The composition of nanogranitoids in migmatites overlying the Ronda peridotites (Betic Cordillera, S Spain): the anatectic history of a polymetamorphic basement

2017

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Suprasolidus continental crust is prone to loss and redistribution of anatectic melt to shallow crustal levels. These processes ultimately lead to differentiation of the continental crust. The majority of granulite facies rocks worldwide has experienced melt loss and the reintegration of melt is becoming an increasingly popular approach to reconstruct the prograde history of melt‐depleted rocks by means of phase equilibria modelling. It involves the stepwise down‐temperature reintegration of a certain amount of melt into the residual bulk composition along an inferred P–T path, and various ways of calculating and reintegrating melt compositions have been developed and applied. Here different melt‐reintegration approaches are tested using El Hoyazo granulitic enclaves (SE Spain), and Mt. Stafford residual migmatites (central Australia). Various sets of P–T pseudosections were constructed progressing step by step, to lower temperatures along the inferred P–T paths. Melt‐reintegration was done following one‐step and multi‐step procedures proposed in the literature. For El Hoyazo granulites, modelling was also performed reintegrating the measured melt inclusions and matrix glass compositions and considering the melt amounts inferred by mass–balance calculations. The overall topology of phase diagrams is pretty similar, suggesting that, in spite of the different methods adopted, reintegrating a certain amount of melt can be sufficient to reconstruct a plausible prograde history (i.e. melting conditions and reactions, and melt productivity) of residual migmatites and granulites. However, significant underestimations of melt productivity may occur and have to be taken into account when a melt‐reintegration approach is applied to highly residual (SiO2 <55 wt%) rocks, or to rocks for which H2O retention from subsolidus conditions is high (such as in the case of rapid crustal melting triggered by mafic magma underplating).

Section: Geological and Petrological Backgroundmentioning

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Phase equilibria modelling of residual migmatites and granulites: An evaluation of the melt‐reintegration approach

2017

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“…Grant, 2009; Holland & Powell, 2001; White, Stevens, & Johnson, 2011). Another compelling method to determine the composition of crustal melts during the early stages of anatexis is represented by the study of primary melt inclusions (MI) entrapped in peritectic minerals during incongruent melting of metapelitic rocks (Acosta‐Vigil et al., 2016; Acosta‐Vigil, Cesare, London, & Morgan, 2007; Bartoli, Acosta‐Vigil, Tajčmanová, Cesare, & Bodnar, 2016; Bartoli et al., 2013; Cesare, Ferrero, Salvioli‐Mariani, Pedron, & Cavallo, 2009; Cesare, Marchesi, Hermann, & Gómez‐Pugnaire, 2003; Ferrero et al., 2012, 2019; Ferrero, Wunder, Walczak, O’Brien, & Ziemann, 2015). Primary MI in high‐grade metamorphic rocks typically show variable degrees of crystallization, ranging from glassy to fully crystallized, the latter also referred as nanogranitoids (Cesare, Acosta‐Vigil, Bartoli, & Ferrero, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anatectic melt inclusions in ultra high temperature granulites

Gianola

Ferri

et al. 2020

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Partial melting up to ultra high temperature (UHT) conditions is one of the major processes for the geochemical differentiation and reworking of the mid‐ to lower continental crust, with relevant implications on its rheological behaviour. UHT granulites from the Gruf Complex (European Central Alps) display garnet and sapphirine porphyroblasts containing a variety of primary melt inclusions (MI). Typically, MI in garnet occur as glassy and polycrystalline inclusions (i.e. nanogranitoids), the latter commonly organized in mm‐sized clusters associated with primary fluid inclusions (FI). Nanogranitoids are characterized by an elliptical faceted shape, with variable sizes ranging from 2 to 115 µm, while glassy inclusions show negative crystal shapes that usually never exceed 15 µm in diameter and present CO2‐rich shrinkage bubbles. The characteristic mineral assemblage observed in nanogranitoids consists of quartz, biotite, muscovite, plagioclase, K‐feldspar, kokchetavite and rarely aluminosilicates. Glassy and re‐homogenized MI are peraluminous and rhyolitic in composition, with SiO2 = 69 − 80 wt% and Na2O + K2O = 5 − 12 wt%. Commonly, the analysed MI have very high K2O (>6 wt%) and very low Na2O (<2 wt%) contents, indicative for potassic to ultrapotassic melts. Measured H2O contents of the melts range from 2.9 to 8.8 wt%, whereas CO2 concentrations are between 160 and 1738 ppm. Accordingly, calculated viscosities for re‐homogenized MI vary between 104 and 105 Pa·s. Related primary FI mainly contain CO2, with rare occurrence of CO and N2, and are commonly associated with quartz, as well as different carbonates and phyllosilicates. It is assumed that the source for the carbonic fluid was external and probably related to the degassing lithospheric mantle. Consequently, it is argued that anatexis was initially triggered by incongruent dehydration melting reactions involving biotite breakdown and proceeded in the presence of an externally derived COH‐bearing fluid. The coexistence of COH‐bearing fluid and MI indicates that partial melting occurred under conditions of fluid − melt immiscibility. Potassic to ultrapotassic MI in UHT granulites suggests that lower crustal anatexis may play a significant role in the redistribution of heat‐producing elements (such as K2O), potentially influencing the thermal structure of the continental crust.

