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CHEMICAL GEOLOGY
Volume 365, Issue -, Pages 43-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.11.027
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Natrocarbonatite; Halogen fractionation; Bromine; TXRF; Oldoinyo Lengai; Leaching
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- Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany)
- St. Petersburg State University
- Natural History Museum (London)
- German Science Foundation [MA-2563/3-1]
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Halogen abundances of natrocarbonatites and their alteration products from Oldoinyo Lengai (Tanzania) are compared to those of associated silicate rocks and to various calcite carbonatites fromeleven occurrences world-wide. Fresh natrocarbonatites are extremely enriched in F (up to 3.6 wt.%), Cl (up to 5.9 wt.%) and Br (up to 100 mu g/g). During meteoric alteration, however, the major Cl-and Br-bearing minerals (mainly sylvite and gregoryite) are easily dissolved, leaving behind residual materials with relatively low Cl (<= 1000 mu g/g) and Br (= 15 mu g/g) contents. The comparatively low Cl/Br ratios suggest preferential leaching of Cl relative to Br during alteration. At the same time, F is passively enriched as fluorite remains relatively stable during alteration. In the associated silicate rocks at Oldoinyo Lengai concentrations of all three halogens increase from primitive olivine melilitite to evolved combeite-wollastonite nephelinite, demonstrating their incompatible behavior during magmatic differentiation. Relatively constant Cl/Br ratios, but strongly decreasing F/Cl ratios, in these samples are explained by moderately incompatible behavior for F compared to pronounced and very similar incompatibilities for Cl and Br. Our data further imply that during silicate-natrocarbonatite melt separation all three halogens show a strong affinity for the natrocarbonatite. F and Cl are equally enriched in the natrocarbonatite while Cl and Br are slightly fractionated from each other with a preferential partitioning of Cl relative to Br into the natrocabonatite melt. (C) 2013 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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