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Clinopyroxene precursors to amphibole sponge in arc crust.


ABSTRACT: The formation of amphibole cumulates beneath arc volcanoes is a key control on magma geochemistry, and generates a hydrous lower crust. Despite being widely inferred from trace element geochemistry as a major lower crustal phase, amphibole is neither abundant nor common as a phenocryst phase in arc lavas and erupted pyroclasts, prompting some authors to refer to it as a 'cryptic' fractionating phase. This study provides evidence that amphibole develops by evolved melts overprinting earlier clinopyroxene--a near-ubiquitous mineral in arc magmas. Reaction-replacement of clinopyroxene ultimately forms granoblastic amphibole lithologies. Reaction-replacement amphiboles have more primitive trace element chemistry (for example, lower concentrations of incompatible Pb) than amphibole phenocrysts, but still have chemistries suitable for producing La/Yb and Dy/Yb 'amphibole sponge' signatures. Amphibole can fractionate cryptically as reactions between melt and mush in lower crustal 'hot zones' produce amphibole-rich assemblages, without significant nucleation and growth of amphibole phenocrysts.

SUBMITTER: Smith DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4102121 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Clinopyroxene precursors to amphibole sponge in arc crust.

Smith Daniel J DJ  

Nature communications 20140708


The formation of amphibole cumulates beneath arc volcanoes is a key control on magma geochemistry, and generates a hydrous lower crust. Despite being widely inferred from trace element geochemistry as a major lower crustal phase, amphibole is neither abundant nor common as a phenocryst phase in arc lavas and erupted pyroclasts, prompting some authors to refer to it as a 'cryptic' fractionating phase. This study provides evidence that amphibole develops by evolved melts overprinting earlier clino  ...[more]

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