锡在流体和花岗质硅酸盐熔体间分配行为的实验研究

锡的成矿与花岗岩有着密切关系。为深入了解不同的岩浆组成及流体变化对锡分配行为的影响,以不同化学组成的凝胶和不同的流体分别作为初始固液相,进行了锡在流体与花岗质熔体间的分配行为实验研究。实验温度为850℃,压力为100 MPa。结果显示,当液相为0.1 mol/L的HCl时,熔体组成的变化对锡的分配行为有着明显的影响,锡在流熔体间的分配系数DSn随熔体中碱质(Na2O K2O)含量、钠钾(Na/K)和碱铝(AlK/Al)摩尔比的增加而减小;在固相(富钾过碱质熔体)不变的前提下,DSn随流体相中HCl浓度的增加而增大,而流体相中HF及K 、Na 浓度的改变对DSn影响不大;流体Cl-浓度和酸度升高有利于锡分配进入流体相。     

金在流体/花岗质熔体间分配的实验研究

<正>斑岩型矿床是一种重要的金属矿床类型,为世界上提供了57%的铜资源和9%的金资源(Singer et al.,2005)。从全球范围来看,浅成热液型和斑岩型金铜矿床在时空上与侵入岩浆作用有关(Jégo Stébastien et al.,2012),岩浆和热液过程的共同作用形成了此类矿床。元素在流体和熔体间交换、分配过程是岩浆热液矿床形成的重要环节。研究金在硅酸盐熔体和流体中的分配行为及其影响因素对认识中酸性岩浆演化与成矿的关系具有重要意义。关于金在花岗质流体/     

100MPa、800℃下磷对铌锰矿和钽锰矿在简单花岗质熔体中溶解度影响的实验研究

选取人工合成的简单花岗岩玻璃以及铌锰矿和钽锰矿晶质矿物作为实验初始物,实验研究了100MPa、800℃条件下铌锰矿和钽锰矿在水饱和(或近水饱和)的无磷和含磷简单花岗质熔体中的溶解度。实验结果显示,在过碱质熔体中铌锰矿和钽锰矿的溶解度远高于它们在准铝质和过铝质熔体中的溶解度,但两者之间的溶解度相差不大;在准铝质和过铝质熔体中,铌锰矿的溶解度要明显低于钽锰矿。在过碱质熔体中,铌锰矿、钽锰矿的溶解度与体系中P2O5的含量存在负的线性相关性,即lgKspNb=-0.29×P2O5-2.05(R2=0.96)和1gKspTa=-0.29×P2O5-1.79(R22=0.98);在准铝质熔体中,铌锰矿、钽锰矿的溶解度则随体系中P2O5含量的增大呈逐渐升高趋势;在过铝质熔体中,铌锰矿、钽锰矿的溶解度随体系中P205的含量增大,先表现为降低的趋势,但是当P2O5的含量大于约3%时铌锰矿、钽锰矿的溶解度在误差范围内随P205含量的升高基本保持恒定。上述实验结果产生的主要原因很可能与铌、钽在硅酸盐熔体中的溶解机制以及磷在不同化学组成的硅酸盐熔体中不同的结构作用有关。     

富氟花岗岩体系岩浆流体内稀土元素演化规律的实验研究

高温高压实验结果表明，随着富氟过铝花岗质岩浆分离结晶作用的进行，在与熔体相共存的流体相中，REE浓度呈有规律地变化：当温度从750℃下降至接近固相线（570℃）时，流体相中REE浓度逐渐降低，这一规律与REE在稀有金属花岗岩体上部岩相带中REE含量贫化的地质事实相一致。在富氟过铝质花岗岩体系中，REE易于分散进入某些造岩矿物（如黑云母等）和副矿物（如萤石和锡石等）中，从而不利于REE形成热液矿床。     

富F熔体-溶液流体体系的地球化学性状及成矿效应研究进展

F既是重要的岩浆挥发分,又是重要的助熔剂和矿化剂,同时也是克拉克值较大的元素之一,并且在(铝)硅酸盐熔体中高度可溶。本文从F的常见工业矿物和主要赋存形式、分配行为的多样性、对其它元素分配行为的影响、矿化作用(即亲氟元素在热液体系中的氟化物络合形式、存在环境和沉淀机制等)、萤石和冰晶石的溶解及沉淀机制以及富F岩浆一热液体系的成矿专属性及特征6个方面探讨了F的地球化学成矿作用。结论认为:F必须有能力大量进入与花岗质或伟晶岩质熔体共存的含水流体相中才具有进一步的成矿学意义,云英岩化、钠长石化、含黄玉—萤石石英脉、具有较高F/CaO比值的残余熔体以及F在高度演化花岗质岩浆中的过饱和等因素均可能导致含矿富F热液的出溶;但总体上,富F岩浆—热液体系具有成矿专属性的原因之一仍在于:F首先通过对熔体物理化学性质的影响间接支配着高场强亲氟元素如W、Sn、Nb、Ta、REE、U等的热液成矿效应。     

