Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley-Blackwell
Résumé : Pervasive melting of the middle crust, as inferred in Tibet and the Altiplano, probably influences the deformation of the lithosphere. To constrain strain distribution in a pervasively molten crust, we analysed the deformation in an eroded analogue of these orogens. The Ribeira-Araçuaí orogen (SE Brazil) comprises a stack of allochthons containing large volumes of anatectic and magmatic rocks. The upper allochton (∼300 km long, 50–100 km wide and >10 km thick) involves peraluminous diatexites and leucogranites resulting from partial melting of the middle crust. It overlies another allochthon containing huge early- to syn-collisional plutons intruding metasediments. Both anatexites and magmatic intrusions display a pervasive strain-induced magmatic fabric. Homogeneous strain distribution suggests inefficient localization. U–Pb ages of ∼575 Ma imply that anatexite melting was synchronous to the early- to syn-collisional magmatism. Similarity in ages magmatic and solid-state fabrics indicates that intrusions and anatexites deformed coherently with solid-state rocks while still molten, in response to a combination of gravity-driven and collision-driven deformation.
ISSN: 0954-4879

hal-00404915
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00404915
DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00747.x

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley-Blackwell
Résumé : International audience
Garnet growth in high-pressure, mafic garnet granulites formed by dehydration melting of hornblende-gabbronorite protoliths in the Jijal complex (Kohistan palaeo-island arc complex, north Pakistan) was investigated through a microstructural EBSD-SEM and HRTEM study. Composite samples preserve a sharp transition in which the low-pressure precursor is replaced by garnet through a millimetre-sized reaction front. A magmatic foliation in the gabbronorite is defined by mafic-rich layering, with an associated magmatic lineation defined by the shape-preferred orientation (SPO) of mafic clusters composed of orthopyroxene (Opx), clinopyroxene (Cpx), amphibole (Amp) and oxides. The shape of the reaction front is convoluted and oblique to the magmatic layering. Opx, Amp and, to a lesser extent, Cpx show a strong lattice-preferred orientation (LPO) characterized by an alignment of [001] axes parallel to the magmatic lineation in the precursor hornblende-gabbronorite. Product garnet (Grt) also displays a strong LPO. Two of the four < 111 > axes are within the magmatic foliation plane and the density maximum is subparallel to the precursor magmatic lineation. The crystallographic relationship < 111 >(Grt)//[001](Opx,Cpx,Amp) deduced from the LPO was confirmed by TEM observations. The sharp and discontinuous modal and compositional variations observed at the reaction front attest to the kinetic inhibition of prograde solid-state reactions predicted by equilibrium-phase diagrams. The P-T field for the equilibration of Jijal garnet granulites shows that the reaction affinities are 5-10 kJ mol.(-1) for the Grt-in reaction and 0-5 kJ mol.(-1) for the Opx-out reaction. Petrographic and textural observations indicate that garnet first nucleated on amphibole at the rims of mafic clusters; this topotactic replacement resulted in a strong LPO of garnet. Once the amphibole was consumed in the reaction, the parallelism of [001] axes of the mafic-phase reactants favoured the growth of garnet crystals with similar orientations over a pyroxene substrate. These aggregates eventually sintered into single-crystal garnet. In the absence of deformation, the orientation of mafic precursor phases conditioned the nucleation site and the crystallographic orientation of garnet because of topotaxial transformation reactions and homoepitaxial growth of garnet during the formation of high-pressure, mafic garnet-granulite after low-pressure mafic protoliths.
ISSN: 0263-4929

hal-00411323
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00411323
DOI : 10.1111/J.1525-1314.2008.00789.x

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
2012 IEEE AP-S International Symposium
Chicaco, United States

hal-01187992
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01187992
DOI : 10.1109/APS.2012.6348672

