造山带中地壳水致部分熔融——大别造山带含角闪石混合岩的证据

出露于北大别地体的混合岩常含有粗粒自形程度较高的角闪石,角闪石在暗色体和浅色体均有分布,并且含有石英、斜长石和黑云母包裹物。这暗示着角闪石为转熔矿物,是通过原岩中黑云母+斜长石+石英矿物组合部分熔融而形成的。实验研究表明,黑云母分解生成角闪石需要至少2%~4%的水含量参与反应。所以,北大别混合岩中的转熔角闪石指示水致部分熔融的发生。角闪石-斜长石温压计显示,混合岩形成于700~770℃和3.5~6.0 kbar,低于正片麻岩中的黑云母脱水熔融固相线,这和转熔矿物中缺失无水矿物(如:斜方辉石、石榴石)相符。近等温降压的记录和混合岩产出于快速隆升的穹窿环境相一致。角闪石REE组成变化很大。Eu异常和La/Sm比值成正相关,与Gb/Yb比值及REE含量成负相关,表明角闪石的结晶对于熔体的组成影响显著。具有Eu负异常,高Gb/Yb、低La/Sm比值的角闪石结晶自初始的熔体;具有Eu正异常,低Gb/Yb、高La/Sm比值的角闪石结晶自分异熔体。相比于暗色体和中间体,淡色体亏损Ca、Fe、Mg、Ti和Mn元素含量,富集Si和Na元素含量。混合岩中的淡色体成分变化较大,从英云闪长质变化到花岗质,花岗质淡色体相对富集K、Ba和Rb元素含量。淡色体的稀土含量和配分模式变化很大,地球化学模拟显示,具有高度分异的REE组成和亏损HREE特征的淡色体是角闪石残留源区的结果。携带有角闪石的淡色体显示较高的HREE和相对平坦的HREE分布,并表示出角闪石的进入对于熔体的组成有明显的影响。部分淡色体具有明显的Eu正异常(Eu*值为2.5-~6.8)和显著低的REE含量(几十ppm),结合显微结构观察,认为该类淡色体是熔体经历结晶分离,形成长石堆晶。综上所述,混合岩中的淡色体多数不代表初始熔体的成分,转熔矿物的卷入和结晶分离作用显著影响了淡色体组成。     

北大别混合岩类型及其成因

大别造山带北大别超高压变质构造单元中广泛发育混合岩。基于对罗田和岳西穹隆中混合岩的野外观察、岩相学、矿物化学和锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年系统工作,发现北大别混合岩主要分为中等深熔混合岩和高度深熔混合岩两种类型。中等深熔混合岩为叠层状混合岩和膨胀结构混合岩;高度深熔混合岩为眼球状混合岩和析离体状混合岩。锆石U-Pb同位素定年结果表明,混合岩中新生锆石年龄范围为125 Ma~138 Ma,加权平均年龄为130.7 Ma±1.8 Ma;两个继承锆石的年龄分别为602.8 Ma±16.8 Ma和667.3 Ma±17.6 Ma;混合岩叠层状暗色体中锆石年龄连续且分布集中,加权平均年龄为703 Ma±10 Ma,代表原岩的形成年龄。北大别混合岩的原岩为新元古代的岩石,其混合岩化作用发生在140 Ma至125 Ma期间。不同浅色体中斜长石的含量和牌号差异显著,反映了浅色体形成于不同演化程度的熔体结晶。斜长石-角闪石温压计估算结果显示,混合岩形成的温压条件为723℃~768℃和370 MPa~520 MPa,对应于中上地壳环境。混合岩的成因机制以长英质片麻岩水饱和条件下的富水熔融为主。其反应为:黑云母+石英+斜长石+水=角闪石+斜长石(残留)+花岗质熔体。少数混合岩的成因机制为角闪片麻岩中角闪石的脱水熔融。其反应为:角闪石+斜长石+石英=单斜辉石+富水熔体。     

