Journal
AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
Volume 101, Issue 7-8, Pages 1696-1699Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/am-2016-5707
Keywords
Metamorphic petrology; garnet; trace elements and REE; diffusion; major and minor elements; kinetics
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- National Science Foundation Directorate of Geosciences [EAR-0744154, EAR-1250269]
- Yale University
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1250269] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Garnet zonation provides an unparalleled record of the pressure-temperature-time-fluid evolution of metamorphic rocks. At extreme temperature conditions >900 degrees C, however, most elements preserve little zonation due to intracrystalline diffusional relaxation. Under these conditions, slowly diffusing trace elements including P, Na, and Ti have the best chance of recording metamorphic histories. Here we map dramatic zoning patterns of these elements in subducted high-pressure felsic granulite (Saxon Granulite Massif) and ultrahigh-pressure diamondiferous saidenbachite (Saxonian Erzgebirge, Bohemian Massif). The results show that garnet replacement via interface coupled dissolution-reprecipitation can strongly affect garnet compositions in subduction zones and that P, Na, and Ti record burial and exhumation histories that are otherwise lost to diffusion. In these samples, P diffuses the slowest, and Ti the fastest.
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