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{"title":"Chromium in minerals as tracer of the polycyclic evolution of eclogite and related metabasite from the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenian Eastern Alps","authors":"Botao Li,&nbsp;Hans-Joachim Massonne","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12746","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12746","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Significantly different peak pressure–temperature (P–T) conditions (18–26 kbar and 630–760°C versus 29–37 kbar and 750–940°C) have previously been published for eclogite and related metabasites from the south-eastern flank of the Pohorje Mountains in Slovenia. These rocks can show a bimodal distribution of chromium in the rock-forming minerals, particularly garnet, the role of which in their metamorphic evolution is unclear. Therefore, we studied an eclogite and a related rock with clinopyroxene containing only 17 mol% jadeite + acmite (sample 18Ca35a). KαCr intensity maps of garnet particularly in sample 18Ca35a show a sharp irregular boundary between the core (Gt1) and the mantle (Gt2). Gt1 of millimetre-sized garnet in this rock is nearly Cr-free and unzoned, whereas Gt2 is of different composition (0.22 wt.% Cr₂O₃) and slightly zoned. Nearly Cr-free amphibole, (clino)zoisite, kyanite and staurolite inclusions are present in Gt1. The matrix consists of garnet and Cr-bearing clinopyroxene, (clino)zoisite and amphibole. Thermodynamic modelling suggests peak P–T conditions of 22.5 ± 2 kbar at 710 ± 25°C (Gt1) and 23 ± 2 kbar at 700 ± 25°C (Gt2) in both samples. We interpret these findings to suggest that olivine- and hornblende-bearing gabbros with some chromite experienced early metamorphism in the eclogite facies, when Gt1 formed. The rock was subsequently exhumed and cooled leading to significant garnet corrosion. A second stage of metamorphism, recognized by mappable Cr contents in garnet, led to the growth of Gt2 and other Cr-bearing minerals at the expense of chromite relics, which survived stage I. The peak P–T conditions of stage II are compatible with those previously derived by same authors and support the view that probably no ultrahigh-pressure eclogite exists in the Pohorje Mountains. We relate the two metamorphic events to the Cretaceous and Palaeogene high-pressure events recently reported from micaschists of the Pohorje Mountains.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"42 1","pages":"63-88"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmg.12746","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136212314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Polymetamorphism during the Grenvillian Orogeny in SE Ontario: Results from trace element mapping, in situ geochronology, and diffusion geospeedometry","authors":"F. Gaidies,&nbsp;T. Mccarron,&nbsp;A. D. Simpson,&nbsp;R. M. Easton,&nbsp;S. Glorie,&nbsp;B. Putlitz,&nbsp;K. Trebus","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12745","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12745","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The Flinton Group is a metasedimentary succession of the Grenville Province in SE Ontario, potentially allowing insight into the tectono-thermal evolution of continental crust during the Mesoproterozoic. At its Green Bay locality, Flinton Group metapelites of the staurolite zone contain abundant, post-kinematic garnet porphyroblasts. Whereas the larger garnet crystals are typically impinged, smaller crystals are isolated from each other, occasionally exhibiting elongated shapes with apparently trigonal morphology. Central sections of the garnet population of a representative sample reveal that garnet is composed of different compositional and microstructural domains. In the largest crystals of the population, garnet contains rectangular to rhombic domains, marked by sharp increases in the concentrations of Nb, V, Ti, and Cr. These domains are associated with irregularly shaped patches, characterized by spatially heterogenous enrichments of Ca and LREE, and depletions in the contents of P, Y, MREE, and HREE, accompanied by increased densities of comparatively coarse-grained quartz inclusions hosting apatite. Microstructural relationships indicate that these domains correspond to portions of garnet that pseudomorphed biotite, with the enrichments of Nb, V, Ti, and Cr outlining the original biotite shapes. The compositional patterns formed by Ca, P, Y, and REE indicate that apatite participated in the grain-fluid interactions that operated during the metasomatic replacement of biotite by garnet. The statistical analyses of the garnet number and size distributions confirm that garnet initially nucleated on biotite, controlled by the kinetics of attachment and detachment processes at the garnet/biotite interface, resulting in the typical impingement habit. In situ Lu–Hf garnet geochronology applied to garnet that did not pseudomorph biotite, and hence is enriched in HREE, points to a first metamorphic event at c. 1080 \u0000&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;±&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;/math&gt; 31 Ma. Subsequent pseudomorphism of staurolite by white mica in a Al&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;- and FeO-mobile