Abstract
This thesis provides new constrains on H concentrations and H behaviour in the lithospheric mantle and is based on a petro-geochemical study on 3 spinel-peridotite xenoliths series with major and traces elements analyses, including H in nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs, olivine and pyroxenes) as well as hydrous minerals (amphibole).Ascent effects through a magmatic system on H concentration of NAMs are studied for a xenoliths series from the Eifel volcanic field (Germany). Intracrystalline variation in H concentration are observe in olivine but not in the coexisting pyroxenes. Such H concentration profiles are used to calculate the rate of magma ascent. For the studied volcanoes, the calculated rate of magma ascent is between 3.5 and 12 m.s-1. Such H concentration variations imply a devolatilisation affecting only olivine, whereas the pyroxenes are homogeneous and then can be used as a better proxy for mantle H concentrations.Ray Pic xenoliths (French Massif Central) belongs to a mantle plume setting, implying the possibility to assess the effect of partial melting and large scale metasomatism on H concentration of NAMs. The H concentrations determined do not suggest a strong link with the suffered metasomatism whether modal, cryptic, at low or high melt rock ratio. However, using H concentrations and a marker of the partial melting (Yb in cpx), H seems to behave as a MREE (e.g., Sm, D(cpx/melt) ~ 0.29).Finally, the composite xenoliths with a peridotite adjacent to a metasomatic agent allow to target the influence of small scale metasomatism (pluri-centimetric). A magma-rock interaction between a harzburgite and a basaltic patch shows that, for olivines, chemical variations in major element as a function of olivine proximity to the vein, is coupled to H concentrations of NAMs. More the olivines are close to equilibrium with the basalt, more the H concentrations are low. Alongside in this study, three samples consist of a lherzolite adjacent a pyroxenite (14% amphibole), to a clinopyroxenite (40% amphibole) and to an amphibolite (98% amphibole) respectively. This special relationship with a metasomatic vein allows to study the behaviour of H during wall rock percolation. Each sample display homogeneous H concentration within each NAMs. However, H concentration is inversely correlated to modal content in amphiboles in the peridotite. Furthermore, a positive correlation between H in NAMs and Sm(cpx) here as a marker of metasomatism suggests, again, that H behaves as a MREE.To conclude, minerals from harzburgite contain in average a bit more H than the one in lherzolite. The H concentration in olivine are sensitive to degassing during magma ascent toward the surface and reequilibrium with magma. On the contrary, H concentration in pyroxenes, especially opx, are very homogeneous suggesting mantle concentration. The behaviour of H during partial melting and metasomatism is complex. However, our data suggest that H broadly follows MREE.