This article reports the petrography and mineral chemistry of dunite xenoliths and olivine xenocrysts entrained by the Early Cretaceous Xi＇anli （西安里） hornblende （Hb）-gahbros from the southern Taihang （太行） ...This article reports the petrography and mineral chemistry of dunite xenoliths and olivine xenocrysts entrained by the Early Cretaceous Xi＇anli （西安里） hornblende （Hb）-gahbros from the southern Taihang （太行） Mountains, with the aim of constraining the nature of the Mesozoic lithospheric mantle in Central China. Rounded dunite xenoliths are 1-3 cm3 in size and display porphyroelastic, tabular, and protogranular textures. Chromite with Cr#=60-89 is common in the xenoliths. Oilvine xenocrysts of 4-6 mm in size are also found in the Hb-gabbros. Orthopyroxene reaction rims are commonly observed around olivine xenocrysts or between dunite xenoliths and host rocks. The porphyroclastic olivines within dunite xenoliths and olivine xenoerysts have kink bands and Mg#=83-94. The Mg# of olivine cores and rims are 89-94 （average, 90） and 83-86 （average, 84.4）, respectively. The CaO contents of all olivines from the xenoliths and xenocrysts are less than 0.1 wt.%, suggesting a Hthospheric mantle origin. The Ca content （214 ppm-818 ppm） and Ti content （15 ppm-137 ppm） in the xenoliths and xenocrysts are similar to those of olivines from the dunite xenoliths, but are much higher than those of olivines from harzburgite and lherzolite xenoliths in the Fushan （符山） intrusion. This finding implies that the xenoliths and xenocrysts may have originated from harzburgites or lherzolites that were intensively modified by silica-rich melts. This result, combined with high Mg# （92-94） of olivine cores from the dunite xenoliths and xenocrysts, indicates that these ofivine xenocrysts and dunite xenoliths could represent the residue of ancient （Archean or Paleopro. terozoic） lithospheric mantle and might have experienced the same intensive modification by silica-rich melts as the host magma, resulting in enrichment in MgO and SiO2.展开更多
Revealing deep composition information is crucial for systematic understanding of continental crust architecture.Deep exploration has become an important trend in the development of geoscience,and using magmatic rocks...Revealing deep composition information is crucial for systematic understanding of continental crust architecture.Deep exploration has become an important trend in the development of geoscience,and using magmatic rocks and their deep-source rock inclusions as‘rock probes’to trace the earth’s deep material information has been an effective way in recent years(e.g.,Mo,2011).展开更多
Mesozoic (125 Ma) Fangcheng basalts from Shandong Province contain clearly zoned olivines that are rare in terrestrial samples and provide first evidence for the replacement of lithospheric mantle from high-Mg peridot...Mesozoic (125 Ma) Fangcheng basalts from Shandong Province contain clearly zoned olivines that are rare in terrestrial samples and provide first evidence for the replacement of lithospheric mantle from high-Mg peridotites to low-Mg per-idotites through peridotite-melt reaction.Zoned olivines have compositions in the core (Mg#=87.2—90.7) similar to those olivines from the mantle peridotitic xenoliths entrained in Ceno-zoic basalts from the North China craton and in the rim (Mg#=76.8—83.9) close to olivine henocrysts of the host basalts (75.7—79.0). These compositional features as well as rounded crystal shapes and smaller grain sizes (30—800 μm) demon-strate that these zoned olivines are mantle xenocrysts, i.e. disag-gregates of mantle peridotites. Their core compositions can represent those of olivines of mantle peridotites. The zoned texture of olivines was formed through rapid reaction between the olivine xenocryst and the host basalt. This olivine-basaltic melt reaction could have been ubiquitous in the Mesozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the North China craton, i.e. an important type of the replacement of lithospheric mantle. The reaction resulted in the transformation of the Paleozoic refractory (high-Mg) peridotites to the late Mesozoic fertile (Iow-Mg) and radiogenic isotope-enriched peridotites, leading to the loss of old lithospheric mantle.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90814003)the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2009CB825005)+1 种基金the Ministry of Education of China (No. 200801830039)the MOST Special Fund from the State Key Laboratory of Geo-logical Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences
文摘This article reports the petrography and mineral chemistry of dunite xenoliths and olivine xenocrysts entrained by the Early Cretaceous Xi＇anli （西安里） hornblende （Hb）-gahbros from the southern Taihang （太行） Mountains, with the aim of constraining the nature of the Mesozoic lithospheric mantle in Central China. Rounded dunite xenoliths are 1-3 cm3 in size and display porphyroelastic, tabular, and protogranular textures. Chromite with Cr#=60-89 is common in the xenoliths. Oilvine xenocrysts of 4-6 mm in size are also found in the Hb-gabbros. Orthopyroxene reaction rims are commonly observed around olivine xenocrysts or between dunite xenoliths and host rocks. The porphyroclastic olivines within dunite xenoliths and olivine xenoerysts have kink bands and Mg#=83-94. The Mg# of olivine cores and rims are 89-94 （average, 90） and 83-86 （average, 84.4）, respectively. The CaO contents of all olivines from the xenoliths and xenocrysts are less than 0.1 wt.%, suggesting a Hthospheric mantle origin. The Ca content （214 ppm-818 ppm） and Ti content （15 ppm-137 ppm） in the xenoliths and xenocrysts are similar to those of olivines from the dunite xenoliths, but are much higher than those of olivines from harzburgite and lherzolite xenoliths in the Fushan （符山） intrusion. This finding implies that the xenoliths and xenocrysts may have originated from harzburgites or lherzolites that were intensively modified by silica-rich melts. This result, combined with high Mg# （92-94） of olivine cores from the dunite xenoliths and xenocrysts, indicates that these ofivine xenocrysts and dunite xenoliths could represent the residue of ancient （Archean or Paleopro. terozoic） lithospheric mantle and might have experienced the same intensive modification by silica-rich melts as the host magma, resulting in enrichment in MgO and SiO2.
基金jointly supported by the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(Grant nos.2019YFA0708600,2018YFC0603702)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.41802074,41830216)+1 种基金China Geological Survey projects(Grant nos.DD20190001,DD20190370)a contribution to IGCP Project 662
文摘Revealing deep composition information is crucial for systematic understanding of continental crust architecture.Deep exploration has become an important trend in the development of geoscience,and using magmatic rocks and their deep-source rock inclusions as‘rock probes’to trace the earth’s deep material information has been an effective way in recent years(e.g.,Mo,2011).
文摘Mesozoic (125 Ma) Fangcheng basalts from Shandong Province contain clearly zoned olivines that are rare in terrestrial samples and provide first evidence for the replacement of lithospheric mantle from high-Mg peridotites to low-Mg per-idotites through peridotite-melt reaction.Zoned olivines have compositions in the core (Mg#=87.2—90.7) similar to those olivines from the mantle peridotitic xenoliths entrained in Ceno-zoic basalts from the North China craton and in the rim (Mg#=76.8—83.9) close to olivine henocrysts of the host basalts (75.7—79.0). These compositional features as well as rounded crystal shapes and smaller grain sizes (30—800 μm) demon-strate that these zoned olivines are mantle xenocrysts, i.e. disag-gregates of mantle peridotites. Their core compositions can represent those of olivines of mantle peridotites. The zoned texture of olivines was formed through rapid reaction between the olivine xenocryst and the host basalt. This olivine-basaltic melt reaction could have been ubiquitous in the Mesozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the North China craton, i.e. an important type of the replacement of lithospheric mantle. The reaction resulted in the transformation of the Paleozoic refractory (high-Mg) peridotites to the late Mesozoic fertile (Iow-Mg) and radiogenic isotope-enriched peridotites, leading to the loss of old lithospheric mantle.
