Ferric iron in mantle-derived garnets

The oxidation state of a mantle assemblage may be defined by heterogeneous reactions between oxygen and iron-bearing minerals. In spinel lherzolites, the presence of Fe³⁺ in spinel allows use of the assemblage olivine-orthopyroxene-spinel to define f _{O 2} at fixed T and P. As a first step towards establishing an analogous reaction for garnet lherzolites, garnets from mantle-derived xenoliths from South Africa and the USSR have been analyzed with ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy at 298 and 77K to determine Fe³⁺/Fe²⁺ and the coordination state of iron. Garnets from South African alkremites (pyrope+Mg-spinel) and eclogites, as well as garnet-spinel and low-temperature garnet lherzolites from both South Afica and the USSR, have Fe³⁺/Fe<0.07. In contrast, garnets from high-temperature garnet lherzolites from within the Kaapvaal craton of South Africa have Fe³⁺/Fe>0.10. Ferric iron is octahedrally coordinated, and ferrous iron is present in the dodecahedral site in all samples. The occurrence of significant Fe³⁺ in these garnets necessitates caution in the use of geothermometers and geobarometers that are applied to mantle samples. For example, the presence of 12% of the Fe as Fe³⁺ in garnets can increase temperatures calculated from existing Fe/Mg geothermometers by>200°C. The concomitant increase in pressures calculated from geobarometers that use the Al content in orthopyroxene coexisting with garnet are 10–15 kbar. Results of calculations based on heterogeneous equilibria between garnet, olivine, and pyroxene are consistent with the derivation of the peridotite samples from source regions that are relatively oxidized, between the f _{O 2} of the FMQ (quartz-fayalite-magnetite) buffer and that of the WM buffer. No samples yield values of f _{O 2} as reduced as IW (iron-wüstite buffer).     

A classification scheme for mantle-derived garnets in kimberlite: a tool for investigating the mantle and exploring for diamonds

A new empirical method has been devised for classification of mantle-derived garnets in kimberlite. Simple chemical screens have been developed to distinguish between garnets from different parageneses, based on Mg, Fe, Ca, Cr, Ti and Na values of published analyses of garnets from >2000 ultramafic xenoliths in kimberlite. Although crustal garnets are typically uncommon as xenocrysts in kimberlite, the first step in the classification is to screen these from the mantle population, using data from >600 garnet-bearing crustal rocks. Such a screen may also prove useful in evaluating the source (crust vs. mantle) of garnet in kimberlite exploration samples. Subsequent steps divide mantle garnets into eclogite, peridotite and Cr-poor megacryst groupings, and sub-groups of the peridotite (lherzolite, harzburgite, wehrlite) and eclogite (Groups I and II and A, B, C and grospydite) populations. Important features of this classification include the fact that it is based on distinctions between groups of fundamental geological significance (e.g., peridotite vs. eclogite) and it is based on a large, well-documented and well-understood xenolith database. As it utilizes oxide values and molar ratios of major and minor elements, the rationale for the screens is readily understood and it is simple to use.     

东蒙地区夕卡岩石榴石稀土元素地球化学及其成因

东蒙地区为我国北方重要的夕卡岩型锡银铜铅锌多金属成矿区，不仅矿床发育，而且成矿种类较多，典型矿床有黄岗梁Fe（Sn）、白音诺Pb-Zn-Ag等金属和浩布高Fe（Sn）－PbZnAg（Cu）矿床。研究表明，它们都是中生代岩浆岩与本区二叠系地层相互作用的产物。本文通过对黄岗梁、白音诺和浩布高3个矿床中不同阶段的石榴石夕卡岩矿物学研究，划分出早晚两期夕卡岩石榴石矿物。早期以浅色、他形细粒、均质的钙铁榴石为主，多形成环带的核心；晚期以深色、半自形中粗粒、弱非均质的钙铝榴石为主，多构成环带的边部。同时采用ICP－MS方法对3其中石榴石比较发育的黄岗梁和浩布高2个矿床中石榴石单矿物进行了稀土元素含量的测定。结果表明，矿区早期的石榴石具有岩浆成因的特征，晚期石榴石具有热液交代成因特征，即东蒙地区既有早期岩浆阶段的岩浆型夕卡岩，又有晚期热液交代型夕卡岩的多成因认识。     

The origin of faceted garnets in sandstones: dissolution or overgrowth?

