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Oxygen isotope geothermometers for metamorphic rocks
Authors:A MATTHEWS
Institution:Institute for Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Abstract:The Chicago mineral-carbonate oxygen isotope fractionation curves have been combined with mineral-water fractionation data for jadeite, zoisite and rutile and new data for grossular-water to provide a set of self-consistent mineral-pair calibrations. The A coefficients in the equation 1000 In α= A × 106T-2 of the new mineral-pair fractionations are
Jadeite Zoisite Grossular Rutile
Quartz 1.69 2.00 3.03 5.02
Jadeite 0.31 1.34 3.33
Zoisite 1.03 3.02
Grossular 1.99
The isotopic fractionation properties of natural pyralspite garnet (Ca, Fe, Mg, Mn)3Al2Si3O12] can be approximated by those of the grossular end-member. Appropriate substitutions also yield coefficients for the solid-solution minerals: sodic pyroxene and epidote, e.g.
A quartz-sodic pyroxene= 2.75 - 1.06Xjd,
A quartz-epidote= 2.00 + 0.75Xps
where X Jd and X Ps are the mole fractions of the jadeite and pistacite components, respectively.
The new data set is particularly suitable for the geothermometry of metamorphic rocks. δ18O data from minerals of the high-pressure metamorphic rocks of the Sesia Zone of Italy and Cyclades Complex of Greece yield well-constrained mean temperatures of 572 and 478 C, respectively. Type III blueschist metabasalts of the Franciscan Formation of California give mean quartz-garnet temperatures of 354 C.
Keywords:blueschists  eclogites  fractionation  geothermometer calibrations  geothermometry  grossular-water oxygen isotope fractionation  oxygen isotopes
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