Abstract
Liquidus and subliquidus phase relations of a leucite-lamproite (wolgidite) from the West Kimberley area, Australia have been studied experimentally under the volatile conditions of 3.22 wt.% H2O (\(X_{CO_2 }\)=0.11) and 13.0 wt.% H2O (\(X_{CO_2 }\)=0.03) between 10 to 40 kbar. Under these conditions, liquids are vapour undersaturated. In experiments with 13.0 wt.% H2O, olivine is the liquidus phase up to 24 kbar and orthopyroxene above 24 kbar. Phlogopite and rutile occur close to the liquidus above 16 kbar. Crystallization temperatures of clinopyroxenes are 50–120° C below the liquidus.
Based on these results, wolgidite magma is unlikely to be a partial melt of a garnet- or spinel-lherzolite mantle but could be derived from phlogopite+rutile±olivine±or-thopyroxene assemblages occurring as metasomatized mantle.
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Arima, M., Edgar, A.D. A high pressure experimental study on a magnesian-rich leucite-lamproite from the West Kimberley area, Australia: petrogenetic implications. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 84, 228–234 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00371288
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