system resulted in the concomitant crystallization of a new garnet generation, forming overgrowths on the first garnet generation and nuclei in the fine-grained matrix. Garnet that nucleated during this event grew to isolated and elongated crystals with apparently trigonal morphology, aligned in a direction c. perpendicular to the rock matrix foliation. The open-system behaviour during this event limits the use of whole-rock-based geochronological and thermobarometrical applications. However, previously published in situ U–Pb ages of monazite included in the rims of the garnet crystals and in the rock matrix indicate that this event took place at c. 976 \u0000&lt;math&gt;\u0000 &lt;mo&gt;±&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;/math&gt; 4 Ma, likely associated with a period of increased hydrothermal activity late in the metamorphic history of the Grenvillian Orogeny. Diffusion geospeedometry calculations indicate that garnet grow","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"42 1","pages":"35-61"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmg.12745","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135306776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formation of low-pressure reaction textures during near-isothermal exhumation of hot orogenic crust (Bohemian Massif, Austria)","authors":"Dominik Sorger,&nbsp;Christoph A. Hauzenberger,&nbsp;Fritz Finger,&nbsp;Manfred Linner,&nbsp;Etienne Skrzypek,&nbsp;Simon Schorn","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12744","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12744","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two types of aluminous paragneiss from the Loosdorf complex (Bohemian Massif, NE Austria) contain coarse-grained granulite assemblages and retrograde reaction textures that are investigated to constrain the post-peak history of the Gföhl unit in the southern Bohemian Massif. Both types have a peak assemblage garnet–biotite–sillimanite–plagioclase–K-feldspar–quartz–granitic melt ± kyanite ± ilmenite ± rutile, recording peak metamorphic conditions of \u0000<math>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo></math>0.9–1.1 GPa and \u0000<math>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo></math>780–820°C estimated by isochemical phase equilibrium modelling. The first sample type (Ysper paragneiss) developed (i) cordierite coronae around garnet and (ii) cordierite–spinel and cordierite–quartz reaction textures at former garnet–sillimanite interfaces. Calculated chemical potential relationships indicate that the textures formed in the course of a post-peak near-isothermal decompression path reaching \u0000<math>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo></math>0.4 GPa. Texture formation follows a two-step process. Initially, cordierite coronae grow between garnet and sillimanite. As these coronae thicken, they facilitate the development of local compositional domains, leading to the formation of cordierite–spinel and cordierite–quartz symplectites. The second sample type (Pielach paragneiss) exhibits only discontinuous cordierite coronae around garnet porphyroblasts but lacks symplectites. The formation of cordierite there also indicates near-isothermal decompression to 0.4–0.5 GPa and 750–800°C. This relatively hot decompression path is explained by the contemporaneous exhumation of a large HP–UHT granulite body now underlying the Loosdorf complex. The timing of regional metamorphism in the granulites and the southern Bohemian Massif in general is well constrained and has its peak at \u0000<math>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo></math>340 Ma. Monazite from Loosdorf paragneiss samples yield a slightly younger age of \u0000<math>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo></math>335 Ma. Although the ages overlap within error, they are interpreted to reflect near-isothermal decompression and exhumation resulting in the formation of the observed reaction textures.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"42 1","pages":"3-34"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmg.12744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134910600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Origin of Erzgebirge ultrahigh-pressure garnetite: Formation from a basaltic protolith by serpentinization-assisted metasomatism?","authors":"Esther Schmädicke,&nbsp;Thomas M. Will","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12742","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12742","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Erzgebirge ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) garnet peridotite includes scarce layers of garnet pyroxenite, nodules of garnetite and, very rarely, of eclogite. Peridotite-hosted eclogite shows the same subalkali-basaltic bulk rock composition, mineral assemblage and peak conditions as gneiss-hosted eclogite present in the same UHP unit. Garnetite has considerably more Mg, moderately enhanced Ca and Fe and significantly lower contents of Na, Ti, P, K and Si than eclogite, whereas Al is very similar. In addition, the compatible trace elements (Ni, Co, Cr, V) are elevated and most incompatible elements (Zr, Hf, Y, Sr, Rb and rare Earth elements [REE]) are depleted in garnetite relative to eclogite. In