Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Omeo Metamorphic Complex,Victoria: Implications for metamorphic fluid flow,mineralisation and anatexis |
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| Authors: | I Cartwright S Harper |
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| Institution: | Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences , Monash University , Clayton, Vic., 3168 |
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| Abstract: | Metamorphosed turbidites from the Omeo Metamorphic Complex show only minor changes in δ18O values with increasing metamorphic grade from 13.4 ± 1.7% in the chlorite and biotite zones to 12.3 ± 1.0% in the sillimanite + K‐feldspar zone. Rocks within 5 km of the S‐type granite at Hume Dam have δ18O values of 6.8–8.1% that probably reflect interaction with heated meteoric‐igneous fluids. Interaction with igneous fluids has also occurred close to other I‐ and S‐type granites in this region. However, pervasive metamorphic fluid‐rock interaction in this terrain did not occur, which limits the region's potential for hydrothermal mineralisation. Anatexis at high grades was probably via dehydration‐melting reactions that consumed muscovite and biotite, which is consistent with there being little fluid present during metamorphism. Small (kilometre scale or less) S‐type granites in the sillimanite + K‐feldspar zone have δ18O values similar to those of the surrounding metasediments and probably formed by melting of those rocks. By contrast, larger (tens of kilometres scale) Ca‐rich, peraluminous, S‐type granites have lower δ18O values than the surrounding metasediments, and may represent melts of underlying middle to lower crust. |
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| Keywords: | fluid flow granites Lachlan Fold Belt metamorphism oxygen isotopes |
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