Hydration, dehydration, and melting of metamorphosed granitic and dioritic rocks at high- and ultrahigh-pressure conditions

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Oct 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009e%26psl.288..244m&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 288, Issue 1-2, p. 244-254.

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Phase relations of three common upper crustal rocks, quartz diorite, granite and evolved granite, with different water contents were studied by calculating P-T pseudosections with the computer program PERPLE_X for the range 0.5 to 4.5 GPa and 500 to 1250 °C. Of particular interest were the generation of fluids and the consumption of H2O along various P-T paths typical for high-pressure and ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism to better understand crustal rocks involved in deep-seated continent-continent collisional environments. The phase relations in all studied rock compositions are similar. Typically, jadeite/omphacite + phengite (Si apfu between 3.3 and 3.5) + garnet + coesite ± kyanite occur at UHP. At T < 700 °C, K-feldspar and lawsonite can also be present at “dry” and “wet” conditions, respectively. The exhumation of a lawsonite-absent UHP assemblage leads either to phengite-dehydration melting accompanied by garnet growth or, at slight cooling, to no dehydration whereas dehydration is typical for exhumation from depths corresponding to 1.5 GPa. These findings are applied to the UHP Sulu terrane in eastern China. The majority of gneisses of this terrane typically do not show garnet. It is assumed that these rocks are of low-pressure nature and would, thus, probably belong to the upper plate during Triassic continent-continent collision. The reported UHP gneisses occur locally, are associated with eclogites, experienced fluid infiltration at UHP, and were exhumed accompanied by slight cooling as no phengite-dehydration melting took place. These characteristics could point to metamorphism in a subduction channel.

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