Mantle fluid evolution—a tale of one diamond

Microinclusions analyzed in a coated diamond from the Diavik mine in Canada comprise peridotitic minerals and fluids. The fluids span a wide compositional range between a carbonatitic melt and brine. The diamond is concentrically zoned. The brine microinclusions reside in an inner growth zone and their endmember composition is K₁₉Na₂₅Ca₅Mg₈Fe₃Ba₂Si₄Cl₃₂ (mol%). The carbonatitic melt is found in an outer layer and its endmember composition is K₁₁Na₂₁Ca₁₁Mg₂₆Fe₇Ba₂Si₁₀Al₃P₂Cl₅. The transition in inclusion chemistry is accompanied by a change in the carbon isotopic composition of the diamond from −8.5‰ in the inner zone to −12.1‰ in the outer zone. We suggest that this transition reflects mixing between already evolved brine and a freshly introduced carbonatitic melt of different isotopic composition.

The compositional range found in diamond ON-DVK-294 is the widest ever recorded in a single diamond. It closes the gap between brine found in cloudy octahedral diamonds from South Africa and carbonatitic melt analyzed in cubic diamonds from Zaire and Botswana. Thus, all microinclusions analyzed to date fall along two arrays connecting the carbonatitic melt composition to either a hydrous-silicic endmember or to a brine endmember. This connection suggests that many diamonds are formed from fluids derived form a mantle source not significantly influenced by local heterogeneities.     

大别造山带碧溪岭橄榄岩中锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素研究

在详细形态和内部结构研究基础上,对碧溪岭橄榄岩锆石进行了配套的U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素分析。碧溪岭橄榄岩锆石主体是变质成因的,但有少量岩浆锆石残留。这些锆石主体给出了220～210Ma的变质生长/重结晶作用年龄;一颗具较高Th/U比值的锆石给出646Ma的近协和年龄,限定了早期岩浆结晶作用的最小年龄。真正的侵位年龄可以由745Ma的上交点年龄来限定;210～222Ma则记录着深俯冲陆壳折返过程中的锆石生长。除少数颗粒的ε_(Hf)为负值外(-2.9),大部分锆石的ε_(Hf)是正的(高达 8.1)并具新元古代的亏损地幔模式年龄(0.6～1.0Ga,平均0.8Ga)。这些结果说明碧溪岭橄榄岩的初始物质是扬子大陆岩石圈内新元古代岩浆堆积作用产物。这样的岩浆堆积物来源于亏损的软流圈地幔,侵入于扬子的深部地壳之中(如底侵)并部分混染了古老地壳组分。它们随扬子向华北之下深俯冲碰撞和造山带折返过程中经历着复杂的变质改造作用。     

中国东部部分地区新生代岩石圈地幔的成因:主量和微量元素制约

为厘定中国东部新生代岩石圈地幔的成因,进而探讨岩石圈减薄的方式,本文选择汉诺坝、女山、盘石山和方山尖晶石二辉橄榄岩作为研究对象,系统分析了其主、微量元素。结果表明,这些地区新生代岩石圈地幔具有"新生"的性质,为上涌的软流圈物质经过小于10%的部分熔融程度后的残留相形成,后又经历了类似新生代玄武岩性质的富硅熔体的交代,交代介质的物质贡献小于3%。新生代岩石圈地幔与古老克拉通岩石圈地幔在主、微量元素上的显著差异以及新生代岩石圈地幔微量元素特征的拟合,支持拆沉为华北克拉通东部减薄的主要方式。