Zonation des éléments en traces au cours de la croissance des cristaux dans les bains silicatés: l'exemple de Rb,Cs, Sr et Ba dans le système Qz-Ab-Or-H2O

An indirect method was used to study Na, K, Rb, Cs, Sr and Ba partition coefficients between crystals and silicate melt. Equilibria between a hydrothermal solution and the melt at 800°C and 2 kb and between a hydrothermal solution and crystals at 750°C and 2 kb were separately achieved.For major element partitioning (Na and K), the results obtained here are in good agreement with those of Tuttle and Bowen (1958) which allow us to follow crystal evolution during a fractional crystallization process where the growth of zoned crystals takes place.For minor elements Rb, Cs, Sr, Ba, melt/aqueous solution partition coefficients depend on Na/K as well as the silica content of the melt. These effects are rather small for Rb and Cs, but are much more important for the alkaline earths. The feldspar/aqueous solution partition coefficients also depend on Na/K.The variations of the partition coefficients feldspar/melt are complex in the part of the Qz-Ab-Or diagram located below the cotectic line.During fractional crystallization following the Rayleigh law (assuming that there are no kinetic phenomena) Sr (D > 10) is almost totally removed from the melt in the early stages whereas Cs (D < 0.1) remains in the melt during the whole process. Rb and Ba have partition coefficients closer to unity. The variation of these coefficients, due to changes in bulk composition of liquid and crystals during fractional crystallization, can lead to complex zoning with possible concentration maxima at some stages. Similar phenomena can be expected in non-ideal natural solid solutions, even if no discontinuities can be detected in the physicochemical evolution of the parent magma.