Partial melting and melt percolation in the mantle: The message from Fe isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 119-133

  Weyer, Stefan ^a   Ionov, Dmitri A ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

diffusion; Fe isotopes; heavy stable isotopes; high temperature isotope fractionation; mantle; melt percolation; partial melting

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MELT PERCOLATION; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MELTING; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASALT; IRON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERCOLATION; PERIDOTITE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 34250751326     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.033     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Anbar A.D., Roe J.E., Barling J., and Nealson K.H. Nonbiological fractionation of iron isotopes. Science 288 (2000) 126-128
2. Arnold G.L., Weyer S., and Anbar A.D. Fe isotope variation in natural materials measured using high mass resolution MC-ICPMS. Anal. Chem. 76 (2004) 322-327
3. Beard B.L., and Johnson C.M. Inter-mineral Fe isotope variations in mantle-derived rocks and implications for the Fe geochemical cycle. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68 (2004) 4727-4743
4. Bodinier J.L., Vasseur G., Verniers J., Dupuy C., and Fabries J. Mechanism of mantle metasomatism: geochemical evidence from the Lherz Orogenic Peridotite. J. Petrol. 31 (1990) 597-628
5. Bodinier J.-L., Menzies M.A., Shimuzu N., Frey F.A., and McPherson E. Silicate, hydrous and carbonate metasomatism at Lherz, France: contemporaneous derivatives of silicate melt-harzburgite reaction. J. Petrol. 45 (2004) 299-320
6. Dohmen, R., Chakraborty, S., (in press). Fe-Mg diffusion in olivine II: point defect chemistry, change of diffusion mechanisms and a model for calculation of coefficients in natural olivine. Phys. Chem. Miner.
7. Elliott T., Thomas A., Jeffcoate A., and Niu Y. Lithium isotope evidence for subduction-enriched mantle in the source of mid-ocean-ridge basalts. Nature 443 (2006) 565-568
8. Fretzdorff S., and Haase K.M. Geochemistry and petrology of lavas from the submarine flanks of Reunion Island (Western Indian Ocean): implications for magma genesis and the mantle source. Mineral. Petrol. 75 (2002) 153-184
9. Haase K.M. Geochemical constraints on magma sources and mixing processes in Easter Microplate MORB (SE Pacific): a case study of plume-ridge interaction. Chem. Geol. 182 (2002) 335-355
10. Herzberg C. Geodynamic information in peridotite petrology. J. Petrol. 45 (2004) 2507-2530
11. Hofmann A.W. Sampling mantle heterogeneity through oceanic basalts: isotopes and trace elements. In: Carlson R. (Ed). The Mantle and the Core. Treatise on Geochemistry vol. 2 (2004), Elsevier Pergamon 61-101
12. Ionov, D.A., Compositional variations and heterogeneity in fertile lithospheric mantle: peridotite xenoliths in basalts from Tariat, Mongolia, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (in press).
13. Ionov D.A., and Hofmann A.W. Depth of formation of sub-continental peridotites. Earth Plant. Sci. Lett. (2006) (submitted for publication)
14. Ionov D.A., Hofmann A.W., and Shimuzu N. Metasomatism-induced melting in mantle xenoliths from Mongolia. J. Petrol. 35 (1994) 753-785
15. Ionov D.A., O'Reilly S.Y., and Griffin W.L. A geotherm and lithospheric section for Central Mongolia (Tariat Region). In: Flower M.F.J., et al. (Ed). Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia (1998), Amer. Geophys. Union
16. Ionov D.A., Bodinier J.-L., Mukasa S.B., and Zanetti A. Mechanisms and sources of mantle metasomatism: major and trace element compositions of Peridotite xenoliths from Spitzbergen in the context of numerical modelling. J. Petrol. 43 (2002) 2219-2259
17. Ionov D.A., Chanefo I., and Bodinier J.-L. Origin of Fe-rich lherzolites and wehrlites from Tok, SE Siberia by reactive melt percolation in refractory mantle peridotites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 150 (2005) 335-353
18. Ionov D.A., Prikhodko V.S., Bodenier J.-L., Sobolov A.V., and Weis D. Lithospheric mantle beneath the south-eastern Siberian craton: petrology of peridotite xenoliths in basalts from the Tokinsky Stanovik. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 149 (2005) 647-665
19. Ionov D.A., Chazot G., Chauvel C., Merlet C., and Bodinier J.-L. Trace element distribution in peridotite xenoliths from Tok, SE Siberian craton: a record of pervasive, multi-stage metasomatism in shallow refractory mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 (2006) 1231-1260
20. Ionov D.A., Shirley S.B., Weis D., and Brügmann G. Os-Hf-Sr-Nd isotope and PGE systematics of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Tok, SE Siberian craton: effects of pervasive metasomatism in shallow refractory mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 241 (2006) 47-64
21. Kinzler R.J. Melting of mantle peridotite at pressures approaching the spinel to garnet transition: application to mid-ocean ridge basalt petrogenesis. J. Geophys. Res. -Solid Earth 102 (1997) 853-874
22. Langmuir C.H., Klein E.M., and Plank T. Petrology systematics of mid-ocean ridge basalts: constraints on melt generation beneath ocean ridges. In: Morgan P., Blackman D.K., and Sinton J.M. (Eds). Mantle Flow and Melt Generation at Mid-Ocean Ridges. Geophysical Monograph vol. 71 (1992), American Geophysical Union 183-280
23. McDonough W.F., and Sun S.-S. The composition of the Earth. Chem. Geol. 120 (1995) 223-253
24. Navon O., and Stolper E. Geochemical consequences of melt percolation: the upper mantle as a chromatographic column. J. Geol. 95 (1987) 285-307
