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DOI10.1016/j.lithos.2016.07.016
Petrology of a Neoproterozoic Alaskan-type complex from the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications for mantle heterogeneity
Khedr, Mohamed Zaki1; Arai, Shoji2
通讯作者Khedr, Mohamed Zaki
来源期刊LITHOS
ISSN0024-4937
EISSN1872-6143
出版年2016
卷号263页码:15-32
英文摘要

This paper details petrological and geochemical studies of an ultramafic-mafic intrusion in the Southern Eastern Desert of Egypt. The Dahanib complex shows a concentric zonation, from dunites at the core, through chromitites, clinopyroxene-rich dunites, wehrlites, harzburgites, gabbronorites and layered gabbros, to hornblende gabbros/diorites at the rim, similar to other Alaskan-type complexes. These lithologies typically feature cumulate textures and layering. Their pyroxenes (Mg#s, 0.54-0.94) evidence Fe, Mn and Na enrichment, but Al, Cr, Mg and Ti are depleted with differentiation. Their chromian spinels have a wide range of Cr# (0.31-0.61), along with high Ti and Fe, as a result of their origin through crystal accumulation and reaction with interstitial liquids. The clinopyroxenes (Cpxs) in peridotites and gabbroic rocks, which are high in REE concentration (2-100 times chondrite), are depleted in LREE relative to HREE and are similar to Cpx crystallized from asthenospheric melts. The mineral inclusions in spinel, the chemistry of Cpx in peridotites (rich in Al, Cr, Na, Ti and Sigma REE = 13.7), and the melts in equilibrium with Cpx suggest that the Neoproterozoic lithosphere were partially refertilized by trace asthenospheric melts. The early magmas were possibly enriched by Mg, Cr, Ni, Ti, V and Sr, while the evolved types were rich in Fe, Mn, Na, Li, Zr, Co and REE via crystal accumulation and the interaction with interstitial liquids. The Neoproterozoic sub-arc mantle in Egypt is chemically heterogeneous and generally low in Nb,Ta, Zr and K, due to the low solubility of HFSE in slab-derived fluids and no other external addition of these elements. The large variations in lithology and chemistry, as well as the occurrence of scattered chromitite clots in the Dahanib peridotites, are related to a continuous supply of primitive magmas and/or the reaction between interstitial liquids and early cumulus crystals during multistage fractional crystallization. The Dahanib Alaskan-type rocks were fractionally crystallized from the hydrous tholeiitic-basaltic melts associated with a continuous supply of primitive magmas at the mantle-crust boundary in a sub-arc setting. Their parental melts are a mixture of the sub-arc mantle-derived melts associated with trace asthenospheric melts from the mantle diapir. The changes in lithology type, mineral composition, and chemistry between the Dahanib intrusion and the nearest intrusions can perhaps be attributed to mantle heterogeneity by several mantle plumes and to slab-derived inputs. These two causes could explain the large variety of parental magmas for Alaskan-type intrusions. There is a genetic link between the origins of ophiolites and Alaskan-type complexes because both of them originated in the sub-arc setting and both exhibit extension characteristics and subduction-zone components. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


英文关键词Cumulate dunites Mafic-ultramafic intrusion Mineral chemistry Mantle heterogeneity Alaskan rocks
类型Article
语种英语
国家Egypt ; Japan
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000385325200003
WOS关键词MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC COMPLEX ; NI-PGE MINERALIZATION ; ARABIAN-NUBIAN SHIELD ; ISLAND-ARC ; CHROMIAN SPINEL ; HAPPO-ONE ; SM-ND ; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS ; NORTHWEST COLOMBIA ; ORTHO-PYROXENE
WOS类目Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Mineralogy
WOS研究方向Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Mineralogy
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/194981
作者单位1.Kafrelsheikh Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Geol, El Geish St, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt;
2.Kanazawa Univ, Grad Sch Nat Sci & Technol, Dept Earth Sci, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9201192, Japan
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Khedr, Mohamed Zaki,Arai, Shoji. Petrology of a Neoproterozoic Alaskan-type complex from the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications for mantle heterogeneity[J],2016,263:15-32.
APA Khedr, Mohamed Zaki,&Arai, Shoji.(2016).Petrology of a Neoproterozoic Alaskan-type complex from the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications for mantle heterogeneity.LITHOS,263,15-32.
MLA Khedr, Mohamed Zaki,et al."Petrology of a Neoproterozoic Alaskan-type complex from the Eastern Desert of Egypt: Implications for mantle heterogeneity".LITHOS 263(2016):15-32.
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