Scale of pluton/wall rock interaction near May Lake,Yosemite National Park,CA, USA |
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| Authors: | Ryan D Mills Allen F Glazner Drew S Coleman |
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| Institution: | (1) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, USA |
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| Abstract: | Interaction of magma with wall rock is an important process in igneous petrology, but the mechanisms by which interactions
occur are poorly known. The western outer granodiorite of the Cretaceous Tuolumne Intrusive Suite of Yosemite National Park,
California, intruded a variety of metasedimentary and igneous wall rocks at 93.1 Ma. The May Lake metamorphic screen is a
metasedimentary remnant whose contact zone exhibits a variety of interaction phenomena including xenolith incorporation, disaggregation,
and partial melting. The chemical contrast of these metasedimentary rocks with the invading pluton provides an excellent measure
of pluton/wall rock interactions. Wall rock xenoliths (mostly pelitic quartzite) are predominantly located in an elongate
horizon surrounded by a hybridized fine-grained granodiorite. Initial Sr and Nd isotopic ratios of the hybridized granodiorite
indicate significant local incorporation of crustal material. Major- and trace-element geochemical data indicate that contamination
of the granodiorite occurred via selective assimilation of both high-K and low-K, high-silica partial melts derived from pelitic
quartzite. Although the hybridized granodiorite shows significant amounts of contamination, adjacent to xenoliths the proportion
of contamination is undetectable more than a meter away. These results indicate that the chemical and isotopic variability
of the Tuolumne Intrusive Suite is not caused by magma contamination via in situ wall rock assimilation. |
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| Keywords: | Isotope geochemistry Pluton emplacement Partial melting Sierra Nevada batholith |
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