Intraplate magmatism

Intraplate magmatism

Hotspots Rift zones (often associated with hotspots) Intra-oceanic plate: Tholeitic to alkaline series; mostly basalts (OIB = Oceanic Islands Basalts), some differenciated alkaline terms Intra-continental plate:

either large tholeitic basaltic provinces (CFB = Continental Flood Basalts), occasionally bimodal (ass. with rhyolites) or smaller, alkaline to hyper-alkaline, differenciated intrusions/volcanoes (syenites/phonolites; carbonatites; kimberlites; and more)

Ocean islands and seamounts Commonly associated with hot spots

Figure 14-1. After Crough (1983) Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 11, 165-193.

Oceanic islands

Hotspots

Mantle convection and mantle plumes

Types of OIB Magmas

Two principal magma series Tholeiitic series (dominant type)

Parental ocean island tholeiitic basalt, or OIT Similar to MORB, but some distinct chemical and mineralogical differences

Alkaline series (subordinate)

Parental ocean island alkaline basalt, or OIA Two principal alkaline sub-series silica undersaturated slightly silica oversaturated (less common series)

Hawaiian Scenario
Cyclic, pattern to the eruptive history
1. Pre-shield-building stage somewhat alkaline and variable 2. Shield-building stage begins with tremendous outpourings of tholeiitic basalts

Hawaiian Scenario
3. Waning activity more alkaline, episodic, and violent (Mauna Kea, Hualalai, and Kohala). Lavas are also more diverse, with a larger proportion of differentiated liquids 4. A long period of dormancy, followed by a late, post-erosional stage. Characterized by highly alkaline and silica-undersaturated magmas, including alkali basalts, nephelinites, melilite basalts, and basanites

Evolution in the Series

Tholeiitic, alkaline, and highly alkaline

Figure 14-2. After Wilson (1989) Igneous Petrogenesis. Kluwer.

Trace Elements

The LIL trace elements (K, Rb, Cs, Ba, Pb2+ and Sr) are incompatible and are all enriched in OIB magmas with respect to MORBs The ratios of incompatible elements have been employed to distinguish between source reservoirs

N-MORB: the K/Ba ratio is high (usually > 100) E-MORB: the K/Ba ratio is in the mid 30s OITs range from 25-40, and OIAs in the upper 20s

Thus all appear to have distinctive sources

Trace Elements

HFS elements (Th, U, Ce, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, and Ti) are also incompatible, and are enriched in OIBs > MORBs Ratios of these elements are also used to distinguish mantle sources The Zr/Nb ratio N-MORB generally quite high (>30) OIBs are low (<10)

Trace Elements: REEs

Figure 14-2. After Wilson (1989) Igneous Petrogenesis. Kluwer.

MORB-normalized Spider Diagrams

Figure 14-3. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall. Data from Sun and McDonough (1989).

Generation of tholeiitic and alkaline basalts from a chemically uniform mantle

Figure 10-2 After Wyllie, P. J. (1981). Geol. Rundsch. 70, 128-153.

Pressure effects:
E 3GPa

Ne

Volatile-free
E 2Gpa E 1GPa
Ab

Figure 10-8 After Kushiro (1968), J. Geophys. Res., 73, 619-634.

E 1atm

Oversaturated (quartz-bearing) tholeiitic basalts

Fo

En

SiO2

Tholeiites favored by shallower melting 25% melting at <30 km tholeiite 25% melting at 60 km olivine basalt Tholeiites favored by greater % partial melting 20 % melting at 60 km alkaline basalt

incompatibles (alkalis) initial melts

30 % melting at 60 km tholeiite

Isotope Geochemistry

Isotopes do not fractionate during partial melting of fractional melting processes, so will reflect the characteristics of the source

OIBs, which sample a great expanse of oceanic mantle in places where crustal contamination is minimal, provide incomparable evidence as to the nature of the mantle

Simple Mixing Models

Binary
All analyses fall between two reservoirs as magmas mix

Ternary
All analyses fall within triangle determined by three reservoirs

Figure 14-5. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Figure 14-6. After Zindler and Hart (1986), Staudigel et al. (1984), Hamelin et al. (1986) and Wilson (1989).

Mantle Reservoirs
1. DM (Depleted Mantle) = N-MORB source

Figure 14-6. After Zindler and Hart (1986), Staudigel et al. (1984), Hamelin et al. (1986) and Wilson (1989).

2. BSE (Bulk Silicate Earth) or the Primary Uniform Reservoir

Figure 14-6. After Zindler and Hart (1986), Staudigel et al. (1984), Hamelin et al. (1986) and Wilson (1989).

3. EMI = enriched mantle type I has lower 87Sr/86Sr (near primordial) 4. EMII = enriched mantle type II has higher 87Sr/86Sr (> 0.720, well above any reasonable mantle sources

Figure 14-6. After Zindler and Hart (1986), Staudigel et al. (1984), Hamelin et al. (1986) and Wilson (1989).

5. PREMA (PREvalent MAntle)

Figure 14-6. After Zindler and Hart (1986), Staudigel et al. (1984), Hamelin et al. (1986) and Wilson (1989).

Figure 14-6. After Zindler and Hart (1986), Staudigel et al. (1984), Hamelin et al. (1986) and Wilson (1989).

Pb Isotopes

Pb produced by radioactive decay of U & Th

238U

234U 206Pb 235U 207Pb 232Th 208Pb Pb isotopes also characterize the different reservoirs (see paper presentation Hart 1984)

Figure 14-8. After Wilson (1989) Igneous Petrogenesis. Kluwer. Data from Hamelin and Allgre (1985), Hart (1984), Vidal et al. (1984).

Kellogg et al. (1999)

A Model for Oceanic Magmatism

Continental Reservoirs

DM

OIB
EM and HIMU from crustal sources (subducted OC + CC seds)
Figure 14-10. Nomenclature from Zindler and Hart (1986). After Wilson (1989) and Rollinson (1993).

Marble cake model for mantle convection & mixing

Continental Flood Basalts

Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) Oceanic plateaus Some rifts Continental flood basalts (CFBs)
Table 15-1. Major Flood Basalt Provinces Name CRB Keeweenawan Deccan Parana Karroo Volume (1.7x10 km ) (4x105 km3) (106 km3) (2x106 km3?)
5 3

Age Miocene Precambrian Cret.-Eocene

Locality NW US Superior area India Brazil

(area > 106 km2 ) early Cret.

early Jurassic S. Africa

Figure 15-1. Columbia River Basalts at Hat Point, Snake River area. Cover of Geol. Soc. Amer Special Paper 239. Photo courtesy Steve Reidel.

Trapp volcanism

LIPs (Large Igneous Provinces)

CFBs

Associated to major continental break-up or/and to plume head impact

Figure 15-2. Flood basalt provinces of Gondwanaland prior to break-up and separation. After Cox (1978) Nature, 274, 47-49.

Figure 15-3. Relationship of the Etendeka and Paran plateau provinces to the Tristan hot spot. After Wilson (1989), Igneous Petrogenesis. Kluwer.

Geochemistry

Deccan traps basalts

Bimodal magmas

Basalts and rhyolites

Secondary melting? Effect of the two eutectics?

Figure 15-7. Condrite-normalized rare earth element patterns of some typical CRBG samples. Winter (2001). An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall. Data from Hooper and Hawkesworth (1993) J. Petrol., 34, 1203-1246.

Figure 15-13. A model for the origin of the Columbia River Basalt Group From Takahahshi et al. (1998) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 162, 63-80.

LIPs and mass extinctions

Continental alkaline series

Alkali volcanoes basaltic strombolian cone in front, trachytic pelean dome behind in the West European rift

Continental alkaline series

Rift (or hotspot) related Large diversity (possibly > 80% of the rock names, for <1% volume !) Strange rocks (carbonatites)

Common features of continental alkali series

Alkaline (!) Undersaturated to just oversaturated Peralkaline

Alkaline series

Mildly alkaline
Strongly alkaline

biotite muscovite cordierite andalusite garnet

pyroxene hornblende biotite

aegirine riebeckite arfvedsonite

CaO CaO

moles

CaO K2O Al2O3 K2O Al2O3 Al2O3

K2O

Na2O

Na2O

Na2O

Peraluminous

Metaluminous

Peralkaline

Figure 18-2. Alumina saturation classes based on the molar proportions of Al2O3/(CaO+Na2O+K2O) (A/CNK) after Shand (1927). Common non-quartzo-feldspathic minerals for each type are included. After Clarke (1992). Granitoid Rocks. Chapman Hall.

