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Genesis of melilitolite from Colle Fabbri: inferences from melt inclusions

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Melilite and wollastonite from the Colle Fabbri stock contain silicate melt and silicate-carbonate inclusions. The homogenization temperatures of silicate inclusions are within the magmatic temperature range of mantle ultrabasic melts: about 1,320 ± 15 °С. Their composition is melilititic and evolves to the composition of leucite tephrite and phonolite. The composition of silicate-carbonate inclusions are high SiO2, Ca-rich, enriched in alkalies and are similar to that of inclusions of carbonatite melts in the minerals of melilitolites of other intrusive ultramafic complexes. They are also similar to the compositions of metasomatized travertine covering the melilitolite stock. The presence of primary silicate and silicate-carbonate inclusions evidences that the melilitite magma from which melilitolites of Colle Fabbri crystallized was associated with carbonatite liquid. This liquid was highly fluidized, mobile and aggressive. Actively interacting with overlying travertine, the liquid enriched them with alkalies, aluminosilicates and incompatible elements, which resulted in the equalization of their compositions. Heterogeneous compositional dominions were formed at the contact between melilitolite and wall pelites. In the minerals of these contact facies high-Si melt inclusions of varying composition have been observed. Their occurrence is related to the local assimilation by the high-temperature melilitite magma of pelitic country rocks. The content of incompatible elements in melilitite melts and melilitolites is higher than the mantle norm and they have peculiar indicator ratios, spectra, Eu/Eu* ratio, which suggest a peculiar mantle source.

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  1. V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy: Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug pr. 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    L. I. Panina & A. T. Nikolaeva

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze, Università G.d’Annunzio, via dei Vestini, 30, 66100, Chieti Scalo, CH, Italy

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Panina, L.I., Nikolaeva, A.T. & Stoppa, F. Genesis of melilitolite from Colle Fabbri: inferences from melt inclusions. Miner Petrol 107, 897–914 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-013-0268-4

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