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Melting of fluorphlogopite-plagioclase pairs at 1 atmosphere

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¹ Present address: Geochemisches Institut, Goldschmidtstrasse 1, Universität Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany. e-mail: taharh{at}ugcvax.dnet.gwdg.de

Melting experiments on fluorphlogopite + plagioclase (An68) pairs have been performed at ***1 atmosphere, as a function of temperature and run duration. Run products include, in addition to melt, spinel, forsterite and a newly formed calcic plagioclase. The solidus, was located between 1100 and 1150°C and the amount of melt produced increases sharply at 1200°C. From this temperature, liquids are compositionally zoned between the two mineral interfaces, and the mica reacts out after sufficient time indicating the existence of a critical temperature of melting located between 1175 and 1200°C. These two temperature domains are also characterized by differences in plagioclase reaction textures, melt proportions and reaction rates.

Textural and Sr isotopic studies of the plagioclases show that at all temperatures the first step of the melting reaction is characterized by congruent dissolution of the starting plagioclase followed by precipitation of the new plagioclase. At all temperatures the melt compositions are initially located on the intersection of the cotectic line and the starting plagioclase-fluorphlogopite tie-line. Below the critical temperature of melting these melts are metastable undercooled liquids. Above the critical temperature of melting there is an array of stable melt compositions located on the plagioclase-fluorphlogopite tie-line. In both cases the melt compositions evolve with time toward more albite-rich compositions in conjunction with the new plagioclase precipitation. The system fluorphlogopite-plagioclase thus provides an example where liquid compositions vary with time although plagioclase-melt interface equilibrium is satisfied. This is due to the involvement of a solid solution in the reaction.

Above the critical temperature of melting, the rate-controlling process for melting is chemical diffusion in the melt. Below the critical temperature of melting the rate-limiting step is the formation of the metastable undercooled melt. The sluggishness of the melting reaction in this temperature regime is explained by the difficulty of forming such a melt.

Key-words: experimental petrology, partial melting, mica, fluorphlogopite, plagioclase, dissolution, kinetics.

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