Hidden melting signatures recorded in the Troodos ophiolite plutonic suite: Evidence for widespread generation of depleted melts and intra-crustal melt aggregation

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 484-506

  Coogan, L A ^a   Banks, G J ^a   Gillis, K M ^b   MacLeod, C J ^a   Pearce, J A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTALLIZATION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA; MELTING; OPHIOLITE; SPREADING CENTER; TRACE ELEMENT;

CYPRUS; TROODOS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0037262801     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0413-2     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Anders E, Grevesse N (1989) Abundances of the elements: meteoric and solar. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 53:197-214
2. Ash CH (1990) Development and subsequent demise of an oceanic spreading center: the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. MSc Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland
3. Baragar WRA, Lambert MB, Baglow N, Gibson I (1987) Sheeted dykes of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. In: Hall HC, Fahrig WF (eds) Mafic dyke swarms. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper, pp 257-272
4. Beattie P (1993) The generation of uranium series disequilibria by partial melting of spinel peridotite: constraints from partitioning studies. Earth Planet Sci Lett 117:379-391
5. Beattie P (1994) Systematics and energetics of trace-element partitioning between olivine and silicate melts: implications for the nature of mineral/melt partitioning. Chem Geol 117:57-71
6. Bednarz U, Schmincke H-U (1994) Petrological and chemical evolution of the northeastern Troodos extrusive series, Cyprus. J Petrol 35:489-523
7. Benn K (1986) Petrology of the Troodos plutonic complex in the Caledonian Falls area, Cyprus. MSc Thesis, Université Laval, Quebec
8. Benn K, Laurent R (1987) Intrusive suite documented in the Troodos ophiolite plutonic complex, Cyprus. Geology 15:821-824
9. Billen MI, Gurnis M (2001) A low viscosity wedge in subduction zones. Earth Planet Sci Lett 193:227-236
10. Browning P, Roberts S, Alabaster T (1989) Fine scale modal layering and cyclic units in ultramafic cumulates from the CY-4 borehole, Troodos ophiolite: evidence for an open system magma chamber. In: Gibson IL, Malpas J, Robinson PT. Xenophontos C (eds) Cyprus crustal study project. Initial report. Hole CY-4, Geological Survey of Canada report 88-9, pp 193-220
11. Cameron WE (1985) Petrology and origin of primitive lavas from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Contrib Mineral Petrol 89:239-255
12. Canil D (1999) Vanadium partitioning between orthopyroxene, spinel and silicate melt and the redox states of mantle source regions for primary magmas. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 63:557-572
13. Canil D, Fedortchouk Y (2000) Clinopyroxene-liquid partitioning for vanadium and the oxygen fugacity during formation of cratonic and oceanic mantle lithosphere. J Geophys Res 105:26003-26016
14. Cannat M (1991) Plastic deformation at an oceanic spreading ridge: a microstructural study of the Site 735 gabbros (Southwest Indian Ridge). In: Von Herzen PR, Robinson PT (eds) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 118, scientific results. US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp 399-408
15. Christie DM, Carmichael ISE, Langmuir CH (1986) Oxidation states of mid-ocean ridge basalt glasses. Earth Planet Sci Lett 79:397-411
16. Coogan LA (1998) Magma plumbing beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. PhD Thesis, Leicester University
17. Coogan LA, Kempton PD, Saunders AD, Norry MJ (2000a) Evidence from plagioclase and clinopyroxene major and trace element compositions for melt aggregation within the crust beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Earth Planet Sci Lett 176:245-257
18. Coogan LA, Saunders AD, Kempton PD, Norry MJ (2000b) Evidence from oceanic gabbros for porous melt migration within a crystal mush beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol 1, paper no 2000GC000072
19. Coogan LA, Gillis KM, MacLeod CJ, Thompson G, Hekinian R (2002) Petrology and geochemistry of the lower ocean crust formed at the East Pacific Rise and exposed at Hess Deep: a synthesis and new results. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (in press)
20. Duke JM (1976) Distribution of period four transition elements amongst olivine, calcic clinopyroxene and mafic silicate liquid: experimental results. J Petrol 17:499-521
21. Dunsworth SM (1989) Multiple intrusion and deformation within the northwestern quadrant of the plutonic complex. Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. MSc Thesis, Memorial University of New-foundland
22. Dupuy C, Dostal J, Liotard JM, Leyreloup A (1980) Partitioning of transition elements between chnopyroxene and garnet. Earth Planet Sci Lett 48:303-310
23. Frey FA, Suen J, Stockman HW (1985) The Ronda high temperature peridotite: geochemistry and petrogenesis. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 49:2469-2491
24. Gaetani GA, Grove TL (1995) Partitioning of rare-earth elements between clinopyroxene and silicate melt: crystal-chemical controls. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 59:1951-1962
25. Gaetani GA, Grove TL (1998) The influence of water on melting of mantle peridotite. Contrib Mineral Petrol 131:323-346
26. Geological Survey Department Cyprus (1995) Geological map of Cyprus. Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Cyprus
27. Ghiorso MS, Hirschmann MM (1998) pMELTS: a revised calibration of MELTS for modelling peridotite melting at high pressure. EOS Trans 79(45):F1005
28. Hart SR (1993) Equilibration during mantle melting: a fractal tree model. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 90:11914-11918
29. Hart SR, Dunn T (1993) Experimental cpx/melt partitioning of 24 trace elements. Contrib Mineral Petrol 113:1-8
30. Hervig RL, Smith JV, Dawson JB (1986) Lherzolite xenoliths in kimberlites and basalts: petrogenetic and crystallographic significance of some minor and trace elements in olivine, pyroxenes, garnet and spinel. Trans R Soc 77:181-201
31. Hirth G, Kholstedt DL (1996) Water in the oceanic upper mantle: implications for rheology, melt extraction and the evolution of the lithosphere. Earth Planet Sci Lett 144:93-108
32. Jenner GA, Foley SF, Jackson SE, Green TH, Fryer BJ, Longerich HP (1994) Determination of partition coefficients for trace elements in high pressure-temperature experimental run products by laser ablation microprobe-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 58:5099-5103
33. Johnson KTM, Dick HJB, Shimizu N (1990) Melting in the oceanic upper mantle: an ion-microprobe study of diopsides in abyssal peridotites. J Geophys Res 95:2661-2678
34. Kinzler RJ, Grove TL (1992) Primary magmas of mid-ocean ridge basalts. 2. Applications. J Geophys Res 97:6907-6926
35. Klein EM, Langmuir CH (1987) Global correlation of ocean ridge basalt chemistry with axial depth and crustal thickness. J Geophys Res 92:8089-8115
36. MacLeod CM (1990) Role of the southern Troodos Transform in the rotation of the Cyprus microplate: evidence from the eastern Limassol Forest Complex. In: Malpas J, Moores EM, Panayiotou A, Xenophontos C (eds) Ophiolites - oceanic crustal analogues. Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cyprus, pp 75-85
37. Malpas J (1990) Crustal accretionary processes in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: evidence from field mapping and deep crustal drilling. In: Malpas J, Moores EM, Panayiotou A, Xenophontos C (eds) Ophiolites - oceanic crustal analogues. Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cyprus, pp 65-74
38. Malpas J, Brace T (1987) The geology of Pano Amiandos - Palekhori area, Cyprus (map). Geological Survey Department, Cyprus
39. Malpas J, Case G, Moore P (1989) The geology of the area immediately surrounding the CY-4 borehole of the Cyprus Crustal Study Project. In: Gibson IL, Malpas J, Robinson PT, Xenophontos C (eds) Cyprus crustal study project. Initial report, Hole CY-4, Geological Survey of Canada report 88-9, pp 31-37
40. McBirney AR, Nicolas A (1997) The Skaergaard layered series. Part II. Magmatic flow and dynamic layering. J Petrol 38:569-580
41. McCulloch MT, Cameron WE (1983) Nd-Sr isotopic study of primitive lavas from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: evidence for a subduction-related setting. Geology 11:727-731
42. Miyashiro A (1973) The Troodos ophiolite was probably formed in an island arc. Earth Planet Sci Lett 19:218-224
43. Mukasa SB, Ludden JN (1987) Uranium-lead isotopic ages of plagiogranites from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, and their tectonic significance. Geology 15:825-828
44. Murton BJ (1989) Tectonic controls on boninite genesis. In: Saunders AD, Norry MJ (eds) Magmatism in the ocean basins. Geol Soc Lond Spec Publ 42:347-377
45. Panjasawatwong Y, Danyushevsky LV, Crawford AJ, Harris KL (1995) An experimental study of the effects of melt composition on plagioclase-melt equilibria at 5 and 10 kbars: implications for the origin of magmatic high An plagioclase. Contrib Mineral Petrol 118:420-432
46. Parkinson IJ, Arculus RJ (1999) The redox state of subduction zones: insights from arc-peridotites. Chem Geol 160:409-423
47. Pearce JA, Parkinson IJ (1993) Trace element models for mantle melting: application to volcanic arc petrogenesis. In: Prichard HM, Alabaster T, Harris NBW, Neary CR (eds) Magmatic processes and plate tectonics. Geol Soc Lond Spec Publ 76:373-403
48. Pearce JA, Lippard SJ, Roberts S (1984) Characteristics and tectonic significance of supra-subduction zone ophiolites. Geol Soc Lond Spec Publ 16:77-94
49. Pearce NJG, Perkins WT, Westgate JA, Gorton MP, Jackson SE, Neal CR, Chenery SP (1997) A compilation of new and published major and trace element data for NIST SRM 610 and NIST SRM 612 glass reference materials. Geostand Newsl 21:115-144
50. Phinney WC (1992) Partition coefficients for iron between plagioclase and basalt as a function of oxygen fugacity: implications for Archean and lunar anorthosites. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 56:1885-1895
51. Portnyagin MV, Danyushevsky LV, Kamenetsky VS (1997) Coexistence of two distinct mantle sources during the formation of ophiolites: a case study of primitive pillow-lavas from the lowest part of the volcanic section of the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. Contrib Mineral Petrol 128: 287-301
52. Rautenschlein M, Jenner GA, Hertogen J, Hofmann AW, Kerrich R, Schmincke H-U, White WM (1985) Isotopic and trace element composition of volcanic glasses from the Akaki Canyon, Cyprus: implications for the origin of the Troodos ophiolite. Earth Planet Sci Lett 75:369-383
53. Robertson AHF (1990) Tectonic evolution of Cyprus. In: Malpas J, Moores EM, Panayiotou A, Xenophontos C (eds) Ophiolites - oceanic crustal analogues. Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cyprus, pp 235-252
54. Robinson PT, Melson WG, O'Hearn T, Schmincke H-U (1983) Volcanic glass compositions of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Geology 11:400-404
55. Rogers NW, MacLeod CJ, Murton BJ (1989) Petrogenesis of boninitic lavas from the Limassol Forest Complex, Cyprus. In: Crawford AJ (ed) Boninites, Unwin, pp 288-313
56. Schouten H, Denham CR (2000) Comparison of volcanic construction in the Troodos ophiolite and oceanic crust using paleomagnetic inclinations from Cyprus Crustal Study Project (CCSP) CY-1 and CY-1A and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 504B drill cores. In: Dilek Y, Moores E, Elthon D, Nicolas A (eds) Ophiolites and ocean crust. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 349:181-194
57. Schwandt CS, McKay GA (1998) Rare earth element partition coefficients from enstatite/melt synthesis experiments. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 62:2845-2848
58. Shervais JW (1982) Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas. Earth Planet Sci Lett 59:101-118
59. Shimizu N (1981) Trace element incorporation into growing augite phenocryst. Nature 289:575-577
60. Sneeringer M, Hart SR, Shimizu N (1984) Strontium and samarium diffusion in diopside. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 48:1589-1608
61. 2O storage and recycling in the mantle. Earth Planet Sci Lett 137:45-55
62. Sobolev AV, Shimizu N (1993) Ultra-depleted primary melt inclusions in an olivine from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature 363:151-154
63. Sobolev AV, Portnyagin MV, Dmitriev LV, Tsameryan OP, Danyushevsky LV, Kononkova NN, Shimizu N, Robinson PT (1993) Petrology of ultramafic lavals and associated rocks of the Troodos Massif, Cyprus. Petrology 1:379-412
64. Sours-Page R, Johnson KTM, Nielsen RL, Karsten JL (1999) Local and regional variation in MORB parental magmas: evidence from melt inclusions from the Endeavor Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Contrib Mineral Petrol 134:342-363
65. Spiegelman M, McKenzie D (1987) Simple 2-D models for melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges and island arcs. Earth Planet Sci Lett 83:137-152
66. Stern RJ, Bloomer SH (1992) Subduction zone infancy: examples from the Eocene Izu-Bonin-Mariana and Jurassic California arcs. Geol Soc Am Bull 104:1621-1636
67. Stosch H-G (1981) Sc, Cr, Co and Ni partitioning between minerals from spinel peridotite xenoliths. Contrib Mineral Petrol 78: 166-174
68. Sun S-S, McDonough WF (1989) Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: Saunders AD, Norry MJ (eds) Magmatism in the ocean basins. Geol Soc Lond Spec Publ 42:313-345
69. Sungawara T (2001) Ferric iron partitioning between plagioclase and silicate liquid: thermodynamics and petrological applications. Contrib Mineral Petrol 141:659-686
70. Taylor RN (1990) Geochemical stratigraphy of the Troodos extrusive sequence: temporal developments of a spreading center magma chamber. In: Malpas J, Moores EM, Panayiotou A, Xenophontos C (eds) Ophiolites - oceanic crustal analogues. Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cyprus, pp 173-183
71. Taylor RN, Nebitt RW (1988) Light rare-earth enrichment of supra subduction zone mantle: evidence from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Geology 16:448-451
72. Thy P (1987) Magmas and magma chamber evolution, Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Geology 15:316-319
73. Thy P, Moores EM (1988) Crustal accretion and tectonic setting of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Tectonophysics 147:221-245
74. Thy P, Xenophontos C (1991) Crystallization orders and phase chemistry of glassy lavas from the pillow sequences, Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. J Petrol 32:403-428
75. Van Orman JA, Grove TL, Shimizu N (2001) Rare earth element diffusion in diopside: influence of temperature, pressure, and ionic radius and an elastic model for diffusion in silicates. Contrib Mineral Petrol 141:687-703
76. Vine FJ, Smith GC (1990) Structure and physical properties of the Troodos crustal section at ICRDG drillholes CY1, 1a and 4. In: Malpas J, Moores EM, Panayiotou A, Xenophontos C (eds) Ophiolites - oceanic crustal analogues. Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cyprus, pp 113-124
77. Watson EB (1996) Surface enrichment and trace-element uptake during crystal growth. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 60: 5013-5060
78. Wilson RAM (1959) The geology of the Xeros-Troodos area. Geological Survey Department Cyprus, Memoir 1, Department Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources
79. Wood BJ, Blundy JD (1997) A predictive model for rare earth element partitioning between clinopyroxene and anhydrous silicate melt. Contrib Mineral Petrol 129:166-181