Trace elements enriched

Figure 19-5. Chondrite-normalized REE variation diagram for examples of the four magmatic series of the East African Rift (after Kampunzu and Mohr, 1991), Magmatic evolution and petrogenesis in the East African Rift system. In A. B. Kampunzu and R. T. Lubala (eds.), Magmatism in Extensional Settings, the Phanerozoic African Plate. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 85-136. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Enriched mantle source

Figure 19-3. 143Nd/144Nd vs. 87Sr/86Sr for East African Rift lavas (solid outline) and xenoliths (dashed). The cross-hair intersects at Bulk Earth (after Kampunzu and Mohr, 1991), Magmatic evolution and petrogenesis in the East African Rift system. In A. B. Kampunzu and R. T. Lubala (eds.), Magmatism in Extensional Settings, the Phanerozoic African Plate. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 85-136. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Generated from low to very low melt fractions

Figure 19-14. Grid showing the melting products as a function of pressure and % partial melting of model pyrolite mantle with 0.1% H2O. Dashed curves are the stability limits of the minerals indicated. After Green (1970), Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 3, 221-235. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

The alkali eutectic

Figure 19-7. Phase diagram for the system SiO2-NaAlSiO4-KAlSiO4-H2O at 1 atm. pressure. Insert shows a T-X section from the silicaundersaturated thermal minimum (Mu) to the silica-oversaturated thermal minimum (Ms). that crosses the lowest point (M) on the binary Ab-Or thermal barrier that separates the undersaturated and oversaturated zones. After Schairer and Bowen (1935) Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 16th Ann. Meeting, and Schairer (1950), J. Geol., 58, 512-517. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Diversity of alkaline continental magmas some examples

Saturated alkaline series Undersaturated alkaline series

Series with a true geological importance

Carbonatites Lamprophyres, kimberlites & co.

Oddities and curiosities but economic importance!

Figure 19-1. Variations in alkali ratios (wt. %) for oceanic (a) and continental (b) alkaline series. The heavy dashed lines distinguish the alkaline magma subdivisions from Figure 8-14 and the shaded area represents the range for the more common oceanic intraplate series. After McBirney (1993). Igneous Petrology (2nd ed.), Jones and Bartlett. Boston. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Continental Alkaline Magmatism. The East African Rift

Figure 19-2. Map of the East African Rift system (after Kampunzu and Mohr, 1991), Magmatic evolution and petrogenesis in the East African Rift system. In A. B. Kampunzu and R. T. Lubala (eds.), Magmatism in Extensional Settings, the Phanerozoic African Plate. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 85-136. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

East African rift (Afar) mildly alkaline

16 14 12
Na2O+K2O

10 8 6 4 2 0 38 43 48 53 58
SiO2

63

68

73

78

Central African Rift Strongly alkaline

16 14 12
Na2O+K2O

10 8 6 4 2 0 38 43 48 53 58
SiO2

63

68

73

78

Two main series

Basalts-Trachydandesites-TrachydacitesRhyolites (stronly bimodal): (just) saturated alkali series

A-type granites can be formed there Role of the preexisting crust?

Basanite-Foidite (nephelinite)-Phonolite: strongly undersaturated alkali series

Figure 19-9. Hypothetical cross sections (same vertical and horizontal scales) showing a proposed model for the progressive development of the East African Rift System. a. Pre-rift stage, in which an asthenospheric mantle diapir rises (forcefully or passively) into the lithosphere. Decompression melting (cross-hatch-green indicate areas undergoing partial melting) produces variably alkaline melts. Some partial melting of the metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) may also occur. Reversed decollements (D1) provide room for the diapir. b. Rift stage: development of continental rifting, eruption of alkaline magmas (red) mostly from a deep asthenospheric source. Rise of hot asthenosphere induces some crustal anatexis. Rift valleys accumulate volcanics and volcaniclastic material. c. Afar stage, in which asthenospheric ascent reaches crustal levels. This is transitional to the development of oceanic crust. Successively higher reversed decollements (D2 and D3) accommodate space for the rising diapir. After Kampunzu and Mohr (1991), Magmatic evolution and petrogenesis in the East African Rift system. In A. B. Kampunzu and R. T. Lubala (eds.), Magmatism in Extensional Settings, the Phanerozoic African Plate. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 85-136 and P. Mohr (personal communication). Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Bimodal associations again (the Daly gap )

Mantle vs. Crustal sources? Remelting of underplated basalts? Simply an effect of the different eutectics?

