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Mechanisms of formation of barium-rich phlogopite and strontium-rich apatite during the final stages of alkaline magma evolution

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Carbonatite veinlets in fergusite from the Dunkeldyk potassium-rich basaltoid complex (southeastern Pamirs) are composed of clinopyroxene, phlogopite, and apatite phenocrysts embedded in a crystallized calcite-bearing groundmass. The examination of back-scattered electron images revealed areas of significantly different compositions in fluorapatite and fluorphlogopite. The content of BaO in the phlogopite ranges from 0.68 to 10.9 wt %. There are also variations in MgO and F contents. The maximum BaO content corresponds to high mole fractions of the Ba end member kinoshitalite (up to 0.24) in the phlogopite. The zoned fluorapatite phenocrysts are rich in SrO (0.77–25.4 wt %). An increase in SrO content is accompanied by an increase in Ce2O3, La2O3, and BaO and a distinct decrease in CaO. Most of the apatite grains are rimmed by elongated colorless crystals showing the maximum SrO contents. Based on the experimentally determined Ba and Sr partition coefficients between these minerals, silicate and carbonate melts, and fluid, a model was proposed for the enrichment of phases in these trace elements. It was shown that the mineral-forming media of the Ba-rich phlogopites was a residual melt enriched in volatiles (including F) and fluid-mobile elements. During that stage, the decomposition reactions of early Ba-bearing feldspars with subsequent incorporation of BaO in Ba-rich phlogopites played an important role. The mechanism of formation of Sr-rich apatites is fundamentally different: early apatite grains with moderate Sr contents recrystallized under the influence of Sr-rich fluids released during the late magmatic stage. Thus, despite their close association in a single rock, the Ba-bearing phlogopite and Sr-rich apatite were formed by significantly different mechanisms. Our previous investigations of melt and fluid inclusions in minerals from the rocks of the Dunkeldyk complex and the results obtained in this study allowed us to suggest that the barium, fluorite-carbonatite, and rare metal mineralization occurring in the region developed owing to the prolonged evolution of primary magmas, resulting in the formation of melt-solutions (brines) and hydrothermal systems.

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Original Russian Text © I.P. Solovova, A.V. Girnis, I.D. Ryabchikov, N.N. Kononkova, 2009, published in Geokhimiya, 2009, No. 6, pp. 613–627.

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Solovova, I.P., Girnis, A.V., Ryabchikov, I.D. et al. Mechanisms of formation of barium-rich phlogopite and strontium-rich apatite during the final stages of alkaline magma evolution. Geochem. Int. 47, 578–591 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702909060044

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