Publication: Heterogeneous metasomatism in cumulate xenoliths from the
Spanish Central System: implications for percolative fractional
crystallization of lamprophyric melts
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2008
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Geological Society of London
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Abstract
The alkaline lamprophyres and diabases from the Spanish Central System carry a
heterogeneous suite of xenoliths including a group of highly altered ultramafic pyroxenites that
contain Cr–Mg-rich high-T hydrous minerals (Ti-phlogopite and pargasitic to kaersutitic amphibole),
indicative of modal metasomatism. The trace element mineral compositions of these xenoliths
show three patterns: type A xenoliths, with light rare earth element enriched clinopyroxenes
with high field strength element (HFSE) negative anomalies; type B xenoliths, with clinopyroxenes
and amphiboles with high incompatible trace element contents (large ion lithophile elements
(LILE), HFSE and REE); type C xenoliths, with relatively REE- and HFSE-poor clinopyroxenes
and amphiboles. These metasomatic signatures suggest the involvement of three different metasomatic
agents: carbonate, silicate and hydrous fluids or melts, respectively. These agents could
have been derived from the progressive differentiation of a CO2–H2O-rich highly alkaline magma,
genetically related to the Late Permian alkaline magmatism. Because of the original sub-alkaline
nature of the pyroxenite xenoliths, theymight have been formed originally as pyroxene-rich cumulates
associated with underplated Hercynian calc-alkaline basic magmas. Metasomatism as a result of
the infiltration of alkalinemagmaswithin these cumulatesmight explain the relatively high radiogenic
Nd composition of the altered ultramafic xenoliths.