Pre-Hercynian mantle lead transfer to basement rocks as indicated by lead isotopes of the Schwarzwald crystalline,SW-Germany

Lead isotopes of K-feldspars from five granites of the SE-Schwarzwald and from metamorphites are positively correlated in 207/204 as well- as 208/204- vs. 206/204-diagrams. The linear alignments may be due to correlated laststage lead isotope evolution (lead-lead isochron) and result in a secondary isochron model age of nearly 3 Ga for the Southern Schwarzwald basement. This calculation implies a long-lasting undisturbed lead isotope evolution in the Schwarzwald basement since the Archaean. This is not supported however by geochronological studies. On the other hand the data together with U/Pb-analyses of whole rock samples from metamorphites are consistent with pre-Hercynian mantle lead addition to the basement. This presumably happened during early Paleozoic polymetamorphism. The interpretation of the lead isotope correlations as mantle-crust mixing lines needs a rather homogeneous pre-Hercynian mantle lead of the MORB-type, delivered to the crust probably in part by ascending volatile phases. Thus geodynamical models are supported which involve subduction of oceanic crust or mantle pluming during the early Paleozoic. In Part I of this report, the trends in Schwarzwald lead isotopes are discussed as secondary isochrons and as mixing lines. Constraints are derived for a pre-Hercynian mantlecrust interaction and for lead redistribution by the Hercynian basement activation.