Geochemistry and petrology of rocks in the Decar area, central British Columbia: Petrologically constrained subdivision of the Cache Creek complex
Geochemistry and petrology of rocks in the Decar area, central British Columbia: Petrologically constrained subdivision of the Cache Creek complex
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不列颠哥伦比亚省中部德卡尔地区岩石的地球化学和岩石学:卡什溪复合体的岩石学约束细分
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2019
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通讯作者:
Ryan Grundy
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作者:
D. Milidragovic;Ryan Grundy
Upper Paleozoic to Lower Jurassic deformed rocks of the Cache Creek terrane in the Decar area, central British Columbia, include a central region of variably serpentinized or carbonate-altered ultramafi c rocks (Trembleur ultramafi te) that is bounded to the northeast and southwest by greenschist faciesto amphibolite facies volcano-sedimentary rocks. The predominant olivine-orthopyroxene-spinel (harzburgitic) mineralogy, and major and trace element geochemical composition of the least-altered ultramafi c rocks suggest that they are remnants of a highly meltdepleted (F ~0.15-0.30) lithospheric mantle. The relatively high SiO2 concentrations and high modal abundance of orthopyroxene in the harzburgite indicate later metasomatism, probably in a supra-subduction setting. Based on immobile and incompatible trace element abundances, we identify four geochemical suites of volcanic and shallow intrusive rocks in the Decar area. The Sowchea succession (Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Jurassic) contains both the high-Ti alkaline and enriched to depleted tholeiitic suites, the Rubyrock igneous complex (Lower Permian to Upper Triassic) contains the HFSE-depleted suite, and local unnamed, undeformed mafi c intrusions that appear to postdate assembly of the Cache Creek complex are of the calc-alkaline suite. The geochemistry of samples from the Decar area provides evidence that rocks of the Cache Creek complex consist of two fundamentally different tectono-stratigraphic assemblages. Volcanic and intrusive rocks, limestone, chert, and argillite of the Sowchea succession were likely deposited in an oceanic plateau setting. They resided on a lower plate before being juxtaposed against an upper plate consisting of the Trembleur ultramafi te and overlying supracrustal rocks of the Rubyrock igneous complex.
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J. Warren
通讯作者:
J. Warren