An electronic backscattered diffraction (EBSD) study of the sieve-textured reaction rim between or- thopyroxene and basalt in the Hannuoba mantle xenoliths was conducted in Damaping area, Hebei Province. Some conclusions have been rearched: (1) The reaction rim has a complex multi-layer structure composed of a basalt layer, an olivine-rich layer and an intergrowth layer of olivine and clinopyroxene; (2) The Mg# of the o- livine grains in the reaction rim increases toward the orthopyroxene grain while the Mg# of the clinopyroxene grains in the reaction rim remains stable; (3) There is a well-defined crystallographic topotactic relationship be- tween orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene, i.e., (100)opx//(100)cpx, (010)opx//(010)cpx, (001)opx//(001)cpx; (4) The crystallographic distribution of olivine grains is nearly at random and shows no relationship with orthopy- roxene and clinopyroxene. This sieve-textured reaction rim can be interpreted as the result of a multistage reac- tion process. In the first step, the orthopyroxene reacts with the melt to form clinopyroxene which made the re- action melt more silicic. As the melt gets saturated with silica, olivine precipitates from the reaction melt. Com- paring to the reaction between a silica-saturated melt and a peridotite, the reaction between a silica-tmderstaturated melt and a peridotite is probably easier to proceed due to the formation of sieve-textured reaction rims. The sieve-textured reaction rims provide a feasible channel for the migration of the melt along otherwise closed grain boundaries at high pressure, weaken the surrounding peridotite through the reduction of mineral grain size, and maintain a continuous erosion and destruction of the peridotite during the upward migration of the melt. This process may lead to a quick rejuvenation of lithospheric mantle.
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