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zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the reynolds range central australia
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001Co-Authors: Daniela Rubatto, Ian S Williams, Ian S BuickAbstract:We report an extensive field-based study of zircon and monazite in the metamorphic sequence of the Reynolds Range (central Australia), where greenschist- to granulite-facies metamorphism is recorded over a continuous crustal section. Detailed cathodoluminescence and back-scattered electron imaging, supported by SHRIMP U–Pb dating, has revealed the different behaviours of zircon and monazite during metamorphism. Monazite first recorded regional metamorphic ages (1576 ± 5 Ma), at amphibolite-facies grade, at ∼600 °C. Abundant monazite yielding similar ages (1557 ± 2 to 1585 ± 3 Ma) is found at granulite-facies conditions in both partial melt segregations and Restites. New zircon growth occurred between 1562 ± 4 and 1587 ± 4 Ma, but, in contrast to monazite, is only recorded in granulite-facies rocks where melt was present (≥700 °C). New zircon appears to form at the expense of pre-existing detrital and inherited cores, which are partly resorbed. The amount of metamorphic growth in both accessory minerals increases with temperature and metamorphic grade. However, new zircon growth is influenced by rock composition and driven by partial melting, factors that appear to have little effect on the formation of metamorphic monazite. The growth of these accessory phases in response to metamorphism extends over the 30 Ma period of melt crystallisation (1557–1587 Ma) in a stable high geothermal regime. Rare earth element patterns of zircon overgrowths in leucosome and Restite indicate that, during the protracted metamorphism, melt-Restite equilibrium was reached. Even in the extreme conditions of long-lasting high temperature (750–800 °C) metamorphism, Pb inheritance is widely preserved in the detrital zircon cores. A trace of inheritance is found in monazite, indicating that the closure temperature of the U–Pb system in relatively large monazite crystals can exceed 750–800 °C.
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zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the reynolds range central australia
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001Co-Authors: Daniela Rubatto, Ian S Williams, Ian S BuickAbstract:We report an extensive field-based study of zircon and monazite in the metamorphic sequence of the Reynolds Range (central Australia), where greenschist- to granulite-facies metamorphism is recorded over a continuous crustal section. Detailed cathodoluminescence and back-scattered electron imaging, supported by SHRIMP U–Pb dating, has revealed the different behaviours of zircon and monazite during metamorphism. Monazite first recorded regional metamorphic ages (1576 ± 5 Ma), at amphibolite-facies grade, at ∼600 °C. Abundant monazite yielding similar ages (1557 ± 2 to 1585 ± 3 Ma) is found at granulite-facies conditions in both partial melt segregations and Restites. New zircon growth occurred between 1562 ± 4 and 1587 ± 4 Ma, but, in contrast to monazite, is only recorded in granulite-facies rocks where melt was present (≥700 °C). New zircon appears to form at the expense of pre-existing detrital and inherited cores, which are partly resorbed. The amount of metamorphic growth in both accessory minerals increases with temperature and metamorphic grade. However, new zircon growth is influenced by rock composition and driven by partial melting, factors that appear to have little effect on the formation of metamorphic monazite. The growth of these accessory phases in response to metamorphism extends over the 30 Ma period of melt crystallisation (1557–1587 Ma) in a stable high geothermal regime. Rare earth element patterns of zircon overgrowths in leucosome and Restite indicate that, during the protracted metamorphism, melt-Restite equilibrium was reached. Even in the extreme conditions of long-lasting high temperature (750–800 °C) metamorphism, Pb inheritance is widely preserved in the detrital zircon cores. A trace of inheritance is found in monazite, indicating that the closure temperature of the U–Pb system in relatively large monazite crystals can exceed 750–800 °C.
