Experimental study of the partitioning of Cu during partial melting of Earth's mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 133-143

  Fellows, Steve A ^a   Canil, Dante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arc; Geochemistry; Mantle; MORB; OIB; Partitioning

Indexed keywords

ARC; MANTLE; MORB; OIB; PARTITIONING;

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLASS; OLIVINE; SILICATES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

MELTING;

CLINOPYROXENE; COPPER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; OXIDATION; PARTIAL MELTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PARTITIONING; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 84862673636     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.039     Document Type: Article

References (104)

1. Acosta-Vigil A., et al. Mechanisms of crustal anatexis: a geochemical study of partially melted metapelitic enclaves and host dacite, SE Spain. J. Petrol. 2010, 51(4):785-821.
2. Adam J., Green T. Trace element partitioning between mica- and amphibole-bearing garnet lherzolite and hydrous basanitic melt: 1. Experimental results and the investigation of controls on partitioning behaviour. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 2006, 152(1):1-17.
3. Alard O., et al. Volatile-rich metasomatism in montferrier xenoliths (southern France): implications for the abundances of chalcophile and highly siderophile elements in the subcontinental mantle. J. Petrol. 2011, 52(10):2009-2045.
4. Alt J.C., et al. Hydrothermal alteration of a section of upper oceanic crust in the eastern equatorial Pacific: a synthesis of results from Site 504 (DSDP Legs 69, 70, and 83, and ODP Legs 111, 137, 140, and148) 1996, 417-434. Proceedings ODP Scientific Results Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. J.C. Alt, H. Kinoshita, L.B. Stokking, P.J. Michael (Eds.).
5. Barry T.L., Pearce J.A., Leat P.T., Millar I.L., le Roex A.P. Hf isotope evidence for selective mobility of high-field-strength elements in a subduction setting: South Sandwich Islands. Earth Planet. Sci. 2006, 252(3-4):223-244.
6. Batiza R., Storms M.A., Allan J.F. Preliminary ODP Leg 142 Engineering and Scientific Report 1992, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX.
7. Bezos A., Escrig S., Langmuir C.H., Michael P.J., Asimow P.D. Origins of chemical diversity of back-arc basin basalts: a segment-scale study of the Eastern Lau Spreading Center. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth 2009, 114.
8. Breddam K. Kistufell: primitive melt from the Iceland mantle plume. J. Petrol. 2002, 43(2):345-373.
9. Campbell I.H., Naldrett A.J. The influence of silicate:sulphide ratio on the geochemistry of magmatic sulphides. Econ. Geol. 1979, 74:1503-1506.
10. Candela P.A., Holland H.D. The partitioning of copper and molybdenum between silicate melts and aqueous fluids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1984, 48(2):373-380.
11. Canil D. Vanadium in peridotites, mantle redox and tectonic environments: archean to present. Earth Planet. Sci. 2002, 195:75-90.
12. Carmichael I.S.E. The redox states of basic and silicic magmas: a reflection of their source regions?. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1991, 106:129-141.
13. Castillo P.R., et al. Petrology and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope geochemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalt glasses from the 11°45'8242″N to 15°00'8242″N segment of the East Pacific Rise. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2000, 1(11):1-40.
14. Cline J.S., Bodnar R.J. Can economic porphyry copper mineralization be generated by a typical calc-alkaline melt?. J. Geophys. Res. 1991, 96:8113-8126.
15. Condomines M., et al. Helium, oxygen, strontium and neodymium isotopic relationships in Icelandic volcanics. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1983, 66(1-3):125-136.
16. Dasgupta R., Jackson M.G., Lee C.T.A. Major element chemistry of ocean island basalts-conditions of mantle melting and heterogeneity of mantle source. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2010, 289(3-4):377-392.
17. de Hoog J.C.M., Hattori K.H., Hoblitt R.P. Oxidized sulfur-rich mafic magma at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 2004, 146(6):750-761.
18. de Hoog J.C.M., Mason P.R.D., van Bergen M.J. Sulfur and chalcophile elements in subduction zones: constraints from a laser ablation ICP-MS study of melt inclusions from Galungung Volcano, Indonesia. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2001, 65(18):3147-3164.
