Concentric zoning in the Tunk Lake pluton,coastal Maine |
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Authors: | Sheila J Seaman Helle Gylling John P Hogan Frank Karner G Christopher Koteas |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;(2) Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA;(3) Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota, 81 Cornell St., Stop 8358, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA |
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Abstract: | The Tunk Lake pluton of coastal Maine, USA is a concentrically zoned granitic body that grades from an outer hypersolvus granite
into subsolvus rapakivi granite, and then into subsolvus non-rapakivi granite, with gradational contacts between these zones.
The pluton is partially surrounded by a zone of basaltic and gabbroic enclaves, interpreted as quenched magmatic droplets
and mushes, respectively, as well as gabbroic xenoliths, all hosted by high-silica granite. The granite is zoned in terms
of mineral assemblage, mineral composition, zircon crystallization temperature, and major and trace element concentration,
from the present-day rim (interpreted as being closer to the base of the chamber) to the core (interpreted as being closer
to the upper portions of the chamber). The ferromagnesian mineral assemblage systematically changes from augite and hornblende
with augite cores in the outermost hypersolvus granite to hornblende, to hornblende and biotite, and finally, to biotite only
in the subsolvus granite core of the pluton. Sparse fine-grained basaltic enclaves that are most common in the outermost zone
of the pluton suggest that basaltic magma was present in the lower portions of the magma chamber at the same time that the
upper portions of the magma chamber were occupied by a granitic crystal mush. However, the slight variations in initial Nd
isotopic ratio in granites from different zones of the pluton suggest that contamination of the granitic melt by basaltic
melt played little role in generating the compositional gradation of the pluton. The zone of basaltic and gabbroic chilled
magmatic enclaves, and gabbroic xenoliths, hosted by high-silica granite, that partially surround the pluton is interpreted
as mafic layers at the base of the pluton that were disrupted by invading late-stage high-silica magma. These mafic layers
are likely to have consisted of basaltic lava layers and basalt that chilled against granitic magma to produce coarse-grained
gabbroic mush. Basaltic and gabbroic magmatic enclaves and gabbroic xenoliths are hornblende-bearing, suggesting that their
parent melts were relatively hydrous. The water-rich nature of the underplating mafic magmas may have prevented extensive
invasion of the granitic magma by these magmas, owing to the much greater viscosity of the granitic magma than the mafic magmas
in the temperature range over which magma interaction could have occurred. |
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