contrast to other large ion lithophile elements (LILEs), Pb (+121%) and Ba (+83%) are strongly enriched. The REE patterns of garnetite are characterized by depletion of light and heavy REE and a medium REE hump indicative of metasomatism, features being absent in eclogite. An exceptional garnetite sample shows an REE distribution similar to that of eclogite. Garnetite is interpreted to have formed from the same, but metasomatically altered, igneous protolith as eclogite. Except for Ba and Pb, the chemical signature of garnetite is explained best by metasomatic changes of its basaltic protolith caused by serpentinization of the host peridotite. Garnetite is chemically similar to basaltic rodingite/metarodingite. Although rodingite is commonly more enriched in Ca, there are also examples with moderately enhanced Ca matching the composition of Erzgebirge garnetite. Limited Ca metasomatism is attributed to the preservation of Ca in peridotite during hydrous alteration. This can be explained by incomplete serpentinization favouring metastable survival of the original clinopyroxene. In this case, most Ca is retained in peridotite and not available for infiltration and metasomatism of the garnetite protolith. This inescapable consequence is supported by the fact that clinopyroxene is part of the garnet peridotite UHP assemblage, which would not be the case if Ca had been removed from the protolith prior to high-pressure metamorphism. The enrichment of compatible elements in garnetite is attributed to decomposition of peridotitic olivine (Ni, Co) and spinel (Cr, V) during serpentinization. Enrichment of Ba and Pb contrasts the behaviour of other LILEs and is ascribed to dehydration of the serpentinized peridotite (deserpentinization). This requires two separate stages of metasomatism: (1) intense chemical alteration of the basaltic garnetite precursor, together with serpentinization of peridotite at the ocean floor or during incipient subduction; and (2) prograde metamorphism and dehydration of serpentinite during continued subduction, thereby releasing Pb–Ba-rich fluids that reacted with associated metabasalt. Finally, subduction to &gt;100 km and UHP metamorphism of all lithologies led to formation of garnetite, eclogite and garnet pyroxenite hosted by co-facial g","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 9","pages":"1237-1259"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43728042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Long-lived high-grade metamorphism in southern India: Constraints from charnockites and sapphirine-bearing semipelitic granulites from the Madurai Block","authors":"Ashish Kumar Tiwari,&nbsp;Tapabrato Sarkar,&nbsp;Sourav Karmakar,&nbsp;Nilanjana Sorcar,&nbsp;Sneha Mukherjee","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12743","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12743","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The Granulite Terrane of Southern India is a collage of Mesoarchean–Neoproterozoic crustal blocks that underwent high-grade metamorphism associated with the final assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent during late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian. Here, we investigate the charnockites and associated sapphirine-bearing semipelitic granulites from the eastern part of the Madurai Block (MB). We present new petrographic, mineral chemistry, and geochronological data to constrain the &lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;–&lt;i&gt;T&lt;/i&gt;–&lt;i&gt;t&lt;/i&gt; evolution of the block and unravel the timescale and source of heat for the ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism. Both the rock types contain coarse-grained porphyroblastic garnet and orthopyroxene, yielding peak &lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;–&lt;i&gt;T&lt;/i&gt; conditions of 950 ± 30°C at 10.5 ± 0.8 kbar and 970 ± 40°C at 10 ± 0.5 kbar for semipelite and charnockite, respectively, using conventional thermobarometry. Peak ultrahigh temperatures are further supported by high Al content in the orthopyroxene (8.78 wt% Al&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;) coexisting with garnet (&lt;i&gt;X&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Mg&lt;/sub&gt;: up to 0.57) and feldspar thermometry of the mesoperthites and antiperthites in the semipelite, yielding 950–980°C at 10 kbar. Subsequent decompression has led to the formation of coronal orthopyroxene3 + plagioclase3 in the charnockite and symplectic orthopyroxene3 + cordierite ± sapphirine ± plagioclase3 in the semipelite, yielding &lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;–&lt;i&gt;T&lt;/i&gt; range of 950–850°C and 9.5–6.8 kbar for semipelites and 950–820°C and 8–6.5 kbar for charnockite. Based on the obtained &lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;–&lt;i&gt;T&lt;/i&gt; estimates, preserved reaction textures, and phase equilibria modelling in the MnNCKFMASHTO system, a clockwise &lt;i&gt;P&lt;/i&gt;–&lt;i&gt;T&lt;/i&gt; evolution with isothermal decompression followed by cooling is inferred for both the rock types.