Transcrustal magmatic plumbing system of alkaline magmas: insights from the shonkinite dykes from Elchuru alkaline complex, Eastern Ghats Belt, India
摘要
The Elchuru alkaline complex in the Prakasam Alkaline Province (PAP), Eastern Ghats Belt, SE India, was intruded by coeval shonkinite dykes during ca. 1350 Ma continental rift-related magmatism. The shonkinite dykes have fine-to-medium-grained porphyritic to equigranular textures with clinopyroxene, biotite, amphibole, K-feldspar perthite, nepheline, and plagioclase as major mineral phases. Based on mineral-melt chemical disequilibrium and P-T estimates of mineral crystallization, we propose that multiple magma reservoirs existed at various crustal depths. The crystallization sequence of clinopyroxene-biotite-amphibole correlates with mineral saturation under diverse P-T conditions. Magmas parental to the shonkinite dykes experienced transcrustal differentiation at ~ 12 kbar and ~ 1160℃ (during dominantly clinopyroxene fractionation), ~ 6 kbar and ~ 830℃ (during biotite fractionation), and ~ 3 kbar and ~ 810℃ (during amphibole, K-feldspar, nepheline, and plagioclase fractionation). The depths of magma reservoirs, the “plumbing” system of the shonkinite dykes were ~ 35 km (deeper), ~ 20 km (intermediate) and ~ 10 km (shallower). The transcrustal plumbing system of magma was in an active continental rift setting.