Textural and compositional evidence for magma mixing and its mechanism,Abu volcano group,southwestern Japan

Quaternary basalts, andesites and dacites from the Abu monogenetic volcano group, SW Japan, (composed of more than 40 monogenetic volcanoes) show two distinct chemical trends especially on the FeO^*/MgO vs SiO₂ diagram. One trend is characterized by FeO^*/MgO-enrichment with a slight increase in SiO₂ content (Fe-type trend), whereas the other shows a marked SiO₂-enrichment with relatively constant FeO^*/MgO ratios (Si-type trend). The Fe-type trend is explained by fractional crystallization with subtraction of olivine and augite from a primitive alkali basalt magma. Rocks of the Si-type trend are characterized by partially melted or resorbed quartz and sodic plagioclase phenocrysts and/or fine-grained basaltic inclusions. They are most likely products of mixing of a primitive alkali basalt magma containing olivine phenocrysts with a dacite magma containing quartz, sodic plagioclase and hornblende phenocrysts. Petrographic variation as well as chemical variation from basalt to dacite of the Si-type trend is accounted for by various mixing ratios of basalt and dacite magmas. Pargasitic hornblende and clinopyroxene phenocrysts in andesite and dacite may have crystallized from basaltic magma during magma mixing. Olivine and spinel, and quartz, sodic plagioclase and common hornblende had crystallized in basaltic and dacitic magmas, respectively, before the mixing. Within a lava flow, the abundance of basaltic inclusions decreases from the area near the eruptive vent towards the perimeter of the flow, and the number of resorbed phenocrysts varies inversely, suggesting zonation in the magma chamber.The mode of mixing changes depending on the mixing ratio. In the mafic mixture, basalt and dacite magmas can mix in the liquid state (liquid-liquid mixing). In the silicic mixture, on the other hand, the basalt magma was quenched and formed inclusions (liquid-solid mixing). During mixing, the disaggregated basalt magma and the host dacite magma soon reached thermal equilibrium. Compositional homogenization of the mixed magma can occur only when the equilibrium temperature is sufficiently above the solidus of the basalt magma. The Si-type trend is chemically and petrographically similar to the calc-alkalic trend. Therefore, a calc-alkalic trend which is distinguished from a fractional crystallization trend (e.g. Fe-type trend) may be a product of magma mixing.     

Variations in the Nd isotopic ratios and canonical ratios of concentrations of incompatible elements as an indication of mixing sources of alkali granitoids and basites in the Khaldzan-Buregtei massif and the Khaldzan-Buregtei rare-metal deposit in western Mongolia

The paper reports data on the Nd isotopic composition and the evaluated composition of the sources of magmatism that produced massifs of alkali and basic rocks of the Khaldzan-Buregtei group. The massifs were emplaced in the terminal Devonian at 392–395 Ma in the Ozernaya zone of western Mongolia. The host rocks of the massifs are ophiolites of the early Caledonian Ozernaya zone, which were dated at 545–522 Ma. The massifs were emplaced in the following succession (listed in order from older to younger): (1) nordmarkites and dolerites syngenetic with them; (2) alkali granites and syngenetic dolerites; (3) dike ekerites; (4) dike pantellerites; (5) rare-metal granitoids; (6) alkali and intermediate basites and quartz syenites; and (7) miarolitic rare-metal alkali granites. Our data on the Nd isotopic composition [?_Nd(T)] and conventionally used (canonical) ratios of incompatible elements (Nb/U, Zr/Nb, and La/Yb) in rocks from the alkaline massifs and their host ophiolites indicate that all of these rocks were derived mostly from mantle and mantle-crustal enriched sources like OIB, E-MORB, and IAB with a subordinate contribution of N-MORB (DM) and upper continental crustal material. The variations in the ?_Nd(T) values in rocks of these massifs suggest multiple mixing of the sources or magmas derived from them when the massifs composing the Khaldzan-Buregtei group were produced. The OIB and E-MORB sources were mixed when the rocks with mantle signatures were formed. The occurrence of nordmarkites, alkali granites, and other rocks whose isotopic and geochemical signatures are intermediate between the values for mantle and crustal sources testifies to the mixing of mantle and crustal magmas. The crustal source itself, which consisted of rocks of the ophiolite complex, was obviously isotopically and geochemically heterogeneous, as also were the magmas derived from it. The model proposed for the genesis of alkali rocks of the Khaldzan-Buregtei massifs implies that the magmas were derived at two major depth levels: (1) mantle, at which the plume source mixed with an E-MORB source, and (2) crustal, at which the ophiolites were melted, and this gave rise to the parental magmas of the nordmarkites and alkali granites. The basites were derived immediately from the mantle. The mantle syenites, pantellerites, and rare-metal granitoids were produced either by the deep crystallization differentiation of basite magma or by the partial melting of the parental basites and the subsequent crystallization differentiation of the generated magmas. Differentiation likely took place in an intermediate chamber at depth levels close to the crustal (ophiolite) level of magma generation. Only such conditions could ensure the intense mixing of mantle and crustal magmas. The principal factor initiating magma generation in the region was the mantle plume that controlled within-plate magmatism in the Altai-Sayan area and the basite magmas related to this plume, which gave rise to small dikes and magmatic bodies in the group of intrusive massifs.     

