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CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY
Volume 160, Issue 5, Pages 645-661Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0499-x
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Extrusive carbonatite; Limestone; LAICPMS; Polino; Italy
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Petrography-controlled laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LAICPMS) analyses of carbonate in fresh shallow level sub-volcanic Polino monticellite calcio-carbonatite tuffisite have been performed to assess the geochemical differences between fresh igneous, epigenetic carbonates and sedimentary accidental fragments. Igneous calcite has consistently high LREE/HREE ratios (La/Yb (N) , 15-130) due to high LREE (I LREE pound, 425-1,269 ppm). Secondary calcite cements are characterized by progressively lower and more variable trace element contents, with lower LREE/HREE ratios. A distinguishing geochemical feature is progressively increasing negative Ce anomalies observed through coarse secondary calcite that can be related to the surface environment processes. The limestone accidental fragments in the tuffisite have trace element contents almost two orders of magnitude lower than igneous carbonate and low LREE (I LREE pound < 9.5 ppm) with low LREE/HREE fractionation (La/Yb (N) ratios < 18). The stable isotope composition of different carbonate types is consistent with their formation in different environments. The tuffisitization processes during diatreme formation under high CO(2)-OH fugacity conditions may account for the differences noted in the igneous carbonates.
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