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Texturally constrained in situ monazite dating and rare earth element (REE) patterns show that the core of matrix monazite having low-Th, Y, and extreme heavy rare earth element (HREE) depletion, yielding weighted mean ages of 582 ± 12 and 590 ± 22 Ma for semipelite and charnockite, respectively, dates the prograde evolution. The mantle of the matrix monazite in semipelite and comparable rim in charnockite, having relative Th-enrichment compared to the core, yielding weighted mean ages of 552 ± 9 and 557 ± 13 Ma, respectively, dates extensive dissolution–reprecipitation from the melt at the peak stage. The relatively Th- and Y-rich and moderately HREE-depleted rim of matrix monazite in the semipelite, yielding weighted age of 516 ± 6 Ma, date initial garnet breakdown during post-peak melt crystallization. By contrast, compositionally homogenous HREE + Y-enriched monazite in the symplectite and retrograde monazites yielding weighted mean ages of 487 ± 47 Ma for semipelites and 508 ± 19 Ma for charnockites dates extensive garnet breakdown during final stages of melt crystallization and subsequent cooling. Our findings point to collision initiation at ~590 Ma, with the peak conditions attained","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 9","pages":"1261-1297"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48583028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Petrochronologic constraints on inverted metamorphism, terrane accretion, thrust stacking, and ductile flow in the Gneiss Dome belt, northern Appalachian orogen","authors":"Ian W. Hillenbrand,&nbsp;Michael L. Williams,&nbsp;Emily M. Peterman,&nbsp;Michael J. Jercinovic,&nbsp;Craig W. Dietsch","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12741","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12741","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gneiss domes are an integral element of many orogenic belts and commonly provide tectonic windows into deep crustal levels. Gneiss domes in the New England segment of the Appalachian orogen have been classically associated with diapirism and fold interference, but alternative models involving ductile flow have been proposed. We evaluate these models in the Gneiss Dome belt of western New England with U-Th-Pb monazite, xenotime, zircon, and titanite petrochronology and major and trace element thermobarometry. These data constrain distinct pressure–temperature–time (P-T-t) paths for each unit in the gneiss dome belt tectono-stratigraphy. The structurally lowest units, Laurentia-derived migmatitic gneisses of the Waterbury dome, document two stages of metamorphism (455–435 and 400–370 Ma) with peak Acadian metamorphic conditions of ~1.0–1.2 GPa at 750–780°C at 391 ± 7 to 386 ± 4 Ma. The next structurally higher unit, the Gondwana-derived Taine Mountain Formation, records Taconic (peak conditions: 0.6 GPa, 600°C at 441 ± 4 Ma) and Acadian (peak: 0.8–1.0 GPa, 650°C at 377 ± 4 Ma) metamorphism. The overlying Collinsville Formation yielded a 473 ± 5 Ma crystallization age and evidence for metamorphic conditions of 650°C at 436 ± 4 Ma and 1.2–1.0 GPa, 750–775°C at 397 ± 4 to 385 ± 6 Ma. The structurally higher Sweetheart Mountain Member of the Collinsville Formation yielded only Acadian zircon, monazite, and xenotime dates and evidence for high-pressure granulite facies metamorphism (1.8 GPa, 815°C) at circa 380–375 Ma. Cover rocks of the dome-mantling The Straits Schist records peak conditions of ~1 GPa, 700°C at 386 ± 6 to 380 ± 4 Ma. Garnet breakdown to monazite and/or xenotime occurred in all units at circa 375–360 and 345–330 Ma. Peak Acadian metamorphic pressures increase systematically from the structurally lowest to highest units (from 1.0 to 1.8 GPa). This inverted metamorphic sequence is incompatible with the diapiric and fold interference models, which predict the highest pressures at the structurally lowest levels. Based upon P-T-t and structural data, we prefer a model involving, first, circa 380 Ma thrust stacking followed by syn-collisional orogen parallel extension, ductile flow, and rise of the domes between 380 and 365 Ma. Garnet breakdown at circa 345–330 Ma is interpreted to reflect further exhumation during collapse of the Acadian orogenic plateau. These results highlight the power of integrating petrologic constraints with paired geochemical and geochronologic data from multiple chronometers to test structural and tectonic models and show that syn-convergent orogen parallel ductile flow dramatically modified earlier accretion-related structures in New England. Further, the Gneiss Dome belt documents gneiss dome development in a syn-collisional, thick crust setting, providing an ancient example of middle to lower crustal processes that may be occurring today in the modern Himalaya and Pamir Range.