Geochemistry and petrology of Mesozoic-Cenozoic magmatic complexes of the southern framing of the Aldan shield: Geodynamic problems

This paper summarizes the results of long-term geological, petrological, and geochemical investigations of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic complexes of the Stanovoy Range in order to determine the main reasons for their generation and evolution. The analysis of this material showed that the compositionally variable Late Mesozoic igneous complexes of the Stanovoy Range were formed in various depth facies, from abyssal to surficial. The majority of their salic complexes show minor compositional variations, whereas the mafic complexes are more variable, especially in the southeast of the region. The southeastern Stanovoy Range comprises comparable amounts of both subalkaline and low-alkali igneous rocks, whereas the central part is dominated by subalkaline rocks, and the northwestern part contains rocks only of the shoshonite-latite series. This zoning is fundamentally different from that of typical island arcs, which are characterized by the occurrence of volcanic rocks of similar alkalinity in each zone. Extrusive and intrusive rocks with similar alkali and silica contents (and schlieren-like inclusions in the granitoids of the region) were formed from common magmas of corresponding chemical compositions. In addition, the mafic and most of the salic magmas were formed as independent melting products, whereas the magmas of intermediate composition were formed mainly by mixing of chemically contrasting liquids (i.e., salic and basic). It was shown that the available information on the magmatism of the region is best interpreted in terms of the model of mantle diapirism. In particular, mantle diapirs ascended rather slowly during the Mesozoic and occurred over the whole territory of the Stanovoy Range during the Jurassic-Cretaceous stage (J₃-K₁), when alkaline and subalkaline basalts were formed. During the Early-Late Cretaceous stage, mantle diapirs produced alkali-poor basalts in the central and eastern parts. During the Cenozoic, the diapir ascended rather rapidly but only in a small area in the eastern part of the region forming alkali basalts. In contrast to the Cenozoic, the Earth’s crust was strongly affected by mantle diapirs and related mafic magmas in the Mesozoic. As a result, crustal sequences were reworked by fluids and subsequently yielded tremendous volumes of compositionally corresponding salic magmas, which interacted and mixed with mafic magmas producing the corresponding chemical zoning. The maximum generation of crustal magmas was confined to the axial zones of ascending diapirs, where the highest energy effects took place, whereas the role of autochthonous gneissic granites increased away from the axis at the expense of typical intrusive complexes.     

ASPECTS OF THE EVOLUTION OF MAGMATIC MELTS IN THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF HYBRID MAGMAS,AS ILLUSTRATED BY TERTIARY GRANITIC ROCKS OF KAMCHATKA

Melting of basic to intermediate composition effusives enclosed in granitic magma forms a hybrid magma which subsequently can crystallize into granodiorite, quartz-diorite, and diorite. Crystallization of this hybrid magmatic melt proceeds along lines different from a normal differentiation of granitic magmas. Plagioclase in hybrid rocks is strongly zoned and dominantly andesine approaching, in places, the composition of labradorite. Outer zones of these crystals are andesine and oligoclase. In granitic rocks plagioclase is acid andesine to oligoclase. Outer zones get up to albite in composition. Pyriboles and biotite also show diagnostic optical features for crystallization of hybrid vs primary granitic magmas. Plagioclase composition that is coprecipitating with the crystallization of ferromagnesians, potassic feldspar, and quartz is of critical importance. Granitic and alaskitic magmas, in contrast to hybrid magmas, undergo anchieutectic crystallization. Changes in the alkali regimen of each of the two magma types affects the composition and crystallization order of the rock-forming minerals. Assimilation phenomena associated with the formation of hybrid rocks is aided by diffusion flow and infiltration flow of particles. --R. M. Hutchinson.     

