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JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 271-290Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/43.2.271
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Congo Craton; high pressure; Kalahari Craton; metasomatism; whiteschist; Zambezi Belt
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The Kodurguri Whiteschists are a group of talc- and kyanite-bearing lithologies that occur in the Chewore Inliers from the Zambezi Belt of northern Zimbabwe. They crop out on the southern margin of the Chewore Ophiolite Terrane, a Mesoproterozoic ophiolite and island arc, as a 5 km x 1.5 km, southeasterly dipping, semi-continuous block, and contain the second known natural occurrence of yoderite. Major element analyses define the whiteschists within the relatively simple MFASH system. Major and trace element analyses indicate that the whiteschists originate from the metasomatic alteration of alkalic ocean-island-ope metabasalts similar to those in the underlying Ophiolite Terrane. Synmetamorphic or metasomatic mineral parageneses indicate peak P-T conditions of between 13 and 15 kbar at 550-600degreesC, and the highly oxidizing nature of all reactions indicates the presence of a high fO(2) metasomatic fluid. The peak P-T conditions require that this synmetamorphic, exotic metasomatic fluid was available at depths near 55 km., The age of high-pressure metamorphism is constrained within the Pan African tectonothermal cycle at 550-520 Ma. Tectonometamorphism,in the Zambezi Belt is related to a period of extensive crustal thickening possibly, related to amalgamation of Gondwanaland.
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