19. Defant M.J., Drummond M.S. Derivation of some modern arc magmas by melting of young subducted lithosphere. Nature 1990, 347(6294):662-665.
20. Dijkstra A.H., et al. Highly refractory peridotites on Macquarie island and the case for anciently depleted domains in the Earth's mantle. J. Petrol. 2010, 51(1-2):469-493.
21. Dril S.I., Kuzmin M.I., Tsipukova S.S., Zonenshain L.P. Geochemistry of basalts from the western Woodlark, Lau and Manus basins: implications for their petrogenesis and source rock compositions. Mar. Geol. 1997, 142(1-4):57-83.
22. Dzurisin D., Lockwood J.P., Casadevall T.J., Rubin M. The Uwekahuna ash member of the Puna basalt-product of violent phreatomagmatic eruptions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, between 2800 and 2100 C-14 years ago. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 1995, 66(1-4):163-184.
23. Evans K.A., Tomkins A.G. The relationship between subduction zone redox budget and arc magma fertility. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2011, 308(3-4):401-409.
24. Falloon T.J., Malahoff A., Zonenshain L.P., Bogdanov Y. Petrology and geochemistry of back-arc basin basalts from lau basin spreading ridges at 15-degrees, 18-degrees and 19-degrees-S. Mineral. Petrol. 1992, 47(1):1-35.
25. Fedortchouk Y., Canil D., Semenets E. Mechanisms of diamond oxidation and their bearing on the fluid composition in kimberlite magmas. Am. Mineral. 2007, 92:1200-1212.
26. Ferguson E.M., Klein E.M. Fresh basalts from the pacific Antarctic ridge extend the Pacific Geochemical Province. Nature 1993, 366(6453):330-333.
27. Fretzdorff S., Livermore R.A., Devey C.W., Leat P.T., Stoffers P. Petrogenesis of the back-arc east Scotia Ridge, South Atlantic Ocean. J. Petrol. 2002, 43(8):1435-1467.
28. Gaetani G.A., Grove T.L. Partitioning of moderately siderophile elements among olivine, silicate melt, and sulfide melt: constraints on core formation in the Earth and Mars. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1997, 61:1829-1846.
29. Gaetani G.A., Grove T.L., Bryan W.B. The influence of water on the petrogenesis of subduction-related igneous rocks. Nature 1993, 365(6444):332-334.
30. Grove T.L., et al. Fractional crystallization and mantle-melting controls on calc-alkaline differentiation trends. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 2003, 145:515-533.
31. Hamlyn P.R., Keays R.R., Cameron W.E., Crawford A.J., Waldron H.M. Precious metals in magnesian low-ti lavas-implications for metallogenesis and sulfur saturation in primary magmas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1985, 49(8):1797-1811.
32. Hansen H., Gronvold K. Plagioclase ultraphyric basalts in Iceland: the mush of the rift. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 2000, 98(1-4):1-32.
33. Hart S.R., Dunn T. Experimental cpx/melt partitioning of 24 trace elements. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1993, 113:1-8.
34. Hekinian R., Walker D. Diversity and spatial zonation of volcanic-rocks from the East Pacific Rise near 21-degrees-N. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1987, 96(3):265-280.
35. Hirose K., Kushiro I. Partial melting of dry peridotites at high pressures: determination of compositions of melts segregated from peridotite using aggregates of diamond. Earth Planet. Sci. 1993, 114:477-489.
36. Hirschmann M.M., Kogiso T., Baker M.B., Stolper E.M. Alkalic magmas generated by partial melting of garnet pyroxenite. Geology 2003, 31(6):481-484.
37. Jackson M.G., Dasgupta R. Compositions of HIMU, EM1, and EM2 from global trends between radiogenic isotopes and major elements in ocean island basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2008, 276(1-2):175-186.
38. Jenner F.E., O'Neill H.S. Analysis of 60 elements in 616 ocean floor basaltic glasses. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2012, 13:11.
39. Johnston W.D., Chelko A. Oxidation-reduction equilibria in molten Na2O.2SiO2 glass in contact with metallic copper and silver. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 1966, 49(10):562.
40. Jugo P.J., Luth R.W., Richards J.P. An experimental study of the sulfur content in basaltic malts saturated with immiscible sulfide or sulfate liquids at 1300°C and 1GPa. J. Petrol. 2005, 46:783-798.
