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Excess Ar-free phengite in ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Lago di Cignana area, Western Alps |
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| Authors: | Chitaro Gouzu Tetsumaru Itaya Hironobu Hyodo Takaaki Matsuda |
| Institution: | aGraduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Kobe 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan bOpen Research Center, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Okayama 700-0005, Japan cHiruzen Institute for Geology and Chronology, 161-1 Sai, Okayama 703-8248, Japan dResearch Institute of Natural Sciences, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Okayama 700-0005, Japan eDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan |
| Abstract: | Ar/Ar analyses of phengites and paragonites from the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks (zoisite–clinozoisite schist, garnet–phengite schist and piemontite schist) in the Lago di Cignana area, Western Alps were carried out with a laser probe step-heating method using single crystals and a spot dating method on thin sections. Eight phengite and two paragonite crystals give the plateau ages of 37–42 Ma with 96–100% of 39Ar released. Each rock type also contains mica crystals showing discordant age spectra with age fractions (20–35 Ma) significantly younger than the plateau ages. Phengite inclusions in garnet give ages of 43.2 ± 1.1 Ma and 44.4 ± 1.5 Ma, which are significantly older than the spot age (36.4 ± 1.4 Ma) from the matrix phengites, and the plateau ages from the step-heating analyses. Inclusion ages (43 and 44 Ma) are consistent with a zircon SHRIMP age (44 ± 1 Ma) in this area. These results suggest that the oceanic materials that underwent a simple subduction related UHPM, form excess 40Ar-free phengite and that the peak metamorphism is ca. 44 Ma or little older. We suggest that matrix phengites experienced a retrogression reaction changing their chemistry contemporaneously with deformation related to the exhumation of rocks releasing significant radiogenic 40Ar from the crystals. This has lead to the apparent ages of the matrix phengites that are significantly younger than the inclusion age. |
| Keywords: | UHPM rocks Lago di Cignana Western Alps Ar/Ar age Excess 40Ar |
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