Multistage Svecofennian metamorphism: Evidence from the composition and U-Pb age of titanite from eclogites of the Belomorian Mobile Belt

Скублов, С. Г.; Березин, А. В.; Ризванова, Н. Г.; Мельник, А. Е.; Мыскова, Т. А.

doi:10.1134/s0869591114040067

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“…4) also is not an efficient discriminator for igneous vs. metamorphic or hydrothermal origin. Analogous REE-normalized patterns display titanite from granitic rocks (Bea 1996;Bauer 2015;Kohn 2017) as well as from metamorphic rocks (eclogites; Gao et al 2011;Skublov et al 2014). Consequently, the shape of the chondrite-normalized REE patterns of titanite is rather a result of different REE partitioning between the host-rock minerals.…”

Section: Titanite Chemical Compositionmentioning

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Titanite composition and SHRIMP U–Pb dating as indicators of post-magmatic tectono-thermal activity: Variscan I-type tonalites to granodiorites, the Western Carpathians

Uher

Broska

Krzemińska

et al. 2019

Geologica Carpathica

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Titanite belongs to the common accessory minerals in Variscan (~360–350 Ma) metaluminous to slightly peraluminous tonalites to granodiorites of I-type affinity in the Tatric and Veporic Units, the Western Carpathians, Slovakia. It forms brown tabular prismatic-dipyramidal crystals (~0.5 to 10 mm in size) in association with quartz, plagioclase, and biotite. Titanite crystals commonly shows oscillatory, sector and convolute irregular zonal textures, reflecting mainly variations in Ca and Ti versus Al (1–2 wt. % Al2O3, 0.04–0.08 Al apfu), Fe (0.6–1.6 wt. % Fe2O3, 0.02–0.04 Fe apfu), REE (La to Lu + Y; ≤4.8 wt. % REE2O3, ≤ 0.06 REE apfu), and Nb (up to 0.5 wt. % Nb2O5, ≤0.01 Nb apfu). Fluorine content is up to 0.5 wt. % (0.06 F apfu). The compositional variations indicate the following principal substitutions in titanite: REE3+ + Fe3+ = Ca2+ + Ti4+, 2REE3+ + Fe2+ = 2Ca2+ + Ti4+, and (Al, Fe)3+ + (OH, F)− = Ti4+ + O2−. The U–Pb SHRIMP dating of titanite reveal their Variscan ages in an interval of 351.0 ± 6.5 to 337.9 ± 6.1 Ma (Tournaisian to Visean); titanite U–Pb ages are thus ~5 to 19 Ma younger than the primary magmatic zircon of the host rocks. The Zr-in-titanite thermometry indicates a relatively high temperature range of titanite precipitation (~650–750 °C), calculated for assumed pressures of 0.2 to 0.4 GPa and a(TiO2) = 0.6–1.0. Consequently, the textural, geochronological and compositional data indicate relatively high-temperature, most probably early post-magmatic (subsolidus) precipitation of titanite. Such titanite origin could be connected with a subsequent Variscan tectono-thermal event (~340 ± 10 Ma), probably related with younger small granite intrusions and/or increased fluid activity. Moreover, some titanite crystals show partial alteration and formation of secondary titanite (depleted in Fe and REE) + allanite-(Ce) veinlets (Sihla tonalite, Veporic Unit), which probably reflects younger Alpine (Cretaceous) tectono-thermal overprint of the Variscan basement of the Western Carpathians.

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