Coesite-bearing eclogites from the Bixiling Complex, Dabie Mountains, China: SmNd ages, geochemical characteristics and tectonic implications
Coesite-bearing eclogites from the Bixiling Complex, Dabie Mountains, China: SmNd ages, geochemical characteristics and tectonic implications
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DOI:
10.1016/s0009-2541(96)00068-x
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发表时间:
1996-11
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
V. Chavagnac;B. Jahn
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作者:
V. Chavagnac;B. Jahn
The Bixiling mafic-ultramafic complex occurs as a tectonic block within biotite gneisses in the eastern part of the Dabie ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic (UHPM) terrane. Geochemical and isotopic (RbSr and SmNd) analyses were performed on whole-rock and mineral constituents in order to constrain the age of metamorphism, to discuss the age and nature of protoliths, and to estimate the rates of initial cooling and uplift of the Complex as well as much of the Dabie UHPM terrane. The Bixiling eclogites and ultramafic rocks have narrow ranges of near-chondritic ϵNd(0) values (−2.7 to −0.6) and147Sm144Nd ratios (∼ 0.16-0.19), which is in strong contrast with the majority of eclogites from the SuLu and Dabie terranes which have low ϵNd(0) values (−20 to −6) and smaller147Sm144Nd ratios (∼0.1-0.15). Trace-element and SrNd isotopic characteristics suggest that the original mantle-derived magma intruded in the lower crust and was contaminated by crustal rocks (granulites) during magma differentiation. SmNd isotopic analyses on garnet and omphacite from 6 eclogites and 1 garnet peridotite give tightly grouped isochron ages ranging from 210 to 218 Ma, with near-chondritic ϵNd(T) values (−1.8 to −0.1). When all garnet data are treated alone, they form a similar “isochron” age of 225 ± 7 Ma with ϵNd(T) = −2.5 ± 1.1. Similarly, RbSr isotopic analyses on phengite and other minerals yield almost the same age results; and the phengite-only data also define a similar isochron age of ∼ 210 Ma. These results lead to several important conclusions: Using the known P-T conditions and probable blocking temperatures for SmNd and RbSr systems in garnet and phengite, high rates of initial cooling (∼ 40°C/Ma) and early stage of uplift (∼ 10 mm/yr) were calculated for the Bixiling Complex. This is in strong contrast with the Weihai eclogites from the Su-Lu terrane in which slow cooling and slow uplift (∼ 1 mm/yr) rates were estimated. Evidently, differential exhumation of UHPM rocks prevails in the Dabie and Su-Lu terranes.