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Quartz-bearing rhyolitic melts in the Earth’s mantle

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  • Luigi Dallai

    (Sapienza—Università di Roma
    INGV
    CNR—IGG, Area della Ricerca di Pisa)

  • Gianluca Bianchini

    (Università di Ferrara)

  • Riccardo Avanzinelli

    (Università di Firenze)

  • Etienne Deloule

    (CRPG, UMR 7358 CNRS-Université de Lorraine)

  • Claudio Natali

    (Università di Firenze
    CNR—IGAG, Area della Ricerca di Roma-1)

  • Mario Gaeta

    (Sapienza—Università di Roma)

  • Andrea Cavallo

    (Certema S.c.a.r.l.)

  • Sandro Conticelli

    (Università di Firenze
    CNR—IGAG, Area della Ricerca di Roma-1)

Abstract

The occurrence of rhyolite melts in the mantle has been predicted by high pressure-high temperature experiments but never observed in nature. Here we report natural quartz-bearing rhyolitic melt inclusions and interstitial glass within peridotite xenoliths. The oxygen isotope composition of quartz crystals shows the unequivocal continental crustal derivation of these melts, which approximate the minimum composition in the quartz-albite-orthoclase system. Thermodynamic modelling suggests rhyolite was originated from partial melting of near-anhydrous garnet-bearing metapelites at temperatures ~1000 °C and interacted with peridotite at pressure ~1 GPa. Reaction of rhyolite with olivine converted lherzolite rocks into orthopyroxene-domains and orthopyroxene + plagioclase veins. The recognition of rhyolitic melts in the mantle provides direct evidence for element cycling through earth’s reservoirs, accommodated by dehydration and melting of crustal material, brought into the mantle by subduction, chemically modifying the mantle source, and ultimately returning to surface by arc magmatism.

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  • Luigi Dallai & Gianluca Bianchini & Riccardo Avanzinelli & Etienne Deloule & Claudio Natali & Mario Gaeta & Andrea Cavallo & Sandro Conticelli, 2022. "Quartz-bearing rhyolitic melts in the Earth’s mantle," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-35382-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35382-3
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    1. E. A. Codillo & V. Le Roux & H. R. Marschall, 2018. "Arc-like magmas generated by mélange-peridotite interaction in the mantle wedge," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Gaelle Prouteau & Bruno Scaillet & Michel Pichavant & René Maury, 2001. "Evidence for mantle metasomatism by hydrous silicic melts derived from subducted oceanic crust," Nature, Nature, vol. 410(6825), pages 197-200, March.
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