Unusual exsolution phenomena in omphacite and partial replacement of phengite by phlogopite + kyanite in an eclogite from the Erzgebirge |
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| Authors: | Esther Schmädicke Wolfgang Friedrich Müller |
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| Institution: | Mineralogisches Institut der Universit?t Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, DE
Institut für Mineralogie der TU Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 9, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany, DE
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| Abstract: | In the Erzgebirge Crystalline Complex, eclogites occur in three different high pressure (HP) units (1, 2 and 3) recording
contrasting pressure (P)–temperature (T) conditions. Eclogites from HP-unit 1 experienced peak metamorphic conditions in the
coesite stability field at about 33 kbar/850 °C. Commonly, these eclogites from HP-unit 1 are all very similar, with an eclogitic
peak assemblage of omphacite–garnet–coesite–K-feldspar, rarely accompanied by kyanite, and omphacites systematically deviating
from a stoichiometric composition. In contrast, an eclogite recently found near Blumenau, is mineralogically and geochemically
different from the typical eclogites of HP-unit 1. This unusual eclogite reveals the eclogitic equilibrium assemblage omphacite–garnet–coesite–phengite–phlogopite–kyanite,
and yields metamorphic peak conditions of 870 °C and >29 kbar. There is clear textural evidence of the formation of phlogopite
and kyanite under partial consumption of phengite and garnet. Moreover, the omphacite is stoichiometric and contains abundant
exsolution lamellae, the thickest of which were identified as quartz by the electron microprobe. The finer lamellae were studied
by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Oligoclase was identified as an exsolution phase. Other lamellae proved to consist
of K-white mica, also interpreted as exsolution. Prior to exsolution, the omphacite composition must have been cation-deficient,
as that of the other, common HP-unit 1 eclogites. These non-stoichiometric compositions are ascribed to partial substitution
by the Ca-Eskola pyroxene component, which calculates to an average of 8 mol% for omphacite in HP-unit 1 eclogites. According
to experiments, this substitution becomes significant at P > 30 kbar. Exsolution of K-white mica may indicate hydroxyl defects
in the original omphacite, also favoured by high pressure. Oligoclase and K-white mica exsolution from Ca-Eskola-rich clinopyroxene
has not previously been reported. The omphacite has a disordered C2/c structure; and in just one case very small (a few tens
of nanometres) antiphase domains, resulting from the C2/c to P2/n transformation, are present. These features may indicate
a brief thermal history and rapid tectonic processes.
Received: 4 January 1999 / Accepted: 20 April 2000 |
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