TRACE-ELEMENT-RICH BRINES IN ECLOGITIC VEINS - IMPLICATIONS FOR FLUID COMPOSITION AND TRANSPORT DURING SUBDUCTION

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PHILIPPOT, P [1 ]
SELVERSTONE, J [1 ]
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[1] HARVARD UNIV,DEPT EARTH & PLANETARY SCI,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
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10.1007/BF00321985
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P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
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0708 ; 070902 ;
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Primary and pseudosecondary fluid inclusions occur in oscillatory- and sector-zoned omphacite in eclogitic veins from the Monviso ophiolitic complex in the Western Alps. The inclusions contain aqueous brines and daughter crystals of halite, sylvite, calcite, dolomite, albite, anhydrite and/or gypsum, barite, baddeleyite, rutile, sphene, Fe oxides, pyrite and monazite. This daughter mineral suite indicates high solubilites of Na, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Zr, Ti, P, Ba, Ce, La, Th, and S species and provides direct evidence for transport of high-field-strength, large-ion-lithophile, and light-rare-earth elements as dissolved species during subduction. Fluid-inclusion heterogeneities preserved within and between adjacent grains in the veins, however, suggest that the scale of fluid equilibration was small. A crack-seal geometry in some of the veins implies that fluid release in pulses rather than steady flow controlled mineral deposition and growth in the veins. From these observations, we develop a model of fluid release and entrapment in which pulses of fluid are associated in time with increments of shear and tensile failure; the rate of fluid release and the reduction in porosity both depend on the rate of plastic flow. Vein fluids may initially be derived from decrepitation of early fluid inclusions in the host eclogites. Small-scale fluid heterogeneities implied by the fluid inclusions in the veins are best interpreted in terms of limited fluid flow, and hence limited metasomatism. We conclude that element recycling into the mantle wedge during subduction will depend at least as strongly on fluid transport mechanisms as on element solubilities in the fluid phase. At Monviso, despite evidence for high trace element solubilities in saline brines, the elements were not removed from the downgoing slab prior to reaching depths of approximately 40 km.
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