Journal
APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE
Volume 165, Issue -, Pages 52-63Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2018.07.040
Keywords
K/Ar dating; Illite/muscovite; Contact metamorphism; Torres del Paine; Ar diffusion
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation [200021-149232]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021_149232] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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The 40Ar* retentivity behavior was studied in the contact metamorphic aureole of the Torres del Paine intrusion (51 degrees S, Chile) and provides constraints on the closure temperature in contact metamorphic settings. The temperature conditions of the regional anchizonal to epizonal metamorphosed pelitic host rock and the contact metamorphic pelite were recorded by illite crystallinities (Kiibler Index) and by Raman spectroscopy on carbonaceous matter. K/Ar age determinations were carried out on illite fine fractions ( < 0.2 and < 2 mu m). Differing reaction progresses are observed between organic matter and illite. Organic matter equilibrated with the ambient temperatures, whereas illite is lacking behind the contact metamorphic conditions evident by the absence or limited recrystallization progress. We propose two models to explain the degassing of 40Ar* in the absence of recrystallization considering surface loss and volume diffusion as two main pathways. Incipient 40Ar* loss appears at temperatures of about 248 degrees C in the < 0.2 mu m and at 260 degrees C in the < 2 mu m fraction. The high temperature end of 40Ar* retentivity is derived by extrapolation yielding temperatures of 330 degrees C for the < 0.2 mu m fraction and 345 degrees C for the < 2 mu m fraction. Thus, the Zone of incipient 40Ar* loss, called ZIAL, is constrained to between 248 degrees C and 330 degrees C for the < 0.2 mu m fraction and to between 260 and 345 degrees C for the < 2 mu m fraction. The extrapolated values for the upper ZIAL limit are in good agreement with calculated bulk closure temperature values of 348 degrees C ( < 2 mu m) and 286 degrees C ( < 0.2 mu m) assuming ca. 10 kyrs of heating during the emplacement of the Torres del Paine intrusion.
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