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    Mantle Meling and the Generation of Basaic Magma erature implies different geothermal Salen reach the solidus and initiate melting ny sre, whereas low T/P gradients initiate meling fee, pressure, Temperature variation ata particular pressure tran. {resto the extent to which the solidus is overstepped wie fess he percentage of partial mel (F) produced. Thi han mort variable at any depuh, What effect will varying ine Jeph and extent of melting have on the pail metic pre, jjeed from aluminous lherzolite? ‘We begin by looking again at the e sn melting. Figure 2 and Reactions (1) and (2) show us ane mmporant pressure effect that causes. pressure-sensitive fanges in the mineralogy of mantle therzolite. Thue al, rough the chemical composition ofthe mantle may be com, srt the mineralogical composition i variable with depth Because minerals are being melted, the fist melt ofa garnet Ihezolite would not be the same asthe first melt ofa plagio. se Therzolite of the same composition, Naturally, rite melting of each would produce an identical melt secause all of the components are then converted. Pressure changes have a differential effect on the melte ng of minerals (as a result of their different compress sigs). This causes a shift in the position of the eutectic rinimum, resulting in different eutectic melt compositions, Figure § shows how the ternary eutectic minimum varies with syessure in the system Ne-Fo-Q. Notice that the eutectic min mum (the composition of the first melt) moves with in. creasing pressure from silica-saturated (tholeiitic) to highly undersaturated and alkaline melts. This shift reflects both the differential effects of compression on the minerals and oressure-controlled mineralogical changes. At 1 atm pres- sure, albite is involved in melting, but at 3 GPa, albite is no Bradients. High 7p fects of pressure Nephetino Volatle-Free (quartz-bearing) tholeitic basalts ostrie az Enstatito IGURE 8 Change in the eutectic (first melt) composition th increasing pressure from 1 to 3 GPa, projected onto the 3¢ ofthe basalt tetrahedron. All but the lov-T ends of *e

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