Timing of subduction and exhumation in a subduction channel: Evidence from slab melts from La Corea Mélange (eastern Cuba)
Timing of subduction and exhumation in a subduction channel: Evidence from slab melts from La Corea Mélange (eastern Cuba)
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10.1016/j.lithos.2011.08.009
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2011-11
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3.5
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I. Blanco-Quintero;Y. Rojas‐Agramonte;A. Garcia‐Casco;A. Kröner;D. Mertz;C. Lázaro;J. Blanco-Moreno-J.-Blanco
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I. Blanco-Quintero;Y. Rojas‐Agramonte;A. Garcia‐Casco;A. Kröner;D. Mertz;C. Lázaro;J. Blanco-Moreno-J.-Blanco
High pressure igneous rocks (tonalites), generated by partial melting of subducted basaltic rocks accreted to the mantle wedge, are present in the La Corea serpentinite-matrix mélange (eastern Cuba) as centimeter- to meter-sized blocks and as concordant to crosscutting veins within high-pressure parent amphibolite blocks. The slab melts have adakitic signatures, in agreement with formation after partial melting of metabasite. Thermobarometric calculations indicate 620–680°C and 13–15kbar during crystallization of tonalites and down to 250–300°C, 6kbar during retrogression, indicating counter-clockwise P–T paths (hot subduction-cool exhumation). Free water required for melting of amphibolite at moderate temperature (700–750°C) and moderate pressure (13–16kbar) close to the wet basaltic solidus is inferred to have been provided after dehydration of sediments, altered basaltic crust and serpentinite of the subducting Proto-Caribbean lithosphere. Single zircon (SHRIMP) and phengite40Ar/39Ar age data constrain the P–T–t evolution of the mélange from the timing of crystallization of melts at ~110–105Ma to cooling at ~87–84Ma, ca. 350°C, ca. 9kbar. These figures are consistent with subduction of an oblique ridge, shortly before 115Ma. Furthermore, our data indicate very slow exhumation (ca. 1mm/yr) in the subduction channel during the oceanic convergence stage (120–70Ma) until final fast exhumation to the surface occurred at 70–65Ma during a regional arc-platform collision event.