Long-lived high-temperature granulite-facies metamorphism in the Eastern Himalayan orogen, south Tibet
Long-lived high-temperature granulite-facies metamorphism in the Eastern Himalayan orogen, south Tibet
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DOI:
10.1016/j.lithos.2014.10.009
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发表时间:
2015
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3.5
通讯作者:
Zeming Zhang;H. Xiang;Xin Dong;H. Ding;Zhenyu He
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作者:
Zeming Zhang;H. Xiang;Xin Dong;H. Ding;Zhenyu He
The Namche Barwa Complex exposed in the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, south Tibet, underwent high-pressure (HP) and high-temperature (HT) granulite-facies metamorphism and associated anatexis. The HP pelitic granulites contain garnet, kyanite, sillimanite, cordierite, biotite, quartz, plagioclase, K-feldspar, spinel, ilmenite and graphite. These minerals show composite reaction texture and varying chemical compositions and form four successive mineral assemblages. Phase equilibrium modeling constrains theP–Tconditions of 10–12 kbar and 550–700 °C for the prograde stage, 13–16 kbar and 840–880 °C for the peak-metamorphic stage, and 5–6 kbar and 830–870 °C for the late retrograde stage, indicating that the HP granulites recorded a clockwiseP–Tpath involving the early heating burial and anatexis through dehydration melting of both muscovite and biotite, and the late isothermal decompression and gradual melt crystallization under HT granulite-facies conditions. The zircon U–Pb dating reveals that the HT granulite-facies metamorphism probably initiated at ca. 40 Ma, and lasted to ca. 8 Ma. Therefore, the present study provides robust evidence for a long-lived HT metamorphism and associated anatexis in the deeply buried Indian continent and important constraints on the leucogranite generation and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan orogen.