The investigation of petrology and geodynamic mafic magmatism in Bijar area, west of Iran (Arabia- Eurasia collision zone)

In northeastern Sanandaj-Sirjan structural zone, the Takab-Ghorveh belt comprises a volcanic province which related to the collision between the Eurasian and Arabian continents. It contains almost Quaternary andesitic basalt to alkali basalt. These alkali basaltes show Strombolian type eruptions. The volcanic rocks in Bijar area represent a range of mafic magmas, re-vealed by mingling and mixing textures. A variety of features suggest that the lava flows before eruption from magma chambers, contaminated by continental crust.     

Contrasting Fractionation Trends in Coexisting Continental Alkaline Magma Series; Cantal, Massif Central, France

Two coexisting series of strongly alkaline (basanite-tephritephonolite)and weakly alkaline (alkali basalt-trachyandesite-trachyte-rhyolite)lavas occur in the Cantal volcano (French Massif Central). Theparental magmas appear to be derived by variable degrees ofpartial melting of a common asthenospheric mantle source. Derivativetrachyandesites and feldspathoidbearing tephrites show depletionsand enrichments in trace elements which indicate that they havebeen generated by broadly similar fractionation processes, relatedto the removal of a mineral extract, from the parental alkalibasalts and basanites respectively, dominated by olivine, clinopyroxene,amphibole, apatite and titaniferous magnetite±plagioclase.In the most extreme differentiates (trachytes, rhyolites andphonolites) fractionation of zircon, sphene and alkali feldsparexerts a major control on the trace element characteristicsof the magmas. Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic data for the two magma series suggest theimportance of combined assimilation-fractional crystallizationprocesses (AFC) within the lower crust in their evolution. Modellingdemonstrates that the AFC process amplifies the original compositionaldifferences between the parent magmas. After 55% crystallizationin the strongly alkaline series and 65% in the weakly alkalineseries crustal contamination ceases, although fractional crystallizationcontinues beyond this point to produce the most evolved differentiates(phonolites and rhyolites). This may reflect progressive sealingof the lowercrustal magma reservoirs. The tendency of the magmasto follow over- or under-saturated evolutionary trends, producingrhyolitic and phonolitic residua respectively, appears to beestablished at the early stages of magmatic differentiation,reflecting inherent differences in the compositions of the parentalmagmas. KEY WORDS: alkaline magmas; Massif Central; Cantal; AFC; magmatic differentiation     

北山柳园地区双峰山早泥盆世A型花岗岩的确定及其构造演化意义

北山柳园地区分布有大量的早中古生代花岗岩类岩石.柳园双峰山岩体具有高硅、高碱(AR=3.99～5.05,NK/A>0.85)、高FeOT/MgO比值和10 000×Ga/Al值、低Al2O3、贫CaO和MgO的特征,显示出准铝质、碱质花岗岩的特点;∑REE较高,LREE略富集,轻重稀土元素分馏不十分明显,Eu负异常明显;相对富集Rb、K、Pb等大离子亲石元素(LILE),强烈亏损Ba、Sr、P、Eu、Ti,弱亏损Ta、Nb等元素;同时具有较高的Rb/Nb和Y/Nb比值,显示了A2型铝质花岗岩的特征.采用LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年方法,获得双峰山岩体的206Pb/238U年龄为415±3 Ma(MSWD=1.5),代表该岩体的形成年龄,即双峰山岩体形成于早泥盆世.地球化学及Nd同位素特征综合分析显示,该岩体可能由幔源岩浆底侵导致上覆地壳物质(可能由洋壳和岛弧建造组成)部分熔融形成的花岗闪长质岩浆经进一步结晶分异作用形成,为该区较早的钙碱性花岗岩演化到后期的产物.岩体特征、年代学、地球化学和地质背景综合分析结果表明,该岩体形成于后造山或造山作用演化晚期阶段.双峰山早泥盆世A型花岗岩为目前北山地区发现的最老的A型花岗岩,这对探讨古生代花岗岩成因类型及岩浆演化具有重要的意义.     

Density,Viscosity and Velocity (Ascent Rate) of Alkaline Magmas

Three distinct alkaline magmas, represented by shonkinite, lamprophyre and alkali basalt dykes, characterize a significant magmatic expression of rift-related mantle-derived igneous activity in the Mesoproterozoic Prakasam Alkaline Province, SE India. In the present study we have estimated emplacement velocities (ascent rates) for these three varied alkaline magmas and compared with other silicate magmas to explore composition control on the ascent rates. The alkaline dykes have variable widths and lengths with none of the dykes wider than 1 m. The shonkinites are fine- to medium-grained rocks with clinopyroxene, phologopite, amphibole, K-feldspar perthite and nepheline as essential minerals. They exhibit equigranular hypidiomorphic to foliated textures. Lamprophyres and alkali basalts characteristically show porphyritic textures. Olivine, clinopyroxene, amphibole and biotite are distinct phenocrysts in lamprophyres whereas olivine, clinopyroxene and plagioclase form the phenocrystic mineralogy in the alkali basalts. The calculated densities [2.54–2.71 g/cc for shonkinite; 2.61–2.78 g/cc for lamprophyre; 2.66–2.74 g/cc for alkali basalt] and viscosities [3.11–3.39 Pa s for shonkinite; 3.01–3.28 Pa s for lamprophyre; 2.72–3.09 Pa s for alkali basalt] are utilized to compute velocities (ascent rates) of the three alkaline magmas. Since the lamprophyres and alkali basalts are crystal-laden, we have also calculated effective viscosities to infer crystal control on the velocities. Twenty percent of crystals in the magma increase the viscosity by 2.7 times consequently decrease ascent rate by 2.7 times compared to the crystal-free magmas. The computed ascent rates range from 0.11–2.13 m/sec, 0.23–2.77 m/sec and 1.16–2.89 m/sec for shonkinite, lamprophyre and alkali basalt magmas respectively. Ascent rates increase with the width of the dykes and density difference, and decrease with magma viscosity and proportion of crystals. If a constant width of 1 m is assumed in the magma-filled dyke propagation model, then the sequence of emplacement velocities in the decreasing order is alkaline magmas (4.68–15.31 m/sec) > ultramafic-mafic magmas (3.81–4.30 m/sec) > intermediate-felsic magmas (1.76–2.56 m/sec). We propose that SiO₂ content in the terrestrial magmas can be modeled as a semi-quantitative “geospeedometer” of the magma ascent rates.     

Petrology of alkali basalts of Zlot, Timok Magmatic Complex (Eastern Serbia)

Alkali basalts were discovered in the Timok Magmatic Complex only in a borehole near Zlot. They are composed of plagioclase and clinopyroxene phenocrysts lying in intersertal to pilotaxitic groundmass. The characteristic feature of these rocks is the high content of needle shaped magnetite.

Various disequilibrium features in alkali basalt of Zlot reflect complex convection effects and recharge, most probably in a shallow magma chamber. Major and trace elements data indicate that alkali basalts of Zlot originated from magmas deriving from metasomatized mantle wedge above a subducting and dehydrating plate. However the investigated rocks did not originate from primary magmas, but from a magma which has undergone considerable fractional crystallization.     

Fluid Composititon and Carbon ＆ Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of Cenozoic Alkali Basalts in Eastern China

The fluid compositions of Cenozoic alkali basalts in eastern China have been determined by the pyrolysis-MS method,meanwhile the carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of CO2 released from these samples at different heating temperatures have been analyzed by the vacuum step-heating method.The data show the volatiole heterogeneity in upper-mantle sources and different evolution trends of alkali basaltic magmas in eastern China,and these alkali basaltic magmas may be generated in the oxidizing milieu,as compared with mantle-derived xenoliths in these alkali basalts,and exotic volatile components were mixed into these magmas in the process of their formation and development.     

桐庐杂岩体中共存的两种碱性长石研究

桐庐同熔型火山－侵入杂岩中出现两种碱性长石，一种为无色透明，另一种为微红色，本文利用X射线衍射仪，电子探针，透射电镜对其结构态，成分及出溶微结构进行了对比研究。结果表明，两者成分差别不大，而结构差别较大，无色透明的为透长石，出溶叶片发育；微红色的为正长石或低透长石，出溶结构不发育。而且随着冷却速率的变慢，无色透明碱性长石的Al/Si有序度增大，微红色碱性长石的有序度降低，分析后认为这种共存现象是岩浆混和造成的，从而为桐庐杂岩体的岩浆混合成因提供了有力的证据。     

中国东部新生代碱性玄武岩中的流体组成及其碳,氧同位素地球化学特征

利用热分解质谱法测定了中国东部新生代碱性玄武岩中流体挥发分的组成,并对不同温度段释放出的ＣＯ２气体测定了Ｃ,Ｏ同位素值,流体组成和ＣＯ２的Ｃ,Ｏ同位素值表明中国东部上地幔源区的不均一性,与其中所含幔源岩捕体相比,碱性玄武岩浆发育在相对氧化的环境中,并有外来流体组分的加入。     

Geochemical response of magmas to Neogene–Quaternary continental collision in the Carpathian–Pannonian region: A review

The Carpathian–Pannonian Region contains Neogene to Quaternary magmatic rocks of highly diverse composition (calc-alkaline, shoshonitic and mafic alkalic) that were generated in response to complex microplate tectonics including subduction followed by roll-back, collision, subducted slab break-off, rotations and extension. Major element, trace element and isotopic geochemical data of representative parental lavas and mantle xenoliths suggests that subduction components were preserved in the mantle following the cessation of subduction, and were reactivated by asthenosphere uprise via subduction roll-back, slab detachment, slab-break-off or slab-tearing. Changes in the composition of the mantle through time are evident in the geochemistry, supporting established geodynamic models.Magmatism occurred in a back-arc setting in the Western Carpathians and Pannonian Basin (Western Segment), producing felsic volcaniclastic rocks between 21 to 18 Ma ago, followed by younger felsic and intermediate calc-alkaline lavas (18–8 Ma) and finished with alkalic-mafic basaltic volcanism (10–0.1 Ma). Volcanic rocks become younger in this segment towards the north. Geochemical data for the felsic and calc-alkaline rocks suggest a decrease in the subduction component through time and a change in source from a crustal one, through a mixed crustal/mantle source to a mantle source. Block rotation, subducted roll-back and continental collision triggered partial melting by either delamination and/or asthenosphere upwelling that also generated the younger alkalic-mafic magmatism.In the westernmost East Carpathians (Central Segment) calc-alkaline volcanism was simultaneously spread across ca. 100 km in several lineaments, parallel or perpendicular to the plane of continental collision, from 15 to 9 Ma. Geochemical studies indicate a heterogeneous mantle toward the back-arc with a larger degree of fluid-induced metasomatism, source enrichment and assimilation on moving north-eastward toward the presumed trench. Subduction-related roll-back may have triggered melting, although there may have been a role for back-arc extension and asthenosphere uprise related to slab break-off.Calc-alkaline and adakite-like magmas were erupted in the Apuseni Mountains volcanic area (Interior Segment) from15–9 Ma, without any apparent relationship with the coeval roll-back processes in the front of the orogen. Magmatic activity ended with OIB-like alkali basaltic (2.5 Ma) and shoshonitic magmatism (1.6 Ma). Lithosphere breakup may have been an important process during extreme block rotations (60°) between 14 and 12 Ma, leading to decompressional melting of the lithospheric and asthenospheric sources. Eruption of alkali basalts suggests decompressional melting of an OIB-source asthenosphere. Mixing of asthenospheric melts with melts from the metasomatized lithosphere along an east–west reactivated fault-system could be responsible for the generation of shoshonitic magmas during transtension and attenuation of the lithosphere.Voluminous calc-alkaline magmatism occurred in the Cãlimani-Gurghiu-Harghita volcanic area (South-eastern Segment) between 10 and 3.5 Ma. Activity continued south-eastwards into the South Harghita area, in which activity started (ca. 3.0–0.03 Ma, with contemporaneous eruption of calc-alkaline (some with adakite-like characteristics), shoshonitic and alkali basaltic magmas from 2 to 0.3 Ma. Along arc magma generation was related to progressive break-off of the subducted slab and asthenosphere uprise. For South Harghita, decompressional melting of an OIB-like asthenospheric mantle (producing alkali basalt magmas) coupled with fluid-dominated melting close to the subducted slab (generating adakite-like magmas) and mixing between slab-derived melts and asthenospheric melts (generating shoshonites) is suggested. Break-off and tearing of the subducted slab at shallow levels required explaining this situation.     

The Stonyford Volcanic Complex: a Forearc Seamount in the Northern California Coast Ranges

Jurassic age volcanic rocks of the Stonyford volcanic complex(SFVC) comprise three distinct petrological groups based ontheir whole-rock geochemistry: (1) oceanic tholeiites; (2) transitionalalkali basalts and glasses; (3) high-Al, low-Ti tholeiites.Major and trace element, and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic dataindicate that the oceanic tholeiites formed as low-degree partialmelts of normal mid-ocean ridge basalt (N-MORB)-source asthenospheresimilar in isotope composition to the East Pacific Rise today;the alkalic lavas were derived from an enriched source similarto that of E-MORB. The high-Al, low-Ti lavas resemble second-stagemelts of a depleted MORB-source asthenosphere that formed bymelting spinel lherzolite at low pressures. Trace element systematicsof the high-Al, low-Ti basalts show the influence of an enrichedcomponent, which overprints generally depleted trace elementcharacteristics. Tectonic discrimination diagrams show thatthe oceanic tholeiite and alkali suites are similar to present-daybasalts generated at mid-oceanic ridges. The high-Al, low-Tisuite resembles primitive arc basalts with an enriched, alkalibasalt-like overprint. Isotopic data show the influence of recycledcomponents in all three suites. The SFVC was constructed ona substrate of normal Coast Range ophiolite in an extensionalforearc setting. The close juxtaposition of the MORB-like olivinetholeiites with alkali and high-Al, low-Ti basalts suggestsderivation from a hybrid mantle source region that includedMORB-source asthenosphere, enriched oceanic asthenosphere, andthe depleted supra-subduction zone mantle wedge. We proposethat the SFVC formed in response to collision of a mid-oceanridge spreading center with the Coast Range ophiolite subductionzone. Formation of a slab window beneath the forearc duringcollision allowed the influx of ridge-derived magmas or themantle source of these magmas. Continued melting of the previouslydepleted mantle wedge above the now defunct subduction zoneproduced strongly depleted high-Al, low-Ti basalts that werepartially fertilized with enriched, alkali basalt-type meltsand slab-derived fluids. KEY WORDS: CRO; oceanic basalts; California     

青海南部曲麻莱县加容检德工卡侵入岩序列特征及其构造环境

加容检德工卡侵入岩序列由石英闪长岩-英云闪长岩-花岗闪长岩-正长花岗岩组成。岩石化学成分表现为从中基性到酸性的演化及岩浆向富硅、富碱方向演化。稀土元素特征表现为轻稀土元素富集;微量元素特征表现为富集大离子亲石元素Rb、K、Ba、Th,而Sr、Nb、Ta略显亏损,Ti、P较强亏损。构造环境为同碰撞花岗岩,时代为早白垩世。     

Revisiting Early–Middle Jurassic igneous activity in the Nanling Mountains,South China: Geochemistry and implications for regional geodynamics