1kbar、800℃下REE在富磷过铝质熔体/流体相间分配的实验研究

利用"RQV-快速内冷淬火"(或称之为"外加热冷封式")高温高压实验装置,实验研究了1kbar、800℃条件下12个REE+Y在富磷过铝质熔体/含水流体相间的分配,并利用EMP、LA-ICPMS和ICP-MS分析技术分别测定了实验初始物、实验产物玻璃中主要化学组成以及熔体相和流体相中REE含量。实验结果表明,REE元素(La,Nd,Sm,Eu,Gd,Tb,Dy,Ho,Er,Tm,Yb和Lu)在流体/熔体相间的分配系数(Dfluid/melt)在(0.1～19.9)×10-4范围,DfYluid/melt在(0.2～7.8)×10-4范围,指示REE和Y强烈趋向于在熔体中富集。REE在流体/熔体相间的分配系数(Dfluid/melt)与体系中P2O5含量变化呈近抛物线状分布,其最大值对应于残余熔体中w(P2O5)为1.44%处。REE在流体/熔体相间的分配系数(Dfluid/melt)随REE的原子序数增大而逐渐降低,构成右倾的平滑曲线,总体上显示出DLREE>DMREE>DHREE的趋势。Y与Ho在流体/熔体相间分配系数的比值(DY/DHo)约为1(0.91～1.28),不随体系中P2O5变化而变化的特征。上述特征表明熔体-流体作用不会导致Y-Ho及REE间的分异,因此,可推断熔体-流体作用过程不可能是过铝质岩浆体系中产生稀土"四重效应"机制。     

黑鳞云母花岗质岩浆的结晶分异及钠长花岗质岩浆的形成

以含F、过铝质、K_2O>Na_2O为特征的浅色黑鳞云母花岗岩为初始物,在P=150MPa,T=850～650℃和H_2O不饱和条件下进行熔化-结晶分异实验,结果表明:首先晶出的是石英和富钾碱性长石;随结晶温度下降和结晶相含量的增加,残余熔体中挥发份F及Na_2O、Al_2O_3含量逐渐增加,SiO_2、K_2O、CaO含量减少,显示含F浅色花岗质熔体具有向贫硅富钠的富氟钠长花岗质熔体组成演化的趋势;700℃开始,残余熔体具有天然富氟钠长花岗岩的组成特征:富Na_2O(Na_2O>K_2O)、Al_2O_3(>16％)和F(>1.5％)。上述残余熔体组成的演化特征与自然界从含氟黑鳞云母花岗岩到富氟钠长花岗岩的组成变化规律是一致的,充分证明了在本文的实验条件下,含氟黑鳞云母花岗岩能够经结晶分异演化出富氟钠长花岗岩熔体。     

岩浆热液出溶和演化对斑岩成矿系统金属成矿的制约

岩浆热液过渡阶段对于与岩浆热液有关矿床的形成非常重要。以往的研究多侧重于岩浆结晶阶段和低于固相线的热液阶段过程和演化 ,但对于流体从熔体出溶到熔体最后固结过程的理解却很有限。基于流体包裹体冷热台研究、单个流体和熔体包裹体原位无损成分分析技术 ,并结合挥发份和成矿元素在共存相间分配的实验和质量平衡计算模拟 ,岩浆热液出溶和演化对金属成矿制约的研究取得了很大进展。文中从岩浆中挥发份的出溶和演化、成矿元素在岩浆热液过渡体系各相之间的分配、斑岩矿床成矿流体及与金属成矿的关系、浅成热液矿床成矿流体及与金属成矿的关系几个方面进行了阐述。研究表明 :( 1)岩浆熔体不仅含有足够的挥发性组分 ,而且出溶的挥发份能够被圈闭在流体包裹体中而成为岩浆出溶热液的实物证据。 ( 2 )挥发份和成矿元素不仅在岩浆熔体和出溶的溶液间分配 ,还将在熔体与盐水溶液、熔体与气相以及盐水溶液与气相间进行分配。Cu在岩浆蒸气中比在共存的熔体中要富集数百倍 ,而Cu ,As,Au(可能作为HS配合物 )则偏向于分配进入与液体相共存的蒸气相中。 ( 3 )成矿元素在熔体 /溶液间的分配系数受控于熔体中初始水含量与饱和水含量之比值和岩浆熔体与共存出溶水溶液的w(Cl) /w(H2 O)和w(F) /w(Cl)比值。 ( 4 )斑岩     

