Thermal expansion along the NaAlSi2O6–NaFe3+Si2O6 and NaAlSi2O6–CaFe2+Si2O6 solid solutions

The high temperature volume and axial parameters for six C2/c clinopyroxenes along the NaAlSi₂O₆–NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆ and NaAlSi₂O₆–CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆ joins were determined from room T up to 800°C, using integrated diffraction profiles from in situ high temperature single crystal data collections. The thermal expansion coefficient was determined by fitting the experimental data according to the relation: ln(V/V ₀) = α(T − T ₀). The thermal expansion coefficient increases by about 15% along the jadeite–hedenbergite join, whereas it is almost constant between jadeite and aegirine. The increase is related to the Ca for Na substitution into the M2 site; the same behaviour was observed along the jadeite–diopside solid solution, which presents the same substitution at the M2 site. Strain tensor analysis shows that the major deformation with temperature occurs in all samples along the b axis; on the (010) plane the higher deformation occurs in jadeite and aegirine at a direction almost normal to the tetrahedral–octahedral planes, and in hedenbergite along the projection of the longer M2–O bonds. The orientation of the strain ellipsoid with temperature in hedenbergite is close to that observed with pressure in pyroxenes. Along the jadeite–aegirine join instead the high-temperature and high-pressure strain are differently oriented.     

Clinopyroxene chemistry in Tertiary alkaline volcanic rocks from Taleghan,central Alborz,Iran: Implications for two parental melts

In the Taleghan area of Alborz mountain range, two distinct units of alkaline rocks are identified. Whole rock major and trace element data does not provide a clue as to their common or different parental melts. However, major and trace element geochemistry of their included clinopyroxene phenocrysts, combined with the whole rock data, helped to infer that two parental magmas were involved in the evolution of volcanic succession in the Taleghan area.     

准噶尔北缘中泥盆统北塔山组富辉橄玄岩的岩石成因及其对晚古生代洋脊俯冲的启示

准噶尔北缘中泥盆统北塔山组富辉橄玄岩是一种富含单斜辉石斑晶的岛弧玄武岩,被认为是洋脊俯冲作用的产物,但具体成因机制并不清楚。本文对老山口地区富辉橄玄岩进行了岩石地球化学研究,同时系统测定了其单斜辉石斑晶的成分及其环带变化规律。结果表明,富辉橄玄岩的相容元素和不相容元素的变化规律具有岩浆混合作用的特征,而透辉石斑晶的反环带则将岩浆混合作用限定于高Mg~#熔浆的上涌过程。富辉橄玄岩极高的相容元素含量将上涌的高Mg~#熔浆限定为苦橄质熔浆,而富辉橄玄岩中顽透辉石是被苦橄质熔体携带而来的斑晶物质。主导老山口富辉橄玄岩形成的岩浆过程是苦橄质熔浆的连续补给过程,而苦橄质熔浆被认为是板片窗处软流圈高程度部分熔融的产物。老山口富辉橄玄岩形成的岩浆过程与洋脊俯冲的板片窗模型吻合,因此老山口富辉橄玄岩可能是洋脊俯冲的产物。     

Sheared peridotite xenolith from the V. Grib kimberlite pipe,Arkhangelsk Diamond Province,Russia: Texture,composition, and origin

The petrography and mineral composition of a mantle-derived garnet peridotite xenolith from the V. Grib kimberlite pipe (Arkhangelsk Diamond Province, Russia) was studied. Based on petrographic characteristics, the peridotite xenolith reflects a sheared peridotite. The sheared peridotite experienced a complex evolution with formation of three main mineral assemblages: (1) a relict harzburgite assemblage consist of olivine and orthopyroxene porphyroclasts and cores of garnet grains (Gar1) with sinusoidal rare earth elements (REE) chondrite C1 normalized patterns; (2) a neoblastic olivine and orthopyroxene assemblage; (3) the last assemblage associated with the formation of clinopyroxene and garnet marginal zones (Gar2). Major and trace element compositions of olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and garnet indicate that both the neoblast and clinopyroxene-Gar2 mineral assemblages were in equilibrium with a high Fe-Ti carbonate-silicate metasomatic agent. The nature of the metasomatic agent was estimated based on high field strength elements (HFSE) composition of olivine neoblasts, the garnet-clinopyroxene equilibrium condition and calculated by REE-composition of Gar2 and clinopyroxene. All these evidences indicate that the agent was a high temperature carbonate-silicate melt that is geochemically linked to the formation of the protokimberlite melt.     

