To investigate the petrogenesis of cyclic units in layered intrusions, we examined chromitite, dunite, poikilitic harzburgite and bronzitite from the Ultramaic Zone of the Stillwater Complex and measured stable isotopes of Li and O in their major minerals. The Li isotopes in olivine range from 4 to 26‰ in δ7Li with uniform Li contents of 1–3 ppm, whereas orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene have Li contents of 0.5–5 ppm and 4–8 ppm, and δ7Li ranges of −13 to 7‰ and −14 to −6‰, respectively. The δ18O values vary from 4.91 to 5.72‰ in olivine, from 5.11 to 5.87‰ in orthopyroxene, and from 4.64 to 5.86‰ in clinopyroxene. For a given sample, olivine displays more variable and higher δ7Li but lower δ18O values than orthopyroxene, indicating that olivine experienced more extensive compositional modiication after crystallization relative to orthopyroxene. The general Li and O isotopic compositions are interpreted as the result of re-equilibration between interstitial liquids, from which pyroxenes crystallized, and cumulus minerals. The inter-mineral and inter-sample isotopic variations correlate with mineral assemblages, crystal sizes and major and trace element compositions, revealing that the interstitial liquids varied compositionally mainly due to mixing between fractionated magma and newly injected primitive magma. Abrupt mineralogical and geochemical changes from silicate rocks to chromitites imply that hydrous luids, which collected on chromite surface and were later released from chromite seams, played an additional, critical medium of chemical exchange between minerals in the chromitites.
Petrogenesis of the Ultramafic Zone of the Stillwater Complex in North America: constraints from mineral chemistry and stable isotopes of Li and O
Davide Lenaz;
2020-01-01
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To investigate the petrogenesis of cyclic units in layered intrusions, we examined chromitite, dunite, poikilitic harzburgite and bronzitite from the Ultramaic Zone of the Stillwater Complex and measured stable isotopes of Li and O in their major minerals. The Li isotopes in olivine range from 4 to 26‰ in δ7Li with uniform Li contents of 1–3 ppm, whereas orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene have Li contents of 0.5–5 ppm and 4–8 ppm, and δ7Li ranges of −13 to 7‰ and −14 to −6‰, respectively. The δ18O values vary from 4.91 to 5.72‰ in olivine, from 5.11 to 5.87‰ in orthopyroxene, and from 4.64 to 5.86‰ in clinopyroxene. For a given sample, olivine displays more variable and higher δ7Li but lower δ18O values than orthopyroxene, indicating that olivine experienced more extensive compositional modiication after crystallization relative to orthopyroxene. The general Li and O isotopic compositions are interpreted as the result of re-equilibration between interstitial liquids, from which pyroxenes crystallized, and cumulus minerals. The inter-mineral and inter-sample isotopic variations correlate with mineral assemblages, crystal sizes and major and trace element compositions, revealing that the interstitial liquids varied compositionally mainly due to mixing between fractionated magma and newly injected primitive magma. Abrupt mineralogical and geochemical changes from silicate rocks to chromitites imply that hydrous luids, which collected on chromite surface and were later released from chromite seams, played an additional, critical medium of chemical exchange between minerals in the chromitites.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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