Stacked gabbro units and intervening mantle: A detailed look at a section of IODP Leg 305, Hole U1309D (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Stacked gabbro units and intervening mantle: A detailed look at a section of IODP Leg 305, Hole U1309D (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2008-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Suhr G. (1), Hellebrand E. (2) , Johnson K. (2), Brunelli D. (3,4) (2008)
    Stacked gabbro units and intervening mantle: A detailed look at a section of IODP Leg 305, Hole U1309D
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  • Suhr G. (1), Hellebrand E. (2) , Johnson K. (2), Brunelli D. (3,4) (literal)
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  • doi:10.1029/2008GC002012. (literal)
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  • (1) Institut Geologie und Mineralogie, University zu Koeln, Zuelpicher Str. 49b, D-50674 Koeln, Germany (2) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA (3) DST, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Lgo St. Eufemia 19, I-41100 Modena, Italy (4) ISMAR-CNR, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy (literal)
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  • Stacked gabbro units and intervening mantle: A detailed look at a section of IODP Leg 305, Hole U1309D (literal)
Abstract
  • Hole U1309D (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Legs 304/305) penetrated 1415 m into the seafloor of the Atlantis Massif, an oceanic core complex at 30°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. More than 96% of all recovered rocks are gabbroic. On the basis of a mineral chemical overview, we suggest that between less than or equal to 800 and 1100 m below sea floor (mbsf), a magmatic unit occurs, ranging from olivine gabbro and troctolite in the lower part to gabbronorite and oxide gabbro in the upper part. Below 1235 mbsf, massive gabbronorites/oxide gabbros were drilled and they may represent the roof of an underlying magmatic unit. The focus here is on the zone where both units interact and screens, totaling 50 m, of a microstructurally distinct, olivine-rich troctolite occur. We argue that the olivine-rich troctolite is a former mantle rock which was converted to a crust-mantle transition zone dunite at the base of the upper magmatic unit. Later, as melts derived from the lower magmatic unit percolated through it, it was equilibrated to a more evolved chemistry and transformed to a fine-grained, olivine-rich troctolite. Our main arguments against a possible cumulate nature of the olivine-rich troctolite are the lack of a systematic downhole trend in compatible elements within the olivine-rich troctolite, its distinctly fine-grained microstructure, the high Cr content of cpx, and its Ni-rich olivine composition. The high NiO for a given Mg/(Mg + Fe) in the olivine-rich troctolite can be modeled by simple equilibration of relict mantle olivine with a mildly evolved melt. Evidence for the percolation of evolved melts through the olivine-rich troctolites are Ti-rich, interstitial pyroxenes and, as inclusions in Cr-spinel, highly evolved amphiboles and orthopyroxenes plus the occurrence of millimeter-scale noritic veins. The percolation by evolved melts would also be the major difference to otherwise conceptually similar rocks from the ophiolitic crust-mantle transition zone. (literal)
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