粗粒与剪切结构橄榄岩捕虏体及其单斜辉石微量元素对比

地山西栖霞具不同结构的“干”灾晶石相橄榄岩进行了全岩化学、微量元素,矿物成分和单斜辉石微量元素分析和对比。表明在橄榄岩从粗粒结构向剪切结构的转化中,随着变质变形作用的增强存在着复杂的熔／流体的加入富集和熔体的提取亏损作用;交代介质属具强渗透性的SiO2不饱和的硅酸盐碳酸岩熔体。同时发现不同结构橄榄岩中单斜辉石的REE与其全岩的REE程度有如下的关系;粗粒结构橄榄岩石中矿物与岩石的差别量大,但REE的配合分形可以反映全岩的情况;剪切结构橄榄岩中两者的差别较小。其它高度不相容微量元素可能主要赋存粒间组分或／和矿物流体包裹体中。     

Characterization of synthetic hedenbergite (CaFeSi2O6)–petedunnite (CaZnSi2O6) solid solution series by X-ray single crystal diffraction

Clinopyroxenes of the solid solution series hedenbergite (CaFeSi₂O₆)–petedunnite (CaZnSi₂O₆) were synthesized at temperatures of 825–1200°C and pressures of 0.5–2.5 GPa. Compositions were determined by electron microprobe analysis. Selected crystals were investigated by means of single crystal diffraction and structure refinement and the structural distortion was studied depending on the substitution of iron by zinc on the octahedral M1 site. It is shown that the coordination of the M1 site has the most significant effect on M–O bond lengths, with changes on the other sites accommodating this distortion. The mean quadratic elongation and the octahedral angle variance as quantitative measures of the distortion of the coordination polyhedron were correlated with former results of ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy at 298 K. The results presented now complete an earlier work on synthetic, crystalline powders of the same material and deliver exact structural data that were not possible to obtain by Rietveld refinements on powder data.     

胶东白垩纪煌斑岩中单斜辉石再循环晶的识别及其地质意义

穿地壳岩浆系统理念的提出为认知岩浆岩的形成机制提供了一个新的窗口。在穿地壳岩浆系统内,深层次岩浆储库结晶的矿物(例如辉石、角闪石、斜长石等)可通过通道向上运移至浅层次的岩浆储库,该过程可导致这些矿物的熔蚀、流体交代或再生长。上述矿物属于再循环晶,它们保留的成分环带信息可忠实地记录岩浆环境的变化。本文以华北克拉通东南缘胶北早白垩世丛家岩体(-127Ma)内产出的闪斜-拉辉煌斑岩为主要研究对象。这些钙碱性煌斑岩中常见不同结构和成分特征的单斜辉石再循环晶,它们保存了多级岩浆储库的相关信息。丛家煌斑岩包括一系列中基性煌斑岩,形成一个煌斑岩岩石组合具有轻重稀土元素分异明显((La/Yb)_N=14.2～28.1)的特征。在原始地幔标准化微量元素蜘蛛图上丛家煌斑岩表现出亏损Nb、Ta、P和Ti,而富集Ba、Pb、Sr和Nd等元素的特征。本文在丛家煌斑岩中识别出了两类单斜辉石"再循环晶"即正环带单斜辉石和振荡环带单斜辉石。正环带辉石核部Mg~#值为86.0～94.9,稀土元素总含量偏低,亏损HREE;部分核部具筛状结构,筛孔填充物富集大离子亲石元素,并表现出Cr-Ni元素的解耦,显示与流体交代作用有关。正环带辉石边部具振荡环带特征,反映了晶体在震荡环境中的再生长。再生长辉石环带的Mg~#值为78.9～89.1稀土元素总含量较高,但其分配趋势与核部相似,富集Th等元素,亏损Nb、Pb、P。振荡环带辉石的Mg~#值为82.3～89.4,化学成分特征与正环带辉石边部相近。丛家煌斑岩中的角闪石可分为低硅角闪石和高硅角闪石。低硅角闪石的SiO_2含量偏低(38.2%～40.1%),Mg~#值为72.0～82.4,结晶于较高的温压环境(976±22℃～1024+22℃,5.72～10.9kbar)。高硅角闪石的SiO_2含量较高(40.3%～44.3%)Mg~#值为70.9～83.0,结晶于相对低的温压环境(872±22℃～947±22℃,3.06～4.43kbar)。本研究认为,丛家煌斑岩中的单斜辉石再循环晶在不同层次岩浆储库内发生了熔蚀、流体交代或再生长,指示了深部岩浆系统是由多级岩浆储库构成的。     

Origin of clinopyroxene megacrysts in volcanic rocks from the North China Craton: a comparison study with megacrysts worldwide

ABSTRACT

Clinopyroxene megacrysts in volcanic rocks can provide substantial information on the evolution of the magmatic system at depth. Although considerable attention has been paid to these crystals, their origin is not yet completely resolved. The clinopyroxene megacrysts worldwide can be divided into two major types in general: the green Cr-diopside type and the black Al-augite type. There is a consensus view that the Cr-diopside megacrysts are mantle xenocrysts, whereas two contrasting opinions exist regarding the origin of the black Al-augite megacrysts. One favours a cognate origin, viewing them as crystallization products of the host magmas under high-pressure; while the other argues that they are xenocrysts crystallized from previous alkali basalts or fragments of mantle peridotites, pyroxenites or pegmatite veins. A review study on the clinopyroxene megacrysts in Meso-Cenozoic volcanic rocks from the North China Craton (NCC) and their comparison with those worldwide provides new constraints on their origin, namely, the Cr-diopside megacrysts, as previously thought, are all xenocrysts, representing disaggregated clinopyroxene crystals from clinopyroxene-rich mantle rocks. Contrary to the formerly proposed cognate origin, the Al-augite megacrysts are also xenocrysts, having no direct genetic link to their host rocks. They crystallized from melts that have formed earlier than the host magmas, and probably accumulated in a magma chamber or occurred as sheets or veins filling a fracture network surrounding a magma chamber in the upper mantle. During the subsequent eruption of the host lavas, these previously formed crystals were incorporated into the magma and were brought up to the surface.     

High-pressure behaviour of Ca-rich C 2 /c clinopyroxenes along the join diopside-enstatite (CaMgSi2O6-Mg2Si2O6)

 An in situ high-pressure (HP) X-ray diffraction investigation of synthetic diopside and of the Ca_0.8Mg_1.2Si₂O₆ clinopyroxene (Di₈₀En₂₀) was performed up to respectively P=40.8 and 15.1 GPa, using high brilliance synchrotron radiation. The compression of the cell parameters is markedly anisotropic, with β_b ⋙ β_c > β_a > β_asinβ for any pressure range and for both diopside and Di₈₀En₂₀. The compressibility along the crystallographic axes decreases significantly with pressure and is higher in Di₈₀En₂₀ than in diopside. The β cell parameter decreases as well with pressure, at a higher rate in Di₈₀En₂₀. The cell volume decreases at almost the same rate for the two compositions, since in diopside a higher compression along a* occurs. A change in the mechanism of deformation at P higher than about 5–10 GPa is suggested for both compositions from the analysis of the strain induced by compression. In diopside at lower pressures, the deformation mainly occurs, at a similar rate, along the b axis and at a direction 145° from the c axis on the (0 1 0) plane. At higher pressures, instead, the deformation occurs mostly along the b axis. In Di₈₀En₂₀ the orientation of the strain axes is the same as in diopside. The substitution of Ca with Mg in the M2 site induces at a given pressure a higher deformation on (0 1 0) with respect to diopside, but a similar change in the compressional behaviour is found. Changes in the M2 polyhedron with pressure can explain the above compressional behaviour. A third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state was fit to the retrieved volumes, with K=105.1(9) GPa, K′=6.8(1) for diopside and K=107.3(1.4) GPa, K′=5.7(3) for Di₈₀En₂₀; the same equation can be applied for any pressure range. The elasticity of diopside is therefore not significantly affected by Mg substitution into the M2 site, in contrast to the significant stiffening occurring for Ca substitution into Mg-rich orthopyroxenes. Received: 3 January 2000 / Accepted: 21 May 2000