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Do Fe-Ti-oxide magmas exist? Probably not!

  • Donald H. Lindsley EMAIL logo und Nathan Epler
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 30. Oktober 2017
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Abstract

Many Fe-Ti oxide bodies associated with anorthosite suites and with some tholeiitic plutonic bodies have cross-cutting relationships with their host rocks suggesting that they may have been emplaced as oxide melts. Pure Fe-Ti oxides melt at temperatures much higher than is considered to be geologically realistic, so various fluxes (mainly apatite, fluorine, or carbon) have been called upon to stabilize the melts down to plausible temperatures. This review traces our experimental attempts to test the effectiveness of proposed fluxes and therefore to demonstrate the existence of such melts at geologically realistic temperatures.

Neither F-apatite nor carbon act to stabilize Ti-rich Fe-Ti oxide melts at 1300 °C and below, and we conclude that—unless some totally unforeseen material does serve as a flux—Fe-Ti oxide magmas almost certainly do not exist. Although our data are not conclusive, it appears that increasing contents of FeO (and possibly TiO2) and P2O5 mutually enhance their solubilities in silicate melts, allowing extensive buildup of those components in melts residual to anorthosite. We interpret that oxide orebodies form by gravitational accumulation of crystalline oxides from such liquids. Once those melts become saturated with either Fe-Ti oxides or apatite, both phases will tend to co-precipitate, thus explaining the common occurrence of apatite with oxide orebodies (“nelsonites”). Cross-cutting oxide bodies were probably emplaced as crystalline oxides, possibly lubricated by small amounts of residual silicate liquid. Oxidation of the Fe2TiO4 component in initially ulvospinel-rich spinel and concomitant formation of ilmenite grains by granule-oxy-“exsolution” may have weakened the crystalline oxide and facilitated its flow during emplacement.

It seems clear, though, that the presence of carbon does stabilize Ti-poor iron oxide melts to very low temperatures (at and even below 1000 °C), consistent with the (disputed!) magmatic origin of the magnetite lavas at El Laco, Chile.

Acknowledgments

We thank Gregory Symmes, Susan Swapp, and Adrian Fiegl for help with electron microprobe analyses, and Jim Quinn for help with electron microscopy. Jon Philipp and Qiang Zeng worked on the Fe-C-O experiments with added components. The experiments reported here and earlier electron microprobe analyses were supported by a series of NSF grants to D.H.L. in the 1980s and 1990s. Recent microprobe work at the American Museum of Natural History was supported by NSF Grant EAR1249696 to Hanna Nekvasil. The manuscript was improved through comments on an early version by Lew Ashwal, Tony Morse, and especially James Scoates, and on the submitted version by Bernard Charlier and Dick Naslund; we thank them all.

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Received: 2017-1-25
Accepted: 2017-6-29
Published Online: 2017-10-30
Published in Print: 2017-11-27

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