Fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths

Fluid inclusions in olivine and pyroxene in mantle-derived ultramafic xenoliths in volcanic rocks contain abundant CO₂-rich fluid inclusions, as well as inclusions of silicate glass, solidified metal sulphide melt and carbonates. Such inclusions represent accidentally trapped samples of fluid- and melt phases present in the upper mantle, and are as such of unique importance for the understanding of mineral–fluid–melt interaction processes in the mantle. Minor volatile species in CO₂-rich fluid inclusions include N₂, CO, SO₂, H₂O and noble gases. In some xenoliths sampled from hydrated mantle-wedges above active subduction zones, water may actually be a dominant fluid species. The distribution of minor volatile species in inclusion fluids can provide information on the oxidation state of the upper mantle, on mantle degassing processes and on recycling of subducted material to the mantle. Melt inclusions in ultramafic xenoliths give information on silicate–sulphide–carbonatite immiscibility relationships within the upper mantle. Recent melt-inclusion studies have indicated that highly silicic melts can coexist with mantle peridotite mineral assemblages. Although trapping-pressures up to 1.4 GPa can be derived from fluid inclusion data, few CO₂-rich fluid inclusions preserve a density representing their initial trapping in the upper mantle, because of leakage or stretching during transport to the surface. However, the distribution of fluid density in populations of modified inclusions may preserve information on volcanic plumbing systems not easily available from their host minerals. As fluid and melt inclusions are integral parts of the phase assemblages of their host xenoliths, and thus of the upper mantle itself, the authors of this review strongly recommend that their study is included in any research project relating to mantle xenoliths.     

Ferropericlase—a lower mantle phase in the upper mantle

Experiments on compositions along the join MgO–NaA³⁺Si₂O₆ (A=Al, Cr, Fe³⁺) show that sodium can be incorporated into ferropericlase at upper mantle pressures in amounts commonly found in natural diamond inclusions. These results, combined with the observed mineral parageneses of several diamond inclusion suites, establish firmly that ferropericlase exists in the upper mantle in regions with low silica activity. Such regions may be carbonated dunite or stalled and degassed carbonatitic melts. Ferropericlase as an inclusion in diamond on its own is not indicative of a lower mantle origin or of a deep mantle plume. Coexisting phases have to be taken into consideration to decide on the depth of origin. The composition of olivine will indicate an origin from the upper mantle or border of the transition zone to the lower mantle and whether it coexisted with ferropericlase in the upper mantle or as ringwoodite. The narrow and flat three phase loop at the border transition zone—lower mantle together with hybrid peridotite plus eclogite/sediments provides an explanation for the varying and Fe-rich nature of the diamond inclusion suite from Sao Luiz, Brazil.     

地幔捕虏体中的流体-熔体包裹体

地幔流体的研究现已成为国内外前沿课题。地幔岩捕虏体中的流体-熔体包裹体是地幔流体的直接证据,通过对它们的研究可以直接获取地授流体的信息。包裹体按相态特征主要有三类：二氧化碳流体包裹体、二氧化碳-硅酸盐熔体包裹体、硫化物-熔体流体包裹体。本总结了地幔岩中流体-熔体包裹体的基本特征、微量元素地球化学、硫化物-熔体包裹体和二氧化碳流体包裹体稳定同位素特征的研究进展状况。讨论认为：地幔流体是由C、H、O、S等元素的挥发份和硅酸盐熔体组成;上地幔流体在化学成分上明显富含CO2、硫化物、LILE和BEE,它引起地幔交代作用和地授部分熔融;上地授流体的分布存在不均匀性,其组成也存在地区性差异。     

浙江新昌地幔岩捕虏体中的硫化物包裹体初步研究

浙江新昌一带晚第三纪碱性玄武岩中地幔岩（二辉橄榄岩）捕虏体内存在大量硫化物熔体包裹体。电子探针分析表明,硫化物相成分主要为镍黄铁矿,次为磁共铁矿。硫化物包裹体的Ｎｉ／Ｆｅ值与寄主地幔岩的橄榄石含量呈正相关。同一包裹体的硫化物相成分不均一,自中心至边缘硫化物的Ｎｉ／Ｆｅ、（Ｆｅ＋Ｎｉ）／Ｓ值和Ｎｉ呈均呈增加趋势。通过与中国汉诺坝、德国ＷｅｓｔＥｉｆｅｌ东欧Ｎｏｇｒａｄ－Ｇｏｍｏｒ地区资料的综合分析,     

