Abstract
The paper presents newly obtained geochemical data on outer-contact rocks and carbonatereplacement skarns of the Yoko-Dovyren layered ultramafic-mafic intrusion in the northern Baikal area. The rocks initially contained CO 2 -rich fluid with a high oxygen fugacity (up to NNO + 3–4), which was generated by the partial decomposition of dolomite and by reactions between SiO 2 and carbonates. The skarn blue diopside is enriched in Pt (up to 0.2 ppm) and V (300 ppm), and the wollastonite zone of the skarns contains elevated Re concentrations (up to 0.4 ppm). The REE pattern of the contact-zone quartzite is identical to the REE patterns of phlogopite-bearing lherzolites from the lower contact part of the Yoko-Dovyren massif. These geochemical features of the rocks of the intrusion may be explained by the transfer and redeposition of material by reduced H 2 O-CO 2 fluid. According to thermodynamic calculations, a reaction between H 2 O-CO 2 fluid and high-Mg olivine at a subsolidus temperature of T = 950 о C and pressure P = 2 kbar should result in a decrease in the oxygen fugacity to QFM – 2 and, hence, generate much CO. According to the calculations, a low oxygen fugacity (close to QFM + 0.7) can also be maintained by pyrrhotite oxidation with H 2 O and CO 2 fluid components under cumulus P-T parameters. As a result of these reactions, the fluid should enrich in Pt extracted from magmatic sulfides, and this Pt can be redeposited in rocks, including those composing the skarn zones.
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