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 9","pages":"1197-1235"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44880938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A wealth of P–T–t information from metasediments in the HP–UHP terrane of the Pohorje Mountains, Slovenia, elucidates the evolution of the Eastern Alps","authors":"Botao Li,&nbsp;Hans-Joachim Massonne,&nbsp;Xiaoping Yuan","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12740","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12740","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contrasting views exist in regard of the evolution of metamorphic rocks in the southeastern Pohorje Mountains (Mts), located in the southeastern Eastern Alps. Major debated points are whether micaschists have experienced ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the Late Cretaceous (Eo-Alpine) and whether they were continuously exhumed or experienced a multiple subduction–exhumation process from that time on. Therefore, we studied micaschist sample 18Slo39 with two generations of garnet and phengitic muscovite from this area. Our detailed study of this rock included petrographic observations, chemical analyses of minerals with the electron microprobe, pseudosection modelling, conventional geothermometry, and monazite in-situ U-Th-Pb dating using laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma (ICP) mass spectrometry. The following results were obtained: The studied micaschist was subject to a peak pressure of 1.31 ± 0.14 GPa at 603 ± 26°C in Eo-Alpine times: 90.62 ± 2.78 (2σ) Ma (Stage I). Contact metamorphism at pressure–temperature conditions of 0.66 ± 0.10 GPa and 577 ± 23°C was induced by the intrusion of the Pohorje pluton (Stage III). We determined an early Miocene age of 18.33 ± 0.43 (2σ) Ma for this intrusion. Based on this study and the previously reported data for a micaschist (16Slo12) taken in the vicinity of sample 18Slo39, a geodynamic model is proposed for the region of the Pohorje Mts considering Eo-Alpine subduction of oceanic crust and European continental crust, of which the micaschist was part of. Another high-pressure event in the Eocene (Stage II) was the result of intracontinental subduction because of transpression by the Periadriatic fault system that separates the Eastern Alps from the Southern Alps. This type of subduction gave rise to magma generation and ascent to form the Pohorje pluton, which caused contact metamorphism in its vicinity.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 9","pages":"1167-1196"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45805325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"40Ar/39Ar dates controlled by white mica deformation and strain localization: Insights from comparing in situ laser ablation and single-grain fusion techniques","authors":"Christopher J. Barnes,&nbsp;David A. Schneider,&nbsp;Jarosław Majka,&nbsp;Alfredo Camacho,&nbsp;Michał Bukała,&nbsp;Adam Włodek","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12739","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12739","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In situ laser ablation and single-grain fusion ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronological techniques were directly compared using white mica from nine metasedimentary rocks from the Vaimok Lens of the Seve Nappe Complex (SNC) in the Scandinavian Caledonides. Seven of the rocks are from the eclogite-bearing Grapesvare nappe within the lens that is defined by D2 structures (S2 and F2), which were formed during exhumation following late Cambrian/Early Ordovician ultra-high pressure metamorphism. Two other rocks were obtained from ‘Scandian’ shear zones that delimit the nappes within the lens. The shear zones were active during terminal collision of Baltica and Laurentia in the Silurian to Devonian. The rocks exhibit variable deformation intensities and degrees of strain localization, expressed in particular by white mica. The in situ laser ablation and single-grain fusion ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates both span from the late Cambrian to Middle Devonian. Results of both techniques generally show decreasing dates with increasing bulk deformation intensity and successive structural generations (i.e., D2 then Scandian structures). Furthermore, several discrepancies are evident when comparing the results of the two techniques for the same rocks, indicating the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates are not solely governed by bulk deformation intensities and structural generations. Instead, the discrepancies demonstrate the additional influence of white mica strain localization, which is illuminated by the different analytical volumes of the techniques. Thus, the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar datasets are altogether deciphered as a function of bulk deformation intensity and degree of strain localization that affected the overall white mica volume. The former controls the gross ⁴⁰Ar loss from the overall volume and the latter dictates the variability of ⁴⁰Ar loss within the volume. Exploiting the interplay of these two phenomena for the Vaimok Lens rocks with in situ laser ablation allows for the broad span of ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dates to be contextualized into a sequence of tectonic events: (1) cooling at 474 ± 3 Ma, (2) pre-collision deformation at 447 ± 2 Ma and (3) activation of crustal-scale shear zones in the SNC related to continental collision at 431 ± 3 Ma and 411 ± 3 Ma.