41. Jugo P.J., Candela P.A., Piccoli P.M. Magmatic sulfides and Au:Cu ratios in porphyry deposits: an experimental study of copper and gold partitioning at 850 degrees C, 100MPa in a haplogranitic melt pyrrhotite intermediate solid solution gold metal assemblage, at gas saturation. Lithos 1999, 46(3):573-589.
42. Kamenetsky V.S., Eggins S.M. Systematics of metals, metalloids, and volatiles in MORB melts: effects of partial melting, crystal fractionation and degassing (a case study of Macquarie Island glasses). Chem. Geol. 2011, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.04.008.
43. Karsten J.L., Klein E.M., Sherman S.B. Subduction zone geochemical characteristics in ocean ridge basalts from the southern Chile Ridge: implications of modern ridge subduction systems for the Archean. Lithos 1996, 37(2-3):143-161.
44. Kelley K.A., Cottrell E. Water and the oxidation state of subduction zone magmas. Science 2009, 325(5940):605-607.
45. Kinzler R.J., Grove T.L. Primary magmas of mid-ocean ridge basalts. 2. Applications. J. Geophys. Res. 1992, 97:6907-6926.
46. Klein E.M., Karsten J.L. Ocean-ridge basalts with convergent-margin geochemical affinities from the Chile Ridge. Nature 1995, 374(6517):52-57.
47. Klein E.M., Langmuir C.H. Global correlations of ocean ridge basalt chemistry with axial depth and crustal thickness. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth Planets 1987, 92(B8):8089-8115.
48. Klemme S., Guenther D., Hametner K., Prowatke S., Zack T. The partitioning of trace elements between ilmenite, ulvospinel, annalcolite and silicate melts with implications for the early differentiation of the moon. Chem. Geol. 2006, 234(3-4):251-263.
49. Kogiso T., Hirschmann M.M. Partial melting experiments of bimineralic eclogite and the role of recycled mafic oceanic crust in the genesis of ocean island basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2006, 249(3-4):188-199.
50. Langmuir C.H. Submitted data set: major and trace element composition of basalt glasses from the Chepr Cruise. East Pac. Rise 1999.
51. Le Roux V., Dasgupta R., Lee C.T.A. Mineralogical heterogeneities in the Earth's mantle: constraints from Mn, Co, Ni and Zn partitioning during partial melting. Earth Planet. Sci. 2011, 307(3-4):395-408.
52. Lecuyer C., Ricard Y. Long-term fluxes and budget of ferric iron: implication for the redox states of the Earth's mantle and atmosphere. Earth Planet. Sci. 1999, 165:197-211.
53. Lee C.-T.A., et al. The redox state of arc mantle using Zn/Fe systematics. Nature 2010, 468(7324):681-685.
54. Lemarchand F., Villemant B.T., Calas G. Trace element distribution coefficients in alkaline series. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1987, 51(5):1071-1081.
55. Maclennan J., McKenzie D., Gronvold K. Plume-driven upwelling under central Iceland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2001, 194(1-2):67-82.
56. McDonough W.F., Sun S.S. The composition of the Earth. Chem. Geol. 1995, 120:223-253.
57. McInnes B.I.A., McBride J.S., Evans N.J., Lambert D.D., Andrew A.S. Osmium isotope constraints on ore metal recycling in subduction zones. Science 1999, 286(5439):512-516.
58. McKenzie D., Bickle M.J. The volume and composition of melt generated by extension of the lithosphere. J. Petrol. 1988, 29:625-679.
59. McKenzie D., O'Nions R.K. The source regions of ocean island basalts. J. Petrol. 1995, 36(1):133-159.
60. Merrill R.B., Wyllie P.J. Absorption of iron by platinum capsules in high-pressure rock melting experiments. Am. Mineral. 1973, 58(1-2):16-20.
61. Mungall J.E. Roasting the mantle: slab melting and the genesis of major Au and Au-rich deposits. Geology 2002, 30:915-918.
62. Mungall J.E., Hanley J.J., Arndt N.T., Debecdelievre A. Evidence from meimechites and other low-degree mantle melts for redox controls on mantle-crust fractionation of platinum-group elements. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2006, 103:12695-12700.
