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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5329
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- NERC [NE/J004472/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J004472/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/J004472/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The formation of amphibole cumulates beneath arc volcanoes is a key control on magma geochemistry, and generates a hydrous lower crust. Despite being widely inferred from trace element geochemistry as a major lower crustal phase, amphibole is neither abundant nor common as a phenocryst phase in arc lavas and erupted pyroclasts, prompting some authors to refer to it as a 'cryptic' fractionating phase. This study provides evidence that amphibole develops by evolved melts overprinting earlier clinopyroxene-a near-ubiquitous mineral in arc magmas. Reaction-replacement of clinopyroxene ultimately forms granoblastic amphibole lithologies. Reaction-replacement amphiboles have more primitive trace element chemistry (for example, lower concentrations of incompatible Pb) than amphibole phenocrysts, but still have chemistries suitable for producing La/Yb and Dy/Yb 'amphibole sponge' signatures. Amphibole can fractionate cryptically as reactions between melt and mush in lower crustal 'hot zones' produce amphibole-rich assemblages, without significant nucleation and growth of amphibole phenocrysts.
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