气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Sulfide in dunite channels reflects long-distance reactive migration of mid-ocean-ridge melts from mantle source to crust: A Re-Os isotopic perspective

CCPortal

DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115969
	Sulfide in dunite channels reflects long-distance reactive migration of mid-ocean-ridge melts from mantle source to crust: A Re-Os isotopic perspective
	Xiong Q.; Xu Y.; González-Jiménez J.M.; Liu J.; Alard O.; Zheng J.-P.; Griffin W.L.; O'Reilly S.Y.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	531
英文摘要	The Earth's major heat and mass fluxes are output from the mantle to surface via mid-ocean-ridge-basalt (MORB) magmatism. The variations of MORBs are determined both by the heterogeneity of mantle source and the melt migration processes from mantle source to seafloor. However, before the MORB magmas enter crust, the role of the major melt migration passageways within the mantle (dunite channel systems) in regulating the compositions of MORBs has been rarely evaluated, especially from the perspective of Re-Os isotopes. Here, we report new Re-Os isotopic compositions of base-metal sulfides (BMS), chromites and dunites from dunite lenses with low spinel Cr# [Cr3+/(Cr3++Al3+) ≤0.66] (products of interaction between MORB-like melts and upper-mantle harzburgites) from the Zedang ophiolite (South Tibet). Rhenium-Os isotopic compositions of low-Cr# dunites from the Samail and Wadi Tayin massifs (typical MOR segments) of the Oman ophiolite are also shown for comparison to reveal the melt plumbing processes at mantle depths beneath mid-ocean ridges. Mineralogical evidence suggests that the Zedang sulfides and desulfurized alloy portions were originally precipitated as monosulfide solid solutions. The highly variable 187Os/188Os initial ratios (0.1191-0.1702) and low 187Re/188Os (<0.22) of the sulfides suggest that the chromite acted as a sink for Os-bearing sulfides, aggregating discrete Os components with heterogeneous isotopic signatures from asthenospheric or lithospheric mantle into dunite channels. The Zedang chromites and dunites show 187Os/188Os ratios similar to the primitive upper mantle (PUM), except for two dunites with sub-PUM ratios, reflecting the contribution of Os balanced by smaller volumes of Os-rich, unradiogenic sulfides (likely nucleating on Os nanoparticles) and larger volumes of Os-poor radiogenic BMS. Such isotopic heterogeneity, despite with less variation, has been observed in dunite channels from the Samail and Wadi Tayin massifs of the Oman ophiolite and present-day mid-ocean ridges. Formation of dunite channels in the upper mantle thus can aggregate Os-bearing sulfides with chromite, leaving high Re/Os components into the residual MOR melts. Once such channel systems were built up at the Moho transition zone, the newly incoming MOR magmas would preferentially dissolve the volumetrically abundant radiogenic BMS and retain Os-rich alloys/sulfides in the channels, further amplifying the Os-isotope mismatch observed between global oceanic crust (more radiogenic) and lithospheric mantle (less radiogenic). This study reveals that the long-distance reactive migration of melts from mantle source to at least Moho depths can result in strong Re-Os fractionation and isotopic mismatch between primary MORBs and mantle residues. It also shows that, unlike other lithophile tracers (e.g., Nd-Hf isotopes) whose signatures are almost completely transferred from mantle source to crust, the sub-crustal melt plumbing processes beneath mid-ocean ridges can be finely constrained by the multistage evolution of chalcophile and siderophile elements (e.g., Re-Os) and their isotopes (e.g., 187Re-187Os) with sulfides and chromites. Our study supports that the MORB compositions are actually regulated by their reactive migration processes occurred between melt generation at depth and eruption on seafloor. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	dunite melt channels melt plumbing processes mid-ocean ridges Os-isotope evolution from oceanic mantle to crust Re-Os isotopes sulfide
英文关键词	Binary alloys; Chromite; Hafnium alloys; Isotopes; Neodymium alloys; Oceanography; Osmium alloys; Plumbing; Rhenium alloys; Rhenium compounds; Solid solutions; Structural geology; Submarine geology; Sulfur compounds; dunite melt channels; Mid-ocean ridges; Os isotopes; Re-Os isotopes; sulfide; Osmium compounds; chromite; crustal structure; dunite; isotopic composition; long range transport; mantle source; mid-ocean ridge basalt; migration; mineralogy; rhenium-osmium dating; sulfide; China; Xizang
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202974
作者单位	State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China; ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie UniversityNSW 2109, Australia; State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China; Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Avda. Fuentenueva s/n, Granada, 18002, Spain; Geosciences Montpellier, CNRS UMR5243, Université de Montpellier, Pl. E. Bataillon, Montpellier, 34095, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xiong Q.,Xu Y.,González-Jiménez J.M.,et al. Sulfide in dunite channels reflects long-distance reactive migration of mid-ocean-ridge melts from mantle source to crust: A Re-Os isotopic perspective[J],2020,531.
APA	Xiong Q..,Xu Y..,González-Jiménez J.M..,Liu J..,Alard O..,...&O'Reilly S.Y..(2020).Sulfide in dunite channels reflects long-distance reactive migration of mid-ocean-ridge melts from mantle source to crust: A Re-Os isotopic perspective.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,531.
MLA	Xiong Q.,et al."Sulfide in dunite channels reflects long-distance reactive migration of mid-ocean-ridge melts from mantle source to crust: A Re-Os isotopic perspective".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531(2020).