Sub-solidus Oligocene zircon formation in garnet peridotite during fast decompression and fluid infiltration (Duria, Central Alps) |
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| Authors: | J Hermann D Rubatto V Trommsdorff |
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| Institution: | (1) Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;(2) Institute for Mineralogy and Petrography, ETH-Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Summary A garnet peridotite lens from Monte Duria (Adula nappe, Central Alps, Northern Italy) contains porphyroblastic garnet and
pargasitic amphibole and reached peak metamorphic conditions of ∼830 C, ∼2.8 GPa. A first stage of near isothermal decompression
to pressures <2.0 GPa is characterised by domains where fine grained spinel, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene and amphibole form.
The newly formed amphibole contains elevated levels of fluid mobile elements such as Rb, Ba and Pb indicating that recrystallization
was assisted by infiltration of a crustal-derived fluid. Further decompression and cooling to ∼720 °C, 0.7–1.0 GPa associated
with limited fluid influx is documented by the formation of orthopyroxene-spinel-amphibole symplectites around garnet.
Zircon separated from this garnet peridotite exhibits two distinct zones. Domain 1 displays polygonal oscillatory zoning and
high trace element contents. It contains clinopyroxene and amphibole inclusions with the same composition as the same minerals
formed during the spinel peridotite equilibration, indicating that this domain formed under sub-solidus conditions during
decompression and influx of crustal fluids. Domain 2 has no zoning and much lower trace element contents. It replaces domain
1 and is likely related to zircon recrystallization during the formation of the symplectites. SHRIMP dating of the two domains
yielded ages of 34.2 ± 0.2 and 32.9 ± 0.3 Ma, respectively, indicating fast exhumation of the peridotite within the spinel
stability field. We suggest that the Duria garnet peridotite originates from the mantle wedge above the tertiary subduction
of the European continental margin and that it was assembled to the country rock gneisses between 34 and 33 Ma.
Third author was Deceased |
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