Abstract
The P-12 “para-kimberlite” from Wajrakarur consists of forsteritic olivine, Al-Na-poor diopside, Fe-Ti-rich, Al-poor phlogopite, K-Ti-richterite, spinel, perovskite, cymrite, apatite, barite, Ba-Sr- bearing calcite, gittinsite, witherite, strontianite, and hydrogrossular (hydrogarnet). The rock also contains small clasts consisting dominantly of calcite, with lesser Ba-Sr-bearing calcite, cymrite, barite, strontianite, witherite, apatite, and hydrogrossular. Two generations of forsteritic olivine (Fo80–93) crystals are present: common phenocrystal-to-microphenocrystal; and rare anhedral macrocrystic olivines. Phlogopite occurs as microphenocrysts and as groundmass poikilitic plates with inclusions of spinel, perovskite, apatite, and chlorite pseudomorphs (after pyroxene). Phlogopites also occur as reaction rims around olivine crystals. The phlogopites have extremely low Al2O3 (2.2–3.8 wt.%), moderate-to-high FeO (6.9–16 wt.%), TiO2(1.9–4.6 wt.%), and Na2O (0.4–2.7 wt.%) contents and are enriched in fluorine (up to 6.0 wt.%) and considered to be tetraferriphlogopite. The pyroxenes occur in five parageneses as: (1) phenocrysts and microphenocrysts; (2) small slender crystals(<30 μm) forming part of the groundmass; (3) the cores of richterite crystals; (4) reaction products replacing earlier-formed olivine; (5) acicular crystals mantling carbonate clasts. These pyroxenes do not differ significantly in composition and are all diopsides with minor variation in their TiO2, Al2O3, Na2O contents. Titanian-potassium richterite commonly occurs as: (1) groundmass poikilitic plates; (2) small prismatic crystals (<30 μm); (3) reaction rims on olivine and pyroxene crystals. Groundmass poikilitic richterites commonly enclose pyroxene and apatite. Perovskites have a bimodal size distribution. Small (<20 μm) euhedral perovskites are scattered throughout the groundmass, whereas larger (100–300 μm) subhedral-to-euhedral perovskites are patchily-zoned and commonly broken. Micro-clasts consisting of accumulations of perovskite with phlogopite and apatite are also present. Spinels occur as large atoll crystals and small (<20 μm), euhedral-to-subhedral crystals, scattered throughout the groundmass. Some small spinel crystals are also present in the rims of olivine and pyroxene crystals. Atoll spinels are up to 100 μm in size, commonly with single and double cores. Atoll spinels are typically associated with perovskites. The euhedral-to-subhedral small spinels are ulvospinels. The atoll spinels have cores of titanian aluminous magnesiochromite with rims of magnesian titaniferous magnetite. The spinels have compositions which evolve along the lamproite-spinel compositional trend. Zoned calcite crystals occur as residual phases. Late stage residual calcite and carbonate clasts host prismatic cymrite crystals which are interpreted as pseudomorphs after potassium feldspar and/or barite. Subhedral-to-euhedral gittinsite and its Sr-analog are reported for the first time from the groundmass carbonate-chlorite mesostasis of a lamproite. Square-to-rectangular crystals of cymrite and hydrogrossular occur in the carbonate clasts and groundmass material. Barite anhedra commonly occur in the carbonate clasts together with witherite, strontianite, and Ba-Sr-bearing calcite. The texture and compositions of olivine, phlogopite, spinel, and K-Ti-richterite, together with the presence of cymrite pseudomorphs, possibly after potassium feldspar, demonstrate that this intrusion is a bona fide olivine lamproite and not a kimberlite. It is postulated that this, and other lamproites, located adjacent to the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, are derived by extensional decompressional melting of ancient subduction zones underlying the cratonic regions.
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This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Almaz Petrology, and Lakehead University. Staff of the Geological Survey of India in Bangalore and Wajrakarur are thanked for assistance in the field. Gurmeet Kaur wishes to acknowledge Panjab University, Chandigarh, India for granting leave to pursue research on Indian lamproites at Lakehead University. Valerie Dennison is thanked for pre-production copy editing of the text.
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Kaur, G., Mitchell, R.H. Mineralogy of the P-12 K-Ti-richterite diopside olivine lamproite from Wajrakarur, Andhra Pradesh, India: implications for subduction-related magmatism in eastern India. Miner Petrol 110, 223–245 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-015-0402-6
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