Genesis of crustal xenoliths from andesite in the Southeast Mátra Mts (Hungary) based on petrologic and geochemical studies

Abstract

The newly discovered crustal xenoliths from Miocene andesites in the Matra Mts (Northeast Hungary) were classified into three petrographic types. Type 1 is a garnetiferous, plagioclase-rich cumulate rock, presumed to originate from the felsic portion of the nearby Szarvasko-Darno mafic igneous complex. The almandine-rich garnet has been inferred to be of granulite facies origin. Garnet - orthopyroxene geothermobarometry on the orthopyroxene - plagioclase corona structure around it indicates a later high temperature (800-950 °C) low pressure (3-4 kbar) retrogression event. Type 2 is also plagioclase-rich cumulate rock with contact metamorphic assemblage containing spinel, corundum and andalusite, which crystallized in the course of dehydration reactions of biotite and/or smectite in hornblende hornfels to sanidinite facies conditions. Type 3 is microsyenite, which contains abundant anorthoclase and minor amount of Na- and K-rich kaersutitic-barkevikitic amphibole.