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : Differentiation of the Earth's mantle and formation of continental and oceanic crust occur principally through partial melting and extraction of basaltic melt. Among the mantle rocks occurring at the Earth's surface, as tectonically-emplaced massifs, abyssal peridotites or xenoliths, the harzburgites (< 5% clinopyroxene) are widely considered as refractory mantle residues left after extraction of a basaltic component. In contrast, the most fertile lherzolites (15% clinopyroxene) are generally regarded as pristine mantle, only weakly affected by partial melting. In this paper we present new convergent structural and geochemical data from the Lherz massif, the type-locality of lherzolite, indicating that the lherzolites from Lherz do not represent pristine mantle. Detailed structural mapping clearly shows that the lherzolites are secondary rocks formed at the expense of the harzburgites. Variations of major, minor and trace elements through the harzburgite–lherzolite contacts indicate that the lherzolites were formed through a refertilization process involving interaction of refractory, lithospheric mantle with upwelling asthenospheric partial melts. Combined with previously published indications of refertilization in orogenic peridotites, our new observations in Lherz suggest that most lherzolite massifs represent secondary (refertilized) rather than pristine mantle. Together with geochemical data on mantle xenoliths, this indicates that melt transport and melt-rock reaction play a key role on the rejuvenation and erosion of the lithospheric mantle.
ISSN: 0012-821X

hal-00406433
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00406433
DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.026

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Oxford University Press (OUP)
Résumé : International audience
Two types of olivine occur in kimberlites from Greenland, Canada and southern Africa. The first, xenocrystic olivine, displays several different forms. Most distinctive are 'nodules', a term we use to describe the large (1-5 mm), rounded, single crystals or polycrystalline aggregates that are a common constituent of many kimberlites. Olivine compositions are uniform within single nodules but vary widely from nodule to nodule, from Fo81 to 93. Within many nodules, sub- to euhedral asymmetric tablets have grown within larger anhedral olivine grains. Dislocation structures, particularly in the anhedral grains, demonstrate that this olivine was deformed before being incorporated into the kimberlite magma. Olivine grains in the kimberlite matrix between the nodules have morphologies similar to those of the tablets, suggesting that most matrix olivine grains are parts of disaggregated nodules. We propose that a sub- to euhedral form is not sufficient to identify phenocrysts in kimberlites and provide some criteria, based on morphology, internal deformation and composition, that distinguish phenocrysts from xenocrysts. The second type of olivine is restricted to rims surrounding xenocrystic grains. Only this olivine crystallized from the kimberlite magma. Major and trace element data for the rim olivine are used to calculate the composition of the parental kimberlite liquid, which is found to contain between about 20 and 30% MgO. The bulk compositions of many kimberlites contain higher MgO contents as a result of the presence of xenocrystic olivine. The monomineralic, dunitic, character of the nodules, and the wide range from Fo-rich to Fo-poor olivine compositions, provide major constraints on the origin of the nodules. Dunite is a relatively rare rock in the mantle and where present its olivine is persistently Fo-rich. The dunitic source of the nodules in kimberlites lacked minerals such as pyroxene and an aluminous phase, which make up about half of most mantle-derived rocks. It appears that these minerals were removed from the mantle peridotite that was to become the source of the nodules, and the Fo content of the retained olivine was modified during interaction with CO2-rich fluids whose arrival at the base of the lithosphere immediately preceded the passage of the kimberlite magmas. Fragments of the resultant dunite were entrained into the kimberlite, where they were retained both as intact nodules and as disaggregated grains in the matrix.
ISSN: 0022-3530

insu-00543321
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00543321
BIBCODE : 10.1093/petrology/egp080
DOI : 10.1093/petrology/egp080

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
ISSN: 0012-821X

hal-00380865
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00380865
DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.020

