Melting experiments on komatiite analog compositions at 5 GPa

American Mineralogist

Volumn 82, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 354-367

  Herzberg, Claude ^a,b   Zhang, Jianzhong ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXIDE; GARNETS; IRON OXIDES; MAGNESIA; OLIVINE; OXIDE MINERALS;

CLINOPYROXENES; CRYSTALLIZATION FIELDS; CRYSTALLIZING PHASIS; INVARIANT POINTS; LIQUID PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; LOWER PRESSURES; MULTI-ANVIL APPARATUS; ORTHOPYROXENE;

MELTING;

KOMATIITE; MELTING EXPERIMENT; MULTI ANVIL APPARATUS; PICRITE;

EID: 0030684095     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1997-3-414     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Abbott, D., Burgess, L., and Longhi, J. (1994) An empirical thermal history of the Earth's upper mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 13835-13850.
2. Andersen, O. (1915) The system anorthite-forsterite-silica. American Journal of Science, 4th Series, 39, 407-454.
3. Bertka, C.M., and Holloway, J.R. (1988) Martian mantle primary melts: An experimental study of iron-rich garnet lherzolite minimum melt composition. Proceedings of the 18th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 723-739.
4. _(1993) Pigeonite at solidus temperatures: Implications for partial melting. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 19755-19766.
5. Canil, D. (1992) Orthopyroxene stability along the peridotite solidus and the origin ofcratonic lithosphere beneath southern Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 111, 83-95.
6. Cawthorn, R.G. (1975) Degrees of melting in mantle diapirs and the origin of ultrabasic liquids. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 27, 113-120.
7. Cawthorn, R.G., Ford, C.E., Biggar, G.M., Bravo, M.S., and Clarke, D.B. (1973) Determination of the liquid composition in experimental samples: Discrepancies between microprobe analyses and other methods. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 21, 1-5.
8. 2 at pressures up to 25 kilobars. American Mineralogist, 60, 398-406.
9. Davis, B.T.C., and Schairer, J.F. (1965) Melting relations in the join diopside-forsterite-pyrope at 40 kilobars and at one atmosphere. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Yearbook, 64, 123-126.
10. 2 to 8 GPa: Constraints to the origin of komatiites. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 70, 483.
11. 2 at 2.4 to 3.4 GPa and the generation of komatiites. Journal of Geophysical Research 101, 27,701-27,709.
12. Herzberg, C.T. (1992) Depth and degree of melting of komatiites. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 4521-4540.
13. _(1995) Generation of plume magmas through time: An experimental perspective. Chemical Geology, 126, 1-16.
14. Herzberg, C., Gasparik, T., and Sawamoto, H. (1990) Origin of mantle peridotite: Constraints from melting experiments to 16.5 GPa. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 15779-15803.
15. Herzberg, C.T., and Zhang, J. (1996) Melting experiments on anhydrous peridotite KLB-1: Compositions of magmas in the upper mantle and transition zone. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 8271-8295.
16. Ito, E., and Takahashi, E. (1987) Melting of peridotite under the lower mantle condition. Nature, 328, 514-517.
17. Kinzler, R.J. (1993) Mantle melting processes at the spinel-garnet transition (17-21 kb). Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 73, 316.
18. Lahaye, Y., Arndt, A., Byerly, G., Chauvel, C., Fourcade, S., and Gruau, G. (1995) The influence of alteration on the trace-element and Nd isotopic compositions of komatiites. Chemical Geology, 126, 43-64.
19. 2 at low pressure. American Journal of Science, 287, 265-331.
20. _(1995) Liquidus equilibria of some primary lunar and terrestrial melts in the garnet stability field. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 59, 2375-2386.
21. Longhi, J., and Bertka, C.M. (1996) Graphical analysis of pigeonite-augite liquidus equilibria. American Mineralogist, 81, 685-695.
22. McFarlane, E.A., Drake, M.J., and Rubie, D. (1994) Element partitioning between Mg-perovskite, magnesiowustite, and silicate melt at conditions of the Earth's mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58, 5161-5172.
23. Nisbet, E.G., Cheadle, M.J., Arndt, N.T., and Bickle, M.J. (1993) Constraining the potential temperature of the Archaean mantle: A review of the evidence from komatiites. Lithos, 30, 291-307.
24. O'Hara, M.J. (1968) The bearing of phase equilibria studies in synthetic and natural systems on the origin of basic and ultrabasic igneous rocks. Earth Science Reviews, 4, 69-133.
25. O'Hara, M.J., and Yoder, H.S., Jr. (1967) Formation and fractionation of basic magmas at high pressures. Scottish Journal of Geology, 3, 67-117.
26. Presnall, D.C., and Gasparik, T. (1990) Melting of enstatite from 10 to 16.5 GPa, the beta phase-majorite eutectic at 16.5 GPa, and implications for the origin of the mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 15771-15777.
27. 4, from 9.7 to 16.5 GPa. Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 19777-19783.
28. Steinbach, V., and Yuen, D.A. (1994) Melting instabilities in the transition zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 127, 67-75.
29. Takahashi, E. (1986) Melting of a dry peridotite KLB-1 up to 14 GPa: Implications on the origin of peridotitic upper mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, 9367-9382.
30. Takahashi, E., and Scarfe, C.M. (1985) Melting of a peridotite at > 15 GPa and the genesis of komatiite. Nature, 315, 566-568.
31. Trønnes, R.G., Canil, D., and Wei, K. (1992) Element partitioning between silicate minerals and coexisting melts at pressures of 1-17 GPa, and implications for mantle evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 111, 241-255.
32. Walker, D., and Agee, C. (1989) Partitioning "equilibrium", temperature gradients, and constraints on Earth differentiation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 96, 49-60.
33. Walter, M.J. (1993) Thermally-induced chemical diffusion in melting experiments at high pressure. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 74, 350.
34. _(1995) Melting reactions of fertile garnet peridotite. Transactions of the merican Geophysical Union, 76, S297.
35. 2O from 7 to 35 kbar. Journal of Petrology, 35, 329-359.
36. Walter, M.J., Sisson, T.W., and Presnall, D.C. (1995) A mass proportion method for calculating melting reactions and application to melting of model upper mantle lherzolite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 135, 77-90.
37. Wei, K., Trønnes, R.G., and Scarfe, C.M. (1990) Phase relations of aluminum-undepleted and aluminum-depleted komatiites at pressures of 4 to 12 GPa. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 15817-15828.
38. Xie, Q., Kerrich, R., and Fan, J. (1993) HFSE/REE fractionations recorded in three komatiite-basalt sequences, Archean Abitibi greenstone belt: Implications for multiple plume sources and depths. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 57, 4111-4118.
39. Zhang, J., and Herzberg, C. (1994) Melting experiments on anhydrous peridotite KLB-1 from 5.0 to 22.5 CPa. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 17729-17742.