Phase equilibria and the pressure-temperature path of the highest-grade Ryoke metamorphic rocks in the Yanai district, SW Japan |
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Authors: | Takeshi Ikeda |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, 33 Hakozaki, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan e-mail: ikeda@geo.kyushu-u.ac.jp, JP |
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Abstract: | The garnet-cordierite zone, the highest-grade zone of the Ryoke metamorphic rocks in the Yanai district, SW Japan, is defined
by the coexistence of garnet and cordierite in pelitic rocks. Three assemblages in this zone are studied in detail, i.e. spinel
+ cordierite + biotite, garnet + cordierite + biotite and garnet + biotite, all of which contain quartz, K-feldspar and plagioclase.
The Mg/(Fe + Mg) in the coexisting minerals decreases in the following order: cordierite, biotite, garnet and spinel. Two
facts described below are inconsistent with the paragenetic relation in the K2OFeOMgOAl2O3SiO2H2O (KFMASH) system in terms of an isophysical variation. First, garnet and biotite in the last assemblage have Mg/(Fe + Mg)
higher than those in the second. Second, the first two assemblages are described by the reaction,
while they occur in a single outcrop. The addition of MnO, ZnO and TiO2 to the system can resolve the inconsistencies as follows. The assemblage garnet + biotite can consist of garnet and biotite
higher in Mg/(Fe + Mg) than those in garnet + cordierite + biotite as long as they are enriched in spessartine and depleted
in Al, respectively. The assemblage garnet + cordierite + biotite becomes stable relative to spinel + cordierite + biotite
with increasing spessartine content or decreasing gahnite content and the Ti content of biotite. The constituent minerals
of the assemblages, spinel + cordierite + biotite and garnet + cordierite + biotite, preserve several reaction microstructures
indicative of prograde reactions,
and
together with retrograde reactions,
and
This suggests that the pressure-temperature path of the rocks includes an isobaric heating and an isobaric or decompressional
cooling. The high-grade areas consisting of the K-feldspar-cordierite zone, sillimanite-K-feldspar zone and garnet-cordierite
zone have prograde paths involving isobaric heating and show a southwards increase in pressure with a thermal maximum in the
middle. These high-grade zones are closely associated with the gneissose granitic rocks, suggesting that the Ryoke metamorphism,
one of the typical low-pressure type, is caused by the heat supply from the syn-tectonic granitic rocks that emplaced at the
middle level of the crust.
Received: 22 August 1997 / Accepted: 11 May 1998 |
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