Erratum to: Iron isotope variations in spinel peridotite xenoliths from North China Craton: implications for mantle metasomatism |
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Authors: | Xinmiao Zhao Hongfu Zhang Xiangkun Zhu Suohan Tang Yanjie Tang |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Lithopheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, 100029 Beijing, China;(2) Laboratory of Isotopic Geology, MLR, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 100037 Beijing, China |
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Abstract: | Iron isotopes, together with mineral elemental compositions of spinel peridotite xenoliths and clinopyroxenites from Hannuoba
and Hebi Cenozoic alkaline basalts, were analyzed to investigate iron isotopic features of the lithospheric mantle beneath
the North China Craton. The results show that the Hannuoba spinel peridotite xenoliths have small but distinguishable Fe isotopic
variations. Overall variations in δ57Fe are in a range of −0.25 to 0.14‰ for olivine, −0.17 to 0.17‰ for orthopyroxene, −0.21 to 0.27‰ for clinopyroxene, and −0.16
to 0.26‰ for spinel, respectively. Clinopyroxene has the heaviest iron isotopic ratio and olivine the lightest within individual
sample. No clear linear relationships between the mineral pairs on “δ-δ” plot suggest that iron isotopes of mineral separates
analyzed have been affected largely by some open system processes. The broadly negative correlations between mineral iron
isotopes and metasomatic indexes such as spinel Cr#, (La/Yb)N ratios of clinopyroxenes suggest that iron isotopic variations in different minerals and peridotites were probably produced
by mantle metasomatism. The Hebi phlogopite-bearing lherzolite, which is significantly modified by metasomatic events, appears
to be much heavier isotopically than clinopyroxene-poor lherzolite. This study further confirms previous conclusions that
the lithospheric mantle has distinguishable and heterogeneous iron isotopic variations at the xenoliths scale. Mantle metasomatism
is the most likely cause for the iron isotope variations in mantle peridotites. |
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