ИСТИНА

Phlogopite is accepted as a major mineral indicator of the modal metasomatism in the upper mantle within a very wide P-T range and fluid/melt compositions. It extensively forms in mantle peridotites transforming initial harzburgites and lherzolites to phlogopite wehrlites both in garnet and spinel-facies. A reaction 5En + Grt + [K2O + 2H2O in fluid] = Phl + Di (Grt – pyrope-grossular garnet CaMg2Al2Si3O12) is considered as the major mechanism for phlogopite formation in garnet-facies peridotites. This reaction is commonly accompanied by regular compositional changes of primary garnet and pyroxenes. In order to illustrate the regularities, we report result of experimental study of the phlogopite-forming reactions in the model systems pyrope-enstatite, grossular-pyrope-enstatite and knorringite-pyrope-enstatite systems in presence of a H2O-KCl fluid at pressure 3 and 5 GPa and temperatures of 900 and 1000°C. The experiments were aimed at the tracing of variations of grossular and knorringite contents in garnet, as well as Al content of pyroxenes, with variations of the KCl content in the fluid.