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Strong, localised country-rock contamination and partial homogenisation of a mafic magma: An example from west central Sweden
2006
A dolerite sill cutting slightly older basalt in west-central Sweden shows a strong chemical variation (54%hyperbolas, of which 402 are fitted. The five ratio pairs, which could not be fitted to a hyperbola using a least-square fitting procedure, have the ratio Th/Eu in common. Testing the goodness of fit is problematic for hyperbolic distributions; for comparing purposes we 4 sum the distances to chords approximating the hyperbola. Mobile and immobile elements behave similarly, suggesting that no A elements are lost or added from outside the system. The data suggests that already the most mafic of the analysed rocks is a mixture of the 'normal' dolerite and a siliceous crustal rock. A mafic magma intruded into the base of the crust, where it fractionated resulting in a decreased Mg number. The magma was then contaminated with country rocks in an intermediate magma chamber due to country rock melting; during mixing/mingling almost no fractionation took place. The contaminated rock suggests the presence of a fluid phase. This was probably a prerequisite for country-rock melting. Enrichment in some incompatible elements suggests that besides major mixing/mingling a thermochemical separation process has affected the most felsic rock enriching it in light rare earths and Zr. (Less)
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