Two-stage corona growth during Precambrian granulite facies metamorphism of Smitbson Bjerge, north-west Greenland

Abstract Late Archaean orthogneisses and aluminous and iron-rich metasedimentary rocks intruded by anorthosite and a ferrodiorite-granite suite were completely recrystallized during Proterozoic granulite facies metamorphism. Geobarometry and geothermometry indicate P-T conditions of around 7.5kbar. 700°C, with a CO₂-rich fluid phase and logfO₂ at or below -16. A two-stage high-grade history of near isochemical corona growth is preserved in metasediments with the reaction cycle opx + plag + H₂O → hbl+gar+SiO₂→ opx+plag+H₂O. End product compositions resemble those of the initial phases, and the only mobile components were SiO₂ and/or H₂O. The coronas reflect shortlived fluctuations in chemical activity at essentially constant P and T, contrary to simple progressive change in equilibrium parameters recorded by most corona-bearing textures.     

Thermal granulite-facies metamorphism with diffuse retrogression in Archaean orthogneisses, Fiskefjord, southern West Greenland

Around Fiskefjord, southern West Greenland, Archaean amphibolite-facies, granulite-facies and retrograde orthogneisses occur in lithological and structural continuity with each other. The granulite-facies rocks here—and elsewhere in West Greenland—are surrounded by extensive areas of retrograde gneisses. Both the prograde and retrograde metamorphism took place in a major event of continental crust formation c. 3000 Ma ago, which gave rise to granulite-facies conditions in part of the rock complex exposed today. In the Fiskefjord area distributions of major and trace elements, as well as strontium and lead isotopes, show that the fades transformations were accompanied by pronounced metasomatism, and mineral chemistry indicates that the hydrous retrograde metamorphism took place under amphibolite-facies conditions and was gradual and incomplete. The metamorphic and metasomatic processes in the Fiskefjord area are believed to have been controlled by heat from continuous intracrustal injection of large masses of tonalitic magma, which caused gradual dehydration and partial melting, followed by liberation of aqueous fluids during crystallization of anatectic melts. These fluids partially retrograded previously dehydrated gneisses. In contrast, South Indian high-grade gneisses have mainly prograde amphibolite–granulite-facies transitions which are distinct and well preserved, later than penetrative deformation, and are likely to have been controlled by CO₂ streaming. These amphibolite–granulite-facies transitions are reported to be near-isochemical. It is suggested that there are (at least) two different kinds of granulite-facies metamorphism: a near-isochemical prograde type in stabilized tectonic environments, perhaps controlled by influx of CO₂ (e.g. in South India) and significantly post-dating original crust formation; and a fluid-deficient type with widespread anatexis, hydrous retrogression and metasomatism, which takes place during accretion of continental crust, and in which heat is the governing factor (e.g. in southern West Greenland).     

Activity of water during granulite metamorphism around Anakapalle,Vishakhapatnam District,A.P.

A refined mathematical equation is proposed to quantify the ambient activity of water during granulite fades metamorphism. The thermodynamic calculations point to the low activity of water during metamorphism in the area around Anakapalle, Vishakhapatnam district, A.P. Carbonic metamorphism seems to be responsible for the low activity of water during this metamorphism. Calc-silicate rocks in the area, could have been the source of the CO₂.     

Late Archean metamorphism in the Buksefjorden region,Southwest Greenland

Standard state thermodynamic data extracted from experimental studies and applied to mineral assemblages in orthogneisses, metasedimentary gneisses and metabasites show that conditions of late Archean (2,850 m.y.) upper amphibolite facies were P _solid7.0 kb, T630° C, and rose to P _solid10.5 kb, T810° C in adjacent granulite facies. The estimates of solid pressure for the granulite facies suggest a late Archean crustal thickness of ca. 35 km, comparable to present day continental crust. Upper amphibolite facies assemblages were in equilibrium with about one half P _solid, while granulite assemblages equilibrated at much lower , varying from about one tenth P _solid in quartzofeldspathic gneisses to one third P _solid in more basic layers.     

