期刊
LITHOS
卷 200, 期 -, 页码 258-272出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.04.009
关键词
Sm-Nd; Phase equilibria modeling; P-T-t path; Chinese southwestern Tianshan
资金
- National Science Foundation of China [41121062, 41090371, 41272069, 41330210]
- Major State Basic Research Development Program [2009CB825007]
The southwestern Tianshan orogenic belt hosts one of the Earth's rare occurrences of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks derived from subducted oceanic crust. To address its poorly constrained and controversial P-T-t evolution, for this study, three representative samples, two paragonite-epidote eclogites (H505-26 and H76-10) and one glaucophane-phengite eclogite (H711-1) are selected, and Sm-Nd geochronology and detailed phase equilibria modeling are combined. Garnet porphyroblasts from the three studied eclogites have well-preserved growth zoning with rim-ward increasing pyrope and decreasing spessartine contents. Phase equilibria modeling reveals that the investigated garnets grew in the lawsonite eclogite facies; in eclogite H055-26 during heating and burial, and in eclogites H76-10 and H711-1 during heating and decompression. Temperatures of 460-590 degrees C derived for the three eclogites are below the closure temperature of the Sm-Nd system, and, thus, the garnet-omphacite-whole rock Sm-Nd isochron ages have the potential to reflect garnet growth, i.e., eclogite facies metamorphism. The three eclogites yield consistent Sm-Nd isochron ages of 309 +/- 4.6 Ma (H505-26), 306 +/- 15 Ma (H76-10) and 305 +/- 11 Ma (H711-1), reflecting HP eclogite fades metamorphism. Based on the new geochronology, detailed investigation of phase equilibria and published data, a clockwise P-T-t path with post-P-max heating - decompression, subsequent isothermal decompression and final cooling - decompression is predicted for the eclogites from Chinese southwestern Tianshan. We propose, subduction of the South Tianshan paleo-ocean began before 346 Ma, the eclogite facies prograde metamorphism of the subducting oceanic crust occurred at 346-333 Ma, peak eclogite facies metamorphism at 320-305 Ma, and buoyancy-driven exhumation of the oceanic crust at 296-226 Ma. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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