25. Poitrasson F., and Freydier R. Heavy iron isotope composition of granites determined by high resolution MC-ICP-MS. Chem. Geol. 222 (2005) 132-147
26. Poitrasson F., Halliday A., Lee D., Levasseur S., and Teutsch N. Iron isotope differences between Earth, Moon, Mars and Vesta as possible records of contrasted accretion mechanisms. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 223 (2004) 253-266
27. Poitrasson F., Levasseur S., and Teutsch N. Significance of iron isotope mineral fractionation in pallasites and iron meteorites for the core-mantle differentiation of terrestrial planets. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 234 (2005) 151-164
28. Polyakov V.B., and Mineev S.D. The use of Mössbauer spectroscopy in stable isotope geochemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64 (2000) 849-865
29. Press S., Witt G., Seck H.A., Inov D., and Kovalenko V.I. Spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Tariat depression, Mongolia. I: Major element chemistry and mineralogy of a primitive mantle xenolith suite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50 (1986) 2587-2599
30. Richter F.M., Davis A.M., DePaolo D.J., and Watson E.B. Isotope fractionation by chemical diffusion between molten basalt and rhyolite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67 (2003) 3823-3905
31. Rudnick R.L., and Ionov D.A. Lithium elemental and isotopic disequilibrium in minerals from peridotite xenoliths from far-east Russia: product of recent melt/fluid-rock reaction. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 256 (2007) 278-293
32. Russel W.A., Papanastassiou D.A., and Tombrello T.A. Ca isotope fractionation on the Earth and other solar system materials. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 42 (1978) 1075-1090
33. Schauble E.A. Applying stable isotope fractionation theory to new systems. In: Johnsos C.M., Beard B.L., and Albarede F. (Eds). Geochemistry of Non-traditional Stable Isotopes. Rewiews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry vol. 55 (2004) 65-111
34. Schauble E.A., Rossman G.R., and Taylor H.P. Theoretical estimates of equillibrium Fe-isotope fractionation from vibrational spectroscopy. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65 (2001) 2487-2497
35. Schoenberg R., and von Blanckenburg F. Modes of planetary-scale Fe isotope fractionation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 252 (2006) 342-359
36. Schoenberg R., and von Blankenburg F. An assessment of the accuracy of stable Fe isotope ratio measurements on samples with organic and inorganic matrices by high resolution multicollector ICP-MS. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 242 (2005) 257-272
37. Seitz H.-M., Brey G., Lahaye Y., Durali S., and Weyer S. Lithium isotopic signatures of peridotite xenoliths and isotopic fractionation at high temperature between olivine and pyroxenes. Chem. Geol. 212 (2004) 163-177
38. Takazawa E., Frey F.A., Shimuzu N., and Obata M. Whole rock compositional variations in an upper mantle peridotite (Horoman, Hokkaido, Japan): are they consistent with a partial melting process?. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 (2000) 695-716
39. Walter M.J. Melting of garnet peridotite and the origin of komatiite and depleted lithosphere. J. Petrol. 39 (1998) 29-60
40. Weyer S., and Schwieters J.B. High precision Fe isotope measurements with high mass resolution MC-ICPMS. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 226 (2003) 355-368
41. Weyer S., Münker C., and Mezger K. Nb/Ta, Zr/Hf and REE in the depleted mantle: implications for the differentiation history of the crust-mantle system. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 205 (2003) 309-324
42. Weyer S., Woodland A., Münker C., Arnold G., Chakrabarti R., and Anbar A. Iron isotope variations in the Earth's mantle and the terrestrial planets. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (2004) A1113
43. Weyer S., Anbar A.D., Brey G.P., Münker C., Mezger K., and Woodland A.B. Iron isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 240 (2005) 251-264
44. Weyer S., Anbar A.D., Brey G.P., Müncker C., Mezger K., and Woodland A.B. Fe-isotope fractionation during partial melting on Earth and the current view on the Fe-isotope budgets of the planets (reply to the comment of F. Poitrasson and to the comment of B.L. Bead and C.M. Johnson on "Iron isotope fractionation during planetary differentiation" by S. Weyer, A.D. Anbar, G.P. Brey, C. Münker, K. Mezger and A.B. Woodland). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 256 (2007) 638-646
45. Williams H., McCammon C., Peslier A., Halliday A., Teutsch N., Levasseur S., and Burg J. Iron isotope fractionation and the oxygen fugacity of the mantle. Science 304 (2004) 1656-1659
46. Williams H., Peslier A., McCammon C., Halliday A., Levasseur S., Teutsch N., and Burg J. Systematic iron isotope variations in mantle rocks and minerals: the effect of partial melting and oxygen fugacity. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 235 (2005) 435-452
47. Woodland A.B., Kornprobst J., and Wood B.J. Oxygen thermobarometry of orogenic lherzolite massifs. J. Petrol. 33 (1992) 203-230
48. Woodland A.B., Kornprobst J., McPherson E., Bodenier J.-L., and Menzies M.A. Metasomatic interactions in the lithospheric mantle: petrologic evidence from the Lherz massif, French Pyrenees. Chem. Geol. 134 (1996) 83-112
49. Zhu X.-K., Guo Y., O'Nions R.K., Young E.D., and Ash H.D. Isotopic heterogeinity of iron in the early solar system. Nature 412 (2001) 311-313
50. Zhu X.K., Guo Y., Williams R.J.P., O'Nions R.K., Matthewsa A., Belshaw N.S., Canters G.W., de Waal E.C., Weser U., Burgess B.K., and Salvato B. Mass fractionation processes of transition metal isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 220 (2002) 47-62