Transition from tholeiitic to alkali basalts via interaction between decarbonated eclogite-derived melts and peridotite

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F23%3A00568281" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/23:00568281 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/41601670:_____/23:N0000007 RIV/00216305:26110/23:PU147943

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254123000542" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254123000542</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Transition from tholeiitic to alkali basalts via interaction between decarbonated eclogite-derived melts and peridotite

Original language description

Intraplate basalts generally show a geochemical continuum from alkali to tholeiitic basalts. However, the genetic link between these two types of rocks has remained controversial. The Early Jurassic Karamay basalts in the West Junggar terrane, southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), erupted to form a small-volume outcrop in the stable continental intraplate region. The basalts are characterized by aphyric textures without any visible phenocrysts. Thus, they are different from the ubiquitous porphyritic-textured intraplate basalts and have a composition close to that of the mantle-derived primary melt. In contrast to chemically and petrographically well-defined alkali and tholeiitic basalts, the Karamay basalts exhibit transitional compositions spanning from alkali (with normative olivine+nepheline and normative olivine+hypersthene) to tholeiitic (with normative quartz+hypersthene), providing an important case to address the geochemical continuum of intraplate basalts. Similar to the alkali basalts in eastern China, the Karamay basalts have isotopic imprints of sedimentary carbonates, i.e., significantly lighter Mg (δ26Mg = −0.54‰ to −0.34‰) and heavier Zn (δ66Zn = 0.36–0.46‰) isotopes than the normal mantle. However, they display initial ((87Sr/86Sr)t ratios of 0.7047–0.7051, positive εNd(t) values (3.3–4.2) and positive anomalies of Nb-Ta-Ti-Zr-Hf, which are not expected in the case of incorporation of recycled carbonates. This contradiction can be reconciled by considering a decarbonation reaction between carbonates (i.e., dolomite and magnesite) and co-existing eclogite in the subducted oceanic slab at pressure >5 GPa, leaving light Mg and heavy Zn isotope signatures in the stagnant eclogite residue in the deep mantle. Combining the geochemical compositions of our samples with the geologic evidence, and considering the previous results of melt-peridotite reaction experiments, we conclude that the Karamay basalts might have originated from the interaction of silica-rich tholeiitic melt derived from the recycled decarbonated eclogite with fertile peridotite during its ascent. Our study highlights that intraplate alkali basalts, especially silica-rich ones (e.g., with SiO2>45 wt.%), can be transformed from tholeiitic melts through reaction with peridotite mantle, and demonstrates that deeply recycled oceanic crust stagnated in m.antle can serve as a main source for alkaline lavas.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX19-29124X" target="_blank" >GX19-29124X: EVOLUTION AND POST-EMPLACEMENT HISTORY OF CARBONATITES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOBILITY AND CONCENTRATION OF CRITICAL METALS</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Chemical Geology

ISSN

0009-2541

e-ISSN

1872-6836

Volume of the periodical

612

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

121354

UT code for WoS article

000944713200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147542464