiments with the melt inclusions suggested that melt crystallization began at temperatures of about 1200 °C. Because of the partial leakage of all primary fluid inclusions, the pressure of crystallization is constrained only to minimum of 3.5 kbar. Combined silicate–carbonate melt inclusions were found in apatite phenocrysts. They are indicative of carbonate–silicate liquid immiscibility, which occurred during magma evolution. Large hydrous secondary melt inclusions were found in olivine and clinopyroxene. The inclusions in the phenocrysts recorded an open-system magma evolution during its rise towards the surface including crystallization, degassing, oxidation, and liquid immiscibility processes.     

滇西富碱斑岩中特殊包体岩石的流体包裹体幔源不混溶特征

滇西地区沿金沙江-哀牢山断裂带产出了一套新生代富碱斑岩,其中发现了与镁铁-超镁铁质深源包体岩石共生的含石英的方解石包晶(体)、石英钠长石伟晶岩包体和含玻璃包裹体的纯石英包晶(体)以及富铁熔浆包体.流体包裹体地球化学研究表明,该四类特殊包体的形成与富含CO2流体持续减压而造成的不混溶作用有关;而玻璃包裹体与水溶液包裹体以...     

山东沂南金铜铁矿床中的液态不混溶作用与成矿：流体包裹体和氢氧同位素 证据

沂南矽卡岩型金铜铁矿床产于燕山期中酸性侵入岩与新太古界—寒武系地层接触带附近。氢、氧同位素研究表明,早期干矽卡岩阶段(Ⅰ)和湿矽卡岩-磁铁矿阶段(Ⅱ)的成矿流体主要为岩浆水,晚期石英-硫化物阶段(Ⅲ)和碳酸盐阶段(Ⅳ)的成矿流体则显示有大气降水混入的岩浆水特点。流体包裹体研究表明,成矿各阶段热液矿物中的包裹体类型丰富,以气液两相盐水包裹体、含子晶多相包裹体和CO2-H2O包裹体为主,次为纯液相水包裹体和纯气相水包裹体,偶见晶质熔融包裹体。由Ⅰ→Ⅱ→Ⅲ→Ⅳ阶段,气液水包裹体均一温度(520～430℃→430～340℃→250～190℃→190～130℃)呈现逐渐降低的趋势。在Ⅰ、Ⅱ阶段的石榴子石和绿帘石中,晶质熔融包裹体与同期次捕获的具不同气相分数的气液水包裹体及含子晶的多相包裹体共生,表明它们被捕获时是一种熔体与流体共存的不混溶状态。在Ⅲ阶段的石英(少量Ⅱ阶段的绿帘石)中,常见气相充填度变化很大的气液水包裹体与同期次捕获的纯液相水包裹体、纯气相水包裹体、含子晶的多相包裹体以及CO2-H2O包裹体共生,且共生的不同类型包裹体均一温度相近,表明此阶段成矿流体曾发生过广泛的沸腾(不混溶)。因而认为,在沂南矿床由岩浆...     

Genesis of kalsilite melilitite at Cupaello,Central Italy: Evidence from melt inclusions

The paper presents data on primary carbonate–silicate melt inclusions hosted in diopside phenocrysts from kalsilite melilitite of Cupaello volcano in Central Italy. The melt inclusions are partly crystalline and contain kalsilite, phlogopite, pectolite, combeite, calcite, Ba–Sr carbonate, baryte, halite, apatite, residual glass, and a gas phase. Daughter pectolite and combeite identified in the inclusions are the first finds of these minerals in kamafugite rocks from central Italy. Our detailed data on the melt inclusions in minerals indicate that the diopside phenocrysts crystallized at 1170–1190°C from a homogeneous melilitite magma enriched in volatile components (CO₂, 0.5–0.6 wt % H₂O, and 0.1–0.2 wt % F). In the process of crystallization at the small variation in P-T parameters two-phase silicate-carbonate liquid immiscibility occurred at lower temperatures (below 1080–1150°C), when spatially separated melilitite silicate and Sr-Ba-rich alkalicarbonate melts already existed. The silicate–carbonate immiscibility was definitely responsible for the formation of the carbonatite tuff at the volcano. The melilitite melt was rich in incompatible elements, first of all, LILE and LREE. This specific enrichment of the melt in these elements and the previously established high isotopic ratios are common to all Italian kamafugites and seem to be related to the specific ITEM mantle source, which underwent metasomatism and enrichment in incompatible elements.     

Liquid immiscibility in deep-seated magmas and the generation of carbonatite melts