Orthopyroxene–sillimanite–sapphirine granulites from the Bamble granulite terrane, southern Norway

Silica-deficient sapphirine-bearing rocks occur as an enclave within granulite facies Proterozoic gneisses and migmatites near Grimstad in the Bamble sector of south-east Norway (Hasleholmen locality). The rocks contain peraluminous sapphirine, orthopyroxene, gedrite, anthophyllite, sillimanite, sapphirine, corundum, cordierite, spinel, quartz and biotite in a variety of assemblages. Feldspar is absent.
Fe²⁺/(Fe²⁺+ Mg) in the analysed minerals varies in the order: spinel > gedrite ≥ anthophyllite ≥ biotite > sapphirine>orthopyroxene > cordierite.
Characteristic pseudomorph textures indicate coexistence of orthopyroxene and sillimanite during early stages of the reaction history. Assemblages containing orthopyroxene-sillimanite-sapphirine-cordierite-corundum developed during a high-pressure phase of metamorphism and are consistent with equilibration pressures of about 9 kbar at temperatures of 750–800°C. Decompression towards medium-pressure granulite facies generated various sapphirine-bearing assemblages. The diagnostic assemblage of this stage is sapphirine-cordierite. Sapphirine occurs in characteristic symplectite textures. The major mineralogical changes can be described by the discontinuous FMAS reaction: orthopyroxene + sillimanite → sapphirine + cordierite + corundum.
The disequilibrium textures found in the Hasleholmen rocks are characteristic for reactions which have been in progress but then ceased before they run to completion. Textures such as reaction rims, symplectites, partial replacement, corrosion and dissolution of earlier minerals are characteristic of granulite facies rocks. They indicate that, despite relatively high temperatures (700–800° C), equilibrium domains were small and chemical communication and transport was hampered as a result of dry or H₂O-poor conditions.     

Middle Archean ocean ridge hydrothermal metamorphism and alteration recorded in the Cleaverville area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

A hydrothermally metamorphosed greenstone complex, capped by bedded cherts and banded iron formations (BIFs), is exposed in the Cleaverville area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. It has been interpreted as an accretionary complex characterized by both a duplex structure and an oceanic plate stratigraphy, and is shown to represent a 3.2 Ga upper oceanic crust. Three metamorphic zones are identified in the basaltic greenstones. The metamorphic grade increases from sub-greenschist facies (zones A and B) to greenschist facies (zone C) under low-pressure conditions. The boundaries between three mineral zones are subparallel to the bedding plane of overlying chert/BIF, and metamorphic temperature increases stratigraphically downward. The zones correspond to the thermal structure of ocean-floor metamorphism, at a mid-ocean ridge.
The uppermost greenstone in the study area is more pervasively altered and carbonatized than the modern upper oceanic crust. This indicates the enrichment of CO₂ in the metamorphic fluid by which widespread formation of carbonate occurred, compared with a narrow stability region of Ca-Al silicates. It is, therefore, suggested that the Archean hydrothermal alteration played a more important role in fixation of CO₂ than present-day ocean-ridge hydrothermal alteration, as an interaction between sea water and oceanic crust.     

