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TI: Bulk Rock and Mineral Chemistry of Peridotites From Mariana Forearc Seamounts (ODP Leg 195, Site 1200A,
and ODP Leg 125, Sites 779A and 784A) and the Petrogenesis of Mantle Wedge Peridotites
AU: Zanetti, A
EM: zanetti@crystal.unipv.it
AF: CNR-Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Sezione di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, I-27100
Italy
AU: Vannucci, R
EM: vannucci@crystal.unipv.it
AF: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita' di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, Pavia, I-27100
Italy
AU: * Spadea, P
EM: spadea@uniud.it
AF: Dipartimento di Georisorse e Territorio, Universita' di Udine, Via Cotonificio 114, Udine, I-33100
Italy
AU: D'Antonio, M
EM: masdanto@unina.it
AF: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita' Federico II, Largo S. Marcellino 10, Napoli, I-80138
Italy
AB:
Ocean Drilling Program Leg 195 recovered serpentinised peridotites from the South Chamorro Seamount, a serpentinite mud
volcano located in the Mariana forearc (Shipboard Scientific Party, 2002). At Site 1200A the mud encloses clasts of mostly
harzburgite, with minor dunite and lherzolite, strongly serpentinised and tectonised. The primary mineralogy includes
olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and chromium-spinel. Bulk-rock chemistry shows Mg\# = 91-93, and high Ni and Cr
contents. Low CaO and Al$_(2)$O$_(3)$ contents, and very low REE contents with U-shaped, strongly LREE-enriched and
HREE-depleted, patterns confirm that most peridotites are highly depleted and suffered extensive partial melting, and contain
an enriched component. The only lherzolite sample shows a significantly lower degree of depletion.
A new set of peridotite clasts from Sites 779A and 784A, located in two Mariana forearc mud volcanoes drilled during ODP Leg
125, have been investigated. Some of the peridotite clasts have experienced more extensive melt extraction than those from
South Chamorro Seamount.
Modeling of the REE composition of the clinopyroxenes provide evidence that the onset of partial melting of most of Leg 125
and Leg 195 peridotites occurred under garnet-facies condition and followed during the upwelling of the asthenosphere at
shallow, spinel-facies, level. The effect of melt migration or entrapping have also been recognised. The late stages of the
evolution comprise sub-solidus re-equilibration, with clinopyroxene exsolution from primary high-Ca orthopyroxene.
Reference: Shipboard Scientific Party, In Salisbury, M.H., Shinohara, M., Richter, C., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 195,
College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1-233, [CD-ROM] (2002).
DE: 1025 Composition of the mantle
DE: 1065 Trace elements (3670)
DE: 3670 Minor and trace element composition
DE: 9355 Pacific Ocean
SC: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology [V]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting