Abstract
Exposures of arc crustal sections represent rare opportunities to directly evaluate lower crustal magmatic processes and their link to arc products in the middle and upper crust. Within the southernmost Sierra Nevada batholith, the Bear Valley Intrusive Suite (BVIS) exposes a contemporaneously constructed ~ 30 km thick intrusive suite, and thus is ideal for this type of examination. Here we present detailed petrography and mineral major and trace element data for the BVIS. The deepest exposed portion of the BVIS (8–9 kbars) is composed of heterogeneous mafic igneous intrusions of olivine metagabbro, olivine-hornblende orthopyroxenite, olivine-bearing hornblende norite, hornblende norite, hornblende gabbronorite, hornblendite and hornblende gabbro. Shallower crustal intrusions (3–7 kbars) are comparatively homogeneous and dominated by hypersthene-bearing and hypersthene-free tonalites. Using amphibole-plagioclase geothermometry, we show that the mafic lower crustal intrusions crystallized over a wide temperature range from 850 to 1070 °C, highlighting mafic igneous fractionation during isobaric cooling in the lower crust of the Sierran arc, while tonalitic liquids were emplaced at temperatures < 800 °C in the middle and upper crust. Calculated trace element melt compositions in equilibrium with amphibole in lower crustal gabbros are similar to measured tonalite bulk compositions and support the generation of tonalites through fractionation of the observed gabbros. Further, petrography and mineral chemistry suggest multiple distinct crystallization sequences recorded in the different types of gabbro, requiring the presence of coexisting parental melts with contrasting compositions and H2O contents. Using available experimental data, we develop a model by which mixing of variably fractionated dry and wet magmas with similar viscosities followed by crystallization-differentiation in the deep crust to explain the formation of uniform tonalitic melts at shallower crustal levels in the BVIS. This process also explains the unusual predominance of orthopyroxene in the BVIS, and the limited aluminum enrichment compared to experimental differentiation sequences of hydrous basalts. Considering the similar geochemical characteristics of intermediate and felsic igneous rocks from the Sierra Nevada batholith and the Cascades, mixing magmas of variable H2O contents in the lower crust represents a viable petrological process to produce SiO2-rich liquids that may be more common than previously recognized.
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H. R. acknowledges the support by the Swiss National Foundation early postdoc mobility research grant P2GEP2_178008 and the Swiss National Foundation postdoc mobility grant P400P2_194421. This work was also supported by the National Science Foundation EAR-1552202 to O. J. The authors thank the staff of the Tejon Ranch Conservancy for facilitating our field work. The authors would also like to acknowledge Nilanjan Chatterjee for his technical assistance during EPMA analysis and Craig Martin, Jacob Setera and Jill VanTongeren for their help in LA-ICPMS measurements. We thank George Bergantz and Olivier Bachmann for constructive reviews that helped improving the manuscript, and to the associate editor Mark Ghiorso for handling of the manuscript.
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Rezeau, H., Klein, B.Z. & Jagoutz, O. Mixing dry and wet magmas in the lower crust of a continental arc: new petrological insights from the Bear Valley Intrusive Suite, southern Sierra Nevada, California. Contrib Mineral Petrol 176, 73 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01832-2
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