Genetic mineralogy of jadeitite from Polar Urals, Russia

doi:10.13745/j.esf.sf.2020.5.39

Abstract

Abstract:

Subduction zones are major sites for mass circulation between the crust and mantle, while jadeitite is a recorder of the process. In this paper, we summarized the research advance of jadeitite from Polar Urals (Russia). Jadeitite occurs in serpentinized harzburgite as veins or lenses and is composed of jadeite and omphacite. Two generations can be identified based on the color and texture of jadeite. The oscillatory zoning and fluid inclusions (H₂O+CH₄ in composition) in jadeite indicated it is crystallized from fluids. Zircons from jadeitite are hydrothermal at origin, and are enriched in HREE, with La_N/Yb_N and Lu_N/Gd_N ratios ranging between 0.001-0.01, and 10-83, respectively. Cerium shows positive anomalies, with Ce/Ce^* values ranging from 2.8 to 72, and δEu from 0.53 to 1.02. The ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf ratios of zircons ranged from 0.282708 to 0.283017, with initial Hf isotope compositions ranging from +6 to +17. These characteristics resemble those of zircons from depleted mantle-derived magmas. The δ ¹⁸O isotope compositions of zircons ranged from 5.03‰ to 6.04‰ with an average of 5.45‰±0.11‰, similar to those of mantle rocks, suggesting that zircons were acquired from precursor igneous rocks and then transported and reworked by fluids from the subducting slab, or isotopic equilibration was reached between fluid and host harzburgite. Chondrite-normalized REE patterns of jadeitite displayed weak U-shaped distribution, with La_N/Yb_N ratios of 0.82-2.42, and very weak positive Eu anomalies (δEu=1.2-1.6). Jadeitite was enriched in Sr, Ba, Zr and Hf and depleted in Nb, relative to primitive mantle values. The initial Sr isotopic compositions of jadeitite ranged from 0.703400 to 0.703519 (t=368 Ma), and the initial Nd-isotope ratios (ε_Nd=+0.77-+5.61) differed from those of ancient ocean water, oceanic sediments and eclogite, metagranite, and metasediments in the nearby Marun-Keu complex. Mineralogical and petrological evidences support jadeitite precipitation from material mainly produced by fluid interaction with mafic-ultramafic rocks in a subduction zone environment.

Key words: jadeitite, jadeite, zircon, geochemistry, fluids in subduction zone, Polar Urals, Russia

CLC Number:

MENG Fancong, BAI Shengjin, Alexander B. MAKEYEV, Ksenia V. KULIKOVA. Genetic mineralogy of jadeitite from Polar Urals, Russia[J]. Earth Science Frontiers, 2020, 27(5): 88-98.

Figures/Tables 4

Fig.1 Simplified geological map of the jaedeitite-bearing Syum-Keu massif and adjacent regions in the Polar Urals. Modified from [34].

Fig.2 Occurrences and generations of Pusyerka jadeitites from the Polar Urals (a adapted from [50] and c and d from [48])

Fig.3 Photomicrographs of Pusyerka jadeitite from the Polar Urals (a, c and d adapted from [51] and b from [50])

Fig.4 CL image of representative zircons from the Pusyerka jadeitite in Polar Ural. Adapted from [50-51].

