The role of amphibole in the evolution of arc magmas and crust: the case from the Jurassic Bonanza arc section, Vancouver Island, Canada |
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Authors: | Jeff Larocque Dante Canil |
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Institution: | (1) School of Earth and Ocean Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6, Canada; |
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Abstract: | The Jurassic Bonanza arc, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, represents an exhumed island arc crustal section of broadly
diorite composition. We studied bodies of mafic and ultramafic cumulates within deeper levels of the arc to constrain the
conditions and fractionation pathways leading from high-Mg basalt to andesite and dacite. Major element trends coupled with
textural information show the intercumulus crystallization of amphibole, as large oikocrysts enclosing olivine in primitive
cumulates controls the compositions of liquids until the onset of plagioclase crystallization. This process is cryptic, occurring
only in the plutonic section, and explains the paucity of amphibole in mafic arc volcanics and the change in the Dy/Yb ratios
in many arc suites with differentiation. The correlation of octahedral Al in hornblende with pressure in liquidus experiments
on high-Mg basalts is applied as an empirical barometer to hornblendes from the Bonanza arc. It shows that crystallization
took place at 470–880 MPa in H2O-saturated primitive basaltic magmas. There are no magmatic equivalents to bulk continental crust in the Bonanza arc; no
amount of delamination of ultramafic cumulates will shift the bulk arc composition to the high-Mg# andesite composition of
bulk continental crust. Garnet removal from wet magmas appears to be the key factor in producing continental crust, requiring
high pressures and thick crust. Because oceanic island arcs are built on thinner crust, the long-term process generating the
bulk continental crust is the accretion of island arcs to continental margins with attendant tectonic thickening. |
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