硅酸盐熔体和流体中金的性质及行为研究进展

岩浆演化过程中岩浆—流体阶段发生的相转变过程控制了元素在两相之间的分配行为。作为与岩浆热液活动有密切成因联系的金矿床,其在硅酸盐熔体和流体中的性状及两相间的分配行为是控制该类矿床成矿的重要物理化学因素。介绍了金在流体、熔体中的性状,论述了其在流体/硅酸盐熔体间的分配行为不仅受温度、压力、氧逸度等物理化学条件的影响,还受流体组分(阴离子、阳离子)、熔体组成(Na2O+K2O/Al2O3,Na/K,SiO2,NBO/T)的制约;最后对目前实验研究存在的问题、改进方法以及今后的研究方向进行了探讨。     

与铜、金成矿有关的弧岩浆系统氧逸度特征和形成机制

研究表明,花岗岩类的源区存在大量成矿元素;源区的成矿元素能有效转入岩浆熔体并随岩浆演化而逐渐富集,是花岗质岩浆能形成热液矿床的重要前提.只有在这一前提之下,才能在流体自花岗质岩浆出溶的过程中形成含矿流体进而形成热液矿床.因此,研究成矿元素(如铜、金等)能否从源区进入熔体并在残余熔体中得以富集,对评价花岗岩类岩石的成矿潜力、正确认识花岗质岩浆形成热液矿床的过程和机制有重要的理论和实际意义.     

Experimental study of Cl solubility in hydrous alkaline melts: constraints on the theoretical maximum amount of Cl in trachytic and phonolitic melts

. Cl solubility in evolved alkaline melts was investigated at 860-930 °C and pressures of 25 to 250 MPa using natural trachytes and a synthetic phonolite equilibrated with subcritical fluids in the H₂O-(Na,K)Cl system (i.e. silicate melt coexisted with water-rich aqueous fluid and a saline brine). Fluid phase characteristics were identified by examination of fluid inclusions present in the run product glasses and the fluid bulk composition was calculated by mass balance. The Cl contents of trachytic glasses coexisting with subcritical fluids increase linearly with decreasing pressure from 250 to 25 MPa and range from 0.37 to 0.90 wt%; Cl in the phonolitic glass ranges from 0.35 to 0.59 wt%. These values are approximately twice those found in metaluminous rhyolitic melts under similar conditions. Variations from peralkaline to peraluminous composition has little effect on Cl solubility in trachytes, whereas it is a more important factor in phonolites. More generally, melt structure, in particular non-bringing oxygen, appears to strongly influence Cl solubility in silicate melts. The negative correlation between pressure and melt Cl content is governed by the large negative partial volume of NaCl in the vapour phase. No change in Cl solubility is observed between 200 and 250 MPa. Comparison of our experimental results with Cl abundance in glass inclusion and matrix glass from Italian volcanoes can be used to identify those eruptive products preserved in the geologic record which may have been associated with large Cl emissions.     

Experimental Study of Sulfur Solubility in Silicate Melts Coexisting with Graphite as a Function of Silicate Melt Composition

Abstract. Sulfur (S) solubility is determined in silicate melts, in particular with low-FeO content coexisting with graphite. In a high FeO range (>10 mol %), the S solubility is strongly dependent on the FeO content in silicate melt, which is in good agreement with previous works. In an intermediate FeO range (1∼10 mol %), the S solubility in melts with a multi-component system is higher than that in melts with a simple system. The SKα shift of the electron microprobe shows the dissolve sulfur is all sulfide. A positive dependence is observed between CaO and S content in the melt undoped with FeO, but the dissolved sulfur is sulfate. The relationship between melt composition, S content, and S oxidation state is discussed.     