鲁西～2.6 Ga 深熔作用：泰山地区浅色脉体的野外地质和地球化学研究

泰山地区深熔作用十分发育,是鲁西～2.6 Ga 构造热事件的典型代表。广泛分布的2.6 Ga浅色脉体主要是片麻状英云闪长岩在水不饱和的条件下含水矿物发生脱水熔融形成,在局部地区存在水饱和熔融。根据浅色脉体岩相学和地球化学特征,可将其进一步划分为3种类型：具正Eu异常奥长岩浅色体、无明显Eu异常奥长花岗岩浅色体和具负 Eu 异常 花岗岩浅色体。矿物结晶分异对浅色体组成变化起了很大作用。由于有充足的时间和空间,部分斜长石较早结晶出来并聚集形成具正Eu异常的浅色体。剩余熔体继续运移过程中,斜长石、钾长石及石英近同时结晶,组成近等粒镶嵌结构,形成具负 Eu 异常的花岗岩浅色体。无明显 Eu 异常的浅色体最接近原始熔体。     

苏北东海花岗质岩石中主要造岩矿物和副矿物的地球化学特征

苏北东海地区主侵入花岗岩类岩石属Ⅰ型花岗岩类。其主要造岩矿物为阳起角闪石、富镁黑云母、更长石、钾长石和石英。主要副矿物为榍石、磷灰石、锆石、磁铁矿等。主侵入岩体的形成温度为910—690℃,logfo_2=-12,fH_2O=(1.3—1.8)×10~8Pa,log(fH_2O/f_(HF))=3—4。第一类过渡元素富集于角闪石、黑云母和榍石中,而在更长石、钾长石和石英中明显亏损。由于榍石、角闪石、黑云母和更长石对全岩REE含量的贡献最大,因此它们控制了本区花岗岩类岩石的稀土配分模式。前三者富重稀土,负Eu异常较强,斜长石相对富轻稀土,并表现为正Eu 异常。因此可以认为随着花岗质岩浆中铁镁矿物和斜长石的分离,将会导致残余岩浆中第一类过渡元素、重稀土元素和Eu的亏损。     

杨溪花岗岩的成因研究

杨溪花岗岩位于准扬子地台内,即东南地洼区内。岩体呈长椭圆形岩株产出,NE向,面积为38.7km~2。其铷锶同位素年龄为121.2±10.1Ma。属燕山晚期花岗岩。岩石主要为二长花岗岩,富SiO_2与碱,δ值在2.69以下,钙碱性,铝过饱和,ANKC值多大于1。稀士元素为富集型,Eu亏损型。矿物主要含钾长石、斜长石与石英,次要的为黑云母,少量白云母、普通角闪石、堇青     

南岭地区中生代两种成矿花岗质岩的岩石学和矿物学特征探讨

南岭地区是我国重要的有色金属矿产资源集中区,中生代多金属成矿与本区广泛分布的花岗质岩石具有密切的成因关系.本文在总结南岭地区与花岗质岩石有关的钨锡钼铋和铜(钼)铅锌金银两类多金属矿床时空分布规律、岩体特征的基础上,探讨并对比了这两种成矿花岗质岩的岩石学和矿物学特征,指出:①与钨锡钼铋成矿有关的岩浆岩以壳源物质重熔形成的黑云母花岗岩为主,但不少岩体也带有幔源物质信息.造岩矿物组合为石英+钾长石+斜长石+黑云母+白云母±角闪石,石英、长石、黑云母包含结构十分发育.斜长石以钠长石为主,An平均值为8;黑云母为富铁黑云母—铁叶云母—铝铁叶云母,MF值为0.001～0.5311;个别岩体中含角闪石,Mg# =0.21～0.53.②与铜(钼)铅锌金银成矿有关的岩浆岩以壳幔混源的花岗闪长岩为主.造岩矿物组合为石英+斜长石+钾长石+黑云母+角闪石±白云母,包含结构不发育.斜长石以更长石为主,An平均值为22;黑云母为富镁黑云母,MF值为0.5120～0.7216;普遍见有角闪石,Mg# =0.48～1.00.两类成矿岩浆岩的岩石学和矿物学差异可以为南岭花岗质岩石地区找矿提供初步的指示意义.     