References 83

[1]	HARLOW G E, SORENSEN S S. Jade (nephrite and jadeitite) and serpentinite: metasomatic connections[J]. International Geology Review, 2005, 47:113-146.
[2]	施光海, 崔文元. 不同产地硬玉岩的共性与个性[J]. 地学前缘, 2000, 7(1):42.
[3]	李旭平, 张立飞. 蛇纹岩体中的硬玉岩与异剥钙榴岩[J]. 岩石学报, 2004, 20(6):1477-1484.
[4]	HARLOW G E, TSUJIMORI T, SORENSEN S S. Jadeitites and plate tectonics[J]. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2015, 43:105-138. DOI URL
[5]	TSUJIMORI T, HARLOW G E. Petrogenetic relationships between jadeitite and associated high-pressure and low-temperature metamorphic rocks in worldwide jadeitite localities: a review[J]. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2012, 24:371-390. DOI URL
[6]	TSUJIMORI T, HARLOW G E. Jadeitite (jadeite jade) from Japan: history, characteristics, and perspectives[J]. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 2017, 112:184-196. DOI URL
[7]	施光海, 崔文元, 王长秋, 等. 缅甸帕敢地区硬玉岩中流体包裹体[J]. 科学通报, 2000, 45(13):1433-1437.
[8]	施光海, 崔文元, 刘晶, 等. 缅甸含硬玉的蛇纹石化橄榄岩及其围岩的岩石学研究[J]. 岩石学报, 2001, 17(3):483-490.
[9]	SHI G H, STOCKHERT B, CUI W Y. Kosmochlor and chromoan jadeite aggregates from Myanmar area[J]. Mineralogical Magazine, 2005, 69:1059-1075. DOI URL
[10]	SHI G H, TROPPER P, CUI W Y, et al. Methane (CH₄)-bearing fluid inclusions in Myanmar jadeites[J]. Geochemical Journal, 2005, 39:503-516. DOI URL
[11]	SHI G H, CUI W Y, CAO S M, et al. Ion microprobe zircon U-Pb age and geochemistry of the Myanmar jadeitite[J]. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 2008, 165:221-234.
[12]	SHI G H, JIANG N, LIU Y. Zircon Hf isotope signature of the depleted mantle in the Myanmar jadeitite: implications for Mesozoic intra-oceanic subduction between the Eastern Indian Plate and the Burmese Platelet[J]. Lithos, 2009, 112:342-350.
[13]	HARLOW G E. Jadeitites, albitites and related rocks from the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala[J]. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 1994, 12:49-68. DOI URL
[14]	JOHNSON C A, HARLOW G H. Guatemala jadeitites and albitites were formed by deuterium-rich serpentinizing fluids within a subduction zone[J]. Geology, 1999, 27(7):629-632. DOI URL
[15]	HARLOW G E, HEMMING S R, LALLEMANT A, et al. Two high-pressure-low-temperature serpentinite-matrix mélange belt, Motagua fault zone, Guatemala: a record of Aptian and Maastrichtian collisions[J]. Geology, 2004, 32(1):17-20. DOI URL
[16]	COLEMAN R G. Jadeite deposit of the Clear Creek area, New Idridistrict, San Benito County, California[J]. Journal of Petrology, 1961, 2(2):209-247. DOI URL
[17]	TSUJIMORI T, LIOU J G, WOODEN J, et al. U-Pb dating of large zircon in low-temperature jadeitite from the Osayama serpentinite melange, Southwest Japan: insights into the timing of Serpentinization[J]. International Geology Review, 2005, 47(11):1048-1057. DOI URL
[18]	MORISHIATA T. Occurrence and chemical composition of barian felspars in a jadeitite from the Itoogawa-Ohmi district in the Renge high-P/T-type metamorphic belt, Japan[J]. Mineralogical Magazine, 2005, 69:39-52. DOI URL
[19]	MORISHITA T, ARAI S, ISHIDA Y. Trace element compositions of jadeite (+omphacite) in jadeitites from the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Japan: implications for fliud processes in subduction zones[J]. Island Arc, 2007, 16:40-56.
[20]	MORKOVKINA V F. Jadeites in the hyperbasites of the Polar Urals[J]. Izvectiya Akademia Nauk SSSR(seriya geologicacheskaya), 1960(4):103-108(in Russian).
[21]	DOBRETSOV N L, PONOMAREVA L G. Comparative characteristics of jadeite and associated rocks from Polar Ural and Prebalkhash region[J]. International Geology Review, 1968, 10:221-242. DOI URL
[22]	OKAY. Jadeite±K-feldspar rocks and jadeitites from northwest Turkey[J]. Mineralogical Magazine, 1997, 61:835-844. DOI URL