Daniela Rubatto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Geochemistry of ultrahigh-pressure anatexis: fractionation of elements in the Kokchetav gneisses during melting at diamond-facies conditions
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2014Co-Authors: Aleksandr S. Stepanov, Joerg Hermann, Andrey V. Korsakov, Daniela RubattoAbstract:The Kokchetav complex in Kazakhstan contains garnet-bearing gneisses that formed by partial melting of metasedimentary rocks at ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) conditions. Partial melting and melt extraction from these rocks is documented by a decrease in K_2O and an increase in FeO + MgO in the Restites. The most characteristic trace element feature of the Kokchetav UHP Restites is a strong depletion in light rare earth elements (LREE), Th and U. This is attributed to complete dissolution of monazite/allanite in the melt and variable degree of melt extraction. In contrast, Zr concentrations remain approximately constant in all gneisses. Using experimentally determined solubilities of LREE and Zr in high-pressure melts, these data constrain the temperature of melting to ~1,000 °C. Large ion lithophile elements (LILE) are only moderately depleted in the samples that have the lowest U, Th and LREE contents, indicating that phengite retains some LILE in the residue. Some Restites display an increase in Nb/Ta with respect to the protolith. This further suggests the presence of phengite, which, in contrast to rutile, preferentially incorporates Nb over Ta. The trace element fractionation observed during UHP anatexis in the Kokchetav gneisses is significantly different from depletions reported in low-pressure Restites, where generally no LREE and Th depletion occurs. Melting at UHP conditions resulted in an increase in the Sm/Nd ratio and a decoupling of the Sm–Nd and Lu–Hf systems in the Restite. Further subduction of such Restites and mixing with mantle rocks might thus lead to a distinct isotopic reservoir different from the bulk continental crust.
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zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the reynolds range central australia
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001Co-Authors: Daniela Rubatto, Ian S Williams, Ian S BuickAbstract:We report an extensive field-based study of zircon and monazite in the metamorphic sequence of the Reynolds Range (central Australia), where greenschist- to granulite-facies metamorphism is recorded over a continuous crustal section. Detailed cathodoluminescence and back-scattered electron imaging, supported by SHRIMP U–Pb dating, has revealed the different behaviours of zircon and monazite during metamorphism. Monazite first recorded regional metamorphic ages (1576 ± 5 Ma), at amphibolite-facies grade, at ∼600 °C. Abundant monazite yielding similar ages (1557 ± 2 to 1585 ± 3 Ma) is found at granulite-facies conditions in both partial melt segregations and Restites. New zircon growth occurred between 1562 ± 4 and 1587 ± 4 Ma, but, in contrast to monazite, is only recorded in granulite-facies rocks where melt was present (≥700 °C). New zircon appears to form at the expense of pre-existing detrital and inherited cores, which are partly resorbed. The amount of metamorphic growth in both accessory minerals increases with temperature and metamorphic grade. However, new zircon growth is influenced by rock composition and driven by partial melting, factors that appear to have little effect on the formation of metamorphic monazite. The growth of these accessory phases in response to metamorphism extends over the 30 Ma period of melt crystallisation (1557–1587 Ma) in a stable high geothermal regime. Rare earth element patterns of zircon overgrowths in leucosome and Restite indicate that, during the protracted metamorphism, melt-Restite equilibrium was reached. Even in the extreme conditions of long-lasting high temperature (750–800 °C) metamorphism, Pb inheritance is widely preserved in the detrital zircon cores. A trace of inheritance is found in monazite, indicating that the closure temperature of the U–Pb system in relatively large monazite crystals can exceed 750–800 °C.
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zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the reynolds range central australia
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001Co-Authors: Daniela Rubatto, Ian S Williams, Ian S BuickAbstract:We report an extensive field-based study of zircon and monazite in the metamorphic sequence of the Reynolds Range (central Australia), where greenschist- to granulite-facies metamorphism is recorded over a continuous crustal section. Detailed cathodoluminescence and back-scattered electron imaging, supported by SHRIMP U–Pb dating, has revealed the different behaviours of zircon and monazite during metamorphism. Monazite first recorded regional metamorphic ages (1576 ± 5 Ma), at amphibolite-facies grade, at ∼600 °C. Abundant monazite yielding similar ages (1557 ± 2 to 1585 ± 3 Ma) is found at granulite-facies conditions in both partial melt segregations and Restites. New zircon growth occurred between 1562 ± 4 and 1587 ± 4 Ma, but, in contrast to monazite, is only recorded in granulite-facies rocks where melt was present (≥700 °C). New zircon appears to form at the expense of pre-existing detrital and inherited cores, which are partly resorbed. The amount of metamorphic growth in both accessory minerals increases with temperature and metamorphic grade. However, new zircon growth is influenced by rock composition and driven by partial melting, factors that appear to have little effect on the formation of metamorphic monazite. The growth of these accessory phases in response to metamorphism extends over the 30 Ma period of melt crystallisation (1557–1587 Ma) in a stable high geothermal regime. Rare earth element patterns of zircon overgrowths in leucosome and Restite indicate that, during the protracted metamorphism, melt-Restite equilibrium was reached. Even in the extreme conditions of long-lasting high temperature (750–800 °C) metamorphism, Pb inheritance is widely preserved in the detrital zircon cores. A trace of inheritance is found in monazite, indicating that the closure temperature of the U–Pb system in relatively large monazite crystals can exceed 750–800 °C.
