• journal_title：American Mineralogist
• Contributor：Shyh-Lung Hwang ; Tzen-Fu Yui ; Hao-Tsu Chu ; Pouyan Shen ; Yoshiyuki Iizuka ; Houng-Yi Yang ; Jingsui Yang ; Zhiqin Xu
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of America
• Date：2008-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.2138/am.2008.2784
• journal_abbrev：American Mineralogist
• issn：0003-004X
• volume：93
• issue：7
• firstpage：1051
• section：Articles

Analytical electron microscopic observations have been carried out on a garnet peridotite from the Maobei area, Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane. The results showed that olivine in this garnet peridotite (5.3–6.6 GPa; 853–957 °C), contains precipitates of chromian magnetite and chromian-titanian hematite at dislocations and (001) faults. Specific crystallographic relationships were determined between these precipitates and the olivine host, viz. [101]_Mt//[001]_Ol, [110]_Mt//[01̅1]_Ol, and [01̅1]_Mt//[011]_Ol; and [0001]_Hm//[100]_Ol and [101̅0]_Hm//[001]_Ol. These oriented oxides are not associated with silicate/silica phases and therefore cannot be accounted for by the mechanism of olivine oxidation. It is postulated that these magnetite and hematite precipitates most likely have resulted from dehydrogenation-oxidation of nominally anhydrous mantle olivine during rock exhumation. In view of the contrasting diffusion rates of H and Fe in the olivine lattice, it is suggested that the formation process might actually take place in steps. Hydrogen diffusion with concomitant quantitative oxidation of Fe²⁺ to Fe³⁺ in olivine occurred early during initial rock exhumation and was followed by slow Fe diffusion forming magnetite/hematite at stacking faults and dislocations within the olivine lattice. Two requirements are essential under such a scenario: an ample amount of H content of the olivine, and an appropriate exhumation rate, probably in the range of 6–11 mm/year, of the host rock. It is also noted that such dehydrogenation-oxidation processes may hamper a correct estimate of the actual P-T conditions and mantle oxidation state based on mineral chemistries present in mantle eclogite/peridotite. The present study demonstrates that oriented mineral inclusions may not necessarily form through exsolution processes sensu stricto, but may form through a series of more complicated reaction mechanisms.