This paper reviews the results of investigations of melt inclusions in minerals of carbonatites and spatially associated silicate rocks genetically related to various deep-seated undersaturated silicate magmas of alkaline ultrabasic, alkaline basic, lamproitic, and kimberlitic compositions. The analysis of this direct genetic information showed that all the deep magmas are inherently enriched in volatile components, the most abundant among which are carbon dioxide, alkalis, halides, sulfur, and phosphorus. The volatiles probably initially served as agents of mantle metasomatism and promoted melting in deep magma sources. The derived magmas became enriched in carbon dioxide, alkalis, and other volatile components owing to the crystallization and fractionation of early high-magnesium minerals and gradually acquired the characteristics of carbonated silicate liquids. When critical compositional parameters were reached, the accumulated volatiles catalyzed immiscibility, the magmas became heterogeneous, and two-phase carbonate-silicate liquid immiscibility occurred at temperatures of ≥1280–1250°C. The immiscibility was accompanied by the partitioning of elements: the major portion of fluid components partitioned together with Ca into the carbonate-salt fraction (parental carbonatite melt), and the silicate melt was correspondingly depleted in these components and became more silicic. After spatial separation, the silicate and carbonate-silicate melts evolved independently during slow cooling. Differentiation and fractionation were characteristic of silicate melts. The carbonatite melts became again heterogeneous within the temperature range from 1200 to 800–600°C and separated into immiscible carbonate-salt fractions of various compositions: alkali-sulfate, alkali-phosphate, alkali-fluoride, alkali-chloride, and Fe-Mg-Ca carbonate. In large scale systems, polyphase silicate-carbonate-salt liquid immiscibility is usually manifested during the slow cooling and prolonged evolution of deeply derived melts in the Earth’s crust. It may lead to the formation of various types of intrusive carbonatites: widespread calcite-dolomite and rare alkali-sulfate, alkali-phosphate, and alkali-halide rocks. The initial alkaline carbonatite melts can retain their compositions enriched in P, S, Cl, and F only at rapid eruption followed by instantaneous quenching.     

Melt inclusions in scoria and associated mantle xenoliths of Puy Beaunit Volcano,Chaîne des Puys,Massif Central,France

In order to characterize the composition of the parental melts of intracontinental alkali-basalts, we have undertaken a study of melt and fluid inclusions in olivine crystals in basaltic scoria and associated upper mantle nodules from Puy Beaunit, a volcano from the Chaîne des Puys volcanic province of the French Massif Central (West-European Rift system). Certain melt inclusions were experimentally homogenised by heating-stage experiments and analysed to obtain major- and trace-element compositions. In basaltic scoria, olivine-hosted melt inclusions occur as primary isolated inclusions formed during growth of the host phase. Some melt inclusions contain both glass and daughter minerals that formed during closed-system crystallisation of the inclusion and consist mainly of clinopyroxene, plagioclase and rhönite crystals. Experimentally rehomogenised and naturally quenched, glassy inclusions have alkali-basalt compositions (with SiO₂ content as low as 42 wt%, MgO>6 wt%, Na₂O+K₂O>5 wt%, Cl~1,000–3,000 ppm and S~400–2,000 ppm), which are consistent with those expected for the parental magmas of the Chaîne des Puys magmatic suites. Their trace-element signature is characterized by high concentration(s) of LILE and high LREE/HREE ratios, implying an enriched source likely to have incorporated small amounts of recycled sediments. In olivine porphyroclasts of the spinel peridotite nodules, silicate melt inclusions are secondary in nature and form trails along fracture planes. They are generally associated with secondary CO₂ fluid inclusions containing coexisting vapour and liquid phases in the same trail. This observation and the existence of multiphase inclusions consisting of silicate glass and CO₂-rich fluid suggest the former existence of a CO₂-rich silicate melt phase. Unheated glass inclusions have silicic major-element compositions, with normative nepheline and olivine components, ~58 wt% SiO₂, ~9 wt% total alkali oxides, <3 wt% FeO and MgO. They also have high chlorine levels (>3,000 ppm) but their sulphur concentrations are low (<200 ppm). Comparison with experimental isobaric trends for peridotite indicates that they represent high-pressure (~1.0 GPa) trapped aliquots of near-solidus partial melts of spinel peridotite. Following this hypothesis, their silica-rich compositions would reflect the effect of alkali oxides on the silica activity coefficient of the melt during the melting process. Indeed, the silica activity coefficient decreases with addition of alkalis around 1.0 GPa. For mantle melts coexisting with an olivine-orthopyroxene-bearing mineral assemblage buffering SiO₂ activity, this decrease is therefore compensated by an increase in the SiO₂ content of the melt. Because of their high viscosity and the low permeability of their matrix, these near-solidus peridotite melts show limited ability to segregate and migrate, which can explain the absence of a chemical relationship between the olivine-hosted melt inclusions in the nodules and in basaltic scoria.     

Features of the Early Palaeozoic Mantle beneath Langao County and Its Formation Mechanism

Phlogopite-amphibole pyroxenite xenoliths contained in an Early Palaeozoic alkali subvolcanic lam-prophyre complex in Langao County, Shaanxi Province, are metasomatized mantle xenoliths, composed mainly of clinopyroxene, amphibole, phlogopite, apatite, pervoskite, ilmenite and sphene with well-developed subsolidus metamorphism-deformation textures, such as "triple points" and "cataclastic boundaries" . Minerological studies indicate that clinopyroxene is rich in SiO2 and MgO and poor in TiO2 and Al2O3, which is notably different from magmatogenic deep-seated megacrysts and phenocrysts formed in the range of mantle pressure. Amphibole and phlogopite have the compositional feature of mantle-derived amphibole and phlogopite. Sm-Nd isotope studies suggest that the metasomatized mantle beneath Langao County is the product of metasomatism of primitive mantle by melt (fluid) derived from the mantle plume, and the mantle metasomatism occurred 650 Ma ago. The process of mantle metasomatism changed from mantle me