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Fractional crystallization of high-K arc magmas: biotite- versus amphibole-dominated fractionation series in the Dariv Igneous Complex, Western Mongolia

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology volume 168, Article number: 1072 (2014) Cite this article

Abstract

Many studies have documented hydrous fractionation of calc-alkaline basalts producing tonalitic, granodioritic, and granitic melts, but the origin of more alkaline arc sequences dominated by high-K monzonitic suites has not been thoroughly investigated. This study presents results from a combined field, petrologic, and whole-rock geochemical study of a paleo-arc alkaline fractionation sequence from the Dariv Range of the Mongolian Altaids. The Dariv Igneous Complex of Western Mongolia is composed of a complete, moderately hydrous, alkaline fractionation sequence ranging from phlogopite-bearing ultramafic and mafic cumulates to quartz–monzonites to late-stage felsic (63–75 wt% SiO2) dikes. A volumetrically subordinate more hydrous, amphibole-dominated fractionation sequence is also present and comprises amphibole (±phlogopite) clinopyroxenites, gabbros, and diorites. We present 168 whole-rock analyses for the biotite- and amphibole-dominated series. First, we constrain the liquid line of descent (LLD) of a primitive, alkaline arc melt characterized by biotite as the dominant hydrous phase through a fractionation model that incorporates the stepwise subtraction of cumulates of a fixed composition. The modeled LLD reproduces the geochemical trends observed in the “liquid-like” intrusives of the biotite series (quartz–monzonites and felsic dikes) and follows the water-undersaturated albite–orthoclase cotectic (at 0.2–0.5 GPa). Second, as distinct biotite- and amphibole-dominated fractionation series are observed, we investigate the controls on high-temperature biotite versus amphibole crystallization from hydrous arc melts. Analysis of a compilation of hydrous experimental starting materials and high-Mg basalts saturated in biotite and/or amphibole suggests that the degree of K enrichment controls whether biotite will crystallize as an early high-T phase, whereas the degree of water saturation is the dominant control of amphibole crystallization. Therefore, if a melt has the appropriate major-element composition for early biotite and amphibole crystallization, as is true of the high-Mg basalts from the Dariv Igneous Complex, the relative proximity of these two phases to the liquidus depends on the H2O concentration in the melt. Third, we compare the modeled high-K LLD and whole-rock geochemistry of the Dariv Igneous Complex to the more common calc-alkaline trend. Biotite and K-feldspar fractionation in the alkaline arc series results in the moderation of K2O/Na2O values and LILE concentrations with increasing SiO2 as compared to the more common calc-alkaline series characterized by amphibole and plagioclase crystallization and strong increases in K2O/Na2O values. Lastly, we suggest that common calc-alkaline parental melts involve addition of a moderate pressure, sodic, fluid-dominated slab component while more alkaline primitive melts characterized by early biotite saturation involve the addition of a high-pressure potassic sediment melt.

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Notes

  1. Throughout the text, we use “phlogopite” when describing biotite in ultramafic lithologies and “biotite” when describing biotite in feldspar-bearing lithologies.

  2. Note that the errors of the Al-in-hornblende pressures of Table 2 in Bucholz et al. (2014) were reproduced incorrectly, the correct values are 0.15 ± 0.08, 0.21 ± 0.05, 0.20 ± 0.10, 0.24 ± 0.05, 0.15 ± 0.02, and 0.34 ± 0.02 GPa.

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We acknowledge Lydia Zehnder for help with whole-rock XRF analyses; Markus Wälle for LA–ICPMS support; Uyanga Bold and Lkhagva-Ochir Said for helping to organize fieldwork logistics; and Adam Bockelie, Yerenburged Munkhbold, and Eson Erdene for their assistance in the field. Reviews by Cin-Ty Lee and an anonymous reviewer helped to clarify ideas presented in this manuscript and are gratefully appreciated.

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    Claire E. Bucholz

  2. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Claire E. Bucholz & Oliver Jagoutz

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, ETH, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Max W. Schmidt

  4. School of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    Oyungerel Sambuu

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Bucholz, C.E., Jagoutz, O., Schmidt, M.W. et al. Fractional crystallization of high-K arc magmas: biotite- versus amphibole-dominated fractionation series in the Dariv Igneous Complex, Western Mongolia. Contrib Mineral Petrol 168, 1072 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-014-1072-9

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  • Subduction zone
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