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Experimental Study of the Peridotite–Basalt–Fluid System: Phase Relations at Subcritical and Supercritical Р-Т Conditions

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The paper reports experimental data on the partial melting of hydrous peridotite and basalt at pressures up to 4 GPa and temperatures up to 1400°С, as well as peridotite–basalt association in the presence of alkaline water–carbonate fluid as an experimental model of mantle reservoir with subducted oceanic protoliths. At partial melting of the hydrous peridotite at 3.7–4.0 GPa and 1000–1300°С, critical relations were observed over the entire studied pressure and temperature interval. At partial melting of hydrous basalt, critical relations between silicate melt and aqueous fluid were recorded at 1000°С and 3.7 GPa. The Na-alkaline silicate melt coexists with garnetite at 1100°С and with clinopyroxenite at 1150 and 1300°С. The peridotite–basalt–alkaline-aqueous–carbonate fluid at 4 GPa and 1400°C shows signs of critical relations between a carbonated silicate melt and a fluid. Reaction relations in the residual peridotite minerals with replacements of olivine ← orythopyroxene ← clinopyroxene ← potassic amphibole-type testify to a high chemical activity of the supercritical liquid. Experimental results suggest the existence of regions of partial melting (asthenospheric lenses) in the fluid-bearing upper mantle under supercritical conditions. These lenses contain near-solidus highly reactive supercritical liquids enriched in incompatible elements. Mantle reservoirs with supercritical liquids are geochemically similar to undepleted mantle and could serve as sources of magmas enriched in incompatible elements. The modal and cryptic upper mantle metasomatism under the effect of supercritical liquids leads to the refertilization of peridotite via enrichment of residual minerals in incompatible elements.

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This work was carried out at the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the framework of the State Task (project no. АААА-А18-118020590140) and was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 17-05-00930а).

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Gorbachev, N.S., Kostyuk, A.V., Nekrasov, A.N. et al. Experimental Study of the Peridotite–Basalt–Fluid System: Phase Relations at Subcritical and Supercritical Р-Т Conditions. Petrology 27, 553–566 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591119060031

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