Experimental study of eclogite melting with participation of the H<Subscript>2</Subscript>O-CO<Subscript>2</Subscript>-KCl fluid at 5 GPa

In order to model the processes of formation of the highly alkaline (potassic) melts during the partial melting of the eclogite nodules in kimberlites, experiments on the melting of the model and natural eclogites in presence of the H₂O-CO₂ and H₂O-CO₂-KCl fluids at 5 GPa and 1200 and 1300°C are performed. A comparative analysis of the phase relations in the systems with H₂O-CO₂ and H₂O-CO₂-KCl demonstrate that KCl in the fluid equilibrated with eclogites intensifies their melting. It is related to both high Cl concentration in the forming silicate melt (2.0–5.5 wt %) and its enrichment in K₂O owing to the K-Na exchange reactions with the immiscible chloride melt. Because of these reactions, the K₂O/Cl ratio in the melts increases with the KCl content in the system and reaches 2.5–3.5 in the silicate melts coexisting with the immiscible chloride liquid. However, the ratio KCl/(H₂O + CO₂ + KCl) in the fluid does not influence on the ratio K₂O/Cl in the melts. Thus, the solubility KCl in the melts, apparently, does not depend on presence of the H₂O-CO₂ fluid, at least, within the concentration range used in the experiments (up to 20 wt %). The experiments show that the deliberated chloride liquid is necessary to form the potassium-rich chlorine-bearing silicate melts during the eclogite melting. It corresponds to the KCl content in the system above 5 wt %.     

Experimental investigation of H2O and Cl− solubilities in F-enriched silicate liquids; implications for volatile saturation of topaz rhyolite magmas

To interpret the degassing of F-bearing felsic magmas, the solubilities of H₂O, NaCl, and KCl in topaz rhyolite liquids have been investigated experimentally at 2000, 500, and ≈1 bar and 700° to 975 °C. Chloride solubility in these liquids increases with decreasing H₂O activity, increasing pressure, increasing F content of the liquid from 0.2 to 1.2 wt% F, and increasing the molar ratio of ((Al + Na + Ca + Mg)/Si). Small quantities of Cl⁻ exert a strong influence on the exsolution of magmatic volatile phases (MVPs) from F-bearing topaz rhyolite melts at shallow crustal pressures. Water- and chloride-bearing volatile phases, such as vapor, brine, or fluid, exsolve from F-enriched silicate liquids containing as little as 1 wt% H₂O and 0.2 to 0.6 wt% Cl at 2000 bar compared with 5 to 6 wt% H₂O required for volatile phase exsolution in chloride-free liquids. The maximum solubility of Cl⁻ in H₂O-poor silicate liquids at 500 and 2000 bar is not related to the maximum solubility of H₂O in chloride-poor liquids by simple linear and negative relationships; there are strong positive deviations from ideality in the activities of each volatile in both the silicate liquid and the MVP(s). Plots of H₂O versus Cl⁻ in rhyolite liquids, for experiments conducted at 500 bar and 910°–930 °C, show a distinct 90° break-in-slope pattern that is indicative of coexisting vapor and brine under closed-system conditions. The presence of two MVPs buffers the H₂O and Cl⁻ concentrations of the silicate liquids. Comparison of these experimentally-determined volatile solubilities with the pre-eruptive H₂O and Cl⁻ concentrations of five North American topaz and tin rhyolite melts, determined from melt inclusion compositions, provides evidence for the exsolution of MVPs from felsic magmas. One of these, the Cerro el Lobo magma, appears to have exsolved alkali chloride-bearing vapor plus brine or a single supercritical fluid phase prior to entrapment of the melt inclusions and prior to eruption. Received: 6 November 1995 / Accepted: 29 January 1998     

100MPa、800℃下Mo和W在流体／花岗质熔体相间分配的实验研究

利用“RQV-快速内冷淬火”（外加热冷封式）高温高压实验装置,在100MPa、800℃条件下,以东秦岭地区出露的高钾钙碱性岩浆岩（合峪花岗岩）为实验初始物,实验研究了Mo和W在花岗岩-H2O、花岗岩-NaCl（KCl）-H2O及花岗岩-NaF-H2O体系流体／熔体相间的分配行为。实验结果表明,Mo比W更倾向于分配进入流体相（DMo^流体/溶体〉〉DW^流体/溶体）,相对于纯水体系而言,流体介质中Cl和F的存在均有利于Mo和W向流体相迁移富集,随体系内Cl含量的不断增高,Mo和W的分配系数呈线性增大趋势,而在天然花岗岩可能含有的F含量范围之内,F含量的增高将阻碍Mo、W向流体相迁移,流体介质中Na／K（摩尔比）的变化对Mo和W的分配系数没有明显影响,表明体系碱质（Na或K）类型不是Mo和W在流体／熔体相间分配的主要影响因素。     

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.     

The Limiting Contents of Fluorine and Water in Highly Differentiated Granite Melts

The content of water was estimated in acid aluminosilicate and brine aluminofluoride melts in equilibrium. The solubility of water reaches 7–8 wt % in a silicate melt and 15–19 wt % in an aluminofluoride melt. The maximum concentration of fluorine in an aluminosilicate melt increases with increasing water content in the system.     