63. Nakai I., Sugitani Y., Nagashima K., Niwa Y. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic study of copper minerals. J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 1978, 40(5):789-791.
64. Neumann E.R., Griffin W.L., Pearson N.J., O'Reilly S.Y. The evolution of the upper mantle beneath the Canary Islands: information from trace elements and Sr isotope ratios in minerals in mantle xenoliths. J. Petrol. 2004, 45(12):2573-2612.
65. Noll P.D., Newsom H.E., Leeman W.P., Ryan J.G. The role of hydrothermal fluids in the production of subduction zone magmas: evidence from siderophile and chalcophile trace elements and boron. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1996, 60(4):587-611.
66. Norman M.D., Garcia M.O., Bennett V.C. Rhenium and chalcophile elements in basaltic glasses from Ko'olau and Moloka'i volcanoes: magmatic outgassing and composition of the Hawaiian plume. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2004, 68(18):3761-3777.
67. Norman M.D., Griffin W.L., Pearson N.J., Garcia M.O., O'Reilly S.Y. Quantitative analysis of trace element abundances in glasses and minerals: a comparison of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, solution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, proton microprobe and electron microprobe data. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 1998, 13(5):477-482.
68. O'Neill H. The origin of the Moon and early history of the Earth-a chemical model. Part 2: the Earth. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1991, 55:1159-1172.
69. Oyarzun R., Marquez A., Lillo J., Lopez I., Rivera S. Giant versus small porphyry copper deposits of Cenozoic age in northern Chile: adakitic versus normal calc-alkaline magmatism. Miner. Deposita 2001, 36(8):794-798.
70. Palme H., O'Neill H.S.C. Cosmochemical estimates of mantle composition. The Mantle and Core, Treatise on Geochemistry 2003, vol. 2:1-38. Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford.
71. Parkinson I.J., Arculus R.J. The redox state of subduction zones: insights from arc-peridotites. Chem. Geol. 1999, 160(4):409-423.
72. Peach C.L., Mathez E.A., Keays R.R. Sulfide-melt silicate-melt distribution coefficients for noble-metals and other chalcophile elements as deduced from MORB-implications for partial melting. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1990, 54(12):3379-3389.
73. Pearce J.A., et al. Geochemistry of Lau Basin volcanic rocks: influence of ridge segmentation and arc proximity. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 1994, 81(1):53-75.
74. Pearce J.A., Stern R.J., Bloomer S.H., Fryer P. Geochemical mapping of the Mariana arc-basin system: implications for the nature and distribution of subduction components. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2005, 6.
75. Perfit M.R., et al. Recent volcanism in the Siqueiros transform fault: picritic basalts and implications for MORB magma genesis. Earth Planet. Sci. 1996, 141(1-4):91-108.
76. Pitcher L., Helz R.T., Walker R.J., Piccoli P. Fractionation of the platinum-group elements and Re during crystallization of basalt in Kilauea Iki Lava Lake, Hawaii. Chem. Geol. 2009, 260(3-4):196-210.
77. Plank T., Langmuir C.H. An evaluation of the global variations in the major element chemistry of arc basalts. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 1988, 90:349-370.
78. Poustovetov A.A., Roeder P.L. The distribution of Cr between basaltic melt and chromian spinel as an oxygen geobarometer. Can. Mineral. 2000, 39:309-317.
79. Pyle D.G. Geochemistry of Mid-ocean-ridge Basalt Within and Surrounding the Australian-Antarctic Discordance 1994, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
80. Rehkamper M., et al. Ir, Ru, Pt, and Pd in basalts and komatiites: new constraints for the geochemical behavior of the platinum-group elements in the mantle. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1999, 63(22):3915-3934.
81. Reynolds, J.R., 1995. Segment-scale Systematics of Mid-ocean Ridge Magmatism and Geochemistry. Ph.D. Thesis. Columbia University, New York City.
82. Reynolds J.R., Langmuir C.H. Petrological systematics of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of Kane: implications for ocean crust formation. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth 1997, 102(B7):14915-14946.
83. Richards J.P. Magmatic to hydrothermal metal fluxes in convergent and collided margins. Ore Geol. Rev. 2011, 40(1):1-26.