冀东地区新太古代麻粒岩相变质作用及其大地构造意义

冀东地区的早前寒武纪基底保留有太古宙克拉通普遍发育的"穹窿-龙骨构造",如卢龙-双山子表壳岩系呈近南北向带状分布于以TTG片麻岩为主构成的太平寨卵形构造域、迁安片麻岩穹窿和安子岭片麻岩穹窿之间,洒河桥线性构造带呈北东向切割太古宙构造线分布。在太平寨卵形域和洒河桥线性带中常见有零散分布的麻粒岩相表壳岩块体和古元古代变质基性岩墙。表壳岩块体包括基性和泥砂质麻粒岩和BIF型铁矿等,变质基性岩墙也发育高压麻粒岩相组合,变质锆石年龄为～1.81Ga。本文总结了近年来对该区麻粒岩的研究进展。太平寨卵形域中的基性麻粒岩以中粒二辉麻粒岩为主,有些样品的角闪石周围出现叠加变质形成的微粒矿物组合,个别样品见辉石周围发育石榴石冠状体,形成‘红眼圈’结构;利用稀土元素温度计确定二辉麻粒岩的峰期达到了～1000℃的超高温条件,麻粒岩中的锆石仅记录新太古代末期变质年龄(～2.50Ga),与周围TTG质岩石的结晶时间近于相同。洒河桥线性带中的基性麻粒岩以细粒高压麻粒岩组合为主,偶见中粒二辉麻粒岩残留,其峰期P-T条件分别为800～860℃/1.0～1.2GPa和950～1070℃/1.0GPa;麻粒岩中锆石主体记录新太古代末期变质年龄,但出现少量古元古代变质锆石(1.97～1.83Ga),石榴石-全岩Lu-Hf等时线年龄为1.77～1.78Ga。由此推测太平寨和洒河桥地区都经历了新太古代末期超高温麻粒岩相变质作用,又在古元古代晚期遭受了高压麻粒岩相差异性叠加,太平寨地区受叠加较弱,仍然保留太古宙的卵形构造,而洒河桥一带受叠加较强,形成了线性变形带。太平寨卵形域的泥砂质麻粒岩可识别出4阶段的变质矿物组合:包括包体组合、峰期组合、固相线(或最后)组合以及叠加组合。相平衡模拟表明固相线组合的P-T条件为870～890℃/～0.7GPa,峰期组合可达到1000℃/1.1GPa,石榴石中富钙斜长石包体指示麻粒岩早期经历了低压高温变质阶段。由此构建麻粒岩P-T轨迹为逆时针型,包括3个阶段:低压加热至超高温(AG-I),近等温升压至压力峰期(～1.1GPa)(AG-II),和峰后降压降温至固相线(AG-IIIa)以及在亚固相线下的降温降压过程(AG-IIIb)。锆石定年表明泥砂质麻粒岩原岩沉积年龄稍早于2.50Ga,变质年龄为2.48～2.50Ga。泥砂质麻粒岩的峰期变质条件和时代均与二辉麻粒岩一致,叠加组合的P-T条件与高压麻粒岩相似,反映泥砂质麻粒岩也受到了古元古代晚期变质作用影响。依据太平寨麻粒岩的逆时针型P-T轨迹,推测麻粒岩相变质作用包括如下构造过程:(i)AG-I指示表壳岩层受到后续地幔极高温岩浆喷发被埋深加热,或者受到下部TTG质岩浆海的加热过程;(ii)AG-II指示被加热的岩石(总伴有BIF铁矿层)被破碎并在在密度驱动下沉入岩浆海深部,达到下地壳深度;(iii)AG-IIIa/b对应沉入岩浆海深部的岩石伴随穹窿上升发生减压冷却的过程。很多地质观测和数值模拟研究表明太古宙克拉通的形成受太古宙特有的垂直构造体制控制,与太古代之后线性造山带的构造体制完全不同。     

Archaean granulite facies metamorphism of the Lewisian of Tiree, Inner Hebrides, north-west Scotland

The Lewisian of Tiree, north-west Scotland, underwent granulite facies metamorphism prior to 2.4 Ga. The temperatures and pressures estimated from garnet–clinopyroxene, garnet–orthopyroxene, hornblende–plagioclase and garnet–biotite geothermometers and clinopyroxene–plagioclase–garnet–quartz and orthopyroxene–plagioclase–garnet–quartz geobarometers are 810 ± 50° C and 10.5 ± 1.5 kbar. The imprecision of pressure estimates stems largely from uncertainties in garnet activity models. Calculations of blocking temperatures for Fe–Mg interdiffusion in clinopyroxene and garnet suggest that these temperatures and pressures represent only slightly reset peak-metamorphic conditions.
Down-temperature re-equilibration resulted in chemical zoning over the outer 50–100 μm of the mafic minerals. P–T paths calculated from this mineralogical zoning suggest nearly isobaric cooling. However, the growth of late sillimanite in metapelites requires that the retrograde P–T path had a significant decompression component, suggesting that the mineralogical zonation does not define the retrograde P–T path. The discrepancy between the P–T path calculated from mineralogical zonation and that implied by mineral reactions probably results from the net-transfer geobarometry reactions closing at higher temperatures than the exchange geothermometers.
The Tiree rocks have a similar history to the mainland Scourian complex. Granulite facies metamorphism accompanied by partial melting occurred prior to the intrusion of the Scourie dykes at c. 2.4 Ga, and the rocks underwent retrogression both prior to and after dyke emplacement. However, peak metamorphic temperatures and pressures on Tiree were lower than those recorded in the Scourian complex, and the Tiree rocks may have been at a different crustal level at that time.     