Hydration and dehydration in the lower margin of a cold mantle wedge: implications for crust–mantle interactions and petrogeneses of arc magmas

Garnet orthopyroxenites from Maowu (Dabieshan orogen, eastern China) were formed from a refractory harzburgite/dunite protolith. They preserve mineralogical and geochemical evidence of hydration/metasomatism and dehydration at the lower edge of a cold mantle wedge. Abundant polyphase inclusions in the cores of garnet porphyroblasts record the earliest metamorphism and metasomatism in garnet orthopyroxenites. They are mainly composed of pargasitic amphibole, gedrite, chlorite, talc, phlogopite, and Cl-apatite, with minor anhydrous minerals such as orthopyroxene, sapphirine, spinel, and rutile. Most of these phases have high X_Mg, NiO, and Ni/Mg values, implying that they probably inherited the chemistry of pre-existing olivine. Trace element analyses indicate that polyphase inclusions are enriched in large ion lithophile elements (LILE), light rare earth elements (LREE), and high field strength elements (HFSE), with spikes of Ba, Pb, U, and high U/Th. Based on the P–T conditions of formation for the polyphase inclusions (?1.4 GPa, 720–850°C), we suggest that the protolith likely underwent significant hydration/metasomatism by slab-derived fluid under shallow–wet–cold mantle wedge corner conditions beneath the forearc. When the hydrated rocks were subducted into a deep–cold mantle wedge zone and underwent high-pressure–ultrahigh-pressure (HP–UHP) metamorphism, amphibole, talc, and chlorite dehydrated and garnet, orthopyroxene, Ti-chondrodite, and Ti-clinohumite formed during prograde metamorphism. The majority of LILE (e.g. Ba, U, Pb, Sr, and Th) and LREE were released into the fluid formed by dehydration reactions, whereas HFSE (e.g. Ti, Nb, and Ta) remained in the cold mantle wedge lower margin. Such fluid resembling the trace element characteristics of arc magmas evidently migrates into the overlying, internal, hotter part of the mantle wedge, thus resulting in a high degree of partial melting and the formation of arc magmas.     

Compositions of Upper Mantle Fluids Beneath Eastern China: Implications for Mantle Evolution

The composition of gases trapped in olivine, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene in Iherzolite xenoliths collected from different locations in eastern China has been measured by the vacuum stepped-heating mass spectrometry. These xenoliths are hosted in alkali basalts and considered as residues of partial melting of the upper mantle, and may contain evidence of mantle evolution. The results show that various kinds of fluid inclusions in Iherzolite xenoliths have been released at distinct times, which could be related to different stages of mantle evolution. In general, primitive fluids of the upper mantle (PFUM) beneath eastern China are dominated by H2, CO2 and CO, and are characterized by high contents of H2 and reduced gases. The compositions of PFUM are highly variable and related to tectonic settings. CO, CO2 and H2 are the main components of the PFUM beneath cratons; the PFUM in the mantle enriched in potassic metasomatism in the northern part of northeastern China has a high content of H2, while CO2 a     

黑龙江省二克山—五大连池—科洛富钾火山岩中幔源包体的研究

本文首次系统地研究了二克山—五大连池—科洛富钾火山岩带中幔源超镁铁岩包体的岩相、组构、矿物及地化特征,并分析了包体的成因类型及交代作用。研究表明,该包体是受富含K_2O+LIL+LREE±FeO±~(87)Sr流体交代的、已亏损了的地幔样品,反映了地幔交代的普遍性和不均一性。     

The Inclusions in Superdeep Diamonds: Indication and Response to Deep Mantle Physical and Chemical Environment

Superdeep diamonds and their inclusions are important samples to probe the physical and chemical environment and constitution of Earth’s deep mantle. By combining the studies of high-precision in-situ analysis and HPHT synthetic diamond experiments, and by reviewing the new discovery of classical mineral inclusions and their combinations, the ranges of different inclusion combinations, as well as the relationship between trace elements and temperature-pressure conditions were reoriented. The so-called nominally anhydrous minerals combinations, metal phases and redox environments in superdeep mantle were also affirmed. Meanwhile,the recent findings of inclusions and isotopes in superdeep diamonds support the fact that the remaining subduction ocean crust may be a significant reservoir of the deep mantle’s water and the deep mantle carbon cycle is closely related to oceanic subduction. Furthermore, although Chinese scholars have discovered some kinds of superdeep inclusions in diamonds from North China Craton and Yangtze Craton, and made considerable progress in the study of the formation of UHP diamonds and the genesis of ophiolite diamonds, there are still many scientific questions about superdeep diamonds that require further research.     