柴北缘超高压地体折返过程中地壳深熔的岩石学研究

宏观、微观岩石学、地球化学和年代学研究表明,柴北缘锡铁山和绿梁山单元富含斜长石的浅色体和富含钾长石的浅色体是超高压地体折返过程中榴辉岩和片麻岩部分熔融的产物。阴极发光图像显示富含斜长石的浅色体中锆石具有明显的核-边双层结构,锆石核部无明显分带特征,并呈现出重稀土平坦和无Eu异常的稀土配分模式,～450Ma的年龄结果与区域上榴辉岩峰期变质时代一致;发光较弱的锆石边部具不明显的环带结构和较低的Th/U比值,～426Ma年龄结果代表了熔体的结晶时代。富含钾长石的浅色体中的锆石U-Pb定年结果记录的～910Ma、～450Ma和～426Ma三组年龄分别代表了片麻岩原岩结晶时代、高压-超高压变质作用时代和熔体结晶时代。富含斜长石的浅色体具有高SiO_2、Al_2O_3、CaO、Na_2O、Sr和LREE,而低MgO、FeO~T、K_2O、Y、Yb和HREE的英云闪长岩-奥长花岗岩的地球化学特征;而富含钾长石的浅色体具有高的SiO_2、Al_2O_3和K_2O+Na_2O,而较低的CaO、MgO、REE的花岗岩地球化学特征。黝帘石和少量的多硅白云母的脱水分解是触发超高压榴辉岩发生部分熔融形成富含斜长石的浅色体的主要机制;而多硅白云母的脱水分解则是触发超高压片麻岩部分熔融形成富含钾长石浅色体的主要机制。这些浅色体显著的促进了柴北缘超高压地体的快速折返,并对大陆俯冲隧道中的元素迁移和壳-幔作用具有重要的影响。     

拉萨地体东部早侏罗纪变质和深熔作用

位于青藏高原南部的拉萨地体不仅记录了中生代的新特提斯洋俯冲及随后新生代的印度-欧亚板块陆陆碰撞造山作用,而且还记录了晚古生代-早中生代南、北拉萨地体的拼合作用。本文对拉萨地体东部东久地区的片岩和脉体进行了岩石学和锆石U-Pb年代学研究,表明片岩经历了峰期高角闪岩相的变质作用和部分熔融,中压角闪岩相退变质过程以及晚期的降温、降压过程。片岩记录了峰期矿物组合蓝晶石+石榴石+黑云母+斜长石+钛铁矿+石英,退变质矿物组合石榴石+夕线石+堇青石+黑云母+斜长石+钛铁矿+石英,晚期退变质矿物组合堇青石+黑云母+白云母+绿泥石+斜长石+钛铁矿+石英。相平衡模拟研究表明,片岩的峰期变质作用温度、压力条件约为720℃、0.9GPa;退变质条件约为670℃、0.59GPa以及480℃、0.12GPa。全岩地球化学研究表明,含石榴石长英质脉体具有显著的Eu元素正异常(δEu=3.57),为斜长石堆晶的产物。锆石U-Pb年代学表明,片岩和脉体在早侏罗纪的181 Ma和195 Ma发生了变质和部分熔融作用。本文结合已发表研究结果表明,东久地区的高级变质岩可划分出不同的构造岩片,在早侏罗纪先后经历了相似温、压条件的变质作用,为南、北拉萨地体碰撞造山作用的产物。     

酸性岩的变质相

在沸石相变质条件下,花岗岩里浊沸石交代了斜长石和石英,在酸性火山岩里产生明矾石、埃洛石或高岭石。经受绿纤石-葡萄石相变质的花岗岩,其中黑云母变为钙铝榴石、帘石、绿纤石和葡萄石集合体,同时斜长石发生绢云母化。绿片岩相内酸性岩的浅色矿物有石英、微斜长石、钠长石和绿帘石,暗色矿物有绿泥石和黑云母。在角闪岩相变质的酸性岩中,开始出现中、基性斜长石,其中暗色矿物黑云母的镁铁比值要大于角闪石的镁铁比值。经受麻粒岩相变质后,紫苏花岗岩的矿物组成没有变化,但有铀、钍和钾的迁出。     