Ian S Williams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Petrogenesis of granitoids from the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia: The role of disequilibrium melting
Gondwana Research, 2020Co-Authors: Kieran A. Iles, Janet M. Hergt, Jon D. Woodhead, Ryan B. Ickert, Ian S WilliamsAbstract:Abstract S- and I-type granites from the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia, have been investigated to assess the role of disequilibrium melting in their petrogenesis. Differences between the median initial eHf compositions of magmatic zircon populations and the host bulk-rock (ΔeHfblk-zrc) range from −0.6 to +2.5 e units, providing evidence for intra-sample (and hence inter-phase) Hf-isotopic heterogeneity. Linear variations on Harker diagrams and O and Hf isotope compositions of magmatic zircon preserved in many I- and S-type granites are inconsistent with assimilation or simple mixing hypotheses. In contrast, isotopic disequilibrium between the melt and a Restite assemblage can explain the bulk-rock versus zircon differences observed in these samples. Assuming that magmatic zircon records the melt composition, differences between the bulk-rock eHf and eHf of magmatic zircon (ΔeHfblk-zrc values) measured for I-type granites (0.4–2.5) can largely be explained by disequilibrium amphibole dehydration melting of meta-igneous protoliths that were either isotopically heterogenous at the time they were formed, or perfectly homogeneous before being aged in the crust for 0.4–1.0 billion years prior to partial melting. The Currowong Suite exhibits petrographic features and preserves geochemical and isotopic compositions that do not lend themselves to simple Restite model or magma mixing explanations; however, these observations could be explained by the Restite unmixing of magma batches generated from a single source rock if, as modelling has suggested, separate batches contain different melt compositions. By investigating the application of disequilibrium melting to granite genesis, this study demonstrates that isotopic heterogeneity at various sampling scales should actually be expected for the production of granites from a single source, rather than necessitating the involvement of multiple sources and mixing processes. As a result great care should be taken in the interpretation of isotope data from granitic bulk-rocks or their zircons.
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zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the reynolds range central australia
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001Co-Authors: Daniela Rubatto, Ian S Williams, Ian S BuickAbstract:We report an extensive field-based study of zircon and monazite in the metamorphic sequence of the Reynolds Range (central Australia), where greenschist- to granulite-facies metamorphism is recorded over a continuous crustal section. Detailed cathodoluminescence and back-scattered electron imaging, supported by SHRIMP U–Pb dating, has revealed the different behaviours of zircon and monazite during metamorphism. Monazite first recorded regional metamorphic ages (1576 ± 5 Ma), at amphibolite-facies grade, at ∼600 °C. Abundant monazite yielding similar ages (1557 ± 2 to 1585 ± 3 Ma) is found at granulite-facies conditions in both partial melt segregations and Restites. New zircon growth occurred between 1562 ± 4 and 1587 ± 4 Ma, but, in contrast to monazite, is only recorded in granulite-facies rocks where melt was present (≥700 °C). New zircon appears to form at the expense of pre-existing detrital and inherited cores, which are partly resorbed. The amount of metamorphic growth in both accessory minerals increases with temperature and metamorphic grade. However, new zircon growth is influenced by rock composition and driven by partial melting, factors that appear to have little effect on the formation of metamorphic monazite. The growth of these accessory phases in response to metamorphism extends over the 30 Ma period of melt crystallisation (1557–1587 Ma) in a stable high geothermal regime. Rare earth element patterns of zircon overgrowths in leucosome and Restite indicate that, during the protracted metamorphism, melt-Restite equilibrium was reached. Even in the extreme conditions of long-lasting high temperature (750–800 °C) metamorphism, Pb inheritance is widely preserved in the detrital zircon cores. A trace of inheritance is found in monazite, indicating that the closure temperature of the U–Pb system in relatively large monazite crystals can exceed 750–800 °C.
