Composition and processes of the mantle lithosphere in northeastern Brazil and Fernando de Noronha: evidence from mantle xenoliths |
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Authors: | Giorgio Rivalenti Maurizio Mazzucchelli Vicente AV Girardi Riccardo Vannucci M Adelaide Barbieri Alberto Zanetti Steve L Goldstein |
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Institution: | Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Modena, P.le S. Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy Tel.: + 39-059-417231; Fax: + 39-059-417399; e-mail: mazzuc@unimo.it, IT Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Rua do Lago 562, 05506-900 S?o Paulo, Brazil, BR Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pavia and CNR – Centro di Studio per la Cristallochimica e la Cristallografia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy, IT Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA, US
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Abstract: | Spinel–peridotite facies mantle xenoliths in Cenozoic alkali basalts of the Pico Cabuji volcano (Rio Grande do Norte State,
Northeast Brazil) and the adjacent South Atlantic oceanic island of Fernando de Noronha are studied for: (1) the information
they provide on the composition of the lithospheric component in the erupted basalt geochemistry, and (2) to check the effects
of the Fernando de Noronha plume track on the mantle lithosphere. Xenoliths from Pico Cabuji are protogranular lherzolites
and porphyroclastic harzburgites recording average equilibrium temperatures of 825 ± 116 and 1248 ± 19 °C, respectively. Pressure
in the porphyroclastic xenoliths ranges from 1.9 to 2.7 GPa (Ca-in-olivine geobarometer). Both groups show major element chemical
variation trends in whole-rock and Ti and HREE (Er, Yb) variations in clinopyroxene consistent with fractional melting and
basalt extraction. REE (rare earth element) profiles of clinopyroxenes vary from LREE (La, Ce) enriched (spoon shaped) to
LREE depleted in the protogranular group, whereas they are slightly convex upward in most porphyroclastic clinopyroxenes.
HFSE (Ti and Zr) negative anomalies are in general modest in the clinopyroxenes of both groups. Xenoliths from Fernando de
Noronha have textural variations similar to those of Pico Cabuji. Protogranular and porphyroclastic samples have similar temperature
(1035 ± 80 °C) and the pressure is 1–1.9 and 2.3 GPa, respectively. Whole-rock chemical variation trends overlap and extend
further than those of Pico Cabuji. The trace element profiles of the clinopyroxenes of the porphyroclastic xenoliths are enriched
in La up to 30 × PM and are smoothly fractionated from LREE to HREE, with deep, negative, Zr and Ti anomalies. The geochemical
heterogeneities of the xenoliths from both localities are interpreted in terms of reactive porous percolation. The porphyroclastic
xenoliths from Pico Cabuji represent the lower part of a mantle column (the head of a mantle diapir, at the transition conductive–adiabatic
mantle), where OIB infiltration triggers melting, and the protogranular xenoliths the top of the mantle column, chromatographically
enriched by percolation at a low melt/rock ratio. This interpretation may also apply for Fernando de Noronha, but the different
geochemical signature recorded by the clinopyroxenes requires a different composition of the infiltrated melt. Nd and Sr isotopes
of the Pico Cabuji porphyroclastic clinopyroxenes (143Nd/144Nd= 0.51339–0.51255, 87Sr/86Sr=0.70275–0.70319) and of Fernando de Noronha (143Nd/144Nd=0.51323–0.51285, 87Sr/86Sr=0.70323–0.70465) plot on distinct arrays originating from a similar, isotopically depleted composition and trending to
low Nd–low Sr (EMI) and low Nd–high Sr (EMII), respectively. Correlation of the isotope variation with geochemical parameters
indicates that the isotopic variation was induced by the metasomatic component, of EMI type at Pico Cabuji and of EMII type
at Fernando de Noronha. These different components enriched a lithosphere isotopically similar to DMM (depleted MORB mantle)
at both localities. At Fernando de Noronha, the isotopic signature of the metasomatic component is similar to that of the
∼ 8 Ma old lavas of the Remedios Formation, suggesting that this is the age of metasomatism. At Pico Cabuji, the mantle xenoliths
do not record the high 87Sr/86Sr component present in the basalts. We speculate that the EMII component derives from a lithospheric reservoir, which was
not thermally affected during mantle metasomatism at Pico Cabuji, but was mobilized by the hotspot thermal influence at Fernando
de Noronha. This interpretation provides a plausible explanation for the presence of distinct metasomatic components at the
two localities, which would be difficult to reconcile with their genetic relationship with the same plume.
Received: 12 June 1999 / Accepted: 13 December 1999 |
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