[23]	COMPAGNONI R, ROLFO F, MANAVELLA F, et al. Jadeitite in the Monviso meta-ophiolite, Piemonte Zone, Italian western Alps[J]. Periodico di Mineralogia, 2007, 76(2/3):79-89.
[24]	DOBRETSOV N L. Jadeite and the problem of ophiolite[J]. Geology and Geophysics, 1984, 12:80-88(in Russian).
[25]	欧阳秋眉, 曲懿华. 俄罗斯西萨彦岭翡翠矿床特征[J]. 宝石和宝石学杂志, 1999, 1(2):5-11.
[26]	KOVALENKO I V, SVIRIDENKO A F. Tectonic conditions for the formation of the jadeite fields of the Balkhash region and the Polar Urals[J]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universitesta, Geology, 1981, 36:52-59(in Russian).
[27]	KAZAK A P, DOBRETSOV N L, MOLDAVANTSEV Y E. Blueschist, jadeitite, vezuvianite and nephrite from ultramafic massif Rai-Iz[J]. Geology and Geophysics, 1976, (2):60-66(in Russian).
[28]	FISHMAN A M. Gems in the north Ural and Timan[M]. Geoprint, Syktyvkar, 2006: 1-88(in Russian).
[29]	OBERHANSLI R, BOUSQUET R, MOINZADEH H, et al. The field of stability of blue jadeite: a new occurrence of jadeitite at Sorkhan, Iran, as a case study[J]. The Canadian Mineralogist, 2007, 45:1501-1509.
[30]	CARIA-CASCO A, VEGA A R, PARRAGA J C, et al. A New jadeitite jade locality (Sierra del Convento, Cuba): first report and some petrological and archeological implications[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2009, 158:1-16. DOI URL
[31]	SCHERTL H P, MARESCH W V, STANEK K P, et al. New occurrences of jadeitite, jadeite quartzite and jadeite-lawsonite quartzite in the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola: petrological and geochronological overview[J]. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2012, 24(2):199-216. DOI URL
[32]	SORENSEN S, HARLOW G E, RUMBLE D III. The origion of jadeitite-forming subduction-zone fluids: CL-guided SIMS oxygen-isotope and trace-element evidence[J]. American Mineralogist, 2006, 91:979-996. DOI URL
[33]	SAVELIEVA G N, NESBITT R W. A synjournal of the stratigraphic and tectonic setting of the Uralian ophiolites[J]. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 1996, 153:525-537.
[34]	MENG F C, FAN Y Z, SHMELEV V R, et al. Constraints of eclogites from the Marun-Keu metamorphic complex on the tectonic history of the Polar Urals (Russia)[J]. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2020, 187:104087.
[35]	EDWARDS R L, WASSERBURG G J. The age and emplacement of obducted oceanic crust in the Urals from Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr systematics[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1985, 72:389-404.
[36]	UDOVKINA N G. The eclogites of the Polar Urals[M]. Moscow: Nauka Press, 1971: 1-191(in Russian).
[37]	UDOVKINA N G. Eclogites of the SSSR[M]. Moscow: Nauka Press, 1985: 1-285(in Russian).
[38]	DOBRETSOV N L. Blueschists and eclogites: a possible plate tectonic mechanism for their emplacement from the upper mantle[J]. Tectophysics, 1991, 186:253-268. DOI URL
[39]	MOLINA J F, AUSTRHEIM H, GLODNY J, et al. The eclogite of the Marun-Keu complex, Polar Urals (Russia): fluid control on reaction kinetics and metasomatism during high P metamorphism[J]. Lithos, 2002, 61:55-78.
[40]	MOLINA J F, POLI S, AUSTRHEIM H, et al. Eclogite-facies vein systems in the Marun-Keu complex (Polar Urals, Russia): textural, chemical and thermal constraints for patterns of fliud in the lower crust[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2004, 147:484-504. DOI URL
[41]	GLODNY J, AUSTRHEIM H, MOLINA J F, et al. Rb/Sr record of fluid-rock interaction in eclogites: the Marun-Keu complex, Polar Urals, Russia[J]. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2003, 67(22):4353-4371. DOI URL
[42]	SHATSKY V S, SIMONOV V A, JAGOUTZ E, et al. New data on the age of eclogites from the Polar Urals[J]. Doklady Earth Sciences, 2000, 371A:534-538.
[43]	GLODNY J, PEASE V L, MONTERO P, et al. Protolith ages of eclogites, Marun-keu complex, Polar Urals, Russia: implications for the pre-and early Uralian evolution of the northeastern European continental margin[J]. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 2004, 30:87-105. DOI URL