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley-Blackwell
Résumé : International audience
The frequently observed parallelism between rifts and the pre­ existing orogenic fabric of continents suggests that the inherited tectonic fabric of the lithosphere influences the rupture of continents. We propose that the existence of a pervasive fabric in the lithospheric mantle induces an anisotropie strength in the lithosphere, that guides the propagation of continental rifts. Subcrustal mantle mechanical anisotropy is supported by (i) the anisotropie strength of olivine, (ii) an ubiquitous tectonic fabric in exposed mantle rocks, and (iii) measurements of seismic and electrical anisotropy. During major episodes of continent Rifting parallel to orogenic belts Ocean-opening through rifting and continent break-up is frequently related to the occurrence ofhotspots. There is, howevcr, a discrepancy between hot­ spots acting as pin point sources of heat and the linear extent of rifts over thou­ sands ofkilometres. Moreover rifts tend to parallel pre-existing orogenic fab­
ISSN: 0954-4879

hal-01389721
http://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-01389721
http://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-01389721/document
http://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-01389721/file/Vauchez_TerraNova1997_hal.pdf
DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1997.tb00003.x

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag
Résumé : International audience
Pituitary adenomas are currently classified by histological, immunocytochemical and numerous ultrastructural characteristics lacking unequivocal prognostic correlations. We investigated the prognostic value of a new clinicopathological classification with grades based on invasion and proliferation. This retrospective multicentric case-control study comprised 410 patients who had surgery for a pituitary tumour with long-term follow-up. Using pituitary magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis of cavernous or sphenoid sinus invasion, immunocytochemistry, markers of the cell cycle (Ki-67, mitoses) and p53, tumours were classified according to size (micro, macro and giant), type (PRL, GH, FSH/LH, ACTH and TSH) and grade (grade 1a: non-invasive, 1b: non-invasive and proliferative, 2a: invasive, 2b: invasive and proliferative, and 3: metastatic). The association between patient status at 8-year follow-up and age, sex, and classification was evaluated by two multivariate analyses assessing disease- or recurrence/progression-free status. At 8 years after surgery, 195 patients were disease-free (controls) and 215 patients were not (cases). In 125 of the cases the tumours had recurred or progressed. Analyses of disease-free and recurrence/progression-free status revealed the significant prognostic value (p < 0.001; p < 0.05) of age, tumour type, and grade across all tumour types and for each tumour type. Invasive and proliferative tumours (grade 2b) had a poor prognosis with an increased probability of tumour persistence or progression of 25- or 12-fold, respectively, as compared to non-invasive tumours (grade 1a). This new, easy to use clinicopathological classification of pituitary endocrine tumours has demonstrated its prognostic worth by strongly predicting the probability of post-operative complete remission or tumour progression and so could help clinicians choose the best post-operative therapy.
ISSN: 0001-6322

hal-00875723
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00875723
DOI : 10.1007/s00401-013-1084-y
PUBMED : 23400299

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
Before attaining the mantle wedge, where they trigger partial melting, volatiles released from dehydration reactions in the slab have to migrate across a relatively cold (<750 degrees C), peridotite-layer above the incoming slab. In order to unravel the mechanisms allowing for this initial stage of fluid transport, we performed a detailed field and microstructural study of metamorphic prograde peridotites in the Cerro del Almirez ultramafic massif (Betic Cordillera, Spain), where evidences of one of the most important dehydration reactions in subduction zones, the high-pressure antigorite breakdown (P = 1.6-1.9 GPa and T approximate to 680 degrees C), can be mapped in the field. This reaction led to arborescent growth of centimeter-size olivine and orthopyroxene, producing a chlorite-harzburgite with a spinifex-like texture. Microstructural observations and crystal preferred (CPO) mapping show no evidences of solid-state deformation during the prograde growth of olivine and orthopyroxene at the expenses of antigorite. However, a few tens to a hundred meters away from the reaction front, the metamorphic texture is partially obliterated by grain-size reduction in roughly planar conjugate zones, a few mm to meters wide. Grain size reduction zones (GSRZ) are characterized by (1) sharp contacts with undeformed spinifex-like texture domains, (2) important reduction of the olivine grain size (60-250 mu m), (3) olivine color change from brownish to colorless, (4) decrease in the modal amount of orthopyroxene, and (5) at the mm- to cm-scale, irregular shapes and abrupt terminations. Field and microstructural observations exclude that relative displacement took place across these GSRZ. Changes in modal composition imply reactions with fluids undersaturated in silica. Analysis of olivine crystal-preferred orientations (CPO) in GSRZ shows patterns similar, but more dispersed, than those in neighboring spinifex-like domains. It also reveals mm- to cm-scale discrete domains with rather homogeneous crystallographic orientations suggesting inheritance from the preexisting spinifex-like olivines in the host peridotite. Misorientation angles between neighboring grains in the GSRZ show peaks at similar to 5-10 degrees and similar to 20 degrees, but rotations are not crystallographically controlled. Based on these observations, we rule out the formation of the GSRZ by dynamic recrystallization during dislocation creep and propose that they record brittle deformation (microcraking) of the spinifex-like chlorite-harzburgite, probably induced by hydrofracturing at high pressure and relative low temperature conditions (680-710 degrees C). High-pressure hydrofracturing can, thus, be invoked as an efficient mechanism for fluid flow across the cold top-slab mantle layer, hence allowing the slab-derived fluids to ingress in the wedge.
ISSN: 0012-821X

