Extremely low-Ni olivine as a tracer of carbonate-rich sediment recycling beneath the southwestern Okinawa Trough
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Abstract
Carbonate recycling in subduction zones has a strong influence on arc magmatism and carbon reservoirs in the mantle. However, geochemical evidence of carbonate recycling during subduction, especially at sub-arc depths, is rare and the related process is poorly understood. In this study, we document high-Mg olivines (81–91 mol.% forsterite) with extremely low Ni concentrations (mostly <600 ppm), which occur in host dacites recovered from the southwestern Okinawa Trough (SWOT). The temperature–pressure of crystallization had a negligible effect on the Ni contents of the olivines, and reactions between primary basaltic magmas and the lithospheric mantle were also insignificant. Small sulphide droplets are present in the olivines, which suggest that sulphide–silicate melt immiscibility occurred during the early stages of magmatic evolution. Although early segregation of sulphide melts could reduce the Ni contents of the primitive magmas, our forward modelling suggests that sulphide segregation cannot solely explain the low Ni contents. Therefore, the most likely explanation for low Ni concentrations is the interaction between Ca-rich carbonate melts and the mantle wedge, forming an olivine-rich mantle source by consumption of orthopyroxene, as indicated by the extremely low Ni/Mg and high Ca/Fe ratios of magmatic olivines. Given that the SWOT is located just ~100 km above the Wadati–Benioff zone, our results provide rare evidence for carbonate recycling at sub-arc depths in an active subduction zone.
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