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Juteau, Thierry; Berger, Emmanuel; Cannat, Mathilde (1990): Chemistry of peridotites from ODP 109-670A [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.745288, Supplement to: Juteau, T et al. (1990): Serpentinized, residual mantle peridotites from the M.A.R. Median Valley, ODP Hole 670A (21°10'N, 45°02'W, Leg 109): primary mineralogy and geothermometry. In: Detrick, R; Honnorez, J; Bryan, WB; Juteau, T; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 106/109, 27-45, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.106109.117.1990

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Published: 1990 (exact date unknown) • DOI registered: 2010-10-15

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Abstract:
During Leg 109 of the Ocean Drilling Program, about 100 m of serpentinized peridotites were drilled on the western wall of the M.A.R. axial rift valley, 45 km south of the Kane Fracture Zone. The present study reports petrological and mineralogical data obtained from 29 small pieces of these ultramafic rocks, including about 60% serpentinized harzburgites, 26% serpentinized lherzolites, 14% serpentinized dunites, and one sample of olivine websterite. Modal analyses show that all these rocks are plagioclase-free four-phase peridotites equilibrated in the spinel lherzolite facies. The estimated average modal composition of the sample set is about 80% olivine, 14% opx, 5% cpx, and 1% spinel, that is, a cpx-poor lherzolite.
The well developed porphyroclastic structures and mineralogical characteristics of these rocks indicate their affinity with the group of residual mantle tectonites, among the abyssal peridotites. Features typical of magmatic cumulates are lacking.
The high contents in Al2O3 of the cpx (average 5.4%) and of the opx (average 4.3%) porphyroclasts, the low Cr# of the spinels (average 22.9%), and the rather high content in modal cpx (about 5%), indicate a moderate percentage of melting, of the order of 10%-15%. Site 670 peridotites plot close to the least depleted mantle rocks collected in the oceans in most diagrams used to define the average trend of the ocean-floor peridotites.
Microprobe traverses across the cores of the exsolved opx and cpx porphyroclasts permitted the recalculation of the magmatic compositions of these pyroxenes: the 'primitive' opx were equilibrated at about 1300°C, probably at the end of the main melting episodes, whereas the 'primitive' cpx show lower equilibration temperatures, at about 1200°C, reflecting a more complex thermal history. The subsolidus evolution is well recorded, from 1200°C to about 950CC, by the exsolved pyroxenes and the olivine and spinel phases. Unusually high blocking temperatures, close to 1000°C, indicate that the peridotite body was cooled very rapidly between 1000°C and the beginning of serpentinization.
Oxygen fugacities, calculated for 10 kb and at the blocking temperatures indicated by the olivine/spinel geothermometer, are close to the usual fugacities calculated in oceanic peridotites and basalts (of the order of 10**-10 to 10**-11, on the QFM buffer).
Site 670 peridotites have compositions close to those of the peridotites collected in the Kane Fracture Zone area, and obviously belong to the moderately depleted mantle peridotites which characterize abyssal peridotites collected away from mantle plumes and oceanic islands. In particular, they differ from the highly residual harzburgites collected along the M.A.R. over the Azores bulge.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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Latitude: 23.166600 * Longitude: -45.032200
Date/Time Start: 1986-06-12T01:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-06-16T16:15:00
Event(s):
109-670A * Latitude: 23.166600 * Longitude: -45.032200 * Date/Time Start: 1986-06-12T01:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-06-16T16:15:00 * Elevation: -3625.0 m * Penetration: 92.5 m * Recovery: 4.58 m * Location: North Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: Leg109 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 7 cores; 76.6 m cored; 0 m drilled; 6 % recovery
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  1. Juteau, T; Berger, E; Cannat, M (1990): (Table 1) Modal analyses of selected samples of ODP Hole 109-670A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.745282
  2. Juteau, T; Berger, E; Cannat, M (1990): (Table 3) Analyses of the primary phases of selected samples of ODP Hole 109-670A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.745284
  3. Juteau, T; Berger, E; Cannat, M (1990): (Table 4) Chemical composition of selected primary phases in ODP Hole 109-670A samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.745286
  4. Juteau, T; Berger, E; Cannat, M (1990): (Table 8) Recalculated compositions of the 'primitive' pyroxenes of ODP Hole 109-670A samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.745287