Role of the subducted slab,mantle wedge and continental crust in the generation of adakites from the Andean Austral Volcanic Zone

 All six Holocene volcanic centers of the Andean Austral Volcanic Zone (AVZ; 49–54°S) have erupted exclusively adakitic andesites and dacites characterized by low Yb and Y concentrations and high Sr/Y ratios, suggesting a source with residual garnet, amphibole and pyroxene, but little or no olivine and plagioclase. Melting of mafic lower crust may be the source for adakites in some arcs, but such a source is inconsistent with the high Mg# of AVZ adakites. Also, the AVZ occurs in a region of relatively thin crust (<35 km) within which plagioclase rather than garnet is stable. The source for AVZ adakites is more likely to be subducted oceanic basalt, recrystallized to garnet-amphibolite or eclogite. Geothermal models indicate that partial melting of the subducted oceanic crust is probable below the Austral Andes due to the slow subduction rate (2 cm/year) and the young age (<24 Ma) of the subducted oceanic lithosphere. Geochemical models for AVZ adakites are also consistent with a large material contribution from subducted oceanic crust (35–90% slab-derived mass), including sediment (up to 4% sediment-derived mass, representing approximately 15% of all sediment subducted). Variable isotopic and trace-element ratios observed for AVZ adakites, which span the range reported for adakites world-wide, require multistage models involving melting of different proportions of subducted basalt and sediment, as well as an important material contribution from both the overlying mantle wedge (10–50% mass contribution) and continental crust (0–30% mass contribution). Andesites from Cook Island volcano, located in the southernmost AVZ (54°S) where subduction is more oblique, have MORB-like Sr, Nd, Pb and O isotopic composition and trace-element ratios. These can be modeled by small degrees (2–4%) of partial melting of eclogitic MORB, yielding a tonalitic parent (intermediate SiO₂, CaO/Na₂O>1), followed by limited interaction of this melt with the overlying mantle (≥90% MORB melt, ≤10% mantle), but only very little (≤1%) or no participation of either subducted sediment or crust. In contrast, models for the magmatic evolution of Burney (52°S), Reclus (51°S) and northernmost AVZ (49–50°S) andesites and dacites require melting of a mixture of MORB and subducted sediment, followed by interaction of this melt not only with the overlying mantle, but the crust as well. Crustal assimilation and fractional crystallization (AFC) processes and the mass contribution from the crust become more significant northwards in the AVZ as the angle of convergence becomes more orthogonal. Received: 1 March 1995 / Accepted: 13 September 1995     

How predictable is the northern hemisphere summer upper-tropospheric circulation?

The retrospective forecast skill of three coupled climate models (NCEP CFS, GFDL CM2.1, and CAWCR POAMA 1.5) and their multi-model ensemble (MME) is evaluated, focusing on the Northern Hemisphere (NH) summer upper-tropospheric circulation along with surface temperature and precipitation for the 25-year period of 1981–2005. The seasonal prediction skill for the NH 200-hPa geopotential height basically comes from the coupled models’ ability in predicting the first two empirical orthogonal function (EOF) modes of interannual variability, because the models cannot replicate the residual higher modes. The first two leading EOF modes of the summer 200-hPa circulation account for about 84% (35.4%) of the total variability over the NH tropics (extratropics) and offer a hint of realizable potential predictability. The MME is able to predict both spatial and temporal characteristics of the first EOF mode (EOF1) even at a 5-month lead (January initial condition) with a pattern correlation coefficient (PCC) skill of 0.96 and a temporal correlation coefficient (TCC) skill of 0.62. This long-lead predictability of the EOF1 comes mainly from the prolonged impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as the EOF1 tends to occur during the summer after the mature phase of ENSO. The second EOF mode (EOF2), on the other hand, is related to the developing ENSO and also the interdecadal variability of the sea surface temperature over the North Pacific and North Atlantic Ocean. The MME also captures the EOF2 at a 5-month lead with a PCC skill of 0.87 and a TCC skill of 0.67, but these skills are mainly obtained from the zonally symmetric component of the EOF2, not the prominent wavelike structure, the so-called circumglobal teleconnection (CGT) pattern. In both observation and the 1-month lead MME prediction, the first two leading modes are accompanied by significant rainfall and surface air temperature anomalies in the continental regions of the NH extratropics. The MME’s success in predicting the EOF1 (EOF2) is likely to lead to a better prediction of JJA precipitation anomalies over East Asia and the North Pacific (central and southern Europe and western North America).     

Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

We assessed current status of multi-model ensemble (MME) deterministic and probabilistic seasonal prediction based on 25-year (1980–2004) retrospective forecasts performed by 14 climate model systems (7 one-tier and 7 two-tier systems) that participate in the Climate Prediction and its Application to Society (CliPAS) project sponsored by the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center (APCC). We also evaluated seven DEMETER models’ MME for the period of 1981–2001 for comparison. Based on the assessment, future direction for improvement of seasonal prediction is discussed. We found that two measures of probabilistic forecast skill, the Brier Skill Score (BSS) and Area under the Relative Operating Characteristic curve (AROC), display similar spatial patterns as those represented by temporal correlation coefficient (TCC) score of deterministic MME forecast. A TCC score of 0.6 corresponds approximately to a BSS of 0.1 and an AROC of 0.7 and beyond these critical threshold values, they are almost linearly correlated. The MME method is demonstrated to be a valuable approach for reducing errors and quantifying forecast uncertainty due to model formulation. The MME prediction skill is substantially better than the averaged skill of all individual models. For instance, the TCC score of CliPAS one-tier MME forecast of Niño 3.4 index at a 6-month lead initiated from 1 May is 0.77, which is significantly higher than the corresponding averaged skill of seven individual coupled models (0.63). The MME made by using 14 coupled models from both DEMETER and CliPAS shows an even higher TCC score of 0.87. Effectiveness of MME depends on the averaged skill of individual models and their mutual independency. For probabilistic forecast the CliPAS MME gains considerable skill from increased forecast reliability as the number of model being used increases; the forecast resolution also increases for 2 m temperature but slightly decreases for precipitation. Equatorial Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies are primary sources of atmospheric climate variability worldwide. The MME 1-month lead hindcast can predict, with high fidelity, the spatial–temporal structures of the first two leading empirical orthogonal modes of the equatorial SST anomalies for both boreal summer (JJA) and winter (DJF), which account for about 80–90% of the total variance. The major bias is a westward shift of SST anomaly between the dateline and 120°E, which may potentially degrade global teleconnection associated with it. The TCC score for SST predictions over the equatorial eastern Indian Ocean reaches about 0.68 with a 6-month lead forecast. However, the TCC score for Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) index drops below 0.40 at a 3-month lead for both the May and November initial conditions due to the prediction barriers across July, and January, respectively. The MME prediction skills are well correlated with the amplitude of Niño 3.4 SST variation. The forecasts for 2 m air temperature are better in El Niño years than in La Niña years. The precipitation and circulation are predicted better in ENSO-decaying JJA than in ENSO-developing JJA. There is virtually no skill in ENSO-neutral years. Continuing improvement of the one-tier climate model’s slow coupled dynamics in reproducing realistic amplitude, spatial patterns, and temporal evolution of ENSO cycle is a key for long-lead seasonal forecast. Forecast of monsoon precipitation remains a major challenge. The seasonal rainfall predictions over land and during local summer have little skill, especially over tropical Africa. The differences in forecast skills over land areas between the CliPAS and DEMETER MMEs indicate potentials for further improvement of prediction over land. There is an urgent need to assess impacts of land surface initialization on the skill of seasonal and monthly forecast using a multi-model framework.     

Water-saturated and undersaturated melting relations of a granite to 35 kilobars

Biotite granite from the Sierra Nevada batholith was reacted, with known water contents in sealed platinum capsules, in a piston-cylinder apparatus between 10 and 35 kb. With the liquid just over-saturated with respect to water, temperatures for solidus and liquidus (quartz/coesite-out curve), respectively, are: 2 kb, 680°C, 715°C; 10 kb, 620°C, 725°C; 25 kb, 655°C, 800°C; 35 kb, 700°C, 850°C. The temperature interval is 35°C at 2 kb, 105°C at 10 kb, and 150°C at 35 kb, indicating that granite departs from a eutectic composition at depths greater than about 40–50 km. We conclude that crystal-liquid equilibria are not likely to yield primary rhyolite or granite magmas by partial fusion of oceanic crust in subduction zones. The solubility of water in granite liquids, in wt%, is 22.5 ± 2.5 at 25 kb and 810°C and 27 ± 2.5 at 35 kb and 850°C. These results indicate that a miscibility gap persists between water-saturated silicate magmas and aqueous vapor phase at least to pressures corresponding to 100 km depth in the mantle. The formation of kyanite near the liquidus of water over-saturated granite indicates that the aqueous vapor phase is enriched in alkalis and possibly silica, relative to the condensed phases.     

