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AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
Volume 92, Issue 7, Pages 1213-1224Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/am.2007.2458
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zircon; hydrothermal; cathodoluminescence; U-Pb; sveconorwegian; SIMS; EBSD; fracturing; hydraulic
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The entire population of magmatic oscillatory zoned zircons in a migmatitic granite from the Tjarnesjo intrusion, southwest Sweden, reveal fine-scale brittle fracturing. The oscillatory zoned fragments are rotated but not dispersed. Fractures between individual fragments are sealed by newly formed CL-bright zircon. Hydraulic fracturing is the most probable mechanism. The internal structure of fractured zircons and the LREE-enriched, low Th character of CL-bright zircon both suggest that cracks between oscillatory zoned zircon fragments were rapidly sealed after fracturing by CL-bright zircon, precipitated from hydrothermal fluids. Zircon fracturing and crack-sealing has been dated by SIMS ion-probe and U-Th-Pb isotopes to 920 +/- 51 Ma (lower intercept age, 2 sigma, MSWD = 1.09) with a limit for the Youngest possible age of 960 +/- 16 Ma (Pb-207/(206) Pb, 2 sigma, MSWD = 0.23) dated by sector-zoned rims forming overgrowths on the fractured cores.
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