Zircon U-Pb SHRIMP ages of high-pressure granulite in Yushugou ophiolitic terrane in southern Tianshan and their tectonic implications

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (13) ◽  
pp. 1415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dingwu ZHOU
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Tectonic Implications ◽  
Southern Tianshan ◽  
High Pressure Granulite

Ultra-high pressure minerals in the Luobusa Ophiolite, Tibet, and their tectonic implications

2004 ◽  
Vol 226 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Robinson ◽  
Wen-Ji Bai ◽  
John Malpas ◽  
Jing-Sui Yang ◽  
Mei-Fu Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Ultra High Pressure ◽  
Tectonic Implications

Geochronology, geochemistry, origin, and tectonic implications of high‐pressure mafic granulites of the Amdo region, Central Tibet

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 7458-7473
Author(s):  
Chaoming Xie ◽  
Yuhang Song ◽  
Menglong Duan ◽  
Li Su ◽  
Yujie Hao
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Tectonic Implications ◽  
Central Tibet

Discussion of ‘Metamorphic P–T and retrograde path of high-pressure Barrovian metamorphic zones near Cairn Leuchan, Caledonian orogen, Scotland’

2014 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Aoki ◽  
B. F. Windley ◽  
S. Maruyama ◽  
S. Omori
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Granulite Facies ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Tectonic Model ◽  
High Pressure Granulite ◽  
Future Publication ◽  
Western Ireland

K. Aoki, B. F. Windley, S. Maruyama & S. Omori reply: First, we thank Viete, Oliver & Wilde for their interesting and thought-provoking comments on the timing of the high-pressure granulite facies (HGR) metamorphism recorded in metamorphic rocks at Cairn Leuchan, Scotland, published by Aoki et al. (2013). Based on new metamorphic data of garnetites and garnet-amphibolites at Cairn Leuchan and new zircon U–Pb ages of amphibolitized eclogite at Tomatin, we suggested in our publication that the HGR metamorphism was retrograde after eclogite facies before the c. 470 Ma ‘Barrovian metamorphism’. Viete, Oliver & Wilde however speculate that the HGR metamorphism at Cairn Leuchan may have occurred at c. 1000 Ma, as a result of their new U–Pb zircon age of the Cowhythe Gneiss at Portsoy and from previous studies of the geological structure and geochronology. We are grateful for this opportunity to describe, albeit in a preliminary manner, our new understanding and tectonic model of the Caledonian orogen in Scotland and western Ireland of which the Barrovian metamorphism is a key component. A reply to a comment is not the correct place to propose an entirely new paradigm for such a classic orogen, but we will present our model more fully in a future publication.

Asymmetric zoning profiles in garnet from HP-HT granulite and implications for volume and grain-boundary diffusion

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Boundary Diffusion ◽  
Sharp Decrease ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Granulite Facies ◽  
Grain Boundary Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Models ◽  
High Pressure Granulite

AbstractDetailed electron-microprobe line profiles and small-area compositional maps of zoned garnets in a sample of high-pressure-high-temperature granulite show features inconsistent with commonly applied diffusion models. Larger grains of an early garnet generation have their highest Ca contents in domains away from the rim or inclusions but show a sharp fall in Ca balanced by increased Mg and Fe (and slightly higher XMg) towards inclusions and the rim. In domains with secondary biotite, the sharp decrease in Ca is accompanied by variations in XMg dependent upon proximity to biotite, thus producing one-sided, asymmetric profiles with XMg lower against biotite. As a consequence, rim compositions of the same grain are different on the sides adjacent and away from biotite and there is no relationship between grain size and rim XMg. Such a zoning pattern requires that grain-boundary diffusion is as slow as volume diffusion and implies the absence of a diffusion-enhancing grain-boundary fluid phase during the majority of the rock's high-temperature exhumation history. Diffusion models ignoring this probability could yield either cooling rates that were too fast, or extrapolated ages based on closure temperature models that were too old.A second garnet generation in the same rock, grown in a Ca-rich domain resulting from kyanite breakdown, has irregularly distributed patches, identified by compositional mapping, containing higher Ca than the first-formed garnet but at lower XMg. Use of such garnet compositions for geothermobarometrical determination of the high-pressure granulite stage would clearly lead to erroneous results. The presence of such contrasting garnet compositions in a granulite-facies rock is clearly evidence of disequilibrium, and further supports the proposition that there was a lack of an effective transport medium even at the mm scale.

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