Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr ages and P-T history of the Archean Sittampundi and Bhavani layered meta-anorthosite complexes in Cauvery shear zone,South India: evidence for Neoproterozoic reworking of Archean crust |
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| Authors: | Y J Bhaskar Rao T R K Chetty A S Janardhan K Gopalan |
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| Institution: | (1) National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad 500 007, India, IN;(2) Department of Geology, Manasagangothri, University of Mysore, Mysore 570 006, India, IN |
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| Abstract: | Sittampundi and Bhavani Archean layered meta-anorthosite complexes occur as tectonic lenses within the Cauvery shear zone
(CSZ), a crustal scale shear dividing the Precambrian granulite crust of south India into late Archean (> 2.5 Ga) and Proterozoic (c. 0.55 Ga) blocks. They and their host supracrustal-gneiss rocks record at least two stages of
tectonometamorphic history. The first is seen as regional scale refolded isoclinal folds and granulite metamorphism (D1-M1) while the second stage is associated with dominantly E–W dextral transcurrent shearing and metamorphic recrystallisation
(D2-MCSZ). Whole rock Sm-Nd isochrons for several comagmatic rocks of the layered complexes yield concordant ages: Sittampundi – 2935±60
Ma, ɛNd + 1.85±0.16 and Bhavani – 2899±28 Ma, ɛNd + 2.18±0.14 (2σ errors). Our Sm-Nd results suggest that: (1) the magmatic protoliths of the Sittampundi and Bhavani layered
complexes were extracted from similar uniform and LREE depleted mantle sources; (2) M1 metamorphism occurred soon after emplacement at c.3.0 Ga ago. P-T estimates on garnet granulites from the Sittampundi complex characterise the MCSZ as a high-P event with metamorphic peak conditions of c. 11.8 kbar and 830°C (minimum). The MCSZ is associated with significant isothermal decompression of the order of 4.5–3.5 kbar followed by static high-temperature
rehydration and retrogression around 600°C. The timing of MCSZ is inferred to be Neoproterozoic at c. 730 Ma based on a whole rock-garnet-plagioclase-hornblende Sm-Nd isochron age for
a garnet granulite from the Sittampundi complex and its agreement with the 800–600 Ma published age data on post-kinematic
plutonic rocks within the CSZ. These results demonstrate that the Cauvery shear zone is a zone of Neoproterozoic reworking
of Archean crust broadly similar to the interface between the Napier and Rayner complexes of the East Antarctic shield in
a model Proterozoic Gondwana supercontinent.
Received: 5 December 1995 / Accepted: 3 May 1996 |
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