Geochemistry,geochronology, and petrogenesis of a Late Precambrian (∼ 590 Ma) composite dike from the North Eastern Desert of Egypt

Late Precambrian (575–600 Ma) igneous activity in the North Eastern Desert of Egypt produced large volumes of compositionally bimodal magmas. A single composite dike was studied to further examine petrogenetic relationships between andesitic and rhyolitic melts. The dike consists of 1.5–2 m of andesite on either side of a 5–6 m wide rhyolite core. Contact relations indicate that the andesite and rhyolite simultaneously existed as porphyritic liquids. Wholerock Rb-Sr dating indicates an age of 591 Ma, but with considerable scatter. Andesite and rhyolite had similar initial⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr of 0.7032±2, indicating derivation from a low Rb/Sr source, either the upper mantle, very young upper crust, or depleted lower crust. The composition of the andesites on either margin cannot be distinguished; these are very similar to andesites of the Dokhan Volcanics of similar age. Correspondingly, the rhyolite is compositionally similar to the epizonal Pink Granites. This dike and others like it represent hypabyssal feeders for the extrusive and shallow intrusive members of the North Eastern Desert bimodal suite.Major and trace element studies of the dike rocks show no evidence of mixing. With the exception of the alkaline earths, there is no evidence of diffusional transport across the rhyolite-andesite contacts. REE patterns indicate that petrogenesis of the andesite must have left a garnetiferous residue: either 10% melting of LREE-enriched garnet lherzolite or 25% melting of eclogite, followed by a small amount of shallow fractionation. Petrogenesis of the rhyolites remains enigmatic. Partitioning of trace elements and different plagioclase compositions in andesite and rhyolite argue against an origin by liquid immiscibility. Major and trace element models indicate that the rhyolite formed by fractional crystallization of the andesite or by anatexis of young amphibolite-facies crust.

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Zusammenfassung SpÄtprÄkambrische (575–600 Ma) magmatische AktivitÄt in der »North Eastern Desert« Ägyptens förderte gro\e Mengen bimodaler Magmen. Um die petrogenetischen Beziehungen zwischen andesitischen und rhyolitischen Schmelzen zu studieren, wurde ein einzelner, »bimodaler« Gang (composite dyke) untersucht.Der Gang besteht aus einem Rand von 1,5–2 m mÄchtigem Andesit auf beiden Seiten eines 5–6 m mÄchtigen Kernbereiches von Rhyolit. Die Kontaktbeziehungen zeigen, da\ Andesite und Rhyolite gleichzeitig als porphyritische Schmelzen existierten. »Whole-Rock« Rb-Sr Datierung ergab ein Alter von 591 Ma, jedoch mit einem erheblichen Fehler. Andesit und Rhyolith hatten Ähnliche initiale⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr VerhÄltnisse von 0.7032±2, die eine Herkunft aus Bereichen mit niedrigen Rb/Sr VerhÄltnissen erkennen lassen: Oberer Mantel, sehr junge obere Kruste, oder verarmte untere Kruste. Die Zusammensetzung der Andesite von den verschiedenen Seiten des Ganges ist nicht zu unterscheiden. Sie sind den Andesiten der Dokhan Vulkanite Ähnlich und etwa gleich alt. Entsprechend sind die Rhyolite den epizonalen rosa Graniten (»pink granite«) in der Zusammensetzung Ähnlich. Dieser Gang und andere gleich ihm stellen die Zufuhrspalten für die extrusiven und seichtintrusiven Magmatite der »North Eastern Desert« bimodalen Folge dar.Haupt- und Spurenelemente der Ganggesteine zeigen keine Anzeichen einer Mischung. Mit Ausnahme der Erdalkalien gibt es keinen Hinweis auf eine Diffusion der Elemente über den Rhyolit-Andesit Kontakt. Die Verteilung der Seltenen Erden deutet auf ein granatführendes Residuum bei der Petrogenese der Andesite: entweder10% Aufschmelzen von Granat-Lherzolit, angereichert an leichten Seltenen Erden, oder 25% Aufschmelzen von Eklogit, gefolgt von geringer Fraktionierung unter niedrigem Druck.Die Petrogenese der Rhyolite bleibt unklar. Die Verteilung der Spurenelemente und die unterschiedliche Plagioklas-Zusammensetzung in Andesit und Rhyolith sprechen gegen eine Entstehung aus unvermischbaren Schmelzen. Modelle basierend auf Haupt- und Spurenelementen deuten darauf hin, da\ der Rhyolit entweder durch fraktionierte Kristallisation des Andesits entstand oder durch Anatexis junger Kruste im Bereich der Amphibolit-Fazies.