碰撞造山带地壳深熔作用:来自纳米花岗岩包裹体的观测与实验约束

在碰撞造山带构造演化过程中,中下地壳深熔作用对于深部地壳物理性质与化学成分具有重要控制作用.作为深熔作用的"见证者",纳米花岗岩包裹体是寄主岩石部分熔融作用的产物,能够为确定陆壳岩石中天然熔体特征及分析熔融机制提供关键信息.在喜马拉雅东构造结南迦巴瓦岩群的代表性岩石单元（泥质片麻岩与长英质片麻岩）中,石榴石与锆石中常包含有典型的纳米花岗岩包裹体,其代表性子矿物组合为钾长石+斜长石+石英±黑云母,这是在黑云母脱水熔融过程中、寄主片麻岩中熔体被主要转熔矿物（如石榴石等）捕获所形成一类特殊包裹体.在观测基础上,采用高温高压与高温常压手段,对纳米花岗岩包裹体进行均一化实验并获得均一化玻璃质熔体.成分分析表明,均一化熔体成分以过铝质花岗岩为主,其主/微量元素特征能够有效反演部分熔融作用的演化过程.因此,纳米花岗岩包裹体的天然观测与实验研究对于确定天然熔体特征与深入剖析碰撞造山带的地壳深熔作用具有重要启示意义.      

Genesis of the Kapuskasing (Ontario) migmatitic mafic granulites by dehydration melting of amphibolite: the importance of quartz to reaction progress

Migmatitic, granulite-grade mafic gneisses make up a significant part of the Kapuskasing Structural Zone (KSZ), Ontario. Although they contain a common mineral assemblage [hornblende (Hbl)+plagioclase (Pl)+diopside (Di)±garnet (Grt)+quartz (Qtz)±titanite (Ttn)], the mafic gneisses show wide variations in modal mineralogy from hornblende-rich to diopside+garnet-rich varieties and all gradations between. Up to 25 vol.% segregated plagioclase+quartz-rich (trondhjemitic) leucosome (Tdh) is intimately associated with the mafic gneiss, occurring in a continuum of patches, veins and transecting dykes at scales ranging from decimetres to micrometres. The texture and composition of the leucosome, combined with P-T estimates for the host rocks above the solidus, suggest it represents crystallized trondhjemitic melt. Quartz is mainly restricted to the segregated leucosomes but more rarely occurs in a variety of interstitial textures in the mafic gneiss, suggesting that it crystallized from a melt phase rather than having been present as a solid phase at peak metamorphic conditions. Modal and textural data indicate a reaction relationship of the form: Hbl+Pl(+Qtz?)=Grt+Di+Ttn+leucosome (Tdh), implying that the granulite-forming process involved dehydration melting of an amphibolite protolith. Pressure-temperature estimates from Grt+Di+Pl+Qtz geothermobarometry are 9 kbar and 685-735 °C; however, based on experimental studies of dehydration melting of amphibolite, we estimate that peak conditions were closer to 11 kbar, 850 °C. Mass balance analysis, using the technique of singular value decomposition, and reaction space analysis were used to quantify the reaction and to determine the controls on reaction progress. The following mass balance provides a model for the natural reaction:1.00 Hbl+0.92 Pl+3.76 Qtz=1.14 Grt+1.54 Di+0.21 Ttn+1.49 Tdh+0.14 ‘pg’+0.39 Fe_?1Mg+0.33 NaSiCa_?1Al_?1where ‘pg’ is a pargasite-like exchange. In all model mass balances tested, quartz is a reactant with a large coefficient. We argue that the abundance of quartz in the amphibolite protolith was the primary control on the differing extents of reaction observed. Mineral compositional variation exerted a secondary control on reaction progress, with Fe-richer layers containing An-richer plagioclase and more actinolitic amphibole reacting earliest (i.e. at lowest temperatures). Comparison of the calculated amount of melt produced in the gneisses with that now observed implies expulsion of 5–30% of the melt. These volumes are similar to those predicted from REE modelling of Archaean tonalities and trondhjemites from a garnet amphibolite source, suggesting that the KSZ mafic gneisses may be representative of partially depleted source rocks for trondhjemite-tonalite generation.     

