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JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 11, Pages 1977-2002Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egg067
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zircon dissolution-reprecipitation; zircon U-Pb geochronology; paragonite (ArAr)-Ar-39-Ar-40 dating; Syros meta-ophiolite
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Zircons were studied from high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphosed meta-igneous lithologies from Syros. These rocks carry several zircon generations related to each other by dissolution-reprecipitation processes. One generation is pristine zircon that shows growth zoning, relatively elevated contents of trivalent cations and high Th/U ratios. The other end-member is a skeletal zircon generation with negligible trivalent cation contents and low Th/U ratios (less than or equal to0.1). Texturally between these two, there is a range of zircon crystals with complex inclusion populations of Y-HREE-Th phases and fluid inclusions, showing variable progress of replacement- recrystallization. Both end-members yield distinct sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U-Pb ages. The pristine generation has an age of 80.2+/-1.6 Ma from a metagabbro, and 76.4+/-2.1 Ma from a meta-plagiogranite dyke. The skeletal, low-Th/U zircon generation yields an age of 52.4+/-0.8 Ma. The older, Late Cretaceous, zircons are interpreted to date emplacement of the magmatic protoliths in a small segment of oceanic crust. The younger, Eocene, age, however, dates a zircon recrystallization event, which possibly coincides with high solubility and mobility of high field strength elements in a high-pressure aqueous fluid phase. Intergrowth relations between zircon and peak-metamorphic garnet, and excellent agreement of the U-Pb ages with white mica Ar-Ar ages for the same samples support the conclusion that Eocene is the true age of high-pressure metamorphism on Syros.
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