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Résumé L'activité magmatique au Précambrien supérieur (575–600 Ma) dans le »North Eastern Desert« d'Egypte a engendré de grandes quantités de magmas bimodaux. De manière à préciser les relations entre fusions andésitiques et rhyolitiques, un dyke composite a été étudié.Ce dyke est constitué d'un coeur rhyolitique de 5 à 6 m, encadré de deux bordures andésitiques de 1,5 à 2 m. Les contacts indiquent que ces deux roches ont coexisté sous la forme de liquides porphyriques. Une datation Rb-Sr sur roche totale donne un âge de 591 Ma, mais avec une approximation importante. L'andésite et la rhyolite ont un mÊme rapport initial de 0,7032±2, indiquant une source à faible rapport Rb/Sr: manteau supérieur, croûte supérieure jeune ou croûte inférieure appauvrie. Les compositions des deux bordures andésitiques sont identiques et très semblables à celle des andésites de mÊme âge du complexe volcanique du Dokhan. De mÊme, la rhyolite a une composition semblable à celle des granites roses épizonaux. Ce dyke et d'autres du mÊme type représentent les voies d'alimentation des termes extrusifs et intrusifs superficiels de la série bimodale du »North Eastern Desert«.L'étude des éléments majeurs et en traces ne montre aucun mélange entre les roches du dyke. A l'exception des alcalino-terreux, il n'existe aucune indication de diffusion des éléments à travers le contact rhyolite — andésite. La distribution des terres rares montre que la genèse de l'andésite doit avoir laissé un résidu grenatifère: soit une lherzolite à grenat enrichie en terres rares légères et représentant moins de 10% de taux de fusion, soit une éclogite (jusqu'à 25% de taux de fusion) suivie d'un léger fractionnement à basse pression.La pétrogenèse de la rhyolite reste obscure. La répartition des éléments en traces et la différence de composition du plagioclase entre l'andésite et la rhyolite plaident contre une origine par immiscibilité. Les modèles tirés des éléments majeurs et en traces indiquent comme origine pour la rhyolite soit la cristallisation fractionnée de l'andésite, soit l'anatexie de matériaux crustaux jeunes dans les conditions du facies des amphibolites.

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Lithospheric petrology of the eastern Arabian Plate: Constraints from Al-Ashkhara (Oman) xenoliths

Mafic granulite and spinel lherzolite xenoliths from Cenozoic alkaline basalts near Al-Ashkhara, eastern Oman, have been selected for a systematic mineralogical, geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic study. This is the only place in E Arabia where samples of both lower crust and upper mantle can be examined. Lower crustal xenoliths consist of two mineralogically and chemically distinct groups: gabbronorite (subequal abundances of ortho- and clino-pyroxene and plagioclase) and plagioclase pyroxenite (dominant pyroxene and subordinate plagioclase). Temperature estimates for lower crustal xenoliths using the two pyroxene geothermometer (T-Wells) yield 810–865 °C. The mineral assemblage (spinel–pyroxene–plagioclase) and Al content in pyroxene indicate that plagioclase-bearing xenoliths equilibrated at 5–8 kbar (13 and 30 km depth) in the lower crust. εNd and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr calculated at 700 Ma for Al-Ashkhara lower crustal xenoliths (+ 6.4 to + 6.6; ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.7028 to 0.7039) are consistent with the interpretation that juvenile, mafic melts were added to the lower crust during Neoproterozoic time and that there was no discernible contribution from pre-Neoproterozoic crust. Upper mantle xenoliths consist of both dry and hydrous (phlogopite-bearing) lherzolites. These peridotites are more Fe-rich than expected for primitive mantle or melt residues and probably formed by pervasive circulation of melts that have refertilized pre-existing mantle peridotites. Mineral equilibration temperatures range from 990 to 1070 °C. Isotopic compositions calculated at 700 Ma are εNd = + 6.8 to + 7.8 and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.7016 to 0.7025, indicating depleted upper mantle. Pb isotopic compositions indicate that the metasomatism was relatively recent, perhaps related to Paleogene tectonics and basanite igneous activity. Nd model ages for the spinel peridotite xenoliths range between 0.59 and 0.65 Ga. The xenolith data suggest that eastern Arabian lower crust is of hotspot origin, in contrast to western Arabian lower crust, which mostly formed at a convergent plate margin. Geochemical and isotopic differences between lower crust and upper mantle indicate that these are unrelated, possibly because delamination replaced the E Arabian mantle root in Neoproterozoic time.     

