Monazite-(Ce)–huttonite solid solutions in granulite-facies metabasites from the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Italy
Monazite-(Ce)–huttonite solid solutions in granulite-facies metabasites from the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Italy
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DOI:
10.1180/minmag.1999.063.4.11
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发表时间:
1999-08
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
H. Förster;D. Harlov
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作者:
H. Förster;D. Harlov
Abstract Composite populations of monazite-group minerals of both metamorphic and metasomatic origin have been discovered in thin layers of granulite-facies metabasites interlayered with metapelites, located in the Val Strona di Omegna region of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, Italy. In addition to monazite-(Ce), which is uncommonly poor in Th and is probably formed by incongruent dissolution of apatite, these populations include members of the monazite-huttonite series. The latter minerals contain between 13 and 30.1 mol.% ThSiO4 [= huttonitic monazite-(Ce)], and are known from only half a dozen other occurrences worldwide. We propose that breakdown of primary monazite-(Ce) in the metapelites during granulite-facies metamorphism mobilized Th and the REEs, which were then transported by high-grade metamorphic fluids into the metabasite layers to form the Th-rich minerals of the monazite-huttonite series.