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Constraints on metasomatized mantle under Central South America: evidence from Jurassic alkaline lamprophyre dykes from the Eastern Cordillera, NM Argentina

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In the Río Grande Valley, NW Argentina, several porphyritic panidiomorphic, ocelli-bearing dykes and sills intrude the Neoproterozoic to lower Paleozoic basement of the Eastern Cordillera. New petrographical and geochemical data permit us to classify these rocks as ocellar-analcime monchiquites, a feldspar-free variety of alkaline lamprophyre composed of Ti-rich-diopside/augite, Ti-rich biotite/phlogopite, forsteritic olivine, titanian-pargasite and analcime, with abundant ocelli filled with analcime/carbonate. In terms of geochemical compositions they are characterized by LILE and LREE enrichment and lack of Nb-Ta and Eu anomalies. The 87Sr/86Sr and 143Nd/144Nd initial ratios range between 0.70377 to 0.70781 and 0.512506 and 0.512716 respectively, and TDM model ages vary between 0.25–0.64 Ga. A K-Ar age of 163 ± 9 Ma suggests that these rocks are related to the pre-rifting stage of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic continental Salta Rift in NW Argentina. Partial melting of a heterogeneous enriched metasomatized lithospheric mantle, magma mixing and fractionation are envisaged to explain the petrographic, geochemical and isotope characteristics of these magmas.

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The authors are CNPq and CONICET researchers and grateful for the research grant that allowed field and laboratory work. We also thank financial support from the PROSUL/CNPq program. Bárbara Lima is acknowledged for technical assistance. Dr. Miguel Basei is thanked for the K-Ar ages. We are very grateful to F. Stoppa, K.M Goodenough and anonymous referees for constructive reviews and to K. Moore for careful editorial comments that led to a significant improvement of the paper. Dr. Affonso Brod is thanked for the assistance during the mineral chemistry analyses. We are also grateful to Dr. Affonso Brod and Sérgio Castro Valente for correcting and improving the manuscript.

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Hauser, N., Matteini, M., Omarini, R.H. et al. Constraints on metasomatized mantle under Central South America: evidence from Jurassic alkaline lamprophyre dykes from the Eastern Cordillera, NM Argentina. Miner Petrol 100, 153–184 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-010-0127-5

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