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Figure 3.3 Distribution of fO₂ recorded by mantle lithologies (peridotites and olivine‐orthopyroxene‐spinel‐bearing pyroxenites) globally in different tectonic settings. We have recalculated the fO₂ recorded by each sample at 0.6 GPa (2.5 GPa in [e]) and temperature recorded by spinel‐olivine thermometry using the methodology of Birner et al. (2018) and Davis et al. (2017) based on the reported chemical analyses. All samples are peridotites except for (d) where the overlain histogram in red are pyroxenites. We caution against overinterpreting the wide range of xenolith fO₂s recovered at plumes due to (i) the near absence of samples from this setting characterized using Mössbauer‐characterized spinel standards or Mössbauer spectroscopy; (ii) uncertainty in the barometry and metamorphic history of these samples (which will alter the fO₂ they record); and (iii) limited data by which we may judge the extent to which these lithospheric xenoliths record ridge versus plume fO₂.

      We highlight that peridotites along SWIR record five times greater range in fO₂ when compared to basalts dredged from the same segment. On the global scale, Bryndzia and Wood (1990) investigated the fO₂ of 35 ridge peridotites from 12 localities. When filtered to exclude four samples from two anomalous locations (the sub‐aerial St. Paul’s Rocks and the tectonically complex Mid‐Cayman Rise), and recalculated according to the methods presented here, this sample set records fO₂ of QFM ‐0.08 ±0.68 and spans a range of nearly 2.5 orders of magnitude in fO₂ (Birner et al., 2018). When comparing Fig. 3.2a and 3.3a, we observe that global mid‐ocean ridge volcanics display low variance relative to ridge peridotites. These limited data suggest that basalts may homogenize kilometer‐scale redox heterogeneity in the upper mantle (Birner et al., 2018). Globally, ridge peridotites calculated at 0.6 GPa and the temperature of olivine‐spinel closure record average fO₂s about half a log unit higher than basalts calculated at 1 bar and 1200 °C. Because we have not attempted here to account for subsolidus processes in the peridotites globally, comparisons between the two distributions should not be overinterpreted. A more comprehensive global peridotite dataset is required to evaluate the response of mantle residues to melt extraction and subsolidus re‐equilibration.

       Arcs and Back Arcs.

      Subduction influences the composition of mantle melts and arc volcanics, generating continental crust in the process (e.g., Elliott et al., 1997; Gill, 1981; Grove et al., 2012; Kelemen et al., 2003; Kelemen et al., 2007; Osborn, 1959; Plank & Langmuir, 1988; Stolper & Newman, 1994; Turner & Langmuir, 2015; Zimmer et al., 2010). Both melts and mantle lithologies offer opportunities for oxybarometry. We begin with the volcanics.

      Seminal contributions by Carmichael (1991) and Frost and Lindsley (1992) surveyed the fO₂s recorded by arc rocks using wet‐chemistry and magnetite‐ilmenite pairs, respectively, and found that arc rocks record fO₂s up to several orders of magnitude higher than MORBs. Our compilation of 5 XANES spectroscopic studies (n=119 samples, Figure 3.2c) of olivine‐hosted melt inclusions and submarine pillow glasses shows that arc basalts record, on average, QFM +0.96 (±0.39). One set of outliers from Cerro Negro record QFM +4.75 (±0.40) (Gaetani et al., 2012), but spectra from these hydrous samples have suffered from radiation‐induced beam damage (Cottrell et al., 2018, Gaetani, pers. comm.) and are not included in our statistical analysis. Nearly 90% of samples with XANES measurements erupted through the thin crust (~25 km, Takahashi et al., 2007) of the active Mariana arc front (Fig. 3.1a), and thus there is significant location bias in this dataset.

      Globally, magnetite–ilmenite pairs, from 114 arc lavas sampling 11 different arcs, record QFM +1.28 (±0.64) (Figure 3.2d; see methods appendix and the online data library associated with this contribution, Cottrell et al., 2021, for citations). These samples contain Fe–Ti oxides with compositions that record a range of temperatures (700–1085 °C), span a wide range of compositions (basaltic andesite to rhyolite) but are predominantly dacitic, and erupt through crust ranging from 25 to 66km thick.

      The mean fO₂ recorded by olivine‐hosted melt inclusions and submarine arc‐front glasses (ΔQFM = 0.96±0.39, n=119) is slightly lower than that recorded by magnetite‐ilmenite pairs (ΔQFM = 1.28±0.64 n=114) at the 95% confidence level (t_statistic = 4.6, t_critical = 2.0, degrees of freedom [DF] = 186, p‐value < 0.001). (When we compare distribution means in this contribution, we will always apply a two‐sample student’s t‐test with α= 0.05 [Krzywinski & Altman, 2013] for samples of unequal variance.) We caution that the datasets are not directly comparable because of the limited geographic distribution of the melt inclusion and submarine glass dataset; because there are no samples in common between the two distributions; and because the melt inclusions may reflect magma compositions that precede magnetite and ilmenite saturation. Thus, to first order, our global result is not inconsistent with the results of Waters and Lange (2016) and Crabtree and Lange (2011) who found congruence when they compared magnetite‐ilmenite oxybarometry to wet‐chemical titration on the same suite of very fresh aphyric lavas.

      A more direct comparison can be made between the olivine‐hosted melt inclusions and submarine glasses erupted along the active Mariana Arc, and back arc basin (BAB) glasses erupted at depth along the associated back arc spreading center: the Mariana Trough. Both datasets apply the same method (XANES) to arrive at fO₂ estimates, and both sample suites comprise basaltic to basaltic andesite glasses representing similar stages of differentiation in thin crust (similar MgO). The Mariana arc front samples record fO₂s that are on average 0.73 log units higher than

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