Aqueous fluids and hydrous melts in high-pressure and ultra-high pressure rocks: Implications for element transfer in subduction zones

Hermann, Jörg; Spandler, Carl; Hack, Alistair C.; Korsakov, Andrey V.

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“…Under high-pressure (P) and high-temperature (T) conditions, it has been shown that the solubility of both water in silicate melt (13)(14)(15)(16) and silicate in aqueous fluid (13,(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) increases with increasing P. As a result, silicate melt and aqueous fluid in the interior of the Earth are expected to become SCF, and the hydrous solidus of the system can no longer be defined beyond a certain critical condition (26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36). This condition is called the second (or upper) critical endpoint (26) and is the point of intersection between the critical curve and hydrous solidus.…”

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Slab melting versus slab dehydration in subduction-zone magmatism

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Kawamoto

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The second critical endpoint in the basalt-H 2 O system was directly determined by a high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography technique. We found that the second critical endpoint occurs at around 3.4 GPa and 770°C (corresponding to a depth of approximately 100 km in a subducting slab), which is much shallower than the previously estimated conditions. Our results indicate that the melting temperature of the subducting oceanic crust can no longer be defined beyond this critical condition and that the fluid released from subducting oceanic crust at depths greater than 100 km under volcanic arcs is supercritical fluid rather than aqueous fluid and/or hydrous melts. The position of the second critical endpoint explains why there is a limitation to the slab depth at which adakitic magmas are produced, as well as the origin of across-arc geochemical variations of trace elements in volcanic rocks in subduction zones.water | island arc | silicate melt | synchrotron X-ray | high-pressure research W ater plays an important role in subduction-zone magmatism because it can reduce the melting temperature of rocks in subduction zones and hence can generate magmas (1-7). There is a long-standing debate about whether the fluids released from a subducting slab are aqueous fluid, hydrous silicate melt, supercritical fluid (SCF), or a combination of these (2,4,(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Whether the subducting slab melts or dehydrates depends on the thermal structure and the phase relation of slab materials under hydrous conditions. Therefore, this long-standing question cannot be answered until the detailed stability fields of these fluids are clarified.Under high-pressure (P) and high-temperature (T) conditions, it has been shown that the solubility of both water in silicate melt (13-16) and silicate in aqueous fluid (13, 17-25) increases with increasing P. As a result, silicate melt and aqueous fluid in the interior of the Earth are expected to become SCF, and the hydrous solidus of the system can no longer be defined beyond a certain critical condition (26-36). This condition is called the second (or upper) critical endpoint (26) and is the point of intersection between the critical curve and hydrous solidus. Basalt is one of the dominant constituents of a subducting slab and is considered the main carrier of water that triggers the melting of rocks in subduction zones. Therefore, the second critical endpoint in the basalt-H 2 O system has to be determined in order to understand fully the subduction-zone magmatism.In some silicic silicate-H 2 O systems, the location of the second critical endpoint has been reported [e.g., 1.0 GPa, 1,080°C in the SiO 2 -H 2 O system (13); 1.5 GPa, 670°C in the system NaAlSi 3 O 8 -H 2 O (21); 1.5 GPa, 800°C in the system KAlSi 3 O 8 -H 2 O (36)]. In mafic systems, however, the determination of the second critical endpoints is not easy because of the difficulty in identifying phases (aqueous fluid versus hydrous silicate melt) in the recovered samples quenched from high-P and high-T conditio...

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Slab melting versus slab dehydration in subduction-zone magmatism

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“…Natural and experimental data reveal that Si-rich melts [56,57], or aqueous [58] or supercritical fluids [59] are released from the underlying subducted oceanic slab into the sub-arc region driving the dissolution of mantle olivine and the neoformation of pyroxenes and Al-phases in a range of pressures between 0.8 and 3.4 GPa [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]. Experimental results of Grant et al [69] at 800 MPa suggest that neoblasts of orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene form at a relatively narrow temperature range of around 800 to 900 • C (with few exceptions up to 1100 • C).…”

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New Occurrence of Pyroxenites in the Veria-Naousa Ophiolite (North Greece): Implications on Their Origin and Petrogenetic Evolution

