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Mineral-melt vanadium oxybarometry for primitive arc magmas: effect of hydrous melt composition on fO2 estimates

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If primitive arc magmas are primarily oxidized or if they acquire their oxidizing character during crustal evolution remains debated. Mineral-melt V partitioning is extremely redox sensitive and has the potential to resolve this debate, but critical low-temperature, hydrous experimental partitioning data are limited. We present new experimental V partitioning data for olivine-melt, spinel-melt, and clinopyroxene-melt based on the ≤ 1200 °C, hydrous basalt phase equilibrium experiments of Pichavant et al. (Geochim Cosmochim Acta 66:2193–2209, 2002) and Pichavant and Macdonald (Contrib Mineral Petrol 154:535–558, 2007). Combined with published experimental data, we use our olivine-melt V partitioning coefficients to show that—contrary to previous conclusions—hydrous melt composition, i.e. melt H2O concentration in addition to the concentration of other melt components, affects V partitioning and thus calculated fO2, systematically overestimating fO2 for olivine-melt equilibrated at high melt H2O concentration. False absolute fO2 values and false oxidation or reduction trends may be inferred. Based on these findings, we have calibrated a set of new olivine-melt oxybarometers applicable to hydrous arc magmas partially crystallized at ~ 1025–1350 °C. In a case study on a high-Mg basalt from St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles, we show that olivine-melt V oxybarometry records oxidizing near-liquidus conditions (~ QFM + 1.8) and possibly limited oxidation (~ 0.3 log units) during intermittent crustal magma storage.

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Acknowledgements

This work is part of the project “Tracking the differentiation of redox-sensitive elements in fluid-rich to fluid-poor magmas” of Erdmann et al. supported by LabEx VOLTAIRE (ANR-10-LABX-100-01). The analytical facilities at ISTO that were used are also supported by LabEx VOLTAIRE (ANR-10-LABX-100-01) and by EquipEx PLANEX (ANR-11-EQPX-0036). Patricia Benoist and Ida Di Carlo are thanked for their assistance and guidance in SEM imaging and electron microprobe analyses. Fai Tcha and Henrique da Mota of IRAMAT are thanked for their support of ISTO’s LA-ICP-MS laboratory. Emmanuel Le Trong kindly helped with regression-related questions. The Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans is thanked for hosting SE for a six-month stay in 2023. We sincerely thank M. Holycross, an anonymous reviewer, and O. Müntener for their insightful and constructive comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.

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Erdmann, S., Pichavant, M. & Gaillard, F. Mineral-melt vanadium oxybarometry for primitive arc magmas: effect of hydrous melt composition on fO2 estimates. Contrib Mineral Petrol 179, 39 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-024-02113-4

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