High-temperature inter-mineral magnesium isotope fractionation in mantle xenoliths from the North China craton

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 131-140

  Liu, Sheng Ao ^a,b   Teng, Fang Zhen ^b   Yang, Wei ^b,c   Wu, Fu Yuan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Department of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Inter mineral isotope fractionation; Magnesium isotopes; Olivine; Peridotite xenolith; Pyroxene; Spinel

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENES; DIFFUSION CALCULATION; GEOTHERMOMETERS; HARZBURGITES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPE EXCHANGE; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; LINEAR CORRELATION; MANTLE MINERALS; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; MANTLE XENOLITHS; MG ISOTOPES; NORTH CHINA CRATON; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE XENOLITH; PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS; PYROXENE; SPINEL; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

FRACTIONATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; MICA; MINERALS; OLIVINE; SILICATES;

ISOTOPES;

CLINOPYROXENE; CRATON; HARZBURGITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LHERZOLITE; MAGNESIUM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; OLIVINE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE; PHLOGOPITE; SPINEL; XENOLITH;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 79959960465     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.047     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Bigeleisen J., Mayer M.G. Calculation of equilibrium constants for isotopic exchange reactions. J. Chem. Phys. 1947, 15:261-267.
2. Brey G.P., Köhler T. Geothermobarometry in four-phase lherzolites II. New thermobarometers, and practical assessment of existing thermobarometers. J. Petrol. 1990, 31:1353-1378.
3. Chakrabarti R., Jacobsen S.B. The isotopic composition of magnesium in the inner Solar System. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 293:349-358.
4. Chakraborty S., Farver J.R., Yund R.A., Rubie D.C. Mg tracer diffusion in synthetic forsterite and San Carlos olivine as a function of P, T and fO2. Phys. Chem. Miner. 1994, 21:489-500.
5. Fabriès J. Spinel-olivine geothermometry in peridotites from ultramafic complexes. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1979, 69:329-336.
6. Foster G.L., von Strandmann P., Rae J.W.B. Boron and magnesium isotopic composition of seawater. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2010, 11:1-10.
7. Handler M.R., Baker J.A., Schiller M., Bennett V.C., Yaxley G.M. Magnesium stable isotope composition of Earth's upper mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 282:306-313.
8. Huang S., Farkas J., Jacobsen S.B. Calcium isotopic fractionation between clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene from mantle peridotites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 292:337-344.
9. Lehmann J. Diffusion between olivine and spinel: application to geothermometry. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1983, 64:123-138.
10. Li W.-Y., Teng F.-Z., Ke S., Rudnick R.L., Gao S., Wu F.Y., Chappell B.W. Heterogeneous magnesium isotopic composition of the upper continental crust. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2010, 74:6867-6884.
11. Li W.-Y., Teng F.-Z., Xiao Y., Huang J. High-temperature inter-mineral magnesium isotope fractionation in eclogite from the Dabie orogen, China. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2011, 304:224-230.
12. Liermann H., Ganguly J. Diffusion kinetics of Fe2+ and Mg in aluminous spinel: experimental determination and applications. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2002, 66:2903-2913.
13. Liu S.-A., Teng F.-Z., He Y.-S., Ke S., Li S.-G. Investigation of magnesium isotope fractionation during granite differentiation: implication for Mg isotopic composition of the continental crust. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 297:646-654.
14. Menzies M.A., Murthy V.R. Nd and Sr isotope geochemistry of hydrous mantle nodules and their host alkali basalts: implications for local heterogeneities in metasomatically veined mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1980, 46:323-334.
15. Ozawa K. Olivine-spinel geospeedometry: analysis of diffusion-controlled Mg-Fe2+ exchange. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 1984, 48:2597-2611.
16. Prouteau G., Scaillet B., Pichavant M., Maury R. Evidence for mantle metasomatism by hydrous silicic melts derived from subducted oceanic crust. Nature 2001, 40:197-200.
17. Schauble E. First-principles estimates of equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation in silicate, oxide, carbonate and hexaaquamagnesium(2+) crystals. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2011, 75:844-869.
18. Schiller M., Handler M.R., Baker J.A. High-precision Mg isotopic systematics of bulk chondrites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 297:165-173.
19. Shahar A., Young E.D., Manning C.E. Equilibrium high-temperature Fe isotope fractionation between fayalite and magnetite: an experimental calibration. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2008, 268:330-338.
20. Sickafus K.E., Wills J.M., Grimes J.W. Structure of spinel. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 1999, 82:3279-3292.
21. Teng F.-Z., McDonough W.F., Rudnick R.L., Walker R.J., Sirbescu M.-L.C. Lithium isotopic systematics of granites and pegmatites from the Black Hill, South Dakota. Am. Mineral. 2006, 91:1488-1498.
22. Teng F.-Z., Wadhwa M., Helz R.T. Investigation of magnesium isotope fractionation during basalt differentiation: implications for a chondritic composition of the terrestrial mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2007, 261:84-92.
23. Teng F.-Z., Li W.-Y., Ke S., Marty B., Dauphas N., Huang S., Wu F.-Y., Pourmand A. Magnesium isotopic composition of the Earth and chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2010, 74:4150-4166.
24. Teng F.-Z., Li W.-Y., Rudnick R.L., Gardner L.R. Contrasting lithium and magnesium isotope fractionation during continental weathering. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 300:63-71.
25. Urey H.C. The thermodynamic properties of isotopic substances. J. Chem. Soc. (London) 1947, 562-581.
26. Wiechert U., Halliday A.N. Non-chondritic magnesium and the origins of the inner terrestrial planets. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2007, 256:360-371.
27. Wu F.-Y., Walker R.J., Yang Y.-H., Yuan H.-L., Yang J.-H. The chemical-temporal evolution of lithospheric mantle underlying the North China Craton. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2006, 70:5013-5034.
28. Yang W., Teng F.-Z., Zhang H.-F. Chondritic magnesium isotopic composition of the terrestrial mantle: a case study of peridotite xenoliths from the North China craton. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 288:475-482.
29. Young E.D., Tonui E., Manning C.E., Schauble E.A., Macris C. Spinel-olivine magnesium isotope thermometry in the mantle and implications for the Mg isotopic composition of Earth. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2009, 288:524-533.
30. Zhao X.M., Zhang H.F., Zhu X.K., Zhang W.H., Yang Y.H., Tang Y.J. Metasomatism of Mesozoic and Cenozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the North China craton: evidence from phlogopite-bearing mantle xenoliths. Acta Petrol. Sin. 2007, 23:1281-1293.