The Sierra Ballena Shear Zone in the southernmost Dom Feliciano Belt (Uruguay): evolution, kinematics, and deformation conditions |
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Authors: | Pedro Oyhantçabal Siegfried Siegesmund Klaus Wemmer Paul Layer |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, C.P. 11400, Montevideo, Uruguay 2. Geoscience Centre of the Georg-August University G?ttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077, G?ttingen, Germany 3. Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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Abstract: | The Sierra Ballena Shear Zone (SBSZ) is part of a high-strain transcurrent system that divides the Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano
Belt of South America into two different domains. The basement on both sides of the SBSZ shows a deformation stage preceding
that of the transcurrent deformation recognized as a high temperature mylonitic foliation associated with migmatization. Grain
boundary migration and fluid-assisted grain boundary diffusion enhanced by partial melting were the main deformation mechanisms
associated with this foliation. Age estimate of this episode is >658 Ma. The second stage corresponds to the start of transpressional
deformation and the nucleation and development of the SBSZ. During this stage, pure shear dominates the deformation, and is
characterized by the development of conjugate dextral and sinistral shear zones and the emplacement of syntectonic granites.
This event dates to 658–600 Ma based on the age of these intrusions. The third stage was a second transpressional event at
about 586 to <560 Ma that was associated with the emplacement of porphyry dikes and granites that show evidence of flattening.
Deformation in the SBSZ took place, during the late stages, under regional low-grade conditions, as indicated by the metamorphic
paragenesis in the supracrustals of the country rocks. Granitic mylonites show plastic deformation of quartz and brittle behavior
of feldspar. A transition from magmatic to solid-state microstructures is also frequently observed in syntectonic granites.
Mylonitic porphyries and quartz mylonites resulted from the deformation of alkaline porphyries and quartz veins emplaced in
the shear zone. Quartz veins reflect the release of silica associated with the breakdown of feldspar to white mica during
the evolution of the granitic mylonites to phyllonites, which resulted in shear zone weakening. Quartz microstructures characteristic
of the transition between regime 2 and regime 3, grain boundary migration and incipient recrystallization in feldspar indicate
deformation under lower amphibolite to upper greenschist conditions (550–400°C). On the other hand, the mylonitic porphyries
display evidence of feldspar recrystallization suggesting magmatic or high-T solid-state deformation during cooling of the
dikes. |
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