Os-Hf isotopes of the ultrapotassic rocks in southern Tibet: Significant crustal input into the mantle source region
Abstract
The post-collisional mafic ultrapotassic (ultra-K) magmatism in the western Lhasa terrane, southern Tibet, has been well-studied in the past decade. The model of low-degree partial melting of an enriched subcontinental lithospheric mantle has been proposed to be responsible for the origin of the ultra-K rocks on the basis of trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb-O isotope data (Miller et al., 1999, J. Petrology; Ding et al., 2003, J. Petrology; Gao et al., 2009, J. Petrology; Zhao et al., 2009, Lithos). Here, we report both Os and Hf isotopic data on the same ultra-K samples discussed in Zhao et al. (2009). The rocks have suprachondritic 187Os/188Os (0.1315-0.4828) and sub-chondritic to MORB-like Re/Os ratios (0.019-15.75). In the 187Os/188Os vs. Re/Os plot, the data show a notable trend towards the Himalayan crustal components. The 176Hf/177Hf ratios of 0.282204 to 0.282554 correspond to ɛHf values of -20.1 to -7.9. In the ɛHf vs. ɛNd plot, these mafic ultra-K rocks show strong crustal signatures, similar to, but more enriched than, the lamproites from Spain and Italia (Prelević et al., 2010, Lithos). They also show a linear trend that coincides with the Hf-Nd isotopic array defined by igneous rocks, suggesting significant contributions of some mature continental crustal material in their petrogenesis. The radiogenic Os could be interpreted as resulting from crustal assimilation, but more likely reflects increasing contributions from metasomatic components (Schaefer et al., 2000, Geology). Taking together all the trace element data, Os-Hf-Nd data and petrological data, we suggest that the petrogenesis of the mantle xenolith-bearing ultra-K rocks in southern Tibet involves melting of enriched upper mantle whose enrichments may be genetically associated with metasomatism by a melt component derived from subducted Himalayan continental crustal materials.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010AGUFM.T32B..04Z
- Keywords:
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- 1037 GEOCHEMISTRY / Magma genesis and partial melting;
- 1038 GEOCHEMISTRY / Mantle processes;
- 1040 GEOCHEMISTRY / Radiogenic isotope geochemistry