Origins and evolution of rhyolitic magmas in the central Snake River Plain: insights from coupled high-precision geochronology,oxygen isotope,and hafnium isotope analyses of zircon

We present new high-precision CA-ID-TIMS and in situ U–Pb ages together with Hf and O isotopic analyses (analyses performed all on the same grains) from four tuffs from the 15?10 Ma Bruneau–Jarbidge center of the Snake River Plain and from three rhyolitic units from the Kimberly borehole in the neighboring 10?6 Ma Twin Falls volcanic center. We find significant intrasample diversity in zircon ages (ranges of up to 3 Myr) and in δ¹⁸O (ranges of up to 6‰) and ε_Hf (ranges of up to 24 ε units) values. Zircon rims are also more homogeneous than the associated cores, and we show that zircon rim growth occurs faster than the resolution of in situ dating techniques. CA-ID-TIMS dating of a subset of zircon grains from the Twin Falls samples reveals complex crystallization histories spanning 10⁴–10⁶ years prior to some eruptions, suggesting that magma genesis was characterized by the cyclic remelting of buried volcanic rocks and intrusions associated with previous magmatic episodes. Age-dependent trends in zircon isotopic compositions show that rhyolite production in the Yellowstone hotspot track is driven by the mixing of mantle-derived melts (normal δ¹⁸O and ε_Hf) and a combination of Precambrian basement rock (normal δ¹⁸O and ε_Hf down to ??60) and shallow Mesozoic and Cenozoic age rocks, some of which are hydrothermally altered (to low δ¹⁸O values) by earlier stages of Snake River Plain magmatism. These crustal melts hybridize with juvenile basalts and rhyolites to produce the erupted rhyolites. We also observe that the Precambrian basement rock is only an important component in the erupted magmas in the first eruption at each caldera center, suggesting that the accumulation of new intrusions quickly builds an upper crustal intrusive body which is isolated from the Precambrian basement and evolves towards more isotopically juvenile and lower-δ¹⁸O compositions over time.     

The Pan-African continental margin in northeastern Africa: evidence from a geochronological study of granulites at Sabaloka, Sudan

Ion microprobe zircon ages, a Nd model age and RbSr whole-rock dates are reported from the high-grade gneiss terrain at Sabaloka on the River Nile north of Khartoum, formally considered to be part of the Archaean/early Proterozoic Nile craton. The granulites, which are of both sedimentary and igneous derivation, occur as remnants in migmatites. Detrital zircon ages range from ≈ 1000 to ≈ 2650 Ma and prove the existence of Archaean to late Proterozoic continental crust in the sedimentary source region. The Nd model age for one sedimentary granulite is between 1.26 (T_CHUR) and 1.70 (T_DM) Ga and provides a mean crustal residence age for the sedimentary precursor. Igneous zircons in enderbitic gneiss crystallized at 719 ± 81 Ma ago, an age that also corresponds to severe Pb loss in the detrital zircons and which probably reflects the granulite event at Sabaloka. The RbSr data indicate isotopic homogenization at about 700 Ma ago in the granulites and severe post-granulite disturbance at ≈ 570 Ma in the migmatites. We associate this disturbance with hydration, retrograde metamorphism and anatexis that produced undeformed granites ≈ 540 Ma ago. The ≈ 700 Ma granulite event at Sabaloka suggests that this part of the Sudan belongs to the Pan-African Mozambique belt while the ancient Nile craton lay farther west. The gneisses studied here may represent the infrastructure of the ancient African continental margin onto which the juvenile arc assemblage of the Arabian-Nubian shield was accreted during intense horizontal shortening and crustal interstacking of a major collision event.