Genesis of high-Ni olivine phenocrysts of the Dali picrites in the Central Emeishan large igneous province release_wqlcvoj4qbcdjpub7n2cv7lcuu

by Cai Wenchang, Zhao-Chong Zhang, Jiang Zhu, M. Santosh, Rong-Hao Pan

Published in Geological Magazine by Cambridge University Press (CUP).

2020   p1-10

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> The Emeishan large igneous province (ELIP) in SW China is considered to be a typical mantle-plume-derived LIP. The picrites formed at relatively high temperatures in the ELIP, providing one of the important lines of argument for the role of mantle plume. Here we report trace-element data on olivine phenocrysts in the Dali picrites from the ELIP. The olivines are Ni-rich, and characterized by high (&gt;1.4) 100×Mn/Fe value and low (&lt;13) 10 000×Zn/Fe value, indicating a peridotite-dominated source. Since the olivine–melt Ni partition coefficient (K<jats:sub>D</jats:sub>Ni<jats:sup>ol/melt</jats:sup>) will decrease at high temperatures and pressures, the picrites derived from peridotite melting at high pressure, and that crystallized olivines at lower pressure, can generate high concentrations of Ni in olivine phenocrysts, excluding the necessity of a metasomatic pyroxenite contribution. Based on the Al-in-olivine thermometer, olivine crystallization temperature and mantle potential temperature (<jats:italic>T</jats:italic><jats:sub>P</jats:sub>) were calculated at <jats:italic>c.</jats:italic> 1491°C and <jats:italic>c.</jats:italic> 1559°C, respectively. Our results are <jats:italic>c.</jats:italic> 200°C higher than that of the normal asthenospheric mantle, and are consistent with the role of a mantle thermal plume for the ELIP.
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