Palaeoproterozoic high-pressure granulite overprint of the Archean continental crust: evidence for homogeneous crustal thickening (Man Rise, Ivory Coast)

The character of mountain building processes in Palaeoproterozoic times is subject to much debate. Based on the discovery of high-pressure granulites in the Man Rise (Côte d'Ivoire), several authors have argued that Eburnean (Palaeoproterozoic) reworking of the Archean basement was achieved by modern-style thrust-dominated tectonics.
A mafic granulite of the Kouibli area (Archean part of the Man Rise, western Ivory Coast) displays a primary assemblage (M1) containing garnet, diopsidic clinopyroxene, red-brown pargasitic amphibole, plagioclase (andesine), rutile, ilmenite and quartz. This assemblage is associated with a subvertical regional foliation. Symplectites that developed at the expense of the M1 assemblage contain orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, plagioclase (bytownite), green pargasitic amphibole, ilmenite and magnetite (M2). Multiequilibrium thermobarometric calculations and P–T pseudosections calculated with thermocalc suggest granulite facies conditions of ∼ 13 kbar, 850 °C and <7 kbar, 700–800 °C for M1 and M2, respectively. In agreement with the qualitative information obtained from reaction textures and chemical zoning of minerals, this suggests an evolution dominated by decompression accompanied by moderate cooling. A Sm–Nd garnet – whole-rock age of 2.03 Ga determined on this sample indicates that this evolution occurred during the Palaeoproterozoic. It is argued that from the geodynamic point of view the observed features are best explained by homogeneous thickening of the margin of the Archean craton, re-heated and softened due to the accretion of hot, juvenile Palaeoproterozoic crust, as well as coeval intrusion of juvenile magmas. Crustal shortening was mainly accommodated by transpressive shear zones and by lateral crustal spreading rather than large-scale thrust systems.     

华北克拉通清原地体新太古代和古元古代两期麻粒岩相变质作用

对华北克拉通新太古代和古元古代的构造模式有多种不同认识,有必要进行深入的变质作用研究。本文选取了辽北清原地区中性麻粒岩、石榴方辉石岩和变质基性岩墙,开展系统的岩相学观察、矿物化学分析、相平衡模拟和锆石-独居定年研究,以阐明其变质演化过程和大地构造意义。中性麻粒岩和石榴方辉石岩均发育两期麻粒岩相组合。中性麻粒岩第一期斜长石发育复杂成份环带,从核到幔部其钙长石含量(X_An)降低,然后再向边部升高;石榴方辉石岩中第一期石榴石与斜方辉石互相包裹。第一期麻粒岩相变质作用P-T轨迹为逆时针型,包含峰期前升压至峰期和峰后降温降压至固相线两个变质阶段。依据两个样品中观测的峰期矿物组合在P-T视剖面图中的稳定范围,并结合斜长石幔部成份,确定峰期温压条件为1.0~1.2GPa/890~1000℃。石榴方辉石岩在峰前升压过程,斜方辉石转变为石榴石,形成石榴石包裹斜方辉石的结构;在峰后降温降压过程中,石榴石又转变为斜方辉石,导斜方辉石包裹石榴石。中性麻粒岩和石榴方辉石岩的第二期组合以形成石榴石+石英和黑云母+石英±单斜辉石±钾长石后成合晶和冠状体为特征。变质基性岩墙只发育第二期矿物组合,为高压麻粒岩组合,其P-T轨迹为顺时针型。根据变质斜长石中最小X_An,角闪石中最大Ti含量和石榴石幔部最高镁铝榴石含量等值线,确定峰期温压条件为~1.15GPa/830℃。锆石定年表明第一期高温-超高温麻粒岩相变质作用峰后冷却时间为2.49~2.48Ga,第二期高压麻粒岩相变质时间为~1.83Ga,独居石定年获得峰后退变质年龄为~1.75Ga。结合其他区域地质特征,本文认为第一期高温-超高温麻粒岩相变质作用受太古宙特有的垂直沉落构造控制,第二期高压麻粒岩相变质作用与沿华北克拉通北缘发生的碰撞造山事件有关。