[44]	MAKEYEV A B. Mineralogy of alpine-type ultramafics in the Urals[M]. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1992: 1-195(in Russian).
[45]	GURSKAYA L I, SMELOVA L V. PGE mineral formation and the structure of the Syum-Keu Massif (Polar Urals)[J]. Geology of Ore Deposits, 2003, 45:309-325 (in Russian).
[46]	BRYANCHANINOVA N I, DUBININA E O, MAKEYEV A B. Hydrogen isotope geochemistry of chromite-bearing ultramafic rocks in the Urals[J]. Doklady Earth Sciences, 2004, 395(3):392-396(in Russian).
[47]	ANDREICHEV V L. Isotopic geochronology of ultramafic-mafic and granitic rocks in the eastern slope, Polar Ural, Russia[M]. Syktyvkar: Geoprint, 2004: 1-43(in Russian).
[48]	孟繁聪, МАКЕЕВ А Б, 杨经绥, 等. 俄罗斯极地乌拉尔Сыум-Кеу超基性岩体中的硬玉岩[J]. 岩石学报, 2007, 23(11):2766-2774.
[49]	MAKEYEV A B, BRAYNCHANINOVA N I. Topomineralogy of ultramafics in the Polar Urals[M]. St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1999: 1-122 (in Russian).
[50]	MENG F C, YANG H J, MAKEYEV A B, et al. Jadeitite in the Syum-Keu ultramafic complex from Polar Urals, Russia: insights into fluid activity in subduction zones[J]. European Journal of Mineralogy, 2016, 28:1079-1097. DOI URL
[51]	MENG F C, MAKEYEV A B, YANG J S. Zircon U-Pb dating of jadeitite from the Syum-Keu ultramafic complex, Polar Urals, Russia: constraints for subduction initiation[J]. Journal of Asian Earth Science, 2011, 42:596-606. DOI URL
[52]	MCDONOUGH W F, FREY F A. Rare earth elements in Upper mantle rocks[M]// LIPIN B R, MCKAY G A. Geochemistry and mineralogy of rare earth elements. Reviews in mineralogy, 1989, 21:99-139.
[53]	ROLLINSON H R. Using geochemical data: evaluation, presentation, interpretation[M]. London: Longman Group UK, 1993: 1-343.
[54]	WILSON M. Igneous petrogenesis[M]. London: Chapman & Hall, 1989: 153-190.
[55]	ZINDLER A, HART S R. Chemical geodynamics[J]. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1986, 14:493-571. DOI URL
[56]	DEPAOLO D J. Neodymium isotope geochemistry: an introduction[M]. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1988: 1-181.
[57]	ANDREICHEV V L, RONKIN Y L, SEROV P A, et al. New data on the Precambrian age of Marunkeu eclogites (Polar Urals)[J]. Doklady Earth Sciences, 2007, 413A:347-350.
[58]	YUI T F, MAKI K, USUKI T, et al. Genesis of Guatemala jadeitite and related fluid characteristics: insight from zircon[J]. Chemical Geology, 2010, 270:45-55. DOI URL
[59]	TAKAHASHI N, TSUJIMORI T, CHANG Q, et al. In-situ lithium isotope geochemistry for a veined jadeitite from the New Idria serpentinite body,California: constraints on slab-derived fluid and fluid-rock interaction[J]. Lithos, 2018: 318/319:376-385. DOI URL
[60]	KAWAMOTO T, HERTWIG A, SCHERTL H P, et al. Fluid inclusions in jadeitite and jadeite-rich rock from serpentinite mélanges in northern Hispaniola: trapped ambient fluids in a cold subduction channel[J]. Lithos, 2018, 308/309:227-241. DOI URL
[61]	CHEN A X, LI Y H, CHEN Y, et al. Silicon isotope composition of subduction zone fluids as recorded by jadeitites from Myanmar[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2020, 175:6.
[62]	CHEN Y, HUANG F, SHI G H, et al. Magnesium isotope composition of subduction zone fluids as constrained by jadeitites from Myanmar[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2018, 123:7566-7585.
[63]	SIMONS K K, HARLOW G E, SORENSEN S S, et al. Lithium isotopes in Guatemala and Franciscan HP-LT Rocks: insights into the role of sediment-derived fluids during subduction[J]. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010, 74:3621-3641.
[64]	PEACOCK S M. Fluid processes in subduction zone[J]. Science, 1990, 248:329-336. DOI URL
[65]	SCAMBELLURI M, PHILIPPOT. Deep fluids in subduction zones[J]. Lithos, 2001, 55:213-227. DOI URL