“…In recent years, MI and NI have become fundamental tools to investigate crustal petrology and geochemistry. Despite their small size, which poses analytical challenges, these inclusions have helped to unravel the anatectic history of polymetamorphic terranes (Acosta‐Vigil et al., ), the fluid regime of high‐grade terranes and the initial volatile contents of granitic magmas (Bartoli, Cesare, Remusat, Acosta‐Vigil, & Poli, ; Ferrero, Wunder, Walczak, O'Brien, & Ziemann, ; Bartoli et al., ). The composition of MI can also be useful to evaluate the processes of melt loss and to reconstruct the prograde history of granulite terranes (Bartoli, , ).…”

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Anatexis and fluid regime of the deep continental crust: New clues from melt and fluid inclusions in metapelitic migmatites from Ivrea Zone (NW Italy)

Carvalho

Ferri

et al. 2018

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We investigate the inclusions hosted in peritectic garnet from metapelitic migmatites of the Kinzigite Formation (Ivrea Zone, NW Italy) to evaluate the starting composition of the anatectic melt and fluid regime during anatexis throughout the upper amphibolite facies, transition, and granulite facies zones. Inclusions have negative crystal shapes, sizes from 2 to 10 μm and are regularly distributed in the core of the garnet. Microstructural and micro‐Raman investigations indicate the presence of two types of inclusions: crystallized silicate melt inclusions (i.e., nanogranitoids, NI), and fluid inclusions (FI). Microstructural evidence suggests that FI and NI coexist in the same cluster and are primary (i.e., were trapped simultaneously during garnet growth). FI have similar compositions in the three zones and comprise variable proportions of CO2, CH4, and N2, commonly with siderite, pyrophyllite, and kaolinite, suggesting a COHN composition of the trapped fluid. The mineral assemblage in the NI contains K‐feldspar, plagioclase, quartz, biotite, muscovite, chlorite, graphite and, rarely, calcite. Polymorphs such as kumdykolite, cristobalite, tridymite, and less commonly kokchetavite, were also found. Rehomogenized NI from the different zones show that all the melts are leucogranitic but have slightly different compositions. In samples from the upper amphibolite facies, melts are less mafic (FeO + MgO = 2.0–3.4 wt%), contain 860–1700 ppm CO2 and reach the highest H2O contents (6.5–10 wt%). In the transition zone melts have intermediate H2O (4.8–8.5 wt%), CO2 (457–1534 ppm) and maficity (FeO + MgO = 2.3–3.9 wt%). In contrast, melts at granulite facies reach highest CaO, FeO + MgO (3.2–4.7 wt%), and CO2 (up to 2,400 ppm), with H2O contents comparable (5.4–8.3 wt%) to the other two zones. Our results represent the first clear evidence for carbonic fluid‐present melting in the Ivrea Zone. Anatexis of metapelites occurred through muscovite and biotite breakdown melting in the presence of a COH fluid, in a situation of fluid–melt immiscibility. The fluid is assumed to have been internally derived, produced initially by devolatilization of hydrous silicates in the graphitic protolith, then as a result of oxidation of carbon by consumption of Fe3+‐bearing biotite during melting. Variations in the compositions of the melts are interpreted to result from higher T of melting. The H2O contents of the melts throughout the three zones are higher than usually assumed for initial H2O contents of anatectic melts. The CO2 contents are highest at granulite facies, and show that carbon‐contents of crustal magmas are not negligible at high T. The activity of H2O of the fluid dissolved in granitic melts decreases with increasing metamorphic grade. Carbonic fluid‐present melting of the deep continental crust represents, together with hydrate‐breakdown melting reactions, an important process in the origin of crustal anatectic granitoids.