     

胶北日庄石墨结晶与寄主麻粒岩的变质演化关系

日庄镇含石墨泥质麻粒岩出露于莱西石墨成矿带, 详细的岩相学、地球化学、拉曼光谱、年代学等研究显示岩石经历了超高温变质作用。麻粒岩变质演化过程包括三个阶段, 其中峰前M₁阶段矿物仅部分保留; 峰期M₂阶段和峰后M₃阶段矿物组合分别为Grt+Qz+Pl+Kfs+Sil+Rt+Liq和Grt+Qz+Bt+Pl+Kfs+Sil+Rt+Liq; 相平衡模拟结合二长石温度计和石英中Ti温度计研究结果显示峰期M₂阶段的温压条件为1025~1100℃、1.05~1.2GPa。研究样品中石墨结晶程度较高, 石墨拉曼光谱特征与麻粒岩相变质条件下形成的石墨一致, 岩相学特征指示高晶度石墨结晶于M₂向M₃转变过程中。麻粒岩中获得变质锆石年龄为~1.85Ga, 该年龄是寄主岩石峰期变质作用后熔体冷却时间的记录。岩相学和年代学研究表明, 优质高晶度石墨的形成和生长可能与胶-辽-吉活动带区域上碰撞折返过程中发生的深溶事件或混合岩化作用密切相关。

     

东昆仑金水口地区格林威尔期超高温麻粒岩

格林威尔期构造事件是了解罗迪尼亚超大陆形成的关键。本文报道了东昆仑造山带东段金水口地区古生代花岗岩中新发现二辉麻粒岩包体,其峰期变质矿物组合为单斜辉石+紫苏辉石+钙长石+石英+磁铁矿。通过锆石U-Pb测年,我们确定二辉麻粒岩样品的峰期变质年龄为995±34Ma,并受到泥盆纪(～417Ma)构造热事件的叠加改造。利用单斜辉石-斜方辉石温压计估算出该区二辉麻粒岩变质峰期温度867～1079℃,压力46～89kbar,属于低压超高温变质的温压范围,可能形成于高地温梯度的岛弧环境。该二辉麻粒岩是首次在东昆仑地区发现的格林威尔期超高温麻粒岩,代表罗迪尼亚超大陆汇聚过程中低压高温变质的产物。该发现对了解东昆仑造山带前寒武纪基底的构造属性和起源有重要意义。     

中国太古宙地质体组成、阶段划分和演化

我国太古宇陆壳主要见于华北克拉通区内，由高级变质的麻粒岩相带、角闪宕相区和低、中级变质的绿岩－花岗岩区组成。按地质时序可划分为始、古、中、新太古４个阶段。麻粒岩相带的组成主要由英云闪长质片麻岩为主和少量表壳岩或主要由表壳岩含一些花岗质岩石。绿岩－花岗岩区时代主要属新太古代，绿岩属基性火山－沉积建造，基性岩的原岩物质来自相对亏损的上地幔，形成于大陆边缘的裂谷环境。太古宙末，板块体制已经形成，麻粒岩相带是板块体制的俯冲碰撞机制的产物。对克拉通古陆块能长期成为大陆的解释，应认为是下地壳的挤压环境，促使陆壳以板底垫托叠置、垂直增生所致。     

