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- W2045564976 abstract "Wadi Al Hwanet area in NW of Saudi Arabia is part of the Jebel Ess ophiolite constituting the northeastern part of the ∼700 Ma Yanbu–Sol Hamed–Onib–Allaqi–Heiani suture of the northern Arabian–Nubian Shield. The mantle section of Wadi Al Hwanet ophiolite consists mainly of voluminous harzburgites overlain by thick, massive transition-zone dunites, and small-scale chromitite pods. The harzburgites and massive dunites are exceptionally fresh; primary magmatic textures and silicate minerals are still preserved. Two modes of podiform chromitites exist; small lensoidal pods (group I), and relatively large dike-like pods (group II). Geochemically, the former chromitite type contains chromian spinels with high Cr# (0.79–0.81) and displays a PGE-poor character, with steep negatively-sloped PGE distribution patterns, whereas the latter chromitite type contains chromian spinels with relatively lower Cr# (0.61–0.71) and is PGE-rich (up to 1000 ppb), with positively-sloped PGE distribution patterns. The group II chromitites have much higher sulfide content than the group I suite. Parental melt compositions, in equilibrium with podiform chromitites, vary in Al2O3, FeO*/MgO and TiO2 contents from group I to group II chromitites, although both of them are in the range of the boninitic melts. The differences in the chromitites chemistry are most probably due to variable degrees of partial melting of the involved melts. Two stages of a magmatic activity were inferred for the chromitites genesis. The group I chromitites, of high Cr# of chromian spinels and PGE-poor negatively-sloped patterns, were precipitated in the first stage from a boninitic melt produced by a high degree of partial melting at a supra-subduction zone setting. The second chromitite-forming stage involves a relatively low degree of partial melting under high activities of sulfur and oxygen to produce the group II chromitites with enrichment in sulfides and PGE contents, possibly in a supra-subduction zone setting. In contrast to the chromitites, the harzburgites have low PGE contents, with characteristic unfractionated patterns, and low Cr# (0.46–0.57) of the chromian spinels suggesting mantle residues after low degrees of mantle melting beneath a mid-ocean ridge setting. Together with the entire plotting within the olivine-spinel mantle array, the similarity of olivine and spinel chemistry of dunites with those of harzburgites suggests a replacement origin for the dunites by the consumption of pyroxenes. It is likely that Wadi Al Hwanet mantle section was initially derived from a mid-ocean ridge environment and modified later, under a supra-subduction zone regime, to form podiform chromitites." @default.
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- W2045564976 title "Compositional variations and tectonic settings of podiform chromitites and associated ultramafic rocks of the Neoproterozoic ophiolite at Wadi Al Hwanet, northwestern Saudi Arabia" @default.
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