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Aug 2020
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Yage Zhao, Yanfei Zhang, Chao Wang, Zhenmin Jin, Qijin Xu. Experimental Constraints on Formation of Low-Cr# Chromitite: Effect of Variable H2O and Cr2O3 on Boninitic-Magma and Harzburgite Reactions. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(4): 709-722. doi: 10.1007/s12583-020-1291-0
Citation: Yage Zhao, Yanfei Zhang, Chao Wang, Zhenmin Jin, Qijin Xu. Experimental Constraints on Formation of Low-Cr# Chromitite: Effect of Variable H2O and Cr2O3 on Boninitic-Magma and Harzburgite Reactions. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(4): 709-722. doi: 10.1007/s12583-020-1291-0

Experimental Constraints on Formation of Low-Cr# Chromitite: Effect of Variable H2O and Cr2O3 on Boninitic-Magma and Harzburgite Reactions

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  • Corresponding author: Yanfei Zhang, ORCID:/0000-0001-9874-0469, yanfzhang@126.com
  • Received Date: 16 Jan 2020
  • Accepted Date: 26 Mar 2020
  • Publish Date: 24 Aug 2020
  • Reactions between a boninitic or basaltic magma and harzburgite at shallow mantle depths are thought to be closely related to the formation of podiform chromitites, but little experimental data is available on these reactions. In this study, a series of experiments were conducted at 1.5 GPa and 1 000-1 400 oC to investigate the interactions between boninitic magma and harzburgite in homogenous mixed systems with varied bulk concentrations of water (~0.7 wt.%-10 wt.%) and Cr2O3 (~0.2 wt.%-4 wt.%). In the experimental charges, chromite grains can be observed coexisting with orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene±olivine, and quenched melt in the Cr-bearing systems. The bulk concentration of Cr2O3 in the starting material has a slight effect on compositional changes in the chromites generated. However, the Cr# (Cr#=100×Cr/(Cr+Al)) and Mg# (Mg#=100×Mg/(Mg+Fe)) values for the chromites exhibit positive and negative correlations, respectively, with the bulk H2O concentrations. At 1 100 oC, chromite Cr# values range from ~33-35 to ~58-65, and chromite Mg# values range from ~70-73 to~55-58 when bulk H2O contents in the starting material are increased from ~0.7 wt.% to ~10 wt.%. The experimentally produced chromites have compositions (as expressed by Cr#, Mg#, and NiO and MnO contents) similar to natural chromites from low-Cr# chromitite bodies. We suggest that the interactions between boninitic magmas with varied H2O contents and harzburgite in a shallow mantle wedge could be a possible mechanism that forms the low-Cr# chromitites found in ophiolites. We emphasize here that H2O may play an important role in the compositional evolutions of natural chromitites.

     

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