The oddities

Carbonatites Lamproites, kimberlites, etc.

Table 19-5. Representative Carbonatite Compositions

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Carbonatites

Table 19-5. Representative Carbonatite Compositions CalciteDolomiteFerroNatrocarbonatite carbonatite carbonatite carbonatite 2.72 3.63 4.7 0.16 0.15 1.06 2.25 1.01 0.52 1.80 49.1 0.29 0.26 2.10 0.76 36.6 0.34 0.86 0.29 0.08 0.41 0.88 0.33 0.99 2.41 3.93 0.96 15.06 30.1 0.29 0.28 1.90 1.20 36.8 0.64 0.69 0.31 0.07 0.35 1.08 0.42 1.46 7.44 5.28 1.65 6.05 32.8 0.39 0.39 1.97 1.25 30.7 3.25 0.88 0.45 0.02 0.96 4.14 0.02 0.01 0.05 0.23 0.38 0.38 14.0 32.2 8.38 0.85 0.56 31.6 1.66 1.42 2.50 3.40 3.72 % SiO2 TIO2 Al2O3 Fe2O3 FeO MnO MgO CaO Na2O K2O P2O5 H2O+ CO2 BaO SrO F Cl S SO3

% ppm Li Be Sc V Cr Co Ni Cu Zn Ga Rb Y Zr Nb Mo Ag Cs Hf Ta W Au Pb Th U La Ce Pr Nd Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu

CalciteDolomiteFerroNatrocarbonatite carbonatite carbonatite carbonatite 0.1 2 7 80 13 11 18 24 188 <5 14 119 189 1204 20 5 56 52 9 608 1687 219 883 130 39 105 9 34 6 4 1 5 1 <5 14 89 55 17 33 27 251 5 31 61 165 569* 12 3 1 3 21 10 89 93 13 764 2183 560 634 45 12 5 10 0 10 12 10 191 62 26 26 16 606 12 204 127 1292 71 4 1 1 20 12 217 276 7 2666 5125 550 1618 128 34 130 16 52 6 17 2 16 116 0 0 88 <20 178 7 0 28 125 6 0 0 49 4 11 545 645 102 8 2 2 0

Wooley & Kempe (1989), natrocarb. from Keller & Spettel (1995). * one excluded analysis contained 16,780 ppm Nb.

Carbonatites

Figure 19-11. Idealized cross section of a carbonatite-alkaline silicate complex with early ijolite cut by more evolved urtite. Carbonatite (most commonly calcitic) intrudes the silicate plutons, and is itself cut by later dikes or cone sheets of carbonatite and ferrocarbonatite. The last events in many complexes are late pods of Fe and REE-rich carbonatites. A fenite aureole surrounds the carbonatite phases and perhaps also the alkaline silicate magmas. After Le Bas (1987) Carbonatite magmas. Mineral. Mag., 44, 133-40. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Carbonatites

Figure 19-15. Silicate-carbonate liquid immiscibility in the system Na2OCaO-SiO2-Al2O3-CO2 (modified by Freestone and Hamilton, 1980, to incorporate K2O, MgO, FeO, and TiO2). The system is projected from CO2 for CO2-saturated conditions. The dark shaded liquids enclose the miscibility gap of Kjarsgaard and Hamilton (1988, 1989) at 0.5 GPa, that extends to the alkali-free side (AA). The lighter shaded liquids enclose the smaller gap (B) of Lee and Wyllie (1994) at 2.5 GPa. C-C is the revised gap of Kjarsgaard and Hamilton. Dashed tie-lines connect some of the conjugate silicate-carbonate liquid pairs found to coexist in the system. After Lee and Wyllie (1996) International Geology Review, 36, 797819. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Carbonatites

