Abstract. The studies of minerals and melt inclusions in ultramafc rocks of the Kurtushiba ophiolite belt (Western Sayan) allowed us to establish the conditions of mineral-forming processes during their formation. . The features of the compositions of minerals of ultramafc rocks of Idzhim, Kalny and Ergaki massifs are considered. The presence of melt inclusions directly indicates a magmatic origin of some Cr-spinels from dunites of Idzhim massif. A close assemblage of Cr-spinels from chromitites with magmatic Cr-spinels is important because of the possible formation of chromite ore from melts. The study of melt inclusions revealed the evolution of melts (picrites – picrobasalts – basalts – basaltic andesites) during the consecutive crystallization of minerals from the Western Sayan ophiolites. Computational modeling based on the compositions of melt inclusions and olivine indicates that olivine of ultramafc rocks of the Kurtushiba ophiolites crystallized at a decreasing pressure from 9.2 to 6.2 kbar and decreasing temperature from 1550 to 1430 °С from picritic melts, which evolved to picrobasaltic melts. With a decrease pressure to 3.8–2.3 kbar and temperature of picrobasaltic melts (1240–1230 °C), the formation of olivine terminated following by the crystallization of clinopyroxene from basaltic magmas at 2.7–1.9 kbar and about 1215 °C. The postmagmatic stage was characterized by plastic deformations of the Western Sayan ultramafc rocks at a decreasing temperature from 850 to 640 °C, which resulted in a successive change from protogranular to mesogranular structures and then to porphyroclastic and porphyroleist structures.
Keywords: conditions of mineral crystallization, ultramafc rocks, ophiolites of the Western Sayan, melt inclusions in Cr-spinels.

Received 24.03.2022, accepted 19.04.2022

V.A. Simonov, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; kotlyarov@igm.nsc.ru
Novosibirsk National Research State University, ul. Pirogova 1, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
Kazan Federal University, ul. Kremlevskaya 18, Kazan, 420008 Russia

A.I. Chernyshov, Tomsk State University, pr. Lenina 36, Tomsk, 634050 Russia

A.V. Kotlyarov, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; kotlyarov@igm.nsc.ru;
Kazan Federal University, ul. Kremlevskaya 18, Kazan, 420008 Russia

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