[66]	MANNING C E. The chemistry of subduction-zone fluids[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2004, 223:1-16. DOI URL
[67]	高俊. 古俯冲带的流体作用综述[J]. 地质科技情报, 1997, 16(1):17-22.
[68]	GAO J, KLEMD R. Primary fluids entrapped at blueschist to eclogite transition: evidence from the Tianshan meta-subduction complex in northwestern China[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001, 142:1-14. DOI URL
[69]	GAO J, JOHN T, KLEMD A, et al. Mobilization of Ti-Nb-Ta during subduction: evidence from rutile-bearing dehydration segregations and veins hosted in eclogite, Tianshan, NW China[J]. Geochimica et Cosmoschimica Acta, 2007, 71:4974-4996.
[70]	JOHN T, GAO J, KLEMD A, et al. Trace-element mobilization in slabs due to non steady-state fluid-rock interaction: constraints from an eclogite-facies transport vein in blueschist (Tianshan, China)[J]. Lithos, 2008, 103:1-24. DOI URL
[71]	SHI G H, CUI W Y, TROPPER P, et al. The petrology of a complex sodic and sodic-calcic amphibole association and its implications for the metasomatic processes in the jadeitite area in northwestern Myanmar, formerly Burma[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2003, 145:355-376. DOI URL
[72]	LEI W, SHI D, SANTOSH M, et al. Trace element features of hydrothermal and inherited igneous zircon grains in mantle wedge environment: a case study from the Myanmar jadeitite[J]. Lithos, 2016, 266/267:16-27.
[73]	FU B, VALLEY J W, KITA N T, et al. Multiple origins of zircons in jadeitite[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2010, 159:769-780. DOI URL
[74]	FLORES K E, MARTENS U C, HARLOW G E, et al. Jadeitite formed during subduction: in situ zircon geochronology constraints from two different tectonic events within the Guatemala Suture Zone[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013, 371/372:67-81. DOI URL
[75]	MORI Y, ORIHASHI Y, MIYAMOTO T, et al. Origin of zircon in jadeitite from the Nishisonogi metamorphic rocks, Kyushu, Japan[J]. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2011, 29:673-684. DOI URL
[76]	RUBATTO D. Zircon: the metamorphic mineral[J]. Review in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2017, 83:261-295. DOI URL
[77]	KONOVALOV A L, SERGEEV S A. Towards the age of zircons from jadeitites of Syumkeu ultramafic massif in the Main Uralian Fault zone (Polar Urals)[J]. Regional Geology and Metallogeny, 2015, 64:41-47 (in Russian).
[78]	QIU Z L, WU F Y, YANG S F, et al. Age and genesis of the Myanmar jadeite: constraints from U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes of zircon inclusions[J]. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009, 54:658-668. DOI URL
[79]	YUI T F, FUKUYAMA M, IIZUKA Y, et al. Is Myanmar jadeitite of Jurassic age? A result from incompletely recrystallized inherited zircon[J]. Lithos, 2013, 160/161:268-282.
[80]	HERTWIG A, MCCLELLAND W C, KITAJIMA K. et al. Inherited igneous zircons in jadeitite predate high-pressure metamorphism and jadeitite formation in the Jagua Clara Serpentinite Mélange of the Rio San Juan Complex (Dominican Republic)[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2016, 71:1-26. DOI URL
[81]	SCHERTL H P, HERTWIG A, MARESCH W V. Cathodoluminescence microscopy of zircon in HP-and UHP metamorphic rocks: a fundamental technique for assessing the problem of inclusions versus seudo-inclusions[J]. Journal of Earth Science, 2019, 30:1095-1107. DOI URL
[82]	DODSON M H. Closure temperature in cooling geochronological and petrological systems[J]. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1973, 40:259-274. DOI URL
[83]	BRUECKNER H K, AVE LALLEMANT H G, SISSON V B, et al. Metamorphic reworking of a high pressure-low temperature mélange along the Motagua fault, Guatemala: a record of Necomian and Maastrichtian transpressional tectonics[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2009, 284:228-235. DOI URL