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  High-pressure Reactive Melt Stagnation Recorded in Abyssal Pyroxenites from the Ultraslow-spreading Lena Trough, Arctic Ocean

Laukert, G., von der Handt, A., Hellebrand, E., Snow, J. E., Hoppe, P., & Klügel, A. (2014). High-pressure Reactive Melt Stagnation Recorded in Abyssal Pyroxenites from the Ultraslow-spreading Lena Trough, Arctic Ocean. Journal of Petrology, 55(2), 427-458. doi:10.1093/petrology/egt073.

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Laukert, Georgi1, Author
von der Handt, Anette1, Author
Hellebrand, Eric1, Author
Snow, Jonathan E.1, Author
Hoppe, Peter2, Author           
Klügel, Andreas1, Author
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2Particle Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Max Planck Society, ou_1826291              

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 Abstract: Pyroxenites are an essential component in petrological and geochemical models for melt formation at mid-ocean ridges and ocean islands. Despite their rarity, their origin has been widely discussed and various processes have been invoked for their formation. Here, we present a detailed study of the microtextures and major, minor and trace element compositions of relatively fresh pyroxenites and associated harzburgites from the ultraslow-spreading Lena Trough, Arctic Ocean. Microtextural and geochemical characteristics suggest an origin by magmatic assimilation-fractional crystallization with a high ratio of mass crystallized to mass assimilated. The major element compositions of pyroxenes suggest that this process occurred at high pressures (> 0 center dot 7 GPa), although interstitial plagioclase in two of the pyroxenites indicates that melt-rock reaction continued at lower pressures. The parental melt to the pyroxenites was most probably depleted mid-ocean ridge basalt similar to basalts from the North Lena Trough and westernmost Gakkel Ridge; basalts from the Central Lena Trough cannot have functioned as parental melts. The melt was generated close to the garnet-spinel facies transition by variable degrees of partial melting and reacted with the local refractory harzburgite. Pyroxenites from this study provide further evidence, together with plagioclase-bearing and vein-bearing peridotites, for significant melt stagnation below the Lena Trough that occurred over a range of depths, either continuously or stepwise. Comparison with abyssal pyroxenites reveals common characteristics, suggesting that, consistent with results of high-pressure crystallization experiments, they mark the onset of (reactive) crystallization of melts passing through the deeper parts of the mid-ocean ridge plumbing system.

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 Dates: 2014-02
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 Identifiers: ISI: 000330215400007
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egt073
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Title: Journal of Petrology
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 55 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 427 - 458 Identifier: ISSN: 0022-3530
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/954925416979