Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis
No genetic link between the two main types of chromitite, stratiform and podiform chromitites, has ever been discussed. These two types of chromitite have very different geological contexts; the stratiform one is a member of layered intrusions, representing fossil magma chambers, in the crust, and t...
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| description | No genetic link between the two main types of chromitite, stratiform and podiform chromitites, has ever been discussed. These two types of chromitite have very different geological contexts; the stratiform one is a member of layered intrusions, representing fossil magma chambers, in the crust, and the podiform one forms pod-like bodies, representing fossil magma conduits, in the upper mantle. Chromite grains contain peculiar polymineralic inclusions derived from Na-bearing hydrous melts, whose features are so similar between the two types that they may form in a similar fashion. The origin of the chromite-hosted inclusions in chromitites has been controversial but left unclear. The chromite-hosted inclusions also characterize the products of the peridotite–melt reaction or melt-assisted partial melting, such as dunites, troctolites and even mantle harzburgites. I propose a common origin for the inclusion-bearing chromites, i.e., a reaction between the mantle peridotite and magma. Some of the chromite grains in the stratiform chromitite originally formed in the mantle through the peridotite–magma reaction, possibly as loose-packed young podiform chromitites, and were subsequently disintegrated and transported to a crustal magma chamber as suspended grains. It is noted, however, that the podiform chromitites left in the mantle beneath the layered intrusions are different from most of the podiform chromitites now exposed in the ophiolites. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cce714d958e649758f5d6865c8ea5cc62023-12-11T17:17:30ZengMDPI AGMinerals2075-163X2021-02-0111220910.3390/min11020209Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A HypothesisShoji Arai0Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, JapanNo genetic link between the two main types of chromitite, stratiform and podiform chromitites, has ever been discussed. These two types of chromitite have very different geological contexts; the stratiform one is a member of layered intrusions, representing fossil magma chambers, in the crust, and the podiform one forms pod-like bodies, representing fossil magma conduits, in the upper mantle. Chromite grains contain peculiar polymineralic inclusions derived from Na-bearing hydrous melts, whose features are so similar between the two types that they may form in a similar fashion. The origin of the chromite-hosted inclusions in chromitites has been controversial but left unclear. The chromite-hosted inclusions also characterize the products of the peridotite–melt reaction or melt-assisted partial melting, such as dunites, troctolites and even mantle harzburgites. I propose a common origin for the inclusion-bearing chromites, i.e., a reaction between the mantle peridotite and magma. Some of the chromite grains in the stratiform chromitite originally formed in the mantle through the peridotite–magma reaction, possibly as loose-packed young podiform chromitites, and were subsequently disintegrated and transported to a crustal magma chamber as suspended grains. It is noted, however, that the podiform chromitites left in the mantle beneath the layered intrusions are different from most of the podiform chromitites now exposed in the ophiolites.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/2/209chromite-hosted inclusionsperidotite–melt reactionstratiform chromititepodiform chromititegenetic link |
| spellingShingle | Shoji Arai Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis Minerals chromite-hosted inclusions peridotite–melt reaction stratiform chromitite podiform chromitite genetic link |
| title | Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis |
| title_full | Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis |
| title_fullStr | Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis |
| title_short | Genetic Link between Podiform Chromitites in the Mantle and Stratiform Chromitites in the Crust: A Hypothesis |
| title_sort | genetic link between podiform chromitites in the mantle and stratiform chromitites in the crust a hypothesis |
| topic | chromite-hosted inclusions peridotite–melt reaction stratiform chromitite podiform chromitite genetic link |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/2/209 |
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