84. Richards J.P. Postsubduction porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au deposits: products of remelting of subduction-modified lithosphere. Geology 2009, 37(3):247-250.
85. Ripley E.M., Brophy J.G., Li C.S. Copper solubility in a basaltic melt and sulfide liquid/silicate melt partition coefficients of Cu and Fe. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2002, 66(15):2791-2800.
86. Robinson J.A.C., Wood B.W., Blundy J. The beginning of melting for fertile peridotite at 1.5GPa. Earth Planet. Sci. 1998, 155:97-111.
87. Rubie D.C., Karato S., Yan H., O'Neill H.S. Low differential stress and controlled chemical environment in multianvil high-pressure experiments. Phys. Chem. Miner. 1993, 20:315-322.
88. Sigmarsson O., Karlsson H.R., Larsen G. The 1996 and 1998 subglacial eruptions beneath the Vatnajokull ice sheet in Iceland: contrasting geochemical and geophysical inferences on magma migration. Bull. Volcanol. 2000, 61(7):468-476.
89. Sinclair W.D. Porphyry deposits. Mineral Deposits of Canada: A Synthesis of Major Deposit-Types, District Metallogeny, the Evolution of Geological Provinces, and Exploration Methods 2007, 223-243. Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, (Special Publication no. 5). W.D. Goodfellow (Ed.).
90. 2O in calc-alkaline differentiation and subduction zone magmatism. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1993, 113:143-166.
91. Spandler C., Yaxley G., Green D.H., Scott D. Experimental phase and melting relations of metapelite in the upper mantle: implications for the petrogenesis of intraplate magmas. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 2010, 160:569-589.
92. Steinthorsson S., Hardarson B.S., Ellam R.M., Larsen G. Petrochemistry of the Gjalp-1996 subglacial eruption, Vatnajokull, SE Iceland. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 2000, 98(1-4):79-90.
93. Sun S.S. Chemical composition and origin of the Earth's primitive mantle. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1982, 46:179-192.
94. Takahashi E. Melting of a dry peridotite KLB-1 up to 14GPa: implications on the origin of peridotitic upper mantle. J. Geophys. Res. 1986, 91:9367-9382.
95. Takahashi E., Shimazaki T., Tsuzaki Y., Yoshida H. Melting study of a peridotite Klb-1 to 6.5GPa, and the origin of basaltic magmas. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. A-Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 1993, 342(1663):105-120.
96. Teklay M., Scherer E.E., Mezger K., Danyushevsky L. Geochemical characteristics and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope compositions of mantle xenoliths and host basalts from Assab, Eritrea: implications for the composition and thermal structure of the lithosphere beneath the Afar Depression. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 2010, 159(5):731-751.
97. Thompson G., Bryan W.B., Ballard R., Hamuro K., Melson W.G. Axial processes along a segment of the East Pacific Rise, 10-degrees-N-12-degrees-N. Nature 1985, 318(6045):429-433.
98. von Seckendorff V., O'Neill H.S. An experimental study of Fe-Mg partitioning between olivine and orthopyroxene at 1173, 1273 and 1423K and 1.6GPa. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 1993, 113:196-207.
99. Walter M.J. Melting of garnet peridotite and the origin of komatiite and depleted lithosphere. J. Petrol. 1998, 39:29-60.
100. 2O from 7 to 35kbar. J. Petrol. 1994, 35:329-359.
101. Workman R.K., et al. Recycled metasomatized lithosphere as the origin of the enriched mantle II (EM2) end-member: evidence from the Samoan volcanic chain. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2004, 5.
102. Wright T.L., Helz R.T. Differentiation and magma mixing on Kilauea's east rift zone: a further look at the eruptions of 1955 and 1960. 2. The 1960 lavas. Bull. Volcanol. 1996, 57(8):602-630.
103. Yurimoto H., Ohtani E. Element partitioning between majorite and liquid: a secondary ion mass spectrometric study. Geophys. Res. Lett. 1992, 19(1):17-20.
104. Zajacz Z., Kovacs I., Szabo C., Halter W., Pettke T. Evolution of mafic alkaline melts crystallized in the uppermost lithospheric mantle: a melt inclusion study of olivine-clinopyroxenite xenoliths, northern Hungary. J. Petrol. 2007, 48(5):853-883.