Trace element distribution among rock-forming minerals from metamorphosed to partially molten basic igneous rocks in a contact aureole (Fuerteventura, Canaries)

Low pressure partial melting of basanitic and ankaramitic dykes gave rise to unusual, zebra-like migmatites, in the contact aureole of a layered pyroxenite–gabbro intrusion, in the root zone of an ocean island (Basal Complex, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands). These migmatites are characterised by a dense network of closely spaced, millimetre-wide leucocratic segregations. Their mineralogy consists of plagioclase (An_32–36), diopside, biotite, oxides (magnetite, ilmenite), +/− amphibole, dominated by plagioclase in the leucosome and diopside in the melanosome. The melanosome is almost completely recrystallised, with the preservation of large, relict igneous diopside phenocrysts in dyke centres. Comparison of whole-rock and mineral major- and trace-element data allowed us to assess the redistribution of elements between different mineral phases and generations during contact metamorphism and partial melting.

Dykes within and outside the thermal aureole behaved like closed chemical systems. Nevertheless, Zr, Hf, Y and REEs were internally redistributed, as deduced by comparing the trace element contents of the various diopside generations. Neocrystallised diopside – in the melanosome, leucosome and as epitaxial phenocryst rims – from the migmatite zone, are all enriched in Zr, Hf, Y and REEs compared to relict phenocrysts. This has been assigned to the liberation of trace elements on the breakdown of enriched primary minerals, kaersutite and sphene, on entering the thermal aureole. Major and trace element compositions of minerals in migmatite melanosomes and leucosomes are almost identical, pointing to a syn- or post-solidus reequilibration on the cooling of the migmatite terrain i.e. mineral–melt equilibria were reset to mineral–mineral equilibria.     

Petrogenesis of a Stromatic Migmatite (Nelaug, Southern Norway)

The stromatic migmatites of Nelaug (Tvedestrand area, SouthernNorway) are investigated in detail. They show well developedlayers of leucosomes, mesosomes and melanosomes. It is establishedthat the mesosomes and leucosomes of these migmatites are differentfrom each other texturally, mineralogically, and chemically.Also combinations of leucosome plus adjacent melanosome portionsare chemically different from those of the mesosomes. Theseobservations do not agree with the findings of Mehnert (1971)and do not fit into his genetic model. The mesosome layers and the leucosome + melanosome combinationsare taken to represent the chemical compositions of the countryrock, a metagraywacke with relicts of primary rhythmic layering(Touret, 1965). The mineralogical composition of the layersvaries from granitic to tonalitic. Relict textures indicatethat the leucosome portions were initially occupied by layersof granitic composition relatively rich in K-feldspar, whereasthe mesosomes are the representatives of those metagraywackelayers which were relatively rich in plagioclase. An almostisochemical transformation of a paragneiss into the investigatedstromatic migmatite is established. Melting experiments performed at PH₂O= 5 Kb yielded solidustemperatures of 640±7 °C for all layers. The Composition of plagioclases present in the different layersis explained by isochemical partial melting and in situ crystallization.The chemical, mineralogical, and textural findings support themodel of almost isochemical transformation already establishedfor the Arvika migmatites (Johannes & Gupta, 1982).     

Geochronology and geochemistry of leucosomes in the North Dabie Terrane, East China: implication for post-UHPM crustal melting during exhumation

