Regional Quartz Inclusion Barometry and Comparison with Conventional Thermobarometry and Intersecting Isopleths from the Connecticut Valley Trough, Vermont and Massachusetts, USA
Regional Quartz Inclusion Barometry and Comparison with Conventional Thermobarometry and Intersecting Isopleths from the Connecticut Valley Trough, Vermont and Massachusetts, USA
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美国佛蒙特州和马萨诸塞州康涅狄格谷槽的区域石英包裹体气压测定法以及与传统温压测定法和相交等值线的比较
DOI：
10.1093/petrology/egaa076
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Spear, Frank S
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作者：
Wolfe, Oliver M;Spear, Frank S
A comparative analysis of Raman shifts of quartz inclusions in garnet was made along two traverses across the Connecticut Valley Trough (CVT) in western New England, USA, to examine the regional trends of quartz inclusion in garnet (QuiG) Raman barometry pressure results and to compare this method with conventional thermobarometry and the method of intersecting garnet core isopleths. Overall, Raman shifts of quartz inclusions ranged from 1·2 to 3·5 cm–1over all field areas and displayed a south to north decrease, matching the overall decrease in mapped metamorphic grade. Raman shifts of quartz inclusions typically did not show systematic variation with respect to their radial position within a garnet crystal, and indicate that garnet probably grew at nearly isothermal and isobaric pressure–temperature (P–T) conditions. TheP–Tconditions inferred from conventional thermobarometry were in the range of ∼500–575 °C and ∼7·4–10·3 kbar over the sample suite and are in good agreement with previous published thermobarometry throughout the CVT. TheseP–Tresults are broadly consistent with QuiG barometry and also suggest that garnet grew isothermally and isobarically at near peakP–Tconditions. However,P–Tconditions andP–Tpaths inferred using either garnet core thermobarometry or garnet core intersecting isopleths yield results that are internally inconsistent and generally disagree with the pressure results from QuiG barometry. Garnet core isopleth intersections consistently plotted between the nominal garnet-in curve on mineral assemblage diagrams and theP–Tconditions constrained by QuiG isomekes for the majority of the sample suite. Additionally, most samples’P–Tresults from QuiG barometry and rim thermobarometry show marked disagreement from those derived from garnet core thermobarometry, compared with the minority that showed agreement within uncertainty. Pressures calculated from QuiG barometry ranged from 8·5 to 9·5 kbar along the traverses in western Massachusetts (MA) and central Vermont (VT) and from 6·5 to 7·5 kbar in northern VT indicating an increase in peak burial of 3–6 km from north to south. Along the western end of the central VT traverse, there are differences in measured Raman shifts and inferred peak pressures of up to 1 kbar across the Richardson Memorial Contact (RMC), indicating a possible fault contact with minor post-peak metamorphic shortening of up to ∼3 km. In contrast, along an east–west traverse in the vicinity of the Goshen Dome, MA, there was little observed variation in Raman shifts across the contact. By contrast, QuiG barometry clearly indicates significant discontinuities in peak pressure east of the Strafford Dome in central VT. This supports the interpretation that post-peak metamorphic shortening was necessary to juxtapose upper staurolite–kyanite zone rocks next to lower garnet zone pelites. Overall, it is concluded that garnet core thermobarometry and garnet core isopleths may provide unreliable results for theP–Tconditions of garnet nucleation and inferredP–Tpaths during garnet growth unless independently verified. The consistency of QuiG results with rim thermobarometry indicates that peak metamorphic conditions previously reported for the CVT using garnet rim thermobarometry are robust and that variation in QuiG barometry results is a valuable tool to analyze structural features within a metamorphic terrane.
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