Clinopyroxene REE Geochemistry of the Red Hills Peridotite, New Zealand: Interpretation of Magmatic Processes in the Upper Mantle and in the Moho Transition Zone

(MREE) depletion in clinopyroxenes in the harzburgite suggests that the harzburgites are residues of two-stage fractional melting, which operated initially in the garnet field, and subsequently continued in the spinel lherzolite field. The early stage melting produced the depleted harzburgite. The later stage melting was responsible for the gabbroic rocks and dunite. Strongly LREE^ MREE-depleted clinopyroxene in the lower harzburgite and HREE-enriched clinopyroxene in the upper harzburgite and plagioclase dunite were formed by later reactive melt migration occurring in the harzburgite.

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