Figure 19-15. Schematic cross section of an asthenospheric mantle plume beneath a continental rift environment, and the genesis of nephelinitecarbonatites and kimberlitecarbonatites. Numbers correspond to Figure 19-13. After Wyllie (1989, Origin of carbonatites: Evidence from phase equilibrium studies. In K. Bell (ed.), Carbonatites: Genesis and Evolution. Unwin Hyman, London. pp. 500-545) and Wyllie et al., (1990, Lithos, 26, 3-19). Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Lamproites and kimberlites

many, many, many rock types many, many different names mostly purely local and after the one known occurrence of that rock type (Vosgesite, Wyomingite, )

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Kimberlites

Table 19-8. Average Analyses and Compositional Ranges of Kimberlites, Orangeites, and Lamproites. SiO2 TiO2 Al2O3 FeO* MnO MgO CaO Na2O K2O P2O5 LOI Sc V Cr Ni Co Cu Zn Ba Sr Zr Hf Nb Ta Th U La Yb Kimberlite 33.0 27.8-37.5 1.3 2.0 7.6 0.14 34.0 6.7 0.12 0.8 1.3 10.9 14 100 893 965 65 93 69 885 847 263 5 171 12 20 4 150 1 0.4-2.8 1.0-5.1 5.9-12.2 0.1-0.17 17.0-38.6 2.1-21.3 0.03-0.48 0.4-2.1 0.5-1.9 7.4-13.9 Orangeite 35.0 27.6-41.9 1.1 2.9 7.1 0.19 27. 7.5 0.17 3.0 1.0 11.7 20 95 1722 1227 77 28 65 3164 1263 268 7 120 9 28 5 186 1 0.4-2.5 0.9-6.0 4.6-9.3 0.1-0.6 10.4-39.8 2.9-24.5 0.01-0.7 0.5-6.7 0.1-3.3 5.2-21.5 Lamproite* 45.5 2.3 8.9 6.0 11.2 11.8 0.8 7.8 2.1 3.5 19 66 430 152 41

9831 3860 1302 42 99 6 37 9 297 1

Data from Mitchell (1995), Mitchell and Bergman (1991) * Leucite Hills madupidic lamproite

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Lamproites

Figure 19-18a. Initial 87Sr/86Sr vs. 143Nd/144Nd for lamproites (red-brown) and kimberlites (red). MORB and the Mantle Array are included for reference. After Mitchell and Bergman (1991) Petrology of Lamproites. Plenum. New York. Typical MORB and OIB from Figure 10-13 for comparison. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Lamproites

Figure 19-17. Chondrite-normalized rare earth element diagram showing the range of patterns for olivine-, phlogopite-, and madupitic-lamproites from Mitchell and Bergman (1991) Petrology of Lamproites. Plenum. New York. Typical MORB and OIB from Figure 10-13 for comparison. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Kimberlites

Figure 19-19. Model of an idealized kimberlite system, illustrating the hypabyssal dike-sill complex leading to a diatreme and tuff ring explosive crater. This model is not to scale, as the diatreme portion is expanded to illustrate it better. From Mitchell (1986) Kimberlites: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology. Plenum. New York. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Kimberlites

Figure 19-20a. Chondrite-normalized REE diagram for kimberlites, unevolved orangeites, and phlogopite lamproites (with typical OIB and MORB). After Mitchell (1995) Kimberlites, Orangeites, and Related Rocks. Plenum. New York. and Mitchell and Bergman (1991) Petrology of Lamproites. Plenum. New York. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.

Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism. Kimberlites

Figure 19-20b. Hypothetical cross section of an Archean craton with an extinct ancient mobile belt (once associated with subduction) and a young rift. The low cratonal geotherm causes the graphite-diamond transition to rise in the central portion. Lithospheric diamonds therefore occur only in the peridotites and eclogites of the deep cratonal root, where they are then incorporated by rising magmas (mostly kimberlitic- K). Lithospheric orangeites (O) and some lamproites (L) may also scavenge diamonds. Melilitites (M) are gen erated by more extensive partial melting of the asthenosphere. Depending on the depth of segregation they may contain diamonds. Nephelinites (N) and associated carbonatites develop from extensive partial melting at shallow depths in rift areas. After Mitchell (199 5) Kimberlites, Orangeites, and Related Rocks. Plenum. New York. Winter (2001) An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall.