Ultra-calcic magmas generated from Ca-depleted mantle: An experimental study on the origin of ankaramites

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 531-554

  Schmidt, Max W ^a   Green, David H ^b   Hibberson, William O ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ankaramite; Refractory therzolite; Ultra calcic magma

Indexed keywords

ANKARAMITE; CALC SILICATE ROCK; FRACTIONATION; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MELTING; PETROGENESIS;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANUATU;

EID: 1642447073     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egg093     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Baker, M. B. & Stolper, E. M. (1994). Determining the composition of high-pressure mantle melts usiog diamond aggregates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 58, 2811-2827.
2. Barsdell, M. (1988). Petrology and petrogenesis of clinopyroxene-rich tholciitic lavas, Merelava volcano, New Hebrides. Juornal of Petrology 29, 927-964.
3. Barsdell, M. & Berry, R. F. (1990). Origin and evolution of primitive island arc ankaramites from Western Epi, New Hebrides. Journal of Petrology 31, 747-777.
4. Berry, A. J. & O'Neill, H. St. C. (2000). The oxidation state of chromium in silicate glasses as a function of oxygen fugacity, composition, temperature, and pressure. Goldschmidt 2000. Journal of Conference Abstracts 5(2), 214.
5. 2 at high pressures and petrogenesis of an olivine melilitite magma. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 61, 141-162.
6. Cherniak, D. J. (2001). Pb diffusion in Cr diopside, augite, and enstatite, and consideration of the dependence of cation diffusion in pyroxene on oxygen fugacity. Chemical Geology 177, 381-397.
7. Della Pasqua, F. N. & Varne, R. (1997). Primitive ankaramitic magmas in volcanic arcs; a melt-inclusion approach. Canadian Mineralogist 35, 291-312.
8. Edgar, A. D. & Vukadinovic, D. (1992). Implications of experimental petrology to the evolution of ultrapotassic rocks. Lithos 28, 205-220.
9. Eggins, S. M. (1993). Origin and differentiation of picritic arc magmas, Ambae (Aoba), New Hebrides. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 114, 79-100.
10. Falloon, T. J., Green, D. H., Hatton, C. J. & Harris, K. L. (1988). Anhydrous partial melting of a fertile and depleted peridotite from 2 to 30 kb and application to basalt petrogenesis. Journal of Petrology 29, 1257-1282.
11. Falloon, T. J., Green, D. H., Danyushevsky, L. V. & Faul, U. H. (1999). Peridotite melting at 1·0 and 1·5 GPa: an experimental evaluation of techniques using diamond aggregates and mineral mixes for determination of near-solidus melts. Journal of Petrology 40, 1343-1375.
12. Green, D. H. & Falloon, T. J. (1998). Pyrolite: a Ringwood concept and its current expression. In: Jackson, I. (ed.) The Earth's Mantle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 311-378.
13. Green, D. H., Schmidt, M. W. & Hibberson, W. O. (2004). Island arc ankaramites: primitive melts from fluxed refractory lherzolite mantle. Journal of Petrology (in press).
14. 2O on the genesis of basaltic magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 133, 463-473.
15. Hirose, K. & Kushiro, I. (1993). Partial melting of dry peridotites at high pressures: determination of compositions of melts segregated from peridotite using aggregates of diamond. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 114, 477-489.
16. Hirose, K. & Kushiro, I. (1998). The effect of melt segregation on polybaric mantle melting: estimation from the incremental melting experiments. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 107, 111-118.
17. Hirschmann, M. M., Baker, M. B. & Stolper, E. M. (1998). The effect of alkalis on the silica content of mantle-derived melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62, 883-902.
18. Jaques, A. L. & Green, D. H. (1980). Anhydrous melting of peridotite at 0-15 kb pressure and the genesis of tholeiitic basalt. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 73, 287-310.
19. Kamenetsky, V. S., Crawford, A. J., Eggins, St. M. & Mühe, R. (1997). Phenocryst and melt inclusion chemistry of near-axis seamounts, Valu Fa Ridge, Lau Basin: insight into mantle wedge melting and the addition of subduction components. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 151, 205-223.
20. Kamenetsky, V. S., Eggins, St. M., Crawford, A. J., Green, D. H., Gasparon, M. & Falloon, T. J. (1998). Calcic melt inclusions in primitive olivine at 43°N MAR: evidence for melt-rock reaction/melting involving clinopyroxene-rich lithologies during MORB generation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 160, 115-132.
21. Kogiso, T. & Hirschmann, M. M. (2001). Experimental study of clinopyroxenite partial melting and the origin of ultra-calcic melt inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 142, 347-360.
22. Kushiro, I. (1969). The system Forsterite-Diopside-Silica with and without water at high pressures. American Journal of Science 267, 269-294.
23. Kushiro, I. (1996). Partial melting of a fertile mantle peridotite at high pressures: an experimental study using aggregates of diamond. In: Basu, A. & Hart, S. (eds) Earth Processes: Reading the Isotopic Code. Geophysical Monograph, American Geophysical Union 95, 109-122.
24. 2 (CMAS) at 11 kbar: traditional and new experimental techniques. EMPG LX. Journal of Conference Abstracts 7(1), 67.
25. Medard, E., Schmidt, M. W. & Schiano, P. (2002). High-Ca primitive liquids: partial melts of clinopyroxene-rich cumulates? Journal of Conference Abstracts 7, 70.
26. 2 to 60 kbar re-evaluation of the regular solution model. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 87, 35-42.
27. Pickering-Witter, J. & Johnston, A. D. (2000). The effects of variable bulk composition on the melting systematics of fertile peridotitic assemblages. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 140, 190-211.
28. Schiano, P., Eiler, J. M., Hutcheon, I. D. & Stolper, E. M. (2000). Primitive CaO-rich, silica-undersaturated melts in island arcs: evidence for the involvement of clinopyroxene-rich lithologies in the petrogenesis of arc magmas. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 1, Paper number 1999G000032.
29. Schwab, B. E. & Johnston, A. D. (2001). Melting systematics of modally variable, compositionally intermediate peridotites and the effects of mineral fertility. Journal of Petrology 42, 1789-1811.
30. Sigurdsson, I. A.. Steinthorsson, S. & Grönvold, K. (2000). Calcium-rich melt inclusions in Cr-spinels from Borgarhraun, northern Iceland. Earth ad Planetary Science Letters 183, 15-26.
31. Slater, L., McKenzie, D., Grönvold, K. & Shimizu, N. (2001). Melt generation and movement beneath Theistareykir, NE Iceland. Journal of Petrology 42, 321-354.
32. 2O storage and recycling in the mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 137, 45-55.
33. Sobolev, A. V. & Danyushevsky, L. V. (1994). Petrology and geochemistry of boninites from the north termination of the Tonga Trench: constraints on the generation conditions of primary high-Ca boninite magmas. Journal of Petrology 35, 1183-1211.
34. Suyehiro, K., Takahishi, N., Ariie, Y., Yokoi, Y., Hino, R., Shinohara, M., Kanazawa, T., Hirata, N., Tokuyama, H. & Taira, A. (1996). Continental crust, crustal underplating, and low-Q upper mantle beneath air oceanic island arc. Science 272, 390-392.
35. Takahashi, E., Shimazaki, Y., Tsuzaki, Y. & Yoshida, H. (1993). Melting study of peridotite KLB-1 to 6·5 GPa and the origin of basaltic magmas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A 342, 105-120.
36. Taylor, W. R. & Green, D. H. (1987). The petrogenetic role of methane: effect on liquidus phase relations and the solubility mechanism of reduced C-H volatiles. In: Mysen, B. O. (ed.) Magmatic Processes and Physiochemical Principles. Geochemical Society Special Publication 1, 121-138.
37. 2+-Mg cation-partitioning between olivine and basaltic liquid on pressure, temperature and composition. An experimental study to 30 kbar. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 101, 261-273.
38. Yoder, H. S. & Tilley, C. F. (1962). Origin of basaltic magmas: an experimental study of natural and synthetic rock systems. Journal of Petrology 3, 342-532.