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Petrogenesis of Mafic Garnet Granulite in the Lower Crust of the Kohistan Paleo-arc Complex (Northern Pakistan): Implications for Intra-crustal Differentiation of Island Arcs and Generation of Continental Crust |
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| Authors: | GARRIDO CARLOS J; BODINIER JEAN-LOUIS; BURG JEAN-PIERRE; ZEILINGER GEROLD; HUSSAIN S SHAHID; DAWOOD HAMID; CHAUDHRY M NAWAZ; GERVILLA FERNANDO |
| Institution: | 1 DEPARTAMENTO DE MINERALOGÍA Y PETROLOGÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN 2 ISTEEM, LABORATOIRE DE TECTONOPHYSIQUE CNRS & UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER II, 34095 MONTPELLIER, FRANCE 3 GEOLOGISCHES INSTITUT, ETH-ZENTRUM SONNEGGSTRASSE 5, 8092 ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND 4 UNIVERSITY OF BERN, INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES BERN, SWITZERLAND 5 PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, GARDEN AVENUE SHAKARPARIAN, 44000 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN 6 INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB QUAID-I-AZAM CAMPUS, 54590, LAHORE, PAKISTAN |
| Abstract: | We report the results of a geochemical study of the Jijal andSarangar complexes, which constitute the lower crust of theMesozoic Kohistan paleo-island arc (Northern Pakistan). TheJijal complex is composed of basal peridotites topped by a gabbroicsection made up of mafic garnet granulite with minor lensesof garnet hornblendite and granite, grading up-section to hornblendegabbronorite. The Sarangar complex is composed of metagabbro.The Sarangar gabbro and Jijal hornblende gabbronorite have melt-like,light rare earth element (LREE)-enriched REE patterns similarto those of island arc basalts. Together with the Jijal garnetgranulite, they define negative covariations of LaN, YbN and(La/Sm)N with Eu* Eu* = 2 x EuN/(SmN + GdN), where N indicateschondrite normalized], and positive covariations of (Yb/Gd)Nwith Eu*. REE modeling indicates that these covariations cannotbe accounted for by high-pressure crystal fractionation of hydrousprimitive or derivative andesites. They are consistent withformation of the garnet granulites as plagioclase–garnetassemblages with variable trapped melt fractions via eitherhigh-pressure crystallization of primitive island arc basaltsor dehydration-melting of hornblende gabbronorite, providedthat the amount of segregated or restitic garnet was low (<5wt %). Field, petrographic, geochemical and experimental evidenceis more consistent with formation of the Jijal garnet granuliteby dehydration-melting of Jijal hornblende gabbronorite. Similarly,the Jijal garnet-bearing hornblendite lenses were probably generatedby coeval dehydration-melting of hornblendites. Melting modelsand geochronological data point to intrusive leucogranites inthe overlying metaplutonic complex as the melts generated bydehydration-melting of the plutonic protoliths of the Jijalgarnet-bearing restites. Consistent with the metamorphic evolutionof the Kohistan lower arc crust, dehydration-melting occurredat the mature stage of this island arc when shallower hornblende-bearingplutonic rocks were buried to depths exceeding 25–30 kmand heated to temperatures above c. 900°C. Available experimentaldata on dehydration-melting of amphibolitic sources imply thatthickening of oceanic arcs to depths >30 km (equivalent toc. 1·0 GPa), together with the hot geotherms now postulatedfor lower island arc crust, should cause dehydration-meltingof amphibole-bearing plutonic rocks generating dense garnetgranulitic roots in island arcs. Dehydration-melting of hornblende-bearingplutonic rocks may, hence, be a common intracrustal chemicaland physical differentiation process in island arcs and a naturalconsequence of their maturation, leading to the addition ofgranitic partial melts to the middle–upper arc crust andformation of dense, unstable garnet granulite roots in the lowerarc crust. Addition of LREE-enriched granitic melts producedby this process to the middle–upper island arc crust maydrive its basaltic composition toward that of andesite, affordinga plausible solution to the ‘arc paradox’ of formationof andesitic continental-like crust in island arc settings. KEY WORDS: island arc crust; Kohistan complex; Jijal complex; amphibole dehydration-melting; garnet granulite; continental crustal growth |
| Keywords: | : island arc crust Kohistan complex Jijal complex amphibole dehydration-melting garnet granulite continental crustal growth |
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