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zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the reynolds range central australia
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2001Co-Authors: Daniela Rubatto, Ian S Williams, Ian S BuickAbstract:We report an extensive field-based study of zircon and monazite in the metamorphic sequence of the Reynolds Range (central Australia), where greenschist- to granulite-facies metamorphism is recorded over a continuous crustal section. Detailed cathodoluminescence and back-scattered electron imaging, supported by SHRIMP U–Pb dating, has revealed the different behaviours of zircon and monazite during metamorphism. Monazite first recorded regional metamorphic ages (1576 ± 5 Ma), at amphibolite-facies grade, at ∼600 °C. Abundant monazite yielding similar ages (1557 ± 2 to 1585 ± 3 Ma) is found at granulite-facies conditions in both partial melt segregations and Restites. New zircon growth occurred between 1562 ± 4 and 1587 ± 4 Ma, but, in contrast to monazite, is only recorded in granulite-facies rocks where melt was present (≥700 °C). New zircon appears to form at the expense of pre-existing detrital and inherited cores, which are partly resorbed. The amount of metamorphic growth in both accessory minerals increases with temperature and metamorphic grade. However, new zircon growth is influenced by rock composition and driven by partial melting, factors that appear to have little effect on the formation of metamorphic monazite. The growth of these accessory phases in response to metamorphism extends over the 30 Ma period of melt crystallisation (1557–1587 Ma) in a stable high geothermal regime. Rare earth element patterns of zircon overgrowths in leucosome and Restite indicate that, during the protracted metamorphism, melt-Restite equilibrium was reached. Even in the extreme conditions of long-lasting high temperature (750–800 °C) metamorphism, Pb inheritance is widely preserved in the detrital zircon cores. A trace of inheritance is found in monazite, indicating that the closure temperature of the U–Pb system in relatively large monazite crystals can exceed 750–800 °C.
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Lachlan Fold Belt granites revisited: High‐ and low‐temperature granites and their implications
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2000Co-Authors: Bruce W. Chappell, Ian S Williams, D. Wyborn, A. J. R. White, Lesley WybornAbstract:Many of the granites in southeastern Australia possess compositional, petrographic, zircon age inheritance and other features that cannot be accounted for satisfactorily by the classical models of petrogenesis. The Restite model was developed to account for these features and recognises that unmelted but magmatically equilibrated source material (Restite) may be entrained in a partial melt, together comprising magma. Variation in the degree of separation of those two components, leading to differences in the ratio of melt to Restite, is responsible for the variation in composition within many suites of granites. A popular alternative view, that variation within suites resulted from magma mixing or mingling, conflicts with simple observations of the rock compositions and cannot be sustained. Several strong arguments can be made against another alternative view that fractional crystallisation was the dominant process in producing variation within those suites. New and conclusive evidence against that proces...
Ru-cheng Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reworked Restite enclave: Petrographic and mineralogical constraints from the Tongshanling intrusion, Nanling Range, South China
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2018Co-Authors: Xu-dong Huang, Stanislas Sizaret, Ru-cheng WangAbstract:Microgranular enclaves, which can provide important petrogenetic indications for the host granitoids, are commonly observed in the Middle-Late Jurassic Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing granodiorites in the Nanling Range of South China. The origin of these Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing granodiorites is still controversial, with two different hypotheses: crust-mantle mixing and partial melting of the mafic lower crust, primarily based on geochemistry and geochronology. Detailed petrographic and mineralogical studies have been carried out on the Tongshanling granodiorite and its microgranular enclaves to provide new textural and compositional constraints on the petrogenesis. The microgranular enclaves have dioritic compositions with a mineralogy dominated by plagioclase, amphibole, and biotite. Abundant residual materials, such as mafic mineral clots, inherited and metamorphic zircon, and Ca-rich core plagioclase, occur in the enclaves and are in favor of a Restite origin. The amphibole-rich clots are considered as vestiges of residual pyroxene-rich precursors from the source. Three different types of amphibole, i.e., magmatic, metamorphic, and magma reworked