南天山榆树沟高压麻粒岩地体多期变质定年研究

通过详细的矿物学及岩石学研究,特别是对角闪石的系统研究,确定榆树沟麻粒岩地体至少经历过高压麻粒岩相、中压麻粒岩相、角闪岩相和绿片岩相四期变质作用的改造。总结了各期变质作用的期次和特点。在此基础上,采用~(40)Ar-~(39)Ar同位素定年获得368.2±4.8Ma坪年龄和360±10Ma等时线年龄。采用Sm-Nd同位素矿物等时线定年获得Gra+Pl+Ⅰlm+全岩的等时线年龄为310±5Ma。结合已发表的定年结果综合分析认为,前者可代表榆树沟地体峰期变质-高压麻粒岩相变质作用年龄;后者为峰期后经受中压麻粒岩相变质变形的叠加改造年龄。讨论了多期变质作用中同位素的均一化和封闭温度问题。     

Multistage metamorphism of the Huangtuling granulite, Northern Dabie Orogen, eastern China: implications for the tectonometamorphic evolution of subducted lower continental crust

Granulites from Huangtuling in the North Dabie metamorphic core complex in eastern China preserve rare mineralogical and mineral chemical evidence for multistage metamorphism related to Palaeoproterozoic metamorphic processes, Triassic continental subduction‐collision and Cretaceous collapse of the Dabie Orogen. Six stages of metamorphism are resolved, based on detailed mineralogical and petrological studies: (I) amphibolite facies (6.3–7.0 kbar, 520–550 °C); (II) high‐pressure/high‐temperature granulite facies (12–15.5 kbar, 920–980 °C); (III) cooling and decompression (4.8–6.0 kbar, 630–700 °C); (IV) medium‐pressure granulite facies (7.7–9.0 kbar, 690–790 °C); (V) low‐pressure/high‐temperature granulite facies (4.0–4.7 kbar, 860–920 °C); (VI) retrograde greenschist facies overprint (1–2 kbar, 340–370 °C). The P–T history derived in this study and existing geochronological data indicate that the Huangtuling granulite records two cycles of orogenic crustal thickening events. The earlier three stages of metamorphism define a clockwise P–T path, implying crustal thickening and thinning events, possibly related to the assembly and breakup of the Columbia Supercontinent at c. 2000 Ma. Stage IV metamorphism indicates another crustal thickening event, which is attributed to Triassic subduction/collision between the Yangtze and Sino‐Korean Cratons. The dry lower crustal granulite persisted metastably during the Triassic subduction/collision because of the lack of hydrous fluid and deformation. Stage V metamorphism records the Cretaceous collapse of the Dabie Orogen, possibly due to asthenosphere upwelling or removal of the lithospheric mantle resulting in heating of the granulite and partial melting of the North Dabie metamorphic core complex. Comparison of the Huangtuling granulite in North Dabie and the high‐pressure–ultrahigh‐pressure metamorphic rocks in South Dabie indicates that the subducted upper (South Dabie) and lower (North Dabie) continental crusts underwent contrasting tectonometamorphic evolution during continental subduction‐collision and orogenic collapse.     

麻粒岩相变质流体及麻粒岩相岩石成因

流体在麻粒岩相地钵形成过程中所扮演的角色是有争议的。麻粒岩相变质流体目前的研究成果可归纳为碳变质模式、无流体变质模式和高盐度流体变质模式。碳变质模式强调幔源CO2在麻粒岩形成过程中起着非常重要的作用，这一模式在许多麻粒岩相地体得到了肯定。但碳、氧稳定同位素的不均一现象、峰期矿物组合热力学计算结果以及富CO2流体对硅酸盐的搬运能力低使碳变质受到了质疑。无流体变质模式强调部分熔融降低H2O活度的绝对重要性，但却无法解释普遍存在的麻粒岩相原生富CO2包裹体。而高盐度流体变质模式的确有潜在的优势，如低H2O活度、较强的碱金属、LILE及硅酸盐的搬运能力，但这一理论需要进一步证实。     

