Origin of megacrysts by carbonate-bearing metasomatism – A case study for the Muskox kimberlite, Slave craton, Canada.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Low-Cr and high-Cr clinopyroxene, garnet, olivine, and ilmenite megacrysts from the Muskox kimberlite (Canada) have been analyzed for major and trace elements, as well as Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes. Samples display compositional overlap with respective phases in websterite, while clinopyroxene isotope systematics reveal similarities with both websteritic and metasomatic clinopyroxene in peridotites from the same kimberlite, in addition to Muskox and Jericho kimberlite. All lithologies may represent the products of mixing between EM1 mantle, relic Proterozoic enriched mantle and HIMU carbonatitic fluid. Equilibrium melts calculated from clinopyroxene trace element data using experimental distribution coefficients for feasible proto kimberlitic melts yield a range of possible metasomatic agents. Conclusion on the carbonate bearing nature of the metasomatism was based on the presence of a HIMU isotopic signature and results obtained from thermodynamic modeling using the Deep Earth Water model. The latter shows that mineral compositions analogous to megacrysts cannot be produced by metasomatism of mantle peridotite by H<sub>2</sub>O-rich kimberlitic fluids, or fluids in equilibrium with either asthenospheric or eclogitic mantle. Isotope systematics argue against a strictly cognate relationship between megacrysts and their host kimberlite, instead suggesting megacrysts and websterites may represent products of regional metasomatism by carbonatitic HIMU fluids shortly predating kimberlite magmatism.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".