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The role and conditions of liquid immiscibility or crystallization of sulfide phase during evolution of subduction-related magmas remains a debated topic, which bears relevance to the genesis of porphyry copper deposits and evolution of the continental crust. We studied rare volcanic rocks with inclusions of magmatic sulfides in olivine—the basalts of Medvezhya Mount in the Avachinsky group of volcanoes. The rocks belong to primitive (Mg# = 66 mol %) middle-K island-arc olivine basalts. Olivine with normal zoning predominates (~98%) among phenocrysts. The olivine compositions are typical for Kamchatka basalts, except for an unusual trend of increase of MnO content from 0.20 to 0.55 wt % and decrease of Fe/Mn from 60 to 35 with a change of olivine composition from Fo_87.8 to Fo_78.2. Olivine of this group contains numerous inclusions of spinel-group minerals varying in composition from chromium spinel to magnesian magnetite. Olivine phenocrysts with sulfide inclusions are characterized by the absence of or weak reverse zoning and reduced contents of Ca, Ni, Mn, Cr, and Al. The estimated crystallization temperatures are 1036–1241°C for olivine of the prevailing type and 1010–1062°C for sulfide-bearing olivine. The data suggest that crystallization of the main olivine population occurred under relatively shallow conditions and was accompanied by strong magma oxidation. On the contrary, the zoning pattern and compositional features of sulfide-bearing olivine suggest its xenogenic origin and the probable crystallization under deep-crustal conditions from low-temperature water-rich and/or low-Ca magmas. The results obtained confirm the possibility of saturation of oxidized island-arc magmas with sulfide phase at lower crustal conditions, but show that this process is rare and not typical for low-pressure crystallization stage.

In 2021, a unique event occurred on Klyuchevskoy volcano (Kamchatka). After over 30-year prevalence of summit eruptions, a flank vent was formed. It was named after the Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences G.S. Gorshkov. The eruption began immediately after the end of the summit crater activation in 2020–2021 at an altitude of 2850 m in the northwestern part of the volcano, where manifestations of flank volcanism were not observed earlier. This paper presents geochemical and isotopic Sr–Nd–Pb–O data on lavas of the summit and flank eruptions of Klyuchevskoy volcano in 2020–2021. A comparative petrographic analysis was carried out and the chemical composition of the Ol, Cpx, and Pl phenocrysts in these lavas was analyzed. The lavas of both eruptions are alumina andesitic basalts of normal alkalinity. Variations of major oxides in the lavas of the summit eruption and G.S. Gorshkov vent are SiO₂ 53.1–53.2 wt % and 51.6–53.2 wt %, MgO 5.6 wt % and 5.5–6.0 wt %; respectively. Temperature and pressure estimates showed that plagioclase crystallization occurred at 1210–1118°С and 12.3–3.6 kbar in lavas of the summit eruption and at 1203–1119°С and 9.0–3.3 kbar in lavas of the flank vent. The contents of major elements, similar conditions of plagioclase generations and compositional variations of Ol, Cpx, and Pl phenocrysts in the lavas of both eruptions indicate a genetic relationship of the magmas that fed the summit and flank eruptions. The lavas of the 2016 and 2020–2021 summit eruptions, as well as the lavas of the previous summit eruptions of Klyuchevskoy volcano are characterized by the persistent Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic characteristics: ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.703625–0.703626, ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd = 0.513085–0.513102, ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 18.3148–18.3179. Isotopic ratios ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb (15.5022–15.5107) and ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb (37.9597–38.0143) are significantly higher for the lavas of the last summit and flank eruptions than for all Klyuchevskoy lavas of the past eruptions, which indicates more complex magma evolution at crustal levels. The values of δ¹⁸O = 6.49–7.39‰ (SMOW)-in the lavas of the considered eruptions are consistent with previously published data on Klyuchevskoy volcano. The lavas of the Gorshkov vent are enriched with Ba, Zr, Sr and other incompatible elements at constant MgO values in comparison with the lavas of the last summit eruptions, which points to the different evolutionary paths of their magmas. Sharply increased values of the ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio (0.703673–0.703743) in the lavas of the G.S. Gorshkov vent, which were not previously observed in the lavas of Klyuchevskoy volcano, testify to the intense crustal assimilation of initial melts in the northwestern part of the volcano.

