silicate earth
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Silicate Earth. Primitive mantle Present-day mantle Crust Oceanic crust Continental crust. Reservoir Volume Mass Mass % (10 27 cm 3 ) (10 27 g) Earth1.0835.98100 Core 0.1751.8831.5 Mantle0.8994.0868.1 Crust (continental)0.008420.02360.4 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Silicate Earth
• Primitive mantle• Present-day mantle• Crust• Oceanic crust• Continental crust
Reservoir Volume Mass Mass %(1027 cm3) (1027g)
Earth 1.083 5.98 100Core 0.175 1.88 31.5Mantle 0.899 4.08 68.1Crust (continental) 0.00842 0.0236 0.4Hydrosphere 0.00137 0.00141 0.024Atmosphere - 0.000005 0.00009
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Evidence for mantle composition:
• Sampled by xenoliths, occasionally exposed by crustal deformation– Peridotite– Eclogite
• Seismic velocities match both rocks
• Must melt to form basaltic magma– Peridotite melting – up to about 40%– Eclogite melting – must be close to 100%
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3 types of primary basaltic magma
•At divergent plate margins (mid ocean ridges) – magma rises from asthenosphere - decompression melting at low pressure - tholeiitic basalt•At hot spot (intra-plate volcanoes) – magma rises from deep mantle - decompression melting at high pressure - alkali basalt•At convergent plate margins (volcanic arcs) – water added to the mantle from the subducted lithosphere causes melting - flux melting - calc-alkaline basalt
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Present day mantle convection patterns are deduced from study of seismic wave velocities (profiles and tomography), and plate tectonics.
Composition of mantle layers/reservoirs are deduced from studies of xenoliths and mantle-derived basalts.
Present-day mantle differs from primitive mantle because of extraction of material through magmatism and crust formation, and recycling of crustal material through subduction.
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Trace elements in mantle
• Primitive mantle – chondrites for refractory elements, ingenious estimates for volatile elements, mainly based on isotopic calculations
• Present day mantle –– Analyze xenoliths – but these are extremely variable– Infer compositions by looking at basalts and modeling
the melting process
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Mantle derived basalts:
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Mineral/melt partition or distribution coefficients – define the ratio of an element in a mineral compared with a melt at chemical equilibrium.
Used to infer source composition.
KDs reflect the ability of an element to enter the structure of the mineral.
Ionic radius
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Mantle derived basalts:
Mantle source of MORB – must be depleted compared to primitive mantleMantle source of OIB – must be enriched compared to primitive mantle
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Mineral abundances: 39% plagioclase, 12% quartz, 12% K-feldspar, 11% pyroxene, 5% mica, 5% amphibole, 3 olivine, 5%clay, 2% carbonate, 8% other
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“Stack Models”
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Rudnick and Fountain, 1995 – first thorough study of upper and lower continental crust
Based on seismic velocities, lower crust can be gabbro, granulite or amphibolite, but not eclogite
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Trace element estimates from:1) Rock averages from stack models
(gabbro, granite, limestone, etc.)
2) Materials that sample large areas of the crust as the result of sedimentary processes like shale and loess – North American Shale Composite (NASC)
3) Heat production – match abundances of K, U, Th
Puzzle: Why is average continental crust andesitic? Where is the complementary gabbroic material? Lower crust is insufficient.
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Two processes influence composition of continental crust:•Transfer of elements in “water” from the subducted plate•Melting
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Basalts from subduction zones – island arc basalt
Much of continental crust was formed in subduction zones