Early–Middle Jurassic igneous rocks (190–170 Ma) are distributed in an E–W-trending band within the Nanling Tectonic Belt, and have a wide range of compositions but are only present in limited volumes. This scenario contrasts with the uniform but voluminous Middle–Late Jurassic igneous rocks (165–150 Ma) in this area. The Early–Middle Jurassic rocks include oceanic-island basalt (OIB)-type alkali basalts, tholeiitic basalts and gabbros, bimodal volcanic rocks, syenites, A-type granites, and high-K calc–alkaline granodiorites. Geochemical and isotopic data indicate that alkaline and tholeiitic basalts and syenites were derived from melting of the asthenospheric mantle, with asthenosphere-derived magmas mixing with variable amounts of magmas derived from melting of metasomatized lithospheric mantle. In comparison, A-type granites in the study area were probably generated by shallow dehydration-related melting of hornblende-bearing continental crustal rocks that were heated by contemporaneous intrusion of mantle-derived basaltic magmas, and high-K calc-alkaline granodiorites resulted from the interaction between melts from upwelling asthenospheric mantle and the lower crust. The Early–Middle Jurassic magmatic event is spatially variable in terms of lithology, geochemistry, and isotopic systematics. This indicates that the deep mantle sources of the magmas that formed these igneous rocks were significantly heterogeneous, and magmatism had a gradual decrease in the involvement of the asthenospheric mantle from west to east. These variations in composition and sourcing of magmas, in addition to the spatial distribution and the thermal structure of the crust–mantle boundary during this magmatic event, indicates that these igneous rocks formed during a period of rifting after the Indosinian Orogeny rather than during subduction of the paleo-Pacific oceanic crust.     

Origin of oceanic phonolites by crystal fractionation and the problem of the Daly gap: an example from Rarotonga

Felsic alkalic rocks are a minor component of many ocean island volcanic suites, and include trachyte and phonolite as well as various types of alkaline and peralkaline rhyolite. However, there is considerable debate on the nature of their formation; for example, are they formed by partial melting of anomalous mantle or the final products of fractional crystallization of mafic magmas. The phonolites and foidal phonolites on Rarotonga were formed by low pressure crystal fractionation of two chemically distinct parental magmas. Low silica and high silica mafic magmas produced a basanite-foidal phonolite series and an alkali basalt-phonolite series, respectively. The foidal phonolite composition evolved from the low silica mafic magmas by approximately 60% fractionation of titanaugite + leucite + nepheline + magnetite + apatite. Fractionation continued with the crystallization of aegirine-augite + nepheline + kaersutite + magnetite + apatite. The phonolites formed from the alkali basalts by approximately 40% fractionation of kaersutite + titanaugite + Fe-Ti oxide + plagioclase + apatite and continued to evolve further by fractionation of anorthoclase + nepheline + aegerine-augite + Fe-Ti oxides. As the magmas fractionated in both suites, their overall viscosities (solid + liquid) increased until a point was reached whereby viscosity inhibited the eruption of magmas with compositions intermediate between the mafic rocks and the felsic rocks. However, the magmas continued to fractionate under static conditions with the residual fluid becoming foidal phonolitic in the low silica suite or phonolitic in the high silica suite. These phonolitic liquids, as a result of an increase in volatiles and enrichment of alkalis over aluminum, would actually have a lower viscosity than the intermediate liquids. This decrease in viscosity and the switch from a magma chamber being predominantly a liquid with suspended solids to a solid crystalline network with an interstitial liquid enabled phonolitic liquids to migrate, pool, and eventually erupt on the surface.     

Upper mantle source for some hawaiites,mugearites and benmoreites

Chemical analyses of over seventy lavas or dykes containing spinel lherzolite inclusions of high pressure mineralogy, show that most host magmas are of alkali olivine basalt or basanite composition with relatively rare olivine nephelinites, and olivine melilitites. The 100 Mg/Mg+Fe⁺⁺ ratios of host magmas display a strong maximum at about Mg₇₀ consistent with partial melting of source peridotite with olivine of Fo_88–90. In contrast to these primary magmas, there occur some host magmas with 100 Mg/Mg+Fe⁺⁺<60 and with chemical compositions resembling those of classical hawaiite, mugearite, and nepheline benmoreite magmas. It is inferred that these magmas have been produced by crystal fractionation, within the upper mantle, of parental basanites or alkali olivine basalts. The presence of kaersutitic hornblende xenocrysts accompanying the lherzolite inclusions, and the nature of the chemical variation between associated basanites and nepheline benmoreites suggests that crystal fractionation has been dominated by kaersutitic hornblende, together with olivine and, in some cases, probably clinopyroxene. The mantle-derived nepheline benmoreite magmas also show similarities to some plutonic nepheline syenites.     

