GEOCHEMISTRY OF ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS FROM THE ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC KIMI COMPLEX IN EAST RHODOPE (NE. GREECE)


Published: Jan 1, 2007
Keywords:
Metaperidotites clinopyroxenites upwelling mantle partial melting HP cumulates
I. Baziotis
E. Mposkos
S. Palikari
M. Perraki
Abstract

In the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic Kimi Complex garnet-spinel metaperidotites with layers of clinopyroxenites occur. A detailed geochemical investigation using major-trace element relations and major-element modelling indicates that the peridotites represent mantle residues originated after variable melt extraction, along an adiabatic path starting from high- to ultrahigh-pressures. The clinopyroxenites represent HP clinopyroxene-rich cumulates probably formed within the garnet and/or Cr-spinel peridotite stability field.

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