地幔岩中不同产状的流体-熔体包裹体及地幔流体交代作用

地幔捕虏体中存在不同产状的熔体包裹体和各种硅酸盐玻璃相,包括主矿物内部的蠕虫状、长圆形、圆形、不规则状包裹体(I型)、边部的连通的管状包裹体(T型)、主矿物边部和粒间的片状熔融体——“浆胞”(C型),三者可见明显过渡关系,它们是地幔流体交代地幔岩石过程中由交代重熔形成的,是研究地幔流体的特征和地幔交代作用的对象之一,从I型、T型到C型,其成分呈规律变化,其中S、Cu、Ni,K、Na含量呈明显的降低趋势．包裹体中玻璃相的成分较主矿物富Si、Al、S、Cu、Ni、K和Na,再加上C02包裹体的发现,表明地幔流体的成分富碱金属、Si、Al、S、Cu、Ni和CO2,地幔交代作用可以使交代产物中Si、Al含量升高而形成中酸性岩浆,也可由于硫化物熔体聚集而形成矿浆．不同地区的地幔流体性质可能存在差异,这些不同性质的地幔流体町能与不同类型的地幔成矿作用有关．     

地幔流体作用——地幔捕虏体中流体包裹体的研究

被碱性玄武岩和金伯利岩带到地表的地幔捕虏体是认识地球深部信息的窗口 ,是人们能够直接观察到的一种上地幔样品 ,其矿物中流体包裹体的存在提供了上地幔流体活动的直接证据。流体 /地幔矿物之间元素的分配对约束地幔交代过程中流体相的作用和上地幔流体的组成 ,揭示俯冲带壳幔物质的再循环过程 ,解释岛弧玄武岩高场强元素亏损的原因有重要意义。文章对近年来有关地幔捕虏体中流体包裹体的研究进行了评述 ,并结合近年来流体 /地幔矿物之间元素分配的高温高压实验研究讨论了流体在地幔中的重要作用。     

Melt–peridotite interaction in the shallow lithospheric mantle of the North China Craton: evidence from melt inclusions in the quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite from Hannuoba

To better understand the origin, migration, and evolution of melts in the lithospheric mantle and their roles on the destruction of the North China Craton (NCC), we conducted a petrological and geochemical study on a quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite xenolith from Hannuoba, the NCC, and its hosted melt and fluid inclusions. Both clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene in the xenolith contain lots of primary and secondary inclusions. High-temperature microthermometry of melt inclusions combined with Raman spectroscopy analyses of coexisting fluid inclusions shows that the entrapment temperature of the densest inclusions was ~1215°C and the pressure ~11.47 kbar, corresponding to a depth of ~38 km, i.e. within the stability of the spinel lherzolite. Intermediate pressure inclusions probably reflect progressive fluid entrapment over a range of depths during ascent, whereas the low-pressure inclusions (P < 2 kbar) may represent decrepitated primary inclusions. In situ laser-ablation ICP-MS analyses of major and trace elements on individual melt inclusions show that the compositions of these silicate melt inclusions in clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene are rich in SiO₂, Al₂O₃, and alkalis but poor in TiO₂ and strongly enriched in light rare earth elements (LREEs) and large ion lithophile elements (LILEs), with negative anomalies of high-field strength elements (HFSEs). These characteristics suggest that the silica-rich melts could be derived from the partial melting of subducted oceanic slab. Therefore, this kind of quartz-bearing orthopyroxene-rich websterite may be produced by interaction between the slab-derived melts with the mantle peridotite. This study provides direct evidence for the origin, migration, and evolution of melts in the lithospheric mantle, which may play an important role in the destruction of the NCC.     

地球初期壳幔演化的物理过程

原始地幔处于全球性的高温熔融状态,其上层的冷却演化过程可大致分为3个阶段：高熔点矿物结晶沉降阶段、岩浆不混溶阶段和固化成壳阶段。在此过程中,原始地幔逸出挥发性物质,形成了地球的超临界流体圈。通过岩浆不混溶作用所形成的富Si—Al质岩浆最终固化为原始大陆壳。超临界流体圈的分解,分别形成酸性H2O圈和CO2大气圈。     

