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Cr-rich spinel and garnet in two peridotite xenoliths from the Frank Smith mine South Africa: Significance of Al and Cr distribution between spinel and garnet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

R. A. Exley ,
J. V. Smith  and
R. L. Hervig
R. A. Exley
Affiliation:
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA
J. V. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA
R. L. Hervig
Affiliation:
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA
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Abstract

Peridotite xenoliths 73–106 and 73–109 have coarse textures. All minerals in 73–106 are very Ti-rich, and include olivine (Fo 87.6), orthopyroxene (En 90.0), garnet (core TiO2 0.8, Cr2O3 7; rim 1.4, 4 wt. %), spinel (TiO2 5, Cr2O3 38), clinopyroxene (A12O3 1–8) secondary mica (TiO2 6, Cr2O3 2.5 near garnet 0.5 away from garnet), and serpentine (FeO 5–12) enclosing perovskite-rimmed ilmenite and minute apatites. All minerals in peridotite 73–109 are Ti-poor, and include olivine (Fo 92.6), orthopyroxene (En 93.6), garnet (Cr2O3 3.1–3.8), spinel (55), ureyitic diopside, primary mica (TiO2 0.06, Cr2O3 1.0, BaO 0.5, Cl 0.04), and serpentine (FeO 2–23). Various thermometers indicate ∼ 1350K (73–106) and 1100K (73–109). The low Al2O3 in the orthopyroxenes gives 39–47 kb for 73–109 from the Wood-Banno barometer. In 73–106, the spinel lies in secondary mica next to the garnet rim, whereas the spinel of 73–109 occurs in grains enclosed by garnet. The former assemblage indicates diffusion-dependent disequilibrium, whereas the latter is attributed to simultaneous growth of spinel and garnet, perhaps consequent upon exsolution from orthopyroxene. Complex behaviour was found for the Cr/Al distribution in published analyses of garnet and spinel. The 73–109 pair lies near the Thaba Putsoa trend, and the 73–106 assemblages are displaced towards the kelyphite region in which garnet and spinel have similar Cr/Al. Spinel and garnet may coexist over a 30 kb pressure interval ranging from ∼ 16 kb for low bulk Cr to ∼ 40 kb for high Cr.

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 45 , Issue 337 , 1982 , pp. 129 - 134
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1982

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Present address: Department of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281 USA.

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