We present new mineral chemistry, fluid inclusion, stable carbon and oxygen, as well as Pb, Sr, and Nd isotope data of Ca-Mg-silicate-rich ejecta (skarns) and associated cognate and xenolithic nodules from the Mt. Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex, Italy. The typically zoned skarn ejecta consist mainly of diopsidic and hedenbergitic, sometimes "fassaitic" clinopyroxene, Mg-rich and Ti-poor phlogopite, F-bearing vesuvianite, wollastonite, gehlenite, meionite, forsterite, clinohumite, anorthite and Mg-poor calcite with accessory apatite, spinell, magnetite, perovskite, baddeleyite, and various REE-, U-, Th-, Zr- and Ti-rich minerals. Four major types of fluid inclusions were observed in wollastonite, vesuvianite, gehlenite, clinopyroxene and calcite: a) primary silicate melt inclusions (T = 1000-1050°C), b) CO ± HS-rich fluid inclusions (T = 20-31.3°C into the vapor phase), c) multiphase aqueous brine inclusions (T = 720-820°C) with mainly sylvite and halite daughter minerals, and d) complex chloride-carbonate-sulfate-fluoride-silicate-bearing saline-melt inclusions (T = 870-890°C). The last inclusion type shows evidence for immiscibility between several fluids (silicate melt - aqueous chloride-rich liquid - carbonate/sulfate melt?) during heating and cooling below 870°C. There is no evidence for fluid circulation below 700°C and participation of externally derived meteoric fluids in skarn formation. Skarns have considerably variable Pb/Pb (19.047-19.202), Pb/Pb (15.655-15.670), and Pb/Pb (38.915-39.069) and relatively low Nd/Nd (0.51211-0.51244) ratios. The carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of skarn calcites (?13C = -5.4 to -1.1?; ?O = 11.7 to 16.4?) indicate formation from a O- and C-enriched fluid. The isotope composition of skarns and the presence of silicate melt inclusion-bearing wollastonite nodules suggests assimilation of carbonate wall rocks by the alkaline magma at moderate depths (< 5 km) and consequent exsolution of CO-rich vapor and complex saline melts from the contaminated magma that reacted with the carbonate rocks to form skarns.
Isotope geochemistry and fluid inclusion study of skarns from Vesuvius
Somma R;
2001
Abstract
We present new mineral chemistry, fluid inclusion, stable carbon and oxygen, as well as Pb, Sr, and Nd isotope data of Ca-Mg-silicate-rich ejecta (skarns) and associated cognate and xenolithic nodules from the Mt. Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex, Italy. The typically zoned skarn ejecta consist mainly of diopsidic and hedenbergitic, sometimes "fassaitic" clinopyroxene, Mg-rich and Ti-poor phlogopite, F-bearing vesuvianite, wollastonite, gehlenite, meionite, forsterite, clinohumite, anorthite and Mg-poor calcite with accessory apatite, spinell, magnetite, perovskite, baddeleyite, and various REE-, U-, Th-, Zr- and Ti-rich minerals. Four major types of fluid inclusions were observed in wollastonite, vesuvianite, gehlenite, clinopyroxene and calcite: a) primary silicate melt inclusions (T = 1000-1050°C), b) CO ± HS-rich fluid inclusions (T = 20-31.3°C into the vapor phase), c) multiphase aqueous brine inclusions (T = 720-820°C) with mainly sylvite and halite daughter minerals, and d) complex chloride-carbonate-sulfate-fluoride-silicate-bearing saline-melt inclusions (T = 870-890°C). The last inclusion type shows evidence for immiscibility between several fluids (silicate melt - aqueous chloride-rich liquid - carbonate/sulfate melt?) during heating and cooling below 870°C. There is no evidence for fluid circulation below 700°C and participation of externally derived meteoric fluids in skarn formation. Skarns have considerably variable Pb/Pb (19.047-19.202), Pb/Pb (15.655-15.670), and Pb/Pb (38.915-39.069) and relatively low Nd/Nd (0.51211-0.51244) ratios. The carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of skarn calcites (?13C = -5.4 to -1.1?; ?O = 11.7 to 16.4?) indicate formation from a O- and C-enriched fluid. The isotope composition of skarns and the presence of silicate melt inclusion-bearing wollastonite nodules suggests assimilation of carbonate wall rocks by the alkaline magma at moderate depths (< 5 km) and consequent exsolution of CO-rich vapor and complex saline melts from the contaminated magma that reacted with the carbonate rocks to form skarns.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
