Serpentinised Mantle Section of Neoproterozoic Ophiolite at Al-Barramiya District, North Arabian-Nubian Shield: Tectono-Magmatic Evolution and Metamorphism

IF 1.4 4区 地球科学 Q3 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Geological Journal Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI:10.1002/gj.5066
Bassam A. Abuamarah, Amany M. A. Seddik, Mokhles K. Azer, Yi-Xiang Chen, Mahmoud H. Darwish
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This research focuses on the field observations, petrography, mineral chemistry and geochemistry of the serpentinised peridotite of Al-Barramiya ophiolitic sequence to place constraints on their magmatic history and their geodynamic evolution. Al-Barramiya ophiolitic rocks are a dismembered ophiolite which was strongly deformed and metamorphosed under greenschist to lower amphibolite facies. They comprise a mantle section dominated by highly serpentinised peridotite with less metapyroxenite and chromitite, as well as a crustal portion represented by metagabbros. Along shear zones, the ophiolite sequence was affected by several types of alteration. Extensive carbonate alteration is common in the ultramafic section, resulted in talc carbonates, listvenites and magnesite, while rodingitisation is common in the metagabbro resulted in rodingite. Despite the extensive serpentinisation, some fresh relics of primary mantle minerals such as Cr-spinel, olivine and pyroxenes are preserved sporadically in the serpentinised peridotite. Few Cr-spinel crystals are sometimes surrounded by subhedral flakes of Cr-chlorite (kämmererite) that was formed due to replacement of Cr-spinel during later alteration or regional metamorphism. The serpentinite samples are depleted in the total REE (0.56–1.19 ppm) with slightly negative to slightly positive Eu anomalies (0.89–1.28). The fresh cores of Cr-spinel have Cr# mostly > 60, and the relics of pyroxenes and olivine are Mg-rich suggesting that the Al-Barramiya serpentinites are residual to high degrees of melt extraction. The estimated degrees of partial melting range between 18.2% and 20.7%. All the mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of the ultramafic section of the Al-Barramiya ophiolites are most consistent with its formation in a fore-arc setting.

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Geological Journal
Geological Journal 地学-地球科学综合
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4.20
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269
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3 months
期刊介绍: In recent years there has been a growth of specialist journals within geological sciences. Nevertheless, there is an important role for a journal of an interdisciplinary kind. Traditionally, GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL has been such a journal and continues in its aim of promoting interest in all branches of the Geological Sciences, through publication of original research papers and review articles. The journal publishes Special Issues with a common theme or regional coverage e.g. Chinese Dinosaurs; Tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean, Triassic basins of the Central and North Atlantic Borderlands). These are extensively cited. The Journal has a particular interest in publishing papers on regional case studies from any global locality which have conclusions of general interest. Such papers may emphasize aspects across the full spectrum of geological sciences.
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