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Lithospheric mantle beneath the south-eastern Siberian craton: petrology of peridotite xenoliths in basalts from the Tokinsky Stanovik

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We provide petrographic, major and trace element data for over 30 spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Tokinsky Stanovik (Tok) volcanic field on the Aldan shield to characterize the lithospheric mantle beneath the south-eastern margin of the Siberian craton, which formed in the Mesoproterozoic. High equilibration temperatures (870–1,010°C) of the xenoliths and the absence of garnet-bearing peridotites indicate a much thinner lithosphere than in the central craton. Most common among the xenoliths are clinopyroxene-poor lherzolites and harzburgites with Al2O3 and CaO contents nearly as low as in refractory xenoliths from kimberlite pipes (Mir, Udachnaya) in the central and northern Siberian craton. By contrast, the Tok peridotites have higher FeO, lower Mg-numbers and lower modal orthopyroxene and are apparently formed by shallow partial melting (≤3 GPa). Nearly all Tok xenoliths yield petrographic and chemical evidence for metasomatism: accessory phlogopite, amphibole, phosphates, feldspar and Ti-rich oxides, very high Na2O (2–3.1%) in clinopyroxene, LREE enrichments in whole-rocks.

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Acknowledgements

A. Kokovkin, M. Vikhtenko and M. Goroshko took part in the fieldwork. DAI thanks T. Bradley, G. Chazot, K. Furuta, N. Groschopf, D. Kuzmin, C. Merlet, E. Takazawa and M. Veschambre for assistance with sample preparation and analytical work. The fieldwork was organized by ITIG, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. DAI’s trip to Siberia was funded by the Australian Research Council. The study was supported by funding from Fond Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS – grant# FRFC: 2.4607.01 F) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Université de Montpellier II and Université Blaise Pascal (France), MPI-Chemie in Mainz as well as a W.Paul Award of the A.von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) to AVS. Some ICPMS analyses were done using the funding and facilities of the European Geochemical Facility at Bristol in 2002.

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  1. Abteilung Geochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Postfach 3060, 55020, Mainz, Germany

    Dmitri A. Ionov & Alexander V. Sobolev

  2. Laboratoire de Tectonophysique (UMR 5568 CNRS), ISTEEM, Université Montpellier 2, case 049, 34095, Montpellier cedex 05, France

    Dmitri A. Ionov & Jean-Louis Bodinier

  3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles CP160/02, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Dmitri A. Ionov & Dominique Weis

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    Vladimir S. Prikhodko

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    Dominique Weis

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Ionov, D.A., Prikhodko, V.S., Bodinier, JL. et al. Lithospheric mantle beneath the south-eastern Siberian craton: petrology of peridotite xenoliths in basalts from the Tokinsky Stanovik. Contrib Mineral Petrol 149, 647–665 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-005-0672-9

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