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 9","pages":"1143-1166"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44207656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pressure–temperature evolution of the basement and cover sequences on Ios, Greece: Evidence for subduction of the Hercynian basement","authors":"Oliver M. Wolfe,&nbsp;Frank S. Spear,&nbsp;Jay B. Thomas,&nbsp;Eric M. Hasegawa,&nbsp;Grant T. Libby,&nbsp;John T. Cheney","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12738","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12738","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-pressure rocks from the island of Ios in the Greek Cyclades were examined to resolve the P–T conditions reached during subduction of the two distinct lithotectonic units that are separated by the South Cycladic Shear Zone (SCSZ)—the footwall complex composed of Hercynian basement gneisses, schists and amphibolites, and the hangingwall complex composed of blueschists and eclogites. A combination of elastic tensor quartz inclusion in garnet (QuiG) barometry and Zr-in-rutile (ZiR) trace element thermometry was used to constrain minimum garnet growth conditions. Garnet from the hangingwall (blueschist) unit record formation pressures that range from 1.5 to 1.9 GPa and garnet from the footwall basement complex record garnet formation pressures of 1.65–2.05 GPa. ZiR thermometry on rutile inclusions within garnet establishes the minimum temperature for garnet formation to be ~480–500°C. That is, there is no evidence in the QuiG and ZiR results that the rocks of the blueschist hangingwall and basement experienced different metamorphic histories during subduction. This is the first reported observation of blueschist facies metamorphism in the Hercynian basement complex. A model is proposed in which initial subduction occurred along a relatively shallow P–T trajectory of ~11°C/km and then transitioned to a steeper, nearly isothermal trajectory at a depth of ~45 km reaching similar peak metamorphic conditions of ~500–525°C at 2.0 GPa for all samples. Such a change in the subduction path could be accomplished by either an increase in the rate of subduction or an increase in the angle of the subduction zone. The present juxtaposition of samples with contrasting mineral assemblages and garnet growth histories is interpreted to have arisen from differences in bulk compositions and variations in the preservation of high-pressure prograde mineral assemblages during exhumation. The existence of similar P–T conditions and prograde paths in the two units does not require that the rocks were all metamorphosed at the same time and that the SCSZ experienced little movement. Rather, it is suggested that the two units experienced prograde and peak metamorphism at different times and were subsequently juxtaposed along the SCSZ.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 8","pages":"1119-1141"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42848077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"P–T–t conditions of Early Palaeozoic low-P high-T granulite facies metamorphism in the southern Truong Son Belt, Central Vietnam","authors":"Nam Nguyen Duc,&nbsp;Ching-Hua Lo,&nbsp;Tadashi Usuki,&nbsp;Yoshiyuki Iizuka,&nbsp;Pham Binh","doi":"10.1111/jmg.12737","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmg.12737","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-grade metamorphic rocks are widely exposed along the SE–NW- to E–W-trending shear zones in the Truong Son Belt, Central Vietnam, but few petrological studies have been conducted in this area. Herein, we report the occurrence of mylonitized granulites that crop out along the Dai Loc shear zone in the southernmost Truong Son Belt. Detailed petrographic analysis, geochemistry and <i>P–T–t</i> estimates of the evolution of two granulite samples are presented to elucidate the formation processes of these high-grade metamorphic rocks. The results indicate that the rocks underwent two distinct metamorphic cycles. The first cycle (M1) is characterized by coarse-grained granulite mineral assemblages, defining a tight clockwise <i>P–T</i> path with near-isobaric heating to a near ultrahigh-temperature peak at low pressure, followed by cooling. The prograde mineral assemblage (M1a) is indicated by inclusions of cordierite + sillimanite + biotite + quartz + spinel ± plagioclase in coarse-grained garnet, orthopyroxene and cordierite. The mineral assemblage of garnet + orthopyroxene + cordierite + plagioclase + K-feldspar + ilmenite + melt ± biotite (M1b) defines the peak <i>P–T</i> conditions of 5.3–6.3 kbar and 850–920°C. Post-peak cooling (M1c) is marked by the formation of quartz + biotite symplectites around garnet and orthopyroxene. The second cycle involved medium-pressure amphibolite facies metamorphism (M2), characterized by domainal development of fine-grained kyanite-bearing mineral associations. Petrographic observations indicate that these fine-grained associations were formed during mylonitization. Zircon U–Pb dating reveals that the timing of granulite facies metamorphism appears to be coeval with the intrusion of a post-collisional granitoid at 430–410 Ma. Granulite facies metamorphism and crustal melting were probably driven by asthenospheric mantle upwelling triggered by slab breakoff during the Early Palaeozoic. Considering previous structural and geochronological studies, the second metamorphic event likely occurred during the Triassic Indosinian orogeny.</p>","PeriodicalId":16472,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Metamorphic Geology","volume":"41 8","pages":"1081-1117"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46990776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}