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Trace-element study and uranium-lead dating of perovskite from the Afrikanda plutonic complex, Kola Peninsula (Russia) using LA-ICP-MS

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The U-Pb geochronology of perovskite is a powerful tool in constraining the emplacement age of silica-undersaturated rocks. The trace-element and U-Pb isotopic compositions of perovskite from clinopyroxenite and silicocarbonatite from the Afrikanda plutonic complex (Kola, Russia) were determined by laser-ablation inductively-coupled mass-spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). In addition, the Sr isotopic composition of perovskite was measured by isotope-dilution mass-spectrometry to better constrain the relations between its host rocks. Perovskite from the two rock types shows a different degree of enrichment in Na, Mg, Mn, Pb, Fe, Al, V, rare-earth elements, Zr, Hf, Th, U and Ta. The perovskite 87Sr/86Sr values are within analytical uncertainty of one another and fall within the range of mantle values. The 206Pb/238U ages (corrected for common lead using 207Pb-method) of perovskite from silicocarbonatite statistically yield a single population with a weighted mean of 371 ± 8 Ma (2σ; MSWD = 0.071). This age is indistinguishable, within uncertainty, to the clinopyroxenite weighted mean 206Pb/238U age of 374 ± 10 Ma (2σ; MSWD = 0.18). Our data are in good agreement with the previous geochronological study of the Afrikanda complex. The observed variations in trace-element composition of perovskite from silicocarbonatite and clinopyroxenite indicate that these rocks are not related by crystal fractionation. The Sr isotopic ratios and the fact that the two rocks are coeval suggest that they were either produced from a single parental melt by liquid immiscibility, or from two separate magmas derived at different degrees of partial melting from an isotopically equilibrated, but modally complex mantle source.

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This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (including a Canadian Graduate Scholarship to EPR and Discovery Grants to AC, ARC and NMH), Canada Foundation for Innovation (NMH), University of Manitoba and Province of Manitoba (Manitoba Graduate Scholarship to EPR) and Australian Research Council (Research Fellowship and Discovery Grant to VSK). Leonid Danyshevsky is gratefully acknowledged for his help with trace-element analyses. We are most grateful to Robert Creaser for the Sr isotope analyses. Tom Andersen is warmly thanked for his help with common-lead correction calculations. The manuscript has benefited from constructive reviews by two anonymous reviewers, Associate Editor J. Košler and Editor R. Abart.

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    Ekaterina P. Reguir, Alfredo Camacho, Panseok Yang, Anton R. Chakhmouradian & Norman M. Halden

  2. School of Earth Sciences and Centre for Ore Deposit Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

    Vadim S. Kamenetsky

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Reguir, E.P., Camacho, A., Yang, P. et al. Trace-element study and uranium-lead dating of perovskite from the Afrikanda plutonic complex, Kola Peninsula (Russia) using LA-ICP-MS. Miner Petrol 100, 95–103 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-010-0131-9

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