metamorphic amphibole, have been recognized in the granodiorite and its enclaves. The magmatic amphibole occurs as enclosed and idiomorphic isolated crystals in the granodiorite with Al and Si contents of 1.34–2.12 apfu (atoms per formula unit) and 6.25–6.88 apfu, respectively, and a ΣREE content of 307–764 ppm. The metamorphic amphibole, with a granoblastic triple-junction texture, occurs as aggregated crystals dominantly in the enclaves and a few in the granodiorite. It has actinolitic compositions (Al: 0.31–0.81 apfu, Si: 7.33–7.72 apfu) and distinctly lower contents of incompatible elements (ΣREE: 99–146 ppm). The magma reworked amphibole has intermediate compositions (Al: 0.81–1.59 apfu, Si: 6.71–7.35 apfu, ΣREE: 317–549 ppm) between the magmatic and metamorphic amphibole. The zonal amphibole-rich clots exhibit increasing Al and decreasing Si contents from interior amphibole to exterior amphibole and also from core to rim in amphibole grains, and the outer parts of enclave magmatic zircon have higher ThO2 + UO2 contents and lower Zr/Hf ratios than the inner parts, showing the process of magma reworking of the Restite enclaves. Based on the textural and compositional evidence, these microgranular enclaves are thought to be reworked Restite enclaves. This is also supported by thermobarometric calculation. A model illustrating the formation process of reworked Restite enclave has been proposed. Combined with previous experimental studies of partial melting, the Tongshanling granodiorite is deduced to be derived from dehydration melting of amphibolite in the mafic lower crust. The fertile amphibolitic source is beneficial to the formation of Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing granodiorites in the Nanling Range.
Xu-dong Huang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reworked Restite enclave: Petrographic and mineralogical constraints from the Tongshanling intrusion, Nanling Range, South China
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2018Co-Authors: Xu-dong Huang, Stanislas Sizaret, Ru-cheng WangAbstract:Microgranular enclaves, which can provide important petrogenetic indications for the host granitoids, are commonly observed in the Middle-Late Jurassic Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing granodiorites in the Nanling Range of South China. The origin of these Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing granodiorites is still controversial, with two different hypotheses: crust-mantle mixing and partial melting of the mafic lower crust, primarily based on geochemistry and geochronology. Detailed petrographic and mineralogical studies have been carried out on the Tongshanling granodiorite and its microgranular enclaves to provide new textural and compositional constraints on the petrogenesis. The microgranular enclaves have dioritic compositions with a mineralogy dominated by plagioclase, amphibole, and biotite. Abundant residual materials, such as mafic mineral clots, inherited and metamorphic zircon, and Ca-rich core plagioclase, occur in the enclaves and are in favor of a Restite origin. The amphibole-rich clots are considered as vestiges of residual pyroxene-rich precursors from the source. Three different types of amphibole, i.e., magmatic, metamorphic, and magma reworked metamorphic amphibole, have been recognized in the granodiorite and its enclaves. The magmatic amphibole occurs as enclosed and idiomorphic isolated crystals in the granodiorite with Al and Si contents of 1.34–2.12 apfu (atoms per formula unit) and 6.25–6.88 apfu, respectively, and a ΣREE content of 307–764 ppm. The metamorphic amphibole, with a granoblastic triple-junction texture, occurs as aggregated crystals dominantly in the enclaves and a few in the granodiorite. It has actinolitic compositions (Al: 0.31–0.81 apfu, Si: 7.33–7.72 apfu) and distinctly lower contents of incompatible elements (ΣREE: 99–146 ppm). The magma reworked amphibole has intermediate compositions (Al: 0.81–1.59 apfu, Si: 6.71–7.35 apfu, ΣREE: 317–549 ppm) between the magmatic and metamorphic amphibole. The zonal amphibole-rich clots exhibit increasing Al and decreasing Si contents from interior amphibole to exterior amphibole and also from core to rim in amphibole grains, and the outer parts of enclave magmatic zircon have higher ThO2 + UO2 contents and lower Zr/Hf ratios than the inner parts, showing the process of magma reworking of the Restite enclaves. Based on the textural and compositional evidence, these microgranular enclaves are thought to be reworked Restite enclaves. This is also supported by thermobarometric calculation. A model illustrating the formation process of reworked Restite enclave has been proposed. Combined with previous experimental studies of partial melting, the Tongshanling granodiorite is deduced to be derived from dehydration melting of amphibolite in the mafic lower crust. The fertile amphibolitic source is beneficial to the formation of Cu-Pb-Zn-bearing granodiorites in the Nanling Range.