地幔中水的存在形式和含水量

水以含水变质矿物、无水硅酸盐矿物(橄榄石、辉石等)及其高压结构相(β橄榄石、γ橄榄石、钙钛矿相、方镁铁矿等)、高密度含水镁硅酸盐和熔体的形式存在于地幔各层圈中。根据各类玄武岩水含量推断出的上地幔源区的水含量,和由地幔岩主要矿物———橄榄石的水含量估算出的上地幔水含量(质量分数)很接近,在0.02%左右。以橄榄石和辉石高压相的水含量为依据,进行了过渡带和下地幔水含量的估算,其结果是:过渡带和下地幔上部的水含量(质量分数)为1.48%,下地幔下部水含量(质量分数)为0.21%。据此,计算出的地幔各层圈的总水量表明,地幔水的74%以上存在于过渡带和下地幔上部。将地幔总水量和现代海洋总水量之和作为地球总水量,计算出现代海洋总水量约占全球总水量(质量分数)的6.6%,这个结果与笔者根据地球的球粒陨石成分模型计算出的总水量(6%)十分接近。     

郯庐断裂带中南段新生代玄武岩源区地幔特征及其演化

郯庐断裂带中南段新生代玄武岩随时代逐渐变新 ,碱性逐渐增强 ,轻、重稀土元素分离程度及不相容元素的富集程度也逐渐增强 ,Sr、Nd同位素组成越来越亏损。古地温线特征表明 ,断裂带之下的上地幔具有高的大地热流值。老第三纪拉斑玄武岩地幔源区主要以轻微富集的EMⅠ组分为主 ,新第三纪以来的碱性玄武岩来源于亏损地幔。研究区地幔源区随时间的演化受老第三纪软流圈上涌的影响 ,大量的深源流体对上部岩石圈地幔进行广泛的交代 ,从而使郯庐断裂带下面的岩石圈地幔出现不相容元素和LREE富集 ,且由轻微富集地幔转变为亏损地幔。     

地幔流体与地球的放气作用

地幔流体的形成、聚集和渗透是引起地幔交代作用的主要营力。地幔交代作用发育的强弱决定着所生成岩浆的碱性程度。地幔流体和部分熔融体高度富集不相容元素,它们与亏损地幔的相互作用可以使后者发生ＬＲＥＥ和不相容元素的局部富集。通过板块俯冲作用使地球表层的ＣＯ２进入地幔,参加地球的碳循环。热点岩浆来源的ＣＯ２中含有部分循环的ＣＯ２,而大洋中脊玄武岩中的ＣＯ２主要是原始地球的ＣＯ２。携带ＣＨ４和Ｈ２Ｏ的流体渗透至被俯冲带带入地幔的物质,使碳酸盐化的榴辉岩还原而形成含金刚石的榴辉岩和富水流体,并诱发局部熔融,所形成的熔体以火山喷发的形式上升到地表。地幔岩石中含有大量的流体,它们主要以流体包裹体的形式存在于地幔矿物中。几乎在所有的上地幔环境下形成的矿物中均找到了流体包裹体。包裹体内流体的成分主要是ＣＯ２,ＣＨ４,Ｈ２Ｏ及少量Ｈ２,Ｎ２等。     

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.     

中国东部岩石圈上地幔的组成特征及其地质意义

无论是在岩石学领域,还是在地质学的其它研究领域,地幔的岩石学特征都具有十分重要的意义。本文试图把统计学方法引入区域岩石学研究,从中国东部新生代玄武质岩石中超镁铁岩包体的成分特征入手,应用统计学方法阐明中国东部岩石圈上地幔整体上为弱亏损上地幔的观点。并且认为,在中国东部,岩石圈上地幔具有东西分带的特点。地幔岩石的带状分布方向为NNE向,与中国东部上地幔隆起的长轴方向一致。从东向西可以分出3个带,即东南沿海带、长白山—郯庐断裂带及大兴安岭—太行山带。另一方面,岩石圈上地幔岩石成分的这种分带性又受到其它因素的影响,以致在东西分带的基础上显现南北分块的特征,大致划分出了东北、华北、华南三大地块,体现了中国东部岩石圈上地幔的南北差异。在这个基础上,进一步探讨了我国东部岩石圈上地幔的组成特征在玄武岩岩浆起源、裂谷作用及地质演化等方面的意义。     

Deep fluids in subduction zones

The fluid inclusions preserved in high and ultrahigh pressure rocks provide direct information on the compositions of fluid phases evolved during subduction zone metamorphism, and on fluid–rock interactions occurring in such deep environments. Recent experiments and petrologic studies of eclogite–facies rocks demonstrate that stability of a number of hydrous phases in all rock systems allows fluid transport into the mantle sources of arc magmas, as well as into much deeper levels of the Earth's mantle. In eclogite–facies rocks, the presence of large ion lithophile elements (LILE) and light rare earths (LREE)-bearing hydrous phases such as epidote and lawsonite, together with HFSE repositories as rutile and other Ti-rich minerals, controls the trace element budget of evolved fluids and fluid-mediated cycling of slab components into the overlying mantle.

