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Thermodynamic constraints on the petrogenesis of massif-type anorthosites and their parental magmas
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Development of computational modeling tools has revolutionized studies of magmatic processes over the last four decades. Their refinement from binary mixing equations to tiiermodynamically controlled geochemical assimilation models has provided more comprehensive and detailed modeling constraints of an array of magmatic systems. One of the questions that has not yet been vigorously studied using thermodynamic constraints is die origin of massif-type anordiosites. The parental melts to these intrusions are hypodiesized to be either mantle-derived high-Al basaltic melts that undergo crustal contamination or monzodioritic melts derived directly from lower crust. On the otiier hand, many studies suggest tiiat die monzodioritic rocks do not represent parental melts but instead represent crystal remnants of residual liquids left after crystal fractionation of parental melts. Regardless of the source or composition, magmas tliat produce massif-type anordiosites have been suggested to have undergone polybaric (—1000-100 MPa) fractional crystallization while ascending through die lithosphere. We conducted lower crustal melting, assimilation-fractional crystallization, and isobaric and polybaric fractional crystallization major element modeling using two thermodynamically constrained modeling tools, die Magma Chamber Simulator (MCS) and rhyolite-MELTS, to test the suitability of tiiese tools and to study the petrogenesis of massif-type anordiosites. Comparison of our models with a large suite of whole-rock data suggests that the massif-type anorthosite parental melts were high-Al basalts that were produced when hot mantle-derived partial melts assimilated lower crustal material at Moho levels. These contaminated basaltic parental magmas tiien experienced polybaric fractional crystallization at different crustal levels (—40 to 5 km) producing residual melts tiiat crystallized as monzodioritic rocks. Model outcomes also support die suggestion that the cumulates produced during polybaric fractional crystallization likely underwent density separation, thus producing die plagioclase-rich anortiiositic rocks. The modeled processes are linked to a four-stage model that describes the key petrogenetic processes that generate massif-type anorthosites. The presented framework enables further detailed thermodynamic and geochemical modeling of individual anorthosite intrusions using MCS and involving trace element and isotope constrains.
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