Faceted garnets from a wide range of geological ages, environments and locations have been studied in polished grain mounts by a combination of backscattered electron microscopy and elemental mapping using energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. In all cases, the areas apparently showing positive relief on the faceted garnet surfaces are compositionally identical to the adjacent grain cores despite a wide variation in detrital garnet compositions. In one case, zoning within the grain core can be traced into the faceted areas on the grain surface. Thus, faceted areas must be considered to form part of the original detrital grains. Together with previously published studies on experimental garnet etching, thermodynamic conditions for garnet growth, textural relationships between faceted garnets and authigenic and detrital phases, and distribution of faceted garnets in the subsurface, this paper provides conclusive proof that faceted garnet surfaces form as a result of dissolution, not overgrowth.     

安徽冬瓜山矽卡岩铜矿石榴石成分特征及其成因探讨

对安徽铜陵冬瓜山铜矿石榴石的地球化学特征进行了研究,并进行了成因探讨。野外调查及镜下观察发现,冬瓜山铜矿石榴石分为两期形成,第Ⅰ期石榴石环带发育,颜色较深,呈褐-棕黄色;第Ⅱ期石榴石呈他形-半自形穿切Ⅰ期,颜色较浅,呈浅黄-蜡白色,具非均质性。石榴石主量、稀土元素的等离子光谱(LA-ICP-MS)分析结果显示这两期石榴石有较大差别:第Ⅰ期石榴石钙铁榴石组分含量较高,可达94.14%,稀土元素配分模式为轻稀土元素富集、Eu正异常的右倾曲线;第Ⅱ期石榴石则相对富铝,钙铝榴石组分含量达44.06%,稀土元素配分模式为重稀土元素略微富集、Eu负异常的平缓曲线。这些特征表明,第Ⅰ期石榴石为岩浆成因,形成于较氧化环境;第Ⅱ期石榴石为热液交代成因,形成于较还原环境。     

Melt inclusions from the deep Slave lithosphere: implications for the origin and evolution of mantle-derived carbonatite and kimberlite

Melt inclusions in clinopyroxenes from lherzolitic xenoliths from the deep lithospheric mantle beneath the Slave Craton (Lac de Gras area, Canada) reveal multiple origins for carbonatitic melts. One type of inclusions consists of a series of silicate–carbonate–silicate concentric layers, interpreted to have unmixed under disequilibrium conditions during rapid ascent to the surface. Bulk major- and trace-element compositions are typical of Group 1 kimberlites and quantitative nuclear microprobe imaging of the globules reveals fractionation of related elements (e.g. F–Br, Nb–Ta) between the silicate and carbonate components. The globules probably formed by partial melting of carbonated peridotite, consistent with results of melting experiments and some models for the generation of kimberlite magmas. They provide evidence for a genetic relationship between some carbonate-rich magmas and ultramafic silicate magmas, and for the possibility of unmixing processes of these melts during their evolution.

The second inclusion type comprises carbonate-rich globules interpreted as samples of Mg-carbonatite melt that quenched on ascent to the surface. Bulk major- and trace-element compositions indicate that the melts were derived from a carbonate-rich source and oxygen, carbon, and strontium isotope data are consistent with the involvement of recycled crustal material and suggest that some mantle-derived carbonatites are unrelated to kimberlites.     

Compositional relations among hornblende and pyroxenes in basic granulites and an application to the origin of garnets

Three new sets of mineral and rock chemical data on basic granulites confirm the trends in compositional relationships, with respect to magnesium and iron, among hornblende, orthopyroxene and calcic pyroxene advanced by Sen (1970) and Ray and Sen (1970). Analysing the interrelationships among magnesium-iron distribution coefficients between hornblende-orthopyroxene and hornblende-calcic pyroxene, tetrahedral aluminium contents of hornblendes, and temperature of equilibration, it can be shown that equilibrium temperatures are higher with the Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratios of hornblendes increasing. An application of these relations to ferromagnesian phases of some garnet-bearing basic granulites points to formation of garnets in response to decreasing temperature.     

Superzoned garnets in the coesite-bearing Brossasco-Isasca Unit, Dora-Maira massif, Western Alps, and the origin of the whiteschists

Rare centimeter-sized superzoned garnets (SZGs) were discovered in two coesite-bearing whiteschists of the Brossasco-Isasca Unit (BIU), southern Dora-Maira massif (DMM), Western Alps. The superzoned garnet consists of a reddish-brown almandine core crowded with inclusions of staurolite, chloritoid, kyanite, chlorite and paragonite, and of a pinkish pyrope rim with sporadic inclusions of kyanite, and magnesian chlorite. The core–rim contact is relatively sharp and marks the termination of the inclusion-rich portion. The core composition of the superzoned garnet is almost identical to, or slightly richer in Mg, than that of the rim of porphyroblastic garnet in metapelites from the same unit. In the rim of the superzoned garnet, Mg–Fe ratio increases abruptly towards the outermost rim, whose composition is identical to that of the common pyrope in the whiteschist. At the core–rim boundary, there is no chemical gap. Chloritoid and staurolite are common inclusions in the core of the superzoned garnet in the whiteschist and in the porphyroblastic garnet in the metapelite. The staurolite composition (Si=2.00 and total R²⁺<2.0 for O=23 basis) and its reverse Fe–Mg distribution with respect to garnet suggest a HP origin. The Fe–Mg distribution between chloritoid and garnet is reverse in the superzoned garnet, but normal in the garnet of metapelite. Because normal Fe–Mg distribution was reported from other eclogite-facies metapelites, a model petrogenetic grid was constructed in the FMASH model system considering St, Cld, Ky, Chl, Grt, and assuming the following Fe–Mg partitioning of St>Grt>Cld>Chl. The resulting petrogenetic grid suggests that the core of the superzoned garnet contains incompatible assemblages, such as St–Cld–Chl vs. Cld–Chl–Ky. New and literature data and results of experiments in the KFASH system suggest that: (1) the superzoned garnet was formed under a single prograde high-pressure/ultra high-pressure (HP/UHP) Alpine metamorphism, (2) the almandine inclusion-rich core of the superzoned garnet crystallized at disequilibrium in a pelitic composition system at around 600°C and less than 16 kbar, probably from a former metapelite xenolith included in a Variscan granitoid, and (3) the chemical environment of the host rock suddenly changed from the normal pelite to the whiteschist composition by a metasomatic process during the rim growth, i.e., at a stage close to the UHP climax.     

Constraints of stable isotopes on the origin of alunite from advanced argillic alteration systems in Bulgaria

Voluminous areas of advanced argillic alteration (AAA) constitute major exploration targets for surficial Cu–Au epithermal and potentially underlying porphyry-type deposits. In Bulgaria, more than 30 alunite occurrences are recognised, few of them being associated with a mineralised system. A mineralogical study combined with a stable isotopic (O, H, S) study has been carried out on nine alunite occurrences of advanced argillic zones hosted by volcanic rocks of Late Cretaceous age in the Srednogorie belt and of Oligocene age in the Rhodopes belt. This work was realised in order to constrain the origin of alunite and to define criteria to discriminate alunite from ore deposits and alunite from large barren alteration systems.Mineralogy of the nine occurrences consists of alunite + quartz + minor alumino-phospho-sulphates, associated with more or less kaolinite, dickite, pyrophyllite, diaspore and zunyite, depending on formation temperature. Alunite generally occurs as tabular crystals but is also present as fine-crystalline pseudocubic phases at Boukovo and Sarnitsa, in Eastern Rhodopes. In the advanced argillic alterations associated with economic ore, the presence of zunyite in the deeper parts indicates acid–fluorine–sulphate hydrothermal systems, whereas it is absent in uneconomic and barren advanced argillic alteration. All occurrences are formed at temperatures between 200 and 300 °C.(H, O, S) isotopic signatures of alunite combined with mineralogical features from all the studied occurrences, whatever their type, show characteristics of magmatic-hydrothermal systems. Sulphur data indicate essentially a magmatic origin for sulphur. Oxygen and hydrogen data suggest that hydrothermal fluids result from a mixing between magmatic fluids and an external component, which is identified as seawater-derived fluids or meteoric water in the vicinity of a sea. In most of the alunite occurrences, magmatic fluids are dominant and H₂S/SO₄ ratios are estimated to be higher than 2. Two exceptions exist in the Rhodopes. At Boukovo and Sarnitsa, where the estimated formation temperatures of alunite are the lowest, the external fluids are dominant and H₂S/SO₄ratios are estimated to be lower than or close to 1.At this stage of the work, the mineralogical and isotopic criteria do not enable a clear distinction between economic and uneconomic systems. However, some features are common in the economic ore deposits: the presence of zunyite in the deeper part of the system, the relatively high temperatures suggested by the zunyite + pyrophyllite + alunite + diaspore assemblages, the (O, H, S) signature of alunite, which is characteristic of dominant magmatic–hydrothermal acid–sulphate–fluorine systems.     

Constraints on the origin of Damaran granites by Rb/Sr and δ18O data

The mean (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) and mean (⁸⁷Rb/⁸⁶Sr) ratios of the intrusive granites from the North and South of the Orogen's Central Zone plot on straight lines. These are interpreted as areal isochrons indicating the time of last Sr isotope homogenization 526 and 571 Ma ago in the respective source rocks.Initial (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) and mean (⁸⁷Rb/⁸⁶Sr) ratios of approximately coeval granites of the main magmatic pulses in the North (470 Ma) and in the South (520 Ma) line up along isochrons suggesting that in both cases 60 Ma passed after the homogenization in the protolith before large scale intrusions took place.The data require that the intrusions have preserved the Rb/Sr ratios of their source rocks permitting only very little assimilation or fractionation.The source rocks in the North and South had rather unradiogenic Sr 526 and 571 Ma ago, respectively. At R_i0.7066 all presently known Damaran metasediments and metavolcanics as well as the basement must be excluded as the protoliths. A hypothetical source with a large proportion of low (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) volcanic material is required. In the center, on the other hand, the Sr isotope ratios are more radiogenic and derivation from common Damaran metasediments is a distinct possibility.The total rock ¹⁸O values show an unusual spread from 7.1 to 15.2, the majority being very heavy. This excludes granulites and requires sediments or heavily altered volcanics as source rocks. A plot of ¹⁸O vs. initial Sr isotope ratios of the granites from the center which could have been derived from Damaran metasediments has a very clear negative slope. No trend is visible for the southern granites. Of the northern granites the older group shows a negative, the younger group a positive correlation. This is interpreted as indicating mainly altered volcanics (perhaps spilites) for the older and a mixture of volcanogenic and metasedimentary rocks as the source for the younger group. The high ¹⁸O values show that the granites are crustal remelts.     

东昆仑印支晚期幔源岩浆活动

东昆仑造山带印支晚期广泛发育一期幔源岩浆活动,其代表性岩石类型为角闪辉长岩、煌斑岩和辉绿岩。石灰沟外滩岩体是这类岩体中最大的一个,40Ar/39Ar同位素定年结果为220Ma左右,具有明显的结晶分异特征。根据地质学、岩石学与地球化学特征,岩浆起源于深度大于90km的上地幔源区,富含挥发分(H2O)的条件使橄榄石在部分熔融过程中更趋稳定,辉石和尖晶石组分更多地进入岩浆,从而制约了岩浆中高Cr低Ni的特点。幔源岩浆的广泛出现是该区软流圈-岩石圈系统对特提斯洋闭合的响应,是在加厚陆壳的底部幔源玄武质岩浆底侵作用的结果。     

西藏仁错地区前寒武纪基底对北拉萨地块起源的约束

北拉萨地块是青藏高原前寒武纪岩石出露最为广泛的地区之一,该地块的新元古代演化历史及其在超大陆演化中所扮演的角色一直存有争议.围绕这一科学问题,本文收集整理了北拉萨地块仁错地区前寒武纪念青唐古拉岩群的同位素年代学、地球化学和同位素地球化学资料,从中发现了 3期新元古代岩浆-沉积-变质记录,包括:①925～886 Ma,岩...     

Constraints on the origin of alkaline and calc-alkaline magmas from the Tuxtla Volcanic Field,Veracruz, Mexico

 Lavas erupted in the Tuxtla Volcanic Field (TVF) over the last 7 Ma include primitive basanites and alkali basalts, mildly alkaline Hy-normative mugearites and benmoreites, and calc-alkaline basalts and basaltic andesites. The primitive lavas are silica-undersaturated, with high concentrations of both incompatible and compatible trace elements, variable La/Yb with constant Yb at 6 to 8 times chondritic, and low Sr and O and variable Pb and Nd isotopic ratios. The primitive magmas originated by increasing degrees of melting with pressure decreasing from greater than 30 kbar to 20 kbar, in the garnet stability field. Another group of alkali basalts and hawaiites has lower Ni and Cr concentrations and higher Fe/Mg ratios, and was derived from the primitive group by crystal fractionation at pressures of several kbar. Incompatible trace elements in these silica undersaturated lavas show depletion in high field strength elements (HFSE) relative to large ion lithophile elements, similar to subduction-related basalts. Ba/Nb ratios are nearly constant and thus the HFSE depletion cannot be the result of a residual HFSE-bearing phase in the source, but could be the result of generation from a source contaminated by fluids or melts from the subducted lithosphere. The silica-saturated mugearites and benmoreites, and the calc-alkaline basalts and basaltic andesites, were erupted only between 3.3 and 1.0 Ma. These have incompatible element concentrations generally lower than in the silica-undersaturated lavas, and thus could not have been derived by crystal fractionation from the silica-undersaturated alkaline magmas. Magmas parental to the silica-saturated magmas originated by higher degrees of melting at lower pressures than the primitive magmas. Melting may have been promoted by an influx of fluid from the subducted lithosphere. Trace element and Sr, Nd, Pb and O isotopic data suggest that three components are involved in the generation of TVF magmas: the mantle, a fluid from the subducted lithosphere, and continental crust. TVF alkaline lavas are similar to those erupted in the back-arc region of the MVB and Japan, and show characteristics similar to alkaline magmas erupted in the southern Andean volcanic arc. These low degree melts reach the surface along with calc-alkaline lavas in the TVF due to an extensional stress field that allows their passage to the surface. Received: 15 September 1994/Accepted: 14 February 1995     

云南马关地区岩石圈地幔组成和年龄:地幔橄榄岩包体的Re-Os同位素限制

本文对马关地区新生代碱性玄武岩中的地幔包体进行了系统的岩石学和地球化学研究,并首次进行了包体的Re-Os同位素测试。马关地区的橄榄岩包体主量成分上表现为饱满肥沃的特征;具有不同程度的轻稀土亏损特征,亏损Nb、Ti和Zr等高场强元素(HFSE)以及Ba等大离子亲石元素(LILE);橄榄岩包体的Nd同位素特征表明橄榄岩包体代表的是不均一的亏损地幔。5个橄榄岩全岩样品的Re-Os同位素分析结果表明,样品的Os含量总体较高(3.29×10^-9~3.78×10^-9),接近于造山带橄榄岩体的Os含量,Re含量变化范围较大(0.24×10^-9~0.54×10^-9),与Re的迁移能力较强有关。样品的¹⁸⁷Os/¹⁸⁸Os值在0.12295~0.12530之间变化,与¹⁸⁷Re/¹⁸⁸Os值和Al₂O₃含量之间都不存在较好的相关性,说明Re-Os体系不单纯由熔体抽取过程所控制。橄榄岩包体的Re亏损年龄t_RD为254~604Ma,说明马关地区岩石圈地幔形成的时代应该在新元古代之前。马关地区岩石圈地幔并非是由软流圈上涌新增生的地幔,而是经历了如下演化历史:在新元古代之前,由原始地幔的部分熔融和熔体抽取作用形成了岩石圈地幔,之后经历了熔/流体交代和改造而发生了再富集作用,导致部分地幔橄榄岩逐渐从亏损难熔的特征向饱满肥沃转变,而未遭受熔/流体的改造的橄榄岩仍然保持了难熔亏损的特征。这种熔/流体交代和改造作用很可能与晚二叠纪峨眉山地幔柱的活动有关,而新生代以来印度-亚洲大陆碰撞导致地幔物质向东南方向的侧向流动,诱发软流圈上涌和马关地区的钾质岩浆的活动,也对马关地区岩石圈地幔的改造具有重要的影响,但由于喷发时间较新对Os同位素组成的影响还未显现出来。     

Raman spectra of silicate garnets

The single-crystal polarized Raman spectra of four natural silicate garnets with compositions close to end-members almandine, grossular, andradite, and uvarovite, and two synthetic end-members spessartine and pyrope, were measured, along with the powder spectra of synthetic pyrope-grossular and almandine-spessartine solid solutions. Mode assignments were made based on a comparison of the different end-member garnet spectra and, in the case of pyrope, based on measurements made on additional crystals synthesized with ²⁶Mg. A general order of mode frequencies, i.e. R(SiO₄)>T(metal cation)>T(SiO₄), is observed, which should also hold for most orthosilicates. The main factors controlling the changes in mode frequencies as a function of composition are intracrystalline pressure (i.e. oxygen-oxygen repulsion) for the internal SiO₄-vibrational modes and kinematic coupling of vibrations for the external modes. Low frequency vibrations of the X-site cations reflect their weak bonding and dynamic disorder in the large dodecahedral site, especially in the case of pyrope. Two mode behavior is observed for X-site cation vibrations along the pyrope-grossular binary, but not along the almandine-spessartine join. Received: 3 December 1996 / Revised, accepted: 13 April 1997     

Constraints from Moho geometry and crustal thickness on the geodynamic origin of the Vrancea Seismogenic Zone (Romania)

Reprocessing of industry deep seismic reflection data (Ramnicu Sarat and Braila profiles) from the SE Carpathian foreland of Romania provides important new constraints on geodynamic models for the origin of the intermediate depth Vrancea Seismogenic Zone (VSZ). Mantle (70–200 km) earthquakes of the VSZ are characterized by high magnitudes (greater than 6.5), frequent occurrence rates (approximately 25 years), and confinement in a very narrow (30 × 70 × 200 km³) near vertical zone atypical for a Wadati–Benioff plane, located in front of the orogen. These two deep (20 s) seismic reflection profiles (70 km length across the foreland) reveal (1) a high-amplitude, gently east-dipping reflection across most of the section from what we interpret to be the Moho at  15 s (40–42 km) on the Ramnicu Sarat line to  16 s (47–48 km) on the Braila line, (2) a thick sedimentary cover increasing in thickness from east (1 s;  800 m) to west (7.5 s; 14 km), (3) an eastward increase in crustal thickness from 38 km (near VSZ) to  45 km, (4) seismic and topographic evidence for a newly imaged, possibly seismically active basement fault with a surface offset of 30 m observed on the Ramnicu Sarat line, (5) a lack of notable west-dipping structures in the crust and across the Moho, and (6) variable displacements on Peceneaga–Camena Fault of  5 km at Moho and  200 m at the basement–sedimentary cover contact.These observations appear to argue against recent models for west-dipping subduction of oceanic lithosphere at or in the vicinity of the Vrancea Seismogenic Zone given the lack of west-dipping fabrics in the lower crust and across the crust–mantle boundary. Consequently, one possible explanation for the geodynamic origin of VSZ could be partial delamination of the continental lithosphere in an intra-plate setting along a sub-horizontal lithospheric interface in the Carpathian hinterland that likely involves remnant lithospheric coupling between the crust and uppermost mantle in the foreland.     

Constraints on the origin and the genesis of graphite-bearing rocks from the variegated sequence of the Bohemian Massif (Austria)

Summary Transitions between graphitic gneisses, graphite-bearing calcsilicate rocks and marbles of the Variegated Sequence (Bunte Serie) in the Moldanubian zone of the Bohemian massif were examined for their primary sedimentary signatures. The bulk chemistry of the graphitic gneisses is similar to those of common black shales. Chondrite-normalized rare earth element (REE) distribution patterns of graphite-bearing rocks resemble those of average pelitic sediments. Graphite ¹³C-values around –22%o (PDB) show primary organic isotopic characteristics in the silicate rocks and confirm their organogenic origin. Traces of metasomatic mobilizations were found for a number of elements such as Ba, Rb, Cs, the REEs and Mn.Carbon isotope thermometry using the calibration ofScheele andHoefs (1992) suggests a peak-temperature of 640–780°C for the graphite-bearing calcsilicates and marbles. Small scale isotopic studies at the interface between gneisses and marbles argue against a pervasive streaming CO₂-rich fluid derived from an external source and imply that the fluid was controlled more locally by lithology. Ore petrographic investigations showed iron-rich alabandite as an abundant phase within the calcsilicate rocks and marbles. The occurrence and metamorphic origin of alabandite within these rocks indicates high S- and low CO₂-, O₂-fugacities in local layers of the Variegated Sequence.

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Herkunft und Genese von graphitführenden Gesteinen der Bunten Serie aus der Böhmischen Masse (Österreich)

Zusammenfassung Übergänge zwischen Graphitgneisen, Kalksilikatgesteinen und Marmoren der Bunten Serie im Moldanubikum der Böhmischen Masse wurden auf primäre sedimentäre Merkmale hin untersucht. Die Gesamtzusammensetzung der Graphitgneise gleicht der von durchschnittlichen Schwarzschiefern. Chondrit-normierte Verteilungsmuster der Seltenen Erdelemente (SEE) der graphitführenden Gesteine spiegeln pelitische Sedimente wider. Kohlenstoffisotopenzusammensetzungen der Graphite mit ¹³C-Werten um –22 (PDB) aus den Graphitgneisen lassen eindeutig auf einen organogenen Ursprung der Graphite schließen. Hinweise auf metasomatische Mobilisierungen finden sich bei den Elementen Ba, Rb, Cs, den SEE und Mn.Graphit-Kalzit Isotopenthermometrie nachScheele undHoefs (1992) ergibt eine Peak-Temperatur zwischen 640–780°C für das prägende Metamorphoseereignis. Isotopengeochelnische Kleinbereichsuntersuchungen erlauben es, ein während der prägenden Metamorphose lithologische Grenzen pervasiv durchströmendes CO₂-reiches Fluid, das von einer externen Quelle abgeleitet wird, auszuschließen und weisen auf eine eher lokale, von der Lithologie abhängige, Prägung des Fluids hin. Im Zuge der erzpetrographischen Untersuchung wurde Alabandin in den Kalksilikatgesteinen und Marmoren gefunden. Die Gegenwart von Alabandin, der in diesen Gesteinen als metamorphe Bildung angesehen wird, kann als Anzeiger für bereichsweise höhere S- und niedere CO₂- bzw. O₂-Fugazitäten in lokalen Bereichen der Bunten Serie gewertet werden.