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Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Dec 17, 2023
Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 2022
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Apr 1, 2009
Lithos, Jun 1, 2018
We present major and trace element compositions of melt inclusions from three alkali basalts from... more We present major and trace element compositions of melt inclusions from three alkali basalts from the Río Colorado volcanic field in the Payenia backarc province, Argentina. Modeling of diffusion profiles around the inclusions showed that most inclusions equilibrated less than 14 days after formation, indicating a short crustal residence time for the magmas and nearly direct ascent through the crust. Despite overlapping host rock isotopic compositions, the inclusions show a large variation in their degree of enrichment, and display trends that we interpret as mixing between asthenospheric OIB-type low K 2 O-high Nb/U melts and enriched high K 2 Olow Nb/U lithospheric mantle melts similar in composition to alkaline lamprophyres. The low Nb/U magmas are excessively enriched in the elements Cs,
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Dec 5, 2016
and high Th/La ratios, which suggest a component of upper continental crust (UCC) in the metasoma... more and high Th/La ratios, which suggest a component of upper continental crust (UCC) in the metasomatizing agent of the northern mantle. However, the addition to the mantle source of crustal materials or varying oxidation state cannot explain the variation in Mn and Mn/Fe of the melts and olivines along Payenia. Instead, the correlation between Mn/Fe ol and whole-rock (wr) trace element compositions is evidence of two-component mixing of melts derived from peridotite mantle source enriched by slab fluids and UCC melts and a pyroxenite mantle source with an EM1-type trace element signature. Very low Ca/Fe ratios (~1.1) in the olivines of the peridotite melt component and lower calculated partition coefficients for Ca in olivine for these samples are suggested to be caused by higher H 2 O contents in the magmas derived from subduction zone enriched mantle. Well-correlated Mn/Fe ratios in the wr and primitive olivines demonstrate that the Mn/Fe wr of these basalts that only fractionated olivine and chromite reflects the Mn/Fe of the primitive melts and can be used as a proxy for the amount of pyroxenite melt in the magmas. Using Mn/Fe wr for a large dataset of primitive Payenia rocks, we show that decreasing Mn/Fe wr is correlated with decreasing Mn and increasing Zn/Mn as expected for pyroxenite melts.
Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 2022
2359 The role of pyroxenite sources in the origin of the Payenia volcanic province, Argentina: in... more 2359 The role of pyroxenite sources in the origin of the Payenia volcanic province, Argentina: insights from trace elements in olivine NINA SØAGER1*, MAXIM PORTNYAGIN1, KAJ HOERNLE1 AND DIETER GARBE-SCHÖNBERG2 1GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Wischhofsstraße 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany (*correspondence: ns@ign.ku.dk) 2Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Christian-AlbrechtsPlatz 4, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 2022
Journal of Petrology
Primitive basalts erupted mainly above the proposed centre of the Iceland plume have been analyse... more Primitive basalts erupted mainly above the proposed centre of the Iceland plume have been analysed geochemically. The data shed light on the distribution of plume heterogeneities and constrain their nature and origin. Low Ca (down to 1420 ppm) olivine macrocrysts and chromite inclusions in Snæfell rocks of the Eastern Flank Zone indicate that the magmas were hydrous (c. 2 wt% H2O) and relatively oxidised (fO2 = c. ΔQMF+1). Al-in-olivine crystallisation temperatures indicate that magmas from central Iceland magmas are not hotter than from other parts of Iceland. Some Gæsafjöll rocks with high Nb/U = 110–120 from the Northern Rift Zone represent magmas widespread in Iceland that are also characterized by low Ba/La and high La/U, La/Th, Nb/Th and Ce/Pb. They reflect a mantle component with Nb/U ≈ 200 present in many basalts of all rift zones. This mantle apparently consists of peridotite refertilised by ultra-dehydrated recycled oceanic crust. This component is in clear contrast to the...
Science China Earth Sciences
Magma plumbing systems represent the physical framework of magma transport and storage from the s... more Magma plumbing systems represent the physical framework of magma transport and storage from the source region in the mantle, through the crust, until reaching the surface in a volcanic eruption. Characterising the different aspects of magma plumbing, in particular the distribution of magma storage zones throughout the crust, is of key importance to better understand the behaviour of individual volcanoes. In particular, shallow crustal magma storage and associated magma-crust interaction processes could potentially explain some of the worlds most unpredictable and explosive volcanoes. This thesis studies magma plumbing architecture in the Sunda Arc (Indonesia), and the North Atlantic Igneous Province, based on elemental and isotope geochemistry, and derived petrological modelling.In this study, I have employed petrological models, so called geothermobarometers, to calculate pressures and temperatures (P-T) of crustal magma storage. Geothermobarometers are calibrated thermodynamic for...
