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Primary magmas and mantle temperatures
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Green, DH and Falloon, TJ and Eggins, SM and Yaxley, GM, Primary magmas and mantle temperatures, European Journal of Mineralogy, 13, (3) pp. 437-451. ISSN 0935-1221 (2001) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2001 E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
DOI: doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2001/0013-0437
Abstract
The composition of olivine phenocrysts in Hawaiian tholeiitic picrites and in Mid-Ocean Ridge picrites vary up to Mg#91.3 and Mg#92.1 respectively. The compositions and liquidus temperatures
of the magmas crystallizing the most magnesian phenocrysts can be estimated and we find that anhydrous liquidus temperatures (at 1 bar pressure) of Hawaiian tholeiitic picrites average 1365°C, for E-MOR
picrites average 1355°C, and for N-MOR picrites average 1335°C. Water contents of the magmas decrease in the order Hawaiian picrites, E-MOR picrites to N-MOR picrites, and consideration of liquidus
depression by these water contents leads to the conclusion that magma temperatures for all types were approximately 1325°C at ~ 1 bar. The data from parental or primary magmas suggests that the temperature
contrast between 'Hot-Spot' and MOR magmas is ≤ 20°C. Application of information from partial melting studies of lherzolites and liquidus studies of the Hot-Spot and MOR picrites leads to the conclusion
that both 'Hot-Spot' and MOR primary basalts are derived from mantle with potential temperature Tp ~ 1430°C. Insofar as primitive magmas may be used to infer the potential temperature of
their sources, there is no evidence for a temperature contrast of Δ Tp = 100-250°C between 'Hot-Spot' or 'Deep Mantle Plume' sources and ambient (MOR source) asthenospheric mantle.
Although magma temperatures are similar, the residual mantle compositions for Hawaiian picrites are refractory harzburgites, more refractory (including Cr/Cr+Al ratio) than the lherzolite to harzburgite
residue from MOR picrite extraction. It is argued that the buoyancy plume and geophysically anomalous mantle beneath the Hawaiian Arch is due to compositional and not temperature contrasts in the upper
mantle. The four-component mixing identified in the Hawaiian source is attributed to interaction between old subducted lithospheric slabs, buoyant or suspended in the upper mantle, and surrounding ambient
mantle at Tp = 1430°C.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | mantle melting, mantle potential temperature, plumes, primary magmas |
Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
Research Group: | Geochemistry |
Research Field: | Inorganic geochemistry |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences |
UTAS Author: | Falloon, TJ (Dr Trevor Falloon) |
ID Code: | 96732 |
Year Published: | 2001 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 132 |
Deposited By: | Earth Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2014-11-18 |
Last Modified: | 2015-04-14 |
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