Migmatites are widespread in the North Dabie ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane (NDT) of Dabie orogen, East China. Idiomorphic and poikilitic amphibole grains in both leucosome and melanosome contain inclusions of plagioclase, quartz and biotite, suggesting formation of leucosome by fluid-present melting of biotite + plagioclase + quartz-bearing protoliths at P = 5–7 kbar, T = 700–800 °C. Precise SIMS zircon U–Pb dating indicates that migmatization of Dabie orogen initiated at ~140 Ma and lasted for ~10 Ma, coeval with the formation of low-Mg^# adakitic intrusions in Dabie orogen. Based on mineralogical, petrographic and geochemical data, leucosomes in NDT can be subdivided into three groups. (1) High La/Yb_(N)–Medium Sr/Y group (Group I), whose high Dy/Yb_(N) but medium Sr/Y ratios are caused by amphibole and plagioclase residual during partial melting of dioritic to granodioritic gneisses. (2) Low La/Yb_(N)–Low Sr/Y group (Group II), whose flat HREE patterns are produced by entrainment of peritectic amphiboles into melts derived from partial melting of dioritic gneiss. (3) High La/Yb_(N)–High Sr/Y and Eu^# group (Group III), whose extremely high Sr and Eu but low other REE concentrations are caused by accumulation of plagioclase and quartz. Although Group I and III fall in the adakitic fields on La/Yb_(N)–Yb_(N) and Sr/Y–Y diagrams, they are chemically distinct from contemporary high-pressure adakitic intrusions in Dabie orogen in a series of geochemical indexes, for example, lower Dy/Yb_(N) and/or Sr/Y ratios at given La/Yb_(N) ratio, lower Sr/CaO ratios, lower Rb concentration but higher K/Rb ratios. Therefore, leucosomes are produced by anatexis of the exhumed ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks at middle crustal level, instead of partial melting of thickened lower crust with garnet-rich and plagioclase-poor residual. The coeval occurrence of migmatites and high-pressure adakitic intrusions in Dabie orogen indicates large-scale partial melting of middle to thickened lower crustal column in the early Cretaceous. The required heat source may be the mantle heat conducting through the lithospheric mantle whose lower parts have been convectively removed.     

鄂东北大别杂岩中深熔混合岩存在的地质地球化学证据

基于地质地球化学研究结果提出识别大别杂岩中深熔混合岩的证据：①浅色体粗大可横切面理，伴有复杂褶皱，帮助发育；②浅色体和古成体中斜长石牌号有明显差异；③矿物成分和组合指示曾达到深熔条件；④浅色体中富含Ａｌ２Ｏ３、Ｆｅ２Ｏ３、ＴｉＯ２和不活动、不相容元素，如ＬＲＥＥ、Ｔｈ、Ｈｆ、Ｚｒ。最结合混合岩矿物空间分布和质量平衡研究结果得出结论：大别核心杂岩中混合岩的主导成因机制是深熔。     

Muscovite dehydration melting in Si-rich metapelites: microstructural evidence from trondhjemitic migmatites,Roded, Southern Israel

Making a distinction between partial melting and subsolidus segregation in amphibolite facies migmatites is difficult. The only significant melting reactions at lowpressures, either vapour saturated or muscovite dehydration melting, do not produce melanocratic peritectic phases. If protoliths are Si-rich and K-poor, then peritectic sillimanite and K-feldspar will form in scarce amounts, and may be lost by retrograde rehydration. The Roded migmatites of southern Israel (northernmost Arabian Nubian Shield) formed at P = 4.5 ± 1 kbar and T ≤ 700 °C and include Si-rich, K-poor paragneissic paleosome and trondhjemitic leucosomes. The lack of K-feldspar in leucosomes was taken as evidence for the non-anatectic origin of the Roded migmatites (Gutkin and Eyal, Isr J Earth Sci 47:117, 1998). It is shown here that although the Roded migmatites experienced significant post-peak deformation and recrystallization, microstructural evidence for partial melting is retained. Based on these microstructures, coupled with pseudosection modelling, indicators of anatexis in retrograded migmatites are established. Phase diagram modelling of neosomes shows the onset of muscovite dehydration melting at 4.5 kbar and 660 °C, forming peritectic sillimanite and K-feldspar. Adjacent non-melted paleosomes lack muscovite and would thus not melt by this reaction. Vapour saturation was not attained, as it would have formed cordierite that does not exist. Furthermore, vapour saturation would not allow peritectic K-feldspar to form, however K-feldspar is ubiquitous in melanosomes. Direct petrographic evidence for anatexis is rare and includes euhedral plagioclase phenocrysts in leucosomes and quartz-filled embayments in corroded plagioclase at leucosome-melanosome interfaces. In deformed and recrystallized rocks muscovite dehydration melting is inferred by: (1) lenticular K-feldspar enclosed by biotite in melanosomes, (2) abundant myrmekite in leucosomes, (3) muscovite–quartz symplectites after sillimanite in melanosomes and associated with myrmekite in leucosomes. While peritectic K-feldspar formed in melanosomes by muscovite dehydration melting reaction, K-feldspar crystallizing from granitic melt in adjacent leucosome was myrmekitized. Excess potassium was used in rehydration of sillimanite to muscovite.     

Melt segregation in the continental crust: distribution and movement of melt in anatectic rocks

The grain‐ and outcrop‐scale distribution of melt has been mapped in anatectic rocks from regional and contact metamorphic environments and used to infer melt movement paths. At the grain scale, anatectic melt is pervasively distributed in the grain boundaries and in small pools; consequently, most melt is located parallel to the principal fabric in the rock, typically a foliation. Short, branched arrays of linked, melt‐bearing grain boundaries connect melt‐depleted parts of the matrix to diffuse zones of melt accumulation (protoleucosomes), where magmatic flow and alignment of euhedral crystals grown from the melt developed. The distribution of melt (leucosome) and residual rocks (normally melanocratic) in outcrop provides different, but complementary, information. The residual rocks show where the melt came from, and the leucosomes preserve some of the channels through which the melt moved, or sites where it pooled. Different stages of the melt segregation process are recorded in the leucosome–melanosome arrays. Regions where melting and segregation had just begun when crystallization occurred are characterized by short arrays of thin, branching leucosomes with little melanosome. A more advanced stage of melting and segregation is marked by the development of residual rocks around extensive, branched leucosome arrays, generally oriented along the foliation or melting layer. Places where melting had stopped, or slowed down, before crystallization began are marked by a high ratio of melanosome to leucosome; because most of the melt has drained away, very few leucosomes remain to mark the melt escape path — this is common in melt‐depleted granulite terranes. Many migmatites contain abundant leucosomes oriented parallel to the foliation; mostly, these represent places where foliation planes dilated and melt drained from the matrix via the branched grain boundary and larger branched melt channel (leucosome) arrays collected. Melt collected in the foliation planes was partially, or fully, expelled later, when discordant leucosomes formed. Leucosomes (or veins) oriented at high angles to the foliation/layering formed last and commonly lack melanocratic borders; hence they were not involved in draining the matrix of the melting layer. Discordant leucosomes represent the channels through which melt flowed out of the melting layer.     

Melting reactions and trace element relationships in selected specimens of migmatitic pelites from New Hampshire and Maine

Leucosomes and melanosomes in selected specimens of migmatitic, sillimanite-zone, pelitic schists are modal and chemical complements formed by segregation within originally homogeneous paleosomes. Systematic bulk chemical and modal variations in melanosomes can be used to infer the reactions by which leucosomes were generated.Trace element variations and relationships in melanosomes and leucosomes indicate that the migmatites behaved as closed systems during leucosome formation. Mass-balance evaluation of trace element relationships in the context of inferred leucosome-forming reactions suggest that trace elements essentially followed the melanosome phases initially containing them, as these phases reacted in leucosome generation. The trace element composition of a leucosome is given by the sum of those of the melanosome phases reacted, minus the trace element contents of any new solid melanosome phases produced by the reactions.Trace element relations are consistent with metamorphic equilibrium during leucosome generation, but suggest that once leucosome was segregated, equilibrium was not maintained between leucosome and melanosome.     

Origin of K-poor leucosomes in a metasedimentary migmatite complex by ultrametamorphism, syn-metamorphic magmatism and subsolidus processes