Studies of fluid inclusions in eclogite–facies terrains suggest that subduction mainly evolves aqueous solutions, melts being produced only locally. Eclogite-facies rocks diffusely record processes of fluid–melt–rock interactions that exerted considerable control on the element and volatile budget of subduction fluids. Trace element fractionation during such interactions needs to be tested and quantified in more detail to achieve the ultimate compositions actually attained by fluids leaving off the slab. Variably saline inclusions with minor CO₂ and N₂ are trapped in rock-forming high pressure minerals; brines with up to 50% by weight dissolved solute are diffusely found in veins. The latter inclusions are residues after fluid–rock interactions and deposition of complex vein mineralogies: this evidence suggests increased mineral solubility into the fluid and formation, at a certain stage, of silicate-rich aqueous solutions whose geochemical behaviour and transport capacity can approach that of a melt phase. This is supported by experimental work showing high solubility of silicate components in fluids at high pressures. However, natural examples of inclusions trapping such a fluid and quantitative analyses of its major and trace element composition are not yet available.

Fluids in high and very high pressure rocks do not move over large scales and the channelways of fluid escape from the slab are not yet identified. This suggests that only part of the slab fluid is lost and returned to the surface via magmatism; the remaining trapped fraction being subducted into deeper levels of the upper mantle, to renew its budget of substances initially stored in the exosphere.     

盆地形成及成矿与地幔流体间的成因联系

文中共讨论以下5个问题:(1)盆地起源于幔壳溃变和膨隆,后者是地幔流体(超临界态(>375℃)HACONS流体,简称幔汁)上涌、渗入、交代、富化、致熔的产物。地幔流体造成油气盆地深部的高热流、异常超高压、伊利水云母化、硅化和地层有机碳的加氢成油作用。(2)盆地成矿可分两大阶段,先是沉积时的同生成矿;地层沉积后还有众多的后生成矿。两者组成“盆地矿套”(杜乐天,2002)。成矿无论同生还是后生,其分布均受断裂控制,都和地幔流体活动有关。(3)黑色页岩的实质是碳-硅-泥三元岩系,和热液成矿中的碳酸盐-硅质-泥质蚀变三元完全相当。此类岩系中总是有几十种亲壳亲幔亲气元素的特殊富集。奇异的是,石油、油页岩、沥青及砂岩型铀矿彼此有完全类似的继承性元素特殊富集。此等元素群不可能都是来自盆地之外蚀源区岩体的风化。研究证明,相当多的元素是地幔流体携带上来的。(4)盆地地层中广泛发育由地幔流体衍生的热液作用。(5)盆地实质上是气盆,全盆地排气。许多气田是地幔流体排气形成的。沙漠(原地型)和天然气田的共生很值得注意,两者皆源于地球强烈排气,导致地下和大气增温,过度蒸发,不易降雨,长期干旱而形成沙漠。     

Nitrogen-rich fluid in the upper mantle: fluid inclusions in spinel dunite from Lanzarote,Canary Islands

Fluid inclusions, ranging from pure N₂ to pure CO₂, occur in olivine porphyroclasts in spinel dunite xenoliths (chrome-diopside suite) from two localities within the Quaternary to Historic alkaline lavas of Lanzarote, Canary Islands. This is the first report of fluid inclusions containing major amounts of N₂ in mantle xenoliths. The nitrogen-rich fluid inclusions predate at least one generation of nitrogen-free carbon dioxide inclusions; textural evidence indicates that the inclusions were trapped within the upper mantle. Some of the nitrogen-rich fluid inclusions are intimately associated with solid inclusions of spinel. The nitrogen-rich fluid was most likely produced in-situ, by oxidation-dehydration reactions destabilizing ammonium-bearing silicate minerals (phlogopite, amphibole), increasing oxygen fugacity or, possibly, increasing temperature of the mantle. This process could be related to an event of CO₂ and silicate melt injection at 6–8 kbar (Neumann et al., in press), or to some earlier event in the evolution of the mantle beneath Lanzarote. The existence of a N₂-rich fluid phase in at least some mantle lithology(ies) at certain conditions is demonstrated by these data. This discovery has consequences for the understanding of the evolution of the mantle below the Canary Islands, as well as for the global nitrogen budget.