hal-00534035
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00534035
DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.029

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Oxford University Press (OUP)
Résumé : International audience
The mantle above a subducting slab is the site of complex interactions between deformation, partial melting, fluid migration and magma transport. To constrain these interactions and their effects on olivine deformation, we analyze microstructures, crystal preferred orientations, and water contents of peridotite xenoliths entrained by andesites of the Avacha volcano, southern Kamchatka arc. These xenoliths are refractory spinel harzburgites that have coarse-grained microstructures with widely spaced subgrain boundaries and sinuous grain boundaries in olivine, consistent with deformation by dislocation creep under low deviatoric stress (< 13 MPa) and with a significant contribution from diffusional processes. Analysis of crystal preferred orientations (CPO) indicates dominant activation of high-temperature, low-stress {0kl}[100] slip systems in olivine and of(100)[001] in orthopyroxene. In most samples, coarse opx crystals, elongated parallel to the lineation, enclose small olivine grains in crystallographic continuity with neighbouring crystals, indicating crystallization of orthopyroxene at the expense of olivine as a result of reactive percolation of Si-rich fluids coeval with the high-temperature deformation. Secondary crystallization of interstitial orthopyroxene led locally to development of opx-rich lenses parallel to the foliation, characterized by a decrease in olivine grain size and dispersion of the olivine CPO without changing the dominant slip systems. Half of the samples also show acicular orthopyroxene aggregates with which is associated a fine-grained matrix composed of rounded strain-free olivine, orthopyroxene, spinel, and rare amphibole crystals. This matrix occurs pervasively along grain boundaries or forms millimeter-scale irregular lenses and anastomosing veinlets that crosscut the coarse crystals and their ductile deformation structures. Both acicular orthopyroxene and the fine-grained matrix are interpreted as resulting from reactive transport of H2O-rich fluids under static conditions, probably in the lithospheric mantle. Infrared analyses show that olivine contains 1-8 center dot 6 ppm by weight of water. These low water contents are similar to those observed in spinel peridotites from other subduction zones and probably record both the low solubility of water in olivine at low pressure and dehydration during exhumation of the xenoliths. Water contents in orthopyroxene are highly variable (25-506 ppm H2O), probably recording spatially heterogeneous interaction with fluids or melts and compositional disequilibrium in the studied samples. Change in the dominant percolation mechanism from porous flow to fracturing suggests cooling, consistent with the low temperatures estimated from pyroxene thermometry (< 800-900 degrees C). The Avacha xenoliths therefore record pervasive deformation of a region of the mantle under asthenospheric conditions, followed by its accretion to the base of the lithosphere, probably as a result of cooling of the mantle wedge. Percolation of Si-rich fluids or hydrous melts is recorded at all stages; this probably enhanced diffusion and lowered deviatoric stresses during ductile deformation, but did not change the dominant slip direction in olivine from [100] to [001].
ISSN: 0022-3530

hal-00456053
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00456053
DOI : 10.1093/petrology/egp085