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Dec 17, 2023
Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 2022
EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Apr 1, 2009
Lithos, Jun 1, 2018
We present major and trace element compositions of melt inclusions from three alkali basalts from... more We present major and trace element compositions of melt inclusions from three alkali basalts from the Río Colorado volcanic field in the Payenia backarc province, Argentina. Modeling of diffusion profiles around the inclusions showed that most inclusions equilibrated less than 14 days after formation, indicating a short crustal residence time for the magmas and nearly direct ascent through the crust. Despite overlapping host rock isotopic compositions, the inclusions show a large variation in their degree of enrichment, and display trends that we interpret as mixing between asthenospheric OIB-type low K 2 O-high Nb/U melts and enriched high K 2 Olow Nb/U lithospheric mantle melts similar in composition to alkaline lamprophyres. The low Nb/U magmas are excessively enriched in the elements Cs,
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Dec 5, 2016
and high Th/La ratios, which suggest a component of upper continental crust (UCC) in the metasoma... more and high Th/La ratios, which suggest a component of upper continental crust (UCC) in the metasomatizing agent of the northern mantle. However, the addition to the mantle source of crustal materials or varying oxidation state cannot explain the variation in Mn and Mn/Fe of the melts and olivines along Payenia. Instead, the correlation between Mn/Fe ol and whole-rock (wr) trace element compositions is evidence of two-component mixing of melts derived from peridotite mantle source enriched by slab fluids and UCC melts and a pyroxenite mantle source with an EM1-type trace element signature. Very low Ca/Fe ratios (~1.1) in the olivines of the peridotite melt component and lower calculated partition coefficients for Ca in olivine for these samples are suggested to be caused by higher H 2 O contents in the magmas derived from subduction zone enriched mantle. Well-correlated Mn/Fe ratios in the wr and primitive olivines demonstrate that the Mn/Fe wr of these basalts that only fractionated olivine and chromite reflects the Mn/Fe of the primitive melts and can be used as a proxy for the amount of pyroxenite melt in the magmas. Using Mn/Fe wr for a large dataset of primitive Payenia rocks, we show that decreasing Mn/Fe wr is correlated with decreasing Mn and increasing Zn/Mn as expected for pyroxenite melts.
Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 2022
2359 The role of pyroxenite sources in the origin of the Payenia volcanic province, Argentina: in... more 2359 The role of pyroxenite sources in the origin of the Payenia volcanic province, Argentina: insights from trace elements in olivine NINA SØAGER1*, MAXIM PORTNYAGIN1, KAJ HOERNLE1 AND DIETER GARBE-SCHÖNBERG2 1GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Wischhofsstraße 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany (*correspondence: ns@ign.ku.dk) 2Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Christian-AlbrechtsPlatz 4, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, 2022
Journal of Petrology
Primitive basalts erupted mainly above the proposed centre of the Iceland plume have been analyse... more Primitive basalts erupted mainly above the proposed centre of the Iceland plume have been analysed geochemically. The data shed light on the distribution of plume heterogeneities and constrain their nature and origin. Low Ca (down to 1420 ppm) olivine macrocrysts and chromite inclusions in Snæfell rocks of the Eastern Flank Zone indicate that the magmas were hydrous (c. 2 wt% H2O) and relatively oxidised (fO2 = c. ΔQMF+1). Al-in-olivine crystallisation temperatures indicate that magmas from central Iceland magmas are not hotter than from other parts of Iceland. Some Gæsafjöll rocks with high Nb/U = 110–120 from the Northern Rift Zone represent magmas widespread in Iceland that are also characterized by low Ba/La and high La/U, La/Th, Nb/Th and Ce/Pb. They reflect a mantle component with Nb/U ≈ 200 present in many basalts of all rift zones. This mantle apparently consists of peridotite refertilised by ultra-dehydrated recycled oceanic crust. This component is in clear contrast to the...
Science China Earth Sciences
Magma plumbing systems represent the physical framework of magma transport and storage from the s... more Magma plumbing systems represent the physical framework of magma transport and storage from the source region in the mantle, through the crust, until reaching the surface in a volcanic eruption. Characterising the different aspects of magma plumbing, in particular the distribution of magma storage zones throughout the crust, is of key importance to better understand the behaviour of individual volcanoes. In particular, shallow crustal magma storage and associated magma-crust interaction processes could potentially explain some of the worlds most unpredictable and explosive volcanoes. This thesis studies magma plumbing architecture in the Sunda Arc (Indonesia), and the North Atlantic Igneous Province, based on elemental and isotope geochemistry, and derived petrological modelling.In this study, I have employed petrological models, so called geothermobarometers, to calculate pressures and temperatures (P-T) of crustal magma storage. Geothermobarometers are calibrated thermodynamic for...