Proterozoic granulite facies metamorphism in the southeastern Reynolds Range, central Australia: geological context, P–T path and overprinting relationships

In the southeastern Reynolds Range, central Australia, a low- P granulite facies metamorphism affected two sedimentary sequences: the Lander Rock Beds and the Reynolds Range Group. In the context of the whole of the Reynolds Range and the adjacent Anmatjira Range, this metamorphism is M3 in a sequence M1–4 that occurred over a period of 250 Ma. In particular, M1 affected the Lander Rock Beds prior to the deposition of the Reynolds Group. M3 has an areally restricted, high-grade area in the southeastern Reynolds Range, affecting both the Reynolds Range Group and the underlying Lander Rock Beds. The effects of M3 are characterized by spinel + quartz-bearing peak metamorphic assemblages in metapelites, which imply peak conditions of ≥750°C and 4.5 ± 1 kbar, and involved isobaric cooling or compression with cooling. It is concluded that one of a series of thermal perturbations caused by thinning of mantle lithosphere contemporaneous with crustal thickening was responsible for M3. In the southeastern Reynolds Range, evidence of both the unconformity between the two rock groups and previous metamorphism/deformation has been completely erased by recrystallization during M3–D3.     

Early Neoproterozoic granulite facies metamorphism of mafic dykes from the Vestfold Block,east Antarctica

Proterozoic mafic dykes from the southwestern Vestfold Block experienced heterogeneous granulite facies metamorphism, characterized by spotted or fractured garnet‐bearing aggregates in garnet‐absent groundmass. The garnet‐absent groundmass typically preserves an ophitic texture composed of lathy plagioclase, intergranular clinopyroxene and Fe–Ti oxides. Garnet‐bearing domains consist mainly of a metamorphic assemblage of garnet, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, hornblende, biotite, plagioclase, K‐feldspar, quartz and Fe–Ti oxides. Chemical compositions and textural relationships suggest that these metamorphic minerals reached local equilibrium in the centre of the garnet‐bearing domains. Pseudosection calculations in the model system NCFMASHTO (Na₂O–CaO–FeO–MgO–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O–TiO₂–Fe₂O₃) yield P–T estimates of 820–870 °C and 8.4–9.7 kbar. Ion microprobe U–Pb zircon dating reveals that the NW‐ and N‐trending mafic dykes were emplaced at 1764 ± 25 and 1232 ± 12 Ma, respectively, whereas their metamorphic ages cluster between 957 ± 7 and 938 ± 9 Ma. The identification of granulite facies mineral inclusions in metamorphic zircon domains is also consistent with early Neoproterozoic metamorphism. Therefore, the southwestern margin of the Vestfold Block is inferred to have been buried to depths of ~30–35 km beneath the Rayner orogen during the late stage of the late Mesoproterozoic/early Neoproterozoic collision between the Indian craton and east Antarctica (i.e. the Lambert Terrane or the Ruker craton including the Lambert Terrane). The lack of penetrative deformation and intensive fluid–rock interaction in the rigid Vestfold Block prevented the nucleation and growth of garnet and resulted in the heterogeneous granulite facies metamorphism of the mafic dykes.     

内蒙古太古宙麻粒岩相岩石中辉石特征和结晶温压条件

辉石是本区的主要造岩矿物,在麻粒岩相岩石中分布比较广泛。综合研究表明,本区斜方辉石的一个显著特征是普遍较富铁,从含铁量的变化范围来看,矿物的含铁量和岩石中的含铁量大致呈正相关关系。单斜辉石中FeO、MgO、CaO的含量变化较小,从化学成分上对比,单斜辉石MgO的含量与斜方辉石MgO含量都受岩石成分所控制。本文所研究的两种辉石均属平衡共生关系,据二辉石矿物对获得本区麻粒岩相变质作用的温度为800-900℃,压力为(7—10)×108Pa。     

Eclogite-High-Pressure Granulite Belt in Northern Edge of the Archean North China Craton

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