Origin of Taylor Creek rhyolite magma, Black Range, New Mexico, based on Nd-Sr isotope studies

1990 ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cadi Reece ◽  
Joaquin Ruiz ◽  
Wendell A. Duffield ◽  
P. Jonathan Patchett
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Sr Isotope ◽  
Rhyolite Magma ◽  
Taylor Creek ◽  
Isotope Studies

Extreme halogen abundances in tin-rich magma of the Taylor Creek Rhyolite, New Mexico

1994 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 840-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Webster ◽  
Wendell A. Duffield
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Taylor Creek

Roof-rock contamination of Taylor Creek Rhyolite, New Mexico, as recorded in hornblende phenocrysts and biotite xenocrysts

1996 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Wittke ◽  
Wendell A. Duffield ◽  
Caron Jones
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Roof Rock ◽  
Taylor Creek

The Taylor Creek Rhyolite of New Mexico: a rapidly emplaced field of lava domes and flows

1990 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 475-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendell A Duffield ◽  
G Brent Dalrymple
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Lava Domes ◽  
Taylor Creek

Rb–Sr isotope studies on Tinos Island (Cyclades, Greece): additional time constraints for metamorphism, extent of infiltration-controlled overprinting and deformational activity

1998 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL BRÖCKER ◽  
LEANDER FRANZ
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Ductile Shear Zone ◽  
Sr Isotope ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Variable Intensity ◽  
High Pressure Metamorphism ◽  
Fluid Infiltration ◽  
Intermediate Unit ◽  
Isotope Studies ◽  
Jurassic Ophiolites

This study presents new Rb–Sr age data concerning the metamorphic evolution of the Attic-Cycladic Crystalline Belt which represents a complex polymetamorphic terrane within the Alpidic orogenic belt of the Hellenides. Two major groups of tectonic units can be distinguished. Metamorphism in parts of the upper units is commonly considered as a Cretaceous event. In contrast, the group of lower units experienced Tertiary high-pressure metamorphism which was followed by a medium-pressure overprint. We focus on the island of Tinos where a representative spectrum of the rock units found in the Cyclades is exposed in three tectonic units: the Upper Unit, the Intermediate Unit and the Basal Unit. The complete range of tectono-metamorphic and magmatic events affecting the Attic-Cycladic Crystalline Belt is documented by numerous petrological and tectonic studies. Phyllites and phyllonites from the ophiolitic Upper Unit yielded Rb–Sr apparent ages (phengite–whole-rock) between c. 92 and 21 Ma. The older age differs from the Cretaceous dates reported for upper unit rocks elsewhere in the Cyclades. It is suggested that the sequence studied belongs to the Jurassic ophiolites of the Hellenides rather than to Cretaceous occurrences. The spread to younger ages is related to non-pervasive rejuvenation and resetting of the Rb–Sr system during tectonic juxtaposition of the Upper Unit over the Intermediate Unit. The youngest age obtained so far for a sample from the Upper Unit (21 Ma) is believed to approximate the timing of tectonic juxtaposition which probably occurred during a regional greenschist-facies episode producing a pervasive overprint in the structurally lower tectonic unit. The major phyllite/meta-gabbro/serpentinite sequence of the Upper Unit is interpreted as an emplacement-related ductile shear zone which experienced reworking under brittle conditions. In the Intermediate Unit, a gradient in Rb–Sr ages from top (c. 40 Ma) to the bottom (c. 22 Ma) was recognized, which is interpreted to represent greater effects of fluid infiltration and overprinting in the lower parts of this unit, possibly controlled by variable intensity of deformation which might be related to tectonic juxtaposition onto the Basal Unit. We suggest that synmetamorphic stacking of all three tectonic units took place during an Oligocene–Miocene greenschist event. Extensional deformation continued after tectonic stacking and after intrusion of the main granite, as is indicated by a Rb–Sr whole-rock isochron (15.1∓0.6 Ma) for a ductilely deformed garnet-bearing leucogranite from the marginal parts of the main undeformed pluton. Application of the Rb–Sr dating technique provided no unequivocal evidence that previously published Eocene K–Ar and 40Ar–39Ar dates for high-pressure phengites from the lower units are significantly contaminated with excess argon.

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