100MPa、850℃和800℃条件下锡在流体与富磷过铝质熔体相间分配的实验研究

利用江西宜春414岩体中的钠长石花岗岩作为实验初始物,制备含不同1〉20s含量（0．27％－7．71％）的实验玻璃,本次实验研究了100MPa、850℃和800℃条件下Sn在流体与富磷过铝质熔体相间的分配。实验结果显示,Sn在流体与熔体相间的分配系数（Dsofluid/mclt）变化于2．10×10^-4－1．36×10^3之间,指示Sn强烈趋向于在富磷过铝质熔体中富集。随体系中P2Os含量从0．27％增至1．91％,Sn在流体与熔体相间的分配系数逐渐增加,当体系中R2O5含量进一步增加时,Sn在两相间的分配系数呈降低的趋势。本次实验结果表明,P可能不是Sn以流体相形式进行搬运的主要络合剂。     

富F熔体-溶液体系流体地球化学及其成矿效应--研究现状及存在问题

高度演化花岗岩类多为富F的熔体溶液体系 ,具有鲜明的、不同于其他体系的地球化学行为。富F岩浆固相线和液相线的降低和岩浆寿命的延长 ,使残余熔体与热水热液的性状差异减小 ,模糊了岩浆与热液之间的界线。最近对于富F、B和P伟晶岩中熔融包裹体的研究获得了新的进展。在约 70 0～ 5 0 0℃的温度和 1 0 0 0× 1 0 5Pa的压力下 ,在伟晶岩石英中发现两种不同类型的熔体包裹体 ,一种是富硅酸盐、贫水的熔体包裹体 ,另一种是贫硅酸盐、富水的熔体包裹体。两种熔体在硅酸盐 (+F +B +P) 水体系的溶离线边界上同时被圈闭。这表明 ,在地壳浅部侵位的侵入体 ,当温度≥ 70 0℃时 ,水在富F、B和P的熔体中可以无限混溶 ;而一旦温度降低 ,就会分离为两种共存的熔体并伴随强烈的元素分异作用。在溶离线的富水一侧形成与正常硅酸盐熔体有很大不同的高度富挥发份的熔体 ,这种致密、高粘度、高扩散性以及高活动性的超富水 (hyper aqueousmelt)熔体 ,可以与水溶液流体相类比。这为岩浆热液过渡性流体的假说提供了新的有利的证据。此外 ,在这种具有超富水和熔体特征的过渡性流体中 ,微迹元素可能具有特殊的地球化学行为 ,如在许多晚期花岗岩包括淡色花岗岩和伟晶岩中稀土元素配分模式所显示的四分组效应等。富F熔体溶液体?     

Carbonatite melt inclusions in coexisting magnetite,apatite and monticellite in Kerimasi calciocarbonatite,Tanzania: melt evolution and petrogenesis

Kerimasi calciocarbonatite consists principally of calcite together with lesser apatite, magnetite, and monticellite. Calcite hosts fluid and S-bearing Na–K–Ca-carbonate inclusions. Carbonatite melt and fluid inclusions occur in apatite and magnetite, and silicate melt inclusions in magnetite. This study presents statistically significant compositional data for quenched S- and P-bearing, Ca-alkali-rich carbonatite melt inclusions in magnetite and apatite. Magnetite-hosted silicate melts are peralkaline with normative sodium-metasilicate. On the basis of our microthermometric results on apatite-hosted melt inclusions and forsterite–monticellite phase relationships, temperatures of the early stage of magma evolution are estimated to be 900–1,000°C. At this time three immiscible liquid phases coexisted: (1) a Ca-rich, P-, S- and alkali-bearing carbonatite melt, (2) a Mg- and Fe-rich, peralkaline silicate melt, and (3) a C–O–H–S-alkali fluid. During the development of coexisting carbonatite and silicate melts, the Si/Al and Mg/Fe ratio of the silicate melt decreased with contemporaneous increase in alkalis due to olivine fractionation, whereas the alkali content of the carbonatite melt increased with concomitant decrease in CaO resulting from calcite fractionation. Overall the peralkalinity of the bulk composition of the immiscible melts increased, resulting in a decrease in the size of the miscibility gap in the pseudoquaternary system studied. Inclusion data indicate the formation of a carbonatite magma that is extremely enriched in alkalis with a composition similar to that of Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite. In contrast to the bulk compositions of calciocarbonatite rocks, the melt inclusions investigated contain significant amount of alkalis (Na₂O + K₂O) that is at least 5–10 wt%. The compositions of carbonatite melt inclusions are considered as being better representatives of parental magma composition than those of any bulk rock.