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Oxford University Press (OUP)
Résumé : International audience
Mantle-derived xenoliths hosted by melilitite lavas from In Teria (Ahaggar, SE Algeria) include garnet and spinel peridotites, pyroxenite and phlogopite megacrysts. The spinel and garnet peridotites record an early deformation event, which formed porphyroclastic microstructures and olivine crystal preferred orientations, followed by static infiltration of hydrous alkaline melts. This metasomatic stage (stage 1) is characterized by the crystallization of phlogopite in the garnet and spinel peridotites, amphibole in the spinel peridotites and clinopyroxene in the garnet peridotite, which record chemical equilibration with an alkaline silicate melt. These early events were largely overprinted by carbonatitic metasomatism (stage 2), which is observed only in the spinel peridotites. Spinel peridotite major and trace element compositions, as well as the compositions of newly formed minerals, are characteristic of interaction with carbonate melt, associated with strong enrichment in incompatible trace elements in clinopyroxene. This second stage was followed by crystallization of pyroxenites (stage 3) in vein conduits, probably segregated from alkaline melts. We propose a scenario in which the different metasomatic imprints record successive stages of interaction between lithospheric mantle and sublithospheric melts throughout the Cenozoic. In Sr–Nd isotope space, the host melilitites and several xenoliths are clustered and plot close to the HIMU mantle end-member. However, some peridotite xenoliths are shifted towards more radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values. In 207Pb/204Pb–206Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb–06Pb/204Pb space the In Teria samples define a relatively large domain characterized by high 206Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb, consistent with a contribution of an HIMU component, considered to represent a sublithospheric signature. The highest 87Sr/86Sr values are comparable with those ascribed to the EM1 mantle end-member, representing the signature of the lower continental lithosphere, and are probably inherited from the pre-metasomatic lithospheric mantle beneath In Teria. Numerical modelling of porous percolation of melt of sublithospheric origin through an EM1-like lithospheric mantle protolith reproduces the In Teria peridotite compositions, using moderately sub-chondritic Sr/Nd values for the peridotite (e.g. In Teria garnet peridotite) and moderately super-chondritic Sr/Nd values in the melt (approximately ocean island basalt values). A few spinel peridotites require a component characterized by a 143Nd/144Nd signature higher than both the EM1 end-member and the local Ahaggar basalts; the 208Pb/204Pb compositions of several samples point to a component with a depleted mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) mantle (DMM) signature. Thus the lithospheric mantle beneath In Teria probably did not have a uniform EM1 signature before the onset of metasomatism; it included a DMM peridotite component as well as some peridotites with elevated 143Nd/144Nd values recording long-term LREE depletion.
ISSN: 0022-3530

hal-01356781
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01356781
DOI : 10.1093/petrology/egw009

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD AGU and the Geochemical Society
Résumé : International audience
How reliable are shear wave splitting measurements as a means of determining mantle flow direction? This remains a topic of debate, especially in the context of subduction. The answer hinges on whether our current understanding of mineral physics provides enough to accurately translate between seismic observations and mantle deformation. Here, we present an integrated model to simulate strain-history-dependent texture development and estimate resulting shear wave splitting in subduction environments. We do this for a mantle flow model that, in its geometry, approximates the double-sided Molucca Sea subduction system in Eastern Indonesia. We test a single-sided and a double-sided subduction case. Results are compared to recent splitting measurements of this region by Di Leo et al. (2012a). The setting lends itself as a case study, because it is fairly young and, therefore, early textures from the slab's descent from the near surface to the bottom of the mantle transition zone--which we simulate in our models--have not yet been overprinted by subsequent continuous steady state flow. Second, it allows us to test the significance of the double-sided geometry, i.e., the need for a rear barrier to achieve trench-parallel subslab mantle flow. We demonstrate that although a barrier amplifies trench-parallel subslab anisotropy due to mantle flow, it is not necessary to produce trench-parallel fast directions per se. In a simple model of A-type olivine lattice-preferred orientation and one-sided subduction, trench-parallel fast directions are produced by a combination of simple shear and extension through compression and pure shear in the subslab mantle.
ISSN: 1525-2027

hal-01053506
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01053506
DOI : 10.1002/2013GC005032