Journal of Petrology Advance Access originally published online on December 4, 2007
Journal of Petrology 2008 49(4):717-740; doi:10.1093/petrology/egm073
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Sediment Melts at Sub-arc Depths: an Experimental Study
1Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia
2Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, CH-3012 Switzerland
RECEIVED APRIL 30, 2007; ACCEPTED OCTOBER 16, 2007
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The phase and melting relations in subducted pelites have been investigated experimentally at conditions relevant for slabs at sub-arc depths (T = 600–1050°C, P = 2·5–4·5 GPa). The fluid-present experiments produced a dominant paragenesis consisting of garnet–phengite–clinopyroxene–coesite–kyanite that coexists with a fluid phase at run conditions. Garnet contains detectable amounts of Na2O (up to 0·5 wt%), P2O5 (up to 0·56 wt%), and TiO2 (up to 0·9 wt%) in all experiments. Phengite is stable up to 1000°C at 4·5 GPa and is characterized by high TiO2 contents of up to 2 wt%. The solidus has been determined at 700°C, 2·5 GPa and is situated between 700 and 750°C at 3·5 GPa. At 800°C, 4·5 GPa glass was present in the experiments, indicating that at such conditions a hydrous melt is stable. In contrast, at 700°C, 3·5 and 4·5 GPa, a solute-rich, non-quenchable aqueous fluid was present. This indicates that the solidus is steeply sloping in P–T space. Fluid-present (vapour undersaturated) partial melting of the pelites occurs according to a generalized reaction phengite + omphacite + coesite + fluid = melt + garnet. The H2O content of the produced melt decreases with increasing temperature. The K2O content of the melt is buffered by phengite and increases with increasing temperature from 2·5 to 10 wt%, whereas Na2O decreases from 7 to 2·3 wt%. Hence, the melt compositions change from trondhjemitic to granitic with increasing temperature. The K2O/H2O increases strongly as a function of temperature and nature of the fluid phase. It is 0·0004–0·002 in the aqueous fluid, and then increases gradually from about 0·1 at 750–800°C to about 1 at 1000°C in the hydrous melt. This provides evidence that hydrous melts are needed for efficient extraction of K and other large ion lithophile elements from subducted sediments. Primitive subduction-related magmas typically have K2O/H2O of 
0·1–0·4, indicating that hydrous melts rather than aqueous fluids are responsible for large ion lithophile element transfer in subduction zones and that top-slab temperatures at sub-arc depths are likely to be 700–900°C.
KEY WORDS: experimental petrology; pelite; subduction; UHP metamorphism; fluid; LILE
*Corresponding author. Telephone: ++61 2 6125 8842. E-mail: joerg.hermann{at}anu.edu.au
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