Papers by Manuel Schilling
Lithos, 2018
In this study, a series of high-pressure (1.5 GPa) and high-temperature (1000–1300 °C) experiment... more In this study, a series of high-pressure (1.5 GPa) and high-temperature (1000–1300 °C) experiments were performed to investigate the petrological imprints of adakitic metasomatism on mantle wedge peridotites. Reaction couples were prepared using a powdered adakite from Cerro Pampa, Argentina (Mg# ~0.7) placed in contact with a cored sample of medium-grained protogranular depleted spinel lherzolite from Pali Aike (Chile). Textural and chemical analyses of the run products allow us to identify key features of modal metasomatism by hybridized adakitic melts. The main changes in phase relations are associated with the following metasomatic reactions: incongruent dissolution of olivine and associated precipitation of secondary orthopyroxene, dissolution of primary spinel and subsequent replacement by secondary high-Cr spinel. In experiments with high water contents (9–12 wt%), precipitation of pargasitic amphibole also occurred, possibly at the expense of primary clinopyroxene. Neither phlogopite nor Ti-oxides were precipitated in any of these experiments. As expected, primary pyroxenes do not show evidence of being significantly altered following the interaction with the produced siliceous melts. Within the adakitic portion of the experimental charge, it was also observed the crystallization of secondary Ti-rich, Cr-and Na-poor diopsidic clinopyroxene, andesine plagioclase and, at low temperature , Fe-enriched secondary orthopyroxene. Considering textural criteria, we interpreted the formation of these minerals as crystallization products of the adakite component and not as true products of metasomatic reactions. The experimental results are used to discuss some of the petrological evidences presented to support modal metasomatism by slab-derived melts of mantle xenoliths extracted from several suprasubduction settings located around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008
We present Re–Os isotopic data for widely dispersed mantle xenoliths carried to the surface of so... more We present Re–Os isotopic data for widely dispersed mantle xenoliths carried to the surface of southern South America (36°–52° S) by Eocene to recent alkaline magmatism. Our hypothesis is that the lithospheric mantle sections formed as the roots of southern South America reflect the history of crust formation and amalgamation at different periods of time and so present a complimentary picture of continent growth in South America by sampling deeper sections of continental lithosphere than provided by crustal rocks from the area. The Re–Os isotopic system gives unique chronological information about the time of mantle depletion that is associated with lithosphere formation. Our data show coherent model ages for the lithospheric mantle that can be correlated with some hypotheses for crustal evolution of this region. Most samples show Os isotopic values similar to the present suboceanic mantle, suggesting a relatively recent lithospheric mantle formation from the convecting mantle. Xenoliths from Agua Poca and Prahuaniyeu represent fragments of an ancient depleted lithosphere, probably corresponding to the roots of the Cuyania terrane inferred to be a fragment derived from Laurentia and formed during the Mesoproterozoic. Alternatively, all or parts of the recognized ancient lithosphere are relicts of other known ancient continental blocks, such as the Pampia terrane or the Río de la Plata craton. Samples erupted in the southwest corner of the Deseado Massif give Proterozoic depletion ages (1.34 to 2.11 Ga) that are considerably older than previous radiogenic formation ages obtained for the very few basements rocks of this continental block. We propose that Deseado Massif is Proterozoic in age, probably related to the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and plateau and so should be considered for the reconstruction of the supercontinent of Rodinia.
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