Two types of stromatic leucosomes are identified in metasedimentary rocks from the Skagit migmatite complex, North Cascades, Washington state, U.S.A. Both types are trondhjemitic and appear similar in outcrop, but, although both contain low abundances of REE, one type consists of leucosomes that are relatively REE-enriched compared to the other, and contains (1) small (<0.8 mm), Fe-rich garnets that are compositionally and texturally different from mesosome and melanosome garnet; (2) Ti-rich minerals (rutile, titanite) that are not present in the groundmass of the associated mesosomes or melanosomes and (3) CO₂-rich fluid inclusions in quartz. Leucosomes of the second type are REE-depleted compared to the first type, lack garnet and Ti-minerals, and contain only H₂O-rich fluid inclusions. The first type of leucosome is interpreted to have formed by in situ partial melting accompanied, and perhaps initiated, by an influx of water-rich fluid during upper amphibolite facies metamorphism. These conclusions are based on estimates of metamorphic P-T-X_fluid conditions (9–10 kbar, > 700°C, water-rich fluid present), inferences about the origin of the above-listed mineralogical and fluid inclusion features, and modeling of leucosome trace element abundances. The second type of leucosome is interpreted to have formed entirely by subsolidus processes (e.g., metamorphic differentiation) because these leucosomes lack features consistent with an origin by partial melting.

K-poor (tonalitic/trondhjemitic) leucosomes associated with metasedimentary (biotite-bearing) source rocks may form by water-saturated partial melting or by subsolidus processes. Both general leucosome-forming mechanisms may operate at different times during upper amphibolite facies regional metamorphism. Partial melting may be initiated by syn-metamorphic magmatic activity if crystallizing plutons serve as external sources of the water-rich fluid necessary for ultrametamorphism in the middle crust during orogenesis. Large-scale migmatite complexes such as the Skagit migmatites may form at least in part in response to contact effects of plutonism associated with high-grade metamorphism, so, although migmatite complexes are a volumetrically substantial part of many orogenic belts, they may not themselves represent a significant original source of magma for larger-scale igneous bodies.     

Subsolidus migmatization in high-grade meta-tuffs (Kurkijärvi, southwest Finland)

The phenomenon of migmatization was studied in Precambrian metavolcanic gneisses of calc-alkaline chemistry, outcropping along a prograde amphibolite/granulite facies transition in the West Uusimaa Complex of SW Finland. This paper discusses one of the studied gneiss levels (a garnet-bearing Qtz/Plag/Ksp/Bio-gneiss) which was observed to transsect the metamorphic isograd pattern at almost right angle. The gneiss was studied for structures, whole-rock chemistry (major, trace and REE), mineral content, microtextures, plagioclase anorthite content and fluid inclusions. Data concerning the latter four subjects are presented.

Migmatization proved to: (1) have occurred parallel to compositional banding of the rocks; (2) have produced identical leucosome/melanosome/mesosome mineral parageneses; (3) have initiated feldspar/garnet-poikiloblasthesis (and occasionally biotite porphyroblasthesis) in leucosome, and biotite-/garnet-poikiloblasthesis in melanosome; (4) have caused entrapment of unstrained quartz blebs carrying isolated (primary) two-phase pure H₂O fluid inclusions of unique filling degree range in the above-mentioned feldspar- and garnet-poikiloblasts; (5) have occurred post-D₁/pre-D₂, synchronous to amphibolitefacies metamorphism, in the subsolidus regime; (6) have been affected by D₂ in the way of localized mylonitization of the melanosome, and quartz migration (exudation) from adjacent mesosome into leucosome; and (7) have had some control by the biotite content of the original compositionally banded rock.

Initial leucosome formation appears to have been controlled by the pre-leucosome biotite content: the recalculated modal biotite content of the leucosome/melanosome combination conspicuously is in the range of 5–20 vol.% of biotite. Final extent of the leucosome shows on its turn a marked correlation with mesosome modal biotite content.

Because leucosomes occur carrying a recalculated modal biotite content equalling adjacent mesosome biotite content, a second factor is held responsible for the onset of migmatization in the buried and sheared rock: deficient water balance. Migmatization, initiated at P/T conditions fit for feldspar recrystallization and almandine formation, was induced during prograde metamorphism to cancel an established zonation in water pressure or water content parallel to compositional banding. Zones of low P_H2O or wt.% H₂O thereby were converted into leucosomes, while zones of higher P_H2O or wt.% H₂O remained unaffected (and became mesosome). That X_H2O did not vary at the onset of migmatization is recorded in the isolated pure H₂O fluid inclusions contained in the quartz blebs enclosed in the studied leucosome- and melanosome-poikiloblasts. Restore of water balance (either by internally controlled factors or externally introduced ones) halted migmatization and its obliteration of compositional banding.