Low‐pressure–high‐temperature metamorphism during extension in a Jurassic magmatic arc,Central Pontides,Turkey |
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| Authors: | A I Okay G Sunal O Tüysüz S Sherlock M Keskin A RC Kylander‐Clark |
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| Institution: | 1. Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, , Maslak, 34469 Turkey;2. Department of Geology, Faculty of Mines, Istanbul Technical University, , Maslak, 34469 Turkey;3. Department of Earth, Environment and Ecosystems, Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space & Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) Sciences, The Open University, , Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA UK;4. Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul University, , Avc?lar, 34320 Istanbul, Turkey;5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, CA, 93106 USA |
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| Abstract: | Magmatic arcs are zones of high heat flow; however, examples of metamorphic belts formed under magmatic arcs are rare. In the Pontides in northern Turkey, along the southern active margin of Eurasia, high temperature–low pressure metamorphic rocks and associated magmatic rocks are interpreted to have formed under a Jurassic continental magmatic arc, which extends for 2800 km through the Crimea and Caucasus to Iran. The metamorphism and magmatism occurred in an extensional tectonic environment as shown by the absence of a regional Jurassic contractional deformation, and the presence of Jurassic extensional volcaniclastic marine basin in the Pontides, over 2 km in thickness, where deposition was coeval with the high‐T metamorphism at depth. The heat flow was focused during the metamorphism, and unmetamorphosed Triassic sequences crop out within a few kilometres of the Jurassic metamorphic rocks. The heat for the high‐T metamorphism was brought up to crustal levels by mantle melts, relicts of which are found as ultramafic, gabbroic and dioritic enclaves in the Jurassic granitoids. The metamorphic rocks are predominantly gneiss and migmatite with the characteristic mineral assemblage quartz + K‐feldspar + plagioclase + biotite + cordierite ± sillimanite ± garnet. Mineral equilibria give peak metamorphic conditions of 4 ± 1 kbar and 720 ± 40 °C. Zircon U–Pb and biotite Ar–Ar ages show that the peak metamorphism took place during the Middle Jurassic at c. 172 Ma, and the rocks cooled to 300 °C at c. 162 Ma, when they were intruded by shallow‐level dacitic and andesitic porphyries and granitoids. The geochemistry of the Jurassic porphyries and volcanic rocks has a distinct arc signature with a crustal melt component. A crustal melt component is also suggested by cordierite and garnet in the magmatic assemblage and the abundance of inherited zircons in the porphyries. |
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| Keywords: | extension LP– HT metamorphism magmatic arc Pontides Turkey |
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