Monteregian Hills I. Petrography, Major and Trace Element Geochemistry, and Strontium Isotopic Chemistry of The Western Intrusions: Mounts Royal, St. Bruno, and Johnson

The Monteregian Hills petrographic province of southwesternQuebec, Canada, consists of a series of alkaline intrusionsemplaced along faults associated with the St. Lawrence graben.The intrusions are crudely cylindrical in shape, show verticalcontacts, and apparently extend to great depths. Where observed,igneous foliation is generally steeply dipping. The western intrusions consist of two petrographically distinctgroups. One group is composed of slightly undersaturated tocritically saturated pyroxenites and gabbros, largely of cumulateorigin, and associated slightly quartz-saturated syenites. Thesecond group is composed of strongly to moderately undersaturateddiorites, monzonites, and syenites which contain significantamounts of feldspathoidal minerals. The Oka carbonatite complexbelongs to the latter group. Available age data indicate that these two petrographic groupsrepresent separate periods of igneous activity. The slightlyundersaturated to critically saturated series has a mean ageof 136 Ma, while the strongly to moderately undersaturated serieshas a mean age of 118 Ma. Mounts Royal and St. Bruno are largely composed of gabbros andpyroxenites which belong to the slightly undersaturated to criticallysaturated series. These units consist of variable amounts ofcumulus pyroxene and olivine and intercumulus minerals. Someof the finer-grained gabbros approximate liquid compositions.Major and trace element rock and mineral chemistry demonstratethat the evolution of these magmas was largely controlled bypyroxene and olivine fractionation, with plagioclase appearingon the liquidus late in the crystallization history. The quartz-bearingsyenites at Mt. St. Bruno represent a late stage differentiatewhich was contaminated by siliceous crustal material. The strongly to moderately undersaturated series is representedby the essexites and pulaskites at Mount Johnson and the nepheline-bearingdiorites and feldspathoidal monzonites and syenites at MountRoyal. The petrogenetic relationships between these rocks arecomplex and apparently involve a number of processes includingliquid immiscibility, contamination, and alkali transport. Low initial Sr isotope ratios (0.7032 to 0.7035) for both ofthese rock series indicate a mantle origin. Calculated initialmelts are alkali picrites for the slightly undersaturated tocritically saturated series and basanites for the strongly tomoderately undersaturated series. The alkali picrites can beproduced by an 8 per cent melt of a light rare-earth enrichedgarnet lherzolite source. The basanites require a much morelimited degree of melting (1–2 per cent) of a spinel lherzolitesource. In the case of the basanites, CO₂ may have played animportant role in determining the nepheline-normative characterof the magmas.     

The Role of Pressure in Producing Compositional Diversity in Intraplate Basaltic Magmas

Basaltic magmas found in intraplate suites appear to followmore than one differentiation trend. Many ocean island suitesfollow the ocean island tholeiitic trend, with the basalts differentiatingfrom olivine tholeiite through basaltic andesite, andesite,and dacite to sodic rhyolite. Many continental intraplate magmaticregimes, such as those of the Snake River Plain and the plutonicsequences associated with massif anorthosites, follow the potassicsilica-saturated alkalic trend, in which basalt differentiatesfrom olivine tholeiite through ferrobasalt (jotunite or ferrodiorite),Fe-rich intermediate rocks (trachybasalt or monzonite), andtrachyte (syenite) to potassic rhyolites and granites. Crystallizationexperiments on an olivine tholeiite from the Snake River Plainshow that the basaltic portions of the ocean island tholeiitictrend and the potassic silica-saturated alkalic trend (whichleads to strong alkali, P, Ti, and Fe enrichment and silicadepletion) can arise from the same ‘dry’ tholeiiticparental magma. These compositional differences are inducedby changes in phase equilibria as a function of pressure, withthe ocean island tholeiitic series arising from crystal–liquiddifferentiation at low pressure and the potassic silica-saturatedalkalic series arising via differentiation at elevated pressures. KEY WORDS: tholeiite differentiation; experimental petrology; phase equilibria; ferrodiorite; ferrobasalt