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Abstract:The Veria-Naousa ophiolite represents a dismembered unit in north Greece, which includes variably serpentinised lherzolite and harzburgite, locally intruded by a sparse network of dykes or thin layers of websterite and olivine-orthopyroxenite composition. The websterite and the olivine-orthopyroxenite show abundant petrographic and geochemical evidence (relic olivines with mantle affinities, Cr-rich spinels, low Al 2 O 3 , depletions in incompatible elements, and concave upwards rare earth element patterns) that they comprise replacive bodies from refractory subarc mantle precursors. The occurrence of these pyroxenites in dykes implies that channelled percolation of melts account for their replacive character. High CaO/Al 2 O 3 , low Zr and crystallisation of diopside suggest that a melt of ankaramitic/carbonatitic composition percolated in lherzolite replacing porphyroclastic olivine and forming the pyroxenes in the websterite. At a shallower level, harburgites were impregnated by boninitic melts (inferred by U-shape rare earth element patterns and very rich in Cr spinels) triggering the replacement of porphyroclastic olivine by orthopyroxene for the formation of olivine-orthopyroxenite. These peritectic replacements of olivine commonly occur in a mantle wedge regime. The peculiar characteristics of the Veria-Naousa pyroxenites with LREE and compatible elements enrichments resemble the subarc pyroxenites of Cabo Ortegal implying a similar environment of formation. Whole-rock and mineralogical (spinel and clinopyroxene) compositions are also in favour of a backarc to arc environment. It is recommended that the evolution of the Veria-Naousa pyroxenites record the evolution of the subarc region and the opening of a backarc basin in a broad SSZ setting in the Axios Zone of eastern Greece.

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“…Chin Sci Bull, 2013Bull, , 58: 43904396, doi: 10.1007 Recent studies from experimental petrology [1-3], geochemical analyses [4][5][6] and geochronological data [7][8][9] have indicated that deeply subducted continental crust experienced partial melting during exhumation. Such anatexis can change mechanical and chemical behaviours of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks.…”

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Dehydration melting of UHP eclogite and paragneiss in the Dabie orogen: Evidence from laboratory experiment to natural observation

Liu

2013

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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Dehydration melting of subducted continental crust is significant during exhumation, and its study from both experimental and petrological observations is of great importance to our understanding of continental geodynamics. Dehydration melting experiments were carried out on ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) eclogite from Bixiling in the Dabie orogen using a piston cylinder at 1.5-3.0 GPa and 800-950°C to investigate partial melting of eclogite induced by phengite breakdown. The phengite-bearing eclogite started to melt at T800-850°C and P=1.5-2.0 GPa and produced about 3% granitic melt. The products of dehydration melting vary with temperature and pressure. Such results provide valuable constraints on the micro-texture related to partial melting of UHP rocks in the Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt. Three types of polyphase inclusions were identified in garnet from the Shuanghe UHP eclogite. K-feldspar and quartz inclusions are interpreted to represent the products of segregation and crystallization of minor amounts of melt that formed during dehydration melting of phengite by the inferred reaction Phengite+Omphacite±Quartz→ Amphibole±Garnet+Melt (K-feldspar+Quartz±Plagioclase). Polyphase inclusions of phengite and K-feldspar+Quartz inclusions were also found in zoisite/clinozoisite and garnet from the Shuanghe garnet-bearing paragneiss. These polyphase inclusions provide evidence for a continuous process from sub-solidus dehydration to partial melting within the UHP gneissic rocks. The compositional variation of garnets demonstrates that breakdown of epidote-group minerals may have played a crucial role during dehydration melting reaction of phengite. The Ti-in-zircon thermometry and Si content of phengite in zircon suggest that partial melting would occur at 783-839°C and 2.0-2.5 GPa. Therefore, both experimental results and petrological observations indicate that dehydration melting and fluid activity within the Dabie UHP rocks at micro-scale are controlled by the breakdown of phengite. dehydration melting, phengite, experimental petrology, polyphase inclusions, ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism, Dabie orogen Citation:Liu Q, Wu Y. Dehydration melting of UHP eclogite and paragneiss in the Dabie orogen: Evidence from laboratory experiment to natural observation. Chin Sci Bull, 2013Bull, , 58: 43904396, doi: 10.1007 Recent studies from experimental petrology [1-3], geochemical analyses [4][5][6] and geochronological data [7][8][9] have indicated that deeply subducted continental crust experienced partial melting during exhumation. Such anatexis can change mechanical and chemical behaviours of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks. It has significant effects on facilitating the deformation mechanisms (or strain localization) of UHP rocks [10,11], increasing the buoyancy of melted rocks and promoting the segregation of partial melts. Thus, partial melting of subducted continental crust is of great significance for understanding the melting event and fluid activity at great depths as well as the rheological property of UHP ro...

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Aqueous fluids and hydrous melts in high-pressure and ultra-high pressure rocks: Implications for element transfer in subduction zones

Cited by 554 publications

References 106 publications

Slab melting versus slab dehydration in subduction-zone magmatism

Slab melting versus slab dehydration in subduction-zone magmatism

New Occurrence of Pyroxenites in the Veria-Naousa Ophiolite (North Greece): Implications on Their Origin and Petrogenetic Evolution

Dehydration melting of UHP eclogite and paragneiss in the Dabie orogen: Evidence from laboratory experiment to natural observation

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