Bezymianny volcano eruptions transport numerous xenoliths to the surface. Crustal xenoliths contain unique information about the crust structure and composition of crustal rocks located around the active magmatic system. We describe the chemical and mineral composition of upper crustal xenoliths that pyrometamorphosed (recrystallized and partially melted) in the Bezymianny shallow chamber. We reconstructed protoliths and hydrothermal processes for several rocks, which were previously altered, based on pre-pyrometamorhic relics (primary igneous associations in some xenoliths and rare hydrothermal relics). Moderate-K andesites, basaltic andesites, and basalts of Kamen and Bezymianny volcanoes dominate among the xenoliths. During pyrometamorphism, a microgranoblastic assemblage composed of homogenous pyroxenes, plagioclase, Fe-Ti oxides, and interstitial glass is formed in these xenoliths. Less common xenoliths are presented by high-K basaltic trachyandesite (plateau basalt from the basement of the Klyuchevskaya group of volcanoes). Quartz–carbonate–sulfide mineralization is present in some of them, which formed prior to xenolith entrapment and pyrometamorphism. When xenoliths were entrapped by magma, recrystallization of hydrothermally altered rock produced Fe-wollastonite–hedenbergite association (in some cases with garnet), untypical for Bezymianny. Some of these xenoliths have extremely high copper content (up to 1500 ppm).

The paper presents geochemical and isotopic characteristics of Neoarchean (2.7–2.66 Ga) mafic granulites of the Sharyzhalgay uplift in the southwestern Siberian craton. Mafic and predominant felsic granulites compose fragments of the metamorphic complex among the Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic granitoids. The mafic granulites are characterized by the mineral association Cpx + Pl ± Hbl ± Opx ± Qz and include two types with different major and immobile trace element contents. The dominant rocks of the first type have a wide range of Mg# and concentrations of TiO₂ and immobile trace elements (REE, Zr, Nb), and mainly positive ε_Nd(Т) values. The first type of mafic granulites show elevated (La/Sm)_n and enrichment in Th and LREE relative to Nb, which is typical of subduction-related or crustally contaminated basalts. The absence of negative correlation between (La/Sm)_n and ε_Nd(Т) and a clear positive correlation of TiO₂ with Nb testify against the effect of crustal contamination on the composition of the mafic granulites. The magmatic protoliths of the first type of mafic granulites are suggested to form by the melting of depleted peridotites of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle modified by melts derived from basalts or terrigenous sediments of the subducting plate. Mafic granulites of the second type have a narrower range of Mg#, TiO₂ content, positive ε_Nd(Т), flat rare earth patterns and no subduction signatures, which indicates an asthenospheric depleted mantle source. Mafic granulites contaminated by the Paleoarchean crust are characterized by increased (La/Sm)_n, depletion in Nb relative to Th and LREE, and negative ε_Nd(Т) values. Post-magmatic influence of granitoids leads to the enrichment of mafic granulites in biotite and apatite, an increase in concentrations of K₂O, P₂O₅, a significant enrichment in Zr, Nb, Th, LREE, and negative ε_Nd(Т) values. The difference between mafic granulites of the first and second types is not related to crustal contamination, but is caused by melting of two types of sources: asthenospheric and subcontinental lithospheric mantle. The subcontinental lithospheric mantle of the Irkut block was isotopically depleted at the Neoarchean time (∼2.7 Ga), and its enrichment in incompatible trace elements was likely caused by felsic melts generated from the rocks of subducting plate immediately prior to mafic magmatism.

The processes of crystallization differentiation, retrograde isotopic exchange, and autometamorphism are considered with reference to the Eocene granites of the Raumid massif, which consists of eight intrusive phases and serves as an example of a “natural laboratory”. The work is based on oxygen isotope, petrographic, and geochemical study of representative samples from each intrusive phase of the massif. The isotopic and geochemical studies were carried out for all rock-forming minerals (Qz, Pl, Kfs, Bt) and their altered varieties. Based on geochemical features, the Raumid granites correspond both to A-type granites and to highly fractionated I-type granites. Our results show that the rocks of the Raumid massif are not the geochemical analog of the Eocene granitoids from the Qiangtang terrane of the Central Tibet or the Vanj complex, as it previously assumed (Chapman et al., 2018). We estimated that differentiation of felsic melts of the Raumid pluton occurred at T = 750–800°C, and P = 4.5–7.8 kbar and was mainly controlled by Pl crystallization. The melts were intruded into the hypabyssal zone in at least two stages: early (γ1–γ3) and late (γ4–γ8), although it is possible that the rocks of the γ7 and γ8 phases formed an additional separate stage. The closure temperature of the oxygen isotopic system of quartz (T_Qz) ranges from 420 to 610°C. The effect of the multiple intrusions of the melts on the T_Qz and apparent cooling rates is considered. The study of altered and unaltered minerals showed that autometamorphism partially overlapped with the retrograde oxygen isotope exchange in the cooling rock. The modelled δ¹⁸О values during Pl and Kfs alteration describes well the observed isotope data when the crystallization takes place at limited content of water fluid (W/M = 0.3–0.05) which could release during the Raumid’s magmas crystallization.