Petrology of high-grade crustal xenoliths in the Chalcatzingo Miocene subvolcanic field,southern Mexico: buried basement of the Guerrero-Morelos platform and tectonostratigraphic implications

The Miocene Chalcatzingo trondhjemitic volcanic field, sited along the southern margin of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, is a newly discovered locality with deep-seated crustal xenoliths that provide fundamental petrologic information on the nature of the unexposed metamorphic basement. The volcanic field lies along the eastern edge of the Cretaceous Guerrero-Morelos platform, which juxtaposes the Guerrero and Mixteco terranes of southern Mexico. Xenoliths consist of high temperature to ultra-high temperature metapelites as well as mafic and quartzofeldspathic gneisses, all of which show evidence of multiple granulite to amphibolite facies metamorphism and ductile deformation. A detailed petrologic study of representative xenoliths indicates a metamorphic evolution that apparently followed a clockwise pressure–temperature path leading from biotite-sillimanite₁/kyanite(?)-quartz assemblages (M₁) to the assemblage plagioclase-garnet-sillimanite₂-rutile/ilmenite (M₂) with a peak at ～9–11 kbar and >870°C. These conditions were followed by rapid uplift to <6 kbar and >800°C, which produced the decompression assemblage spinel-cordierite-sillimanite₃-corundum ± orthopyroxene ± quartz (M₃) before shallow emplacement of the xenolith-bearing trondhjemitic magma. Three possible sources for the xenoliths are considered: (1) early Mesozoic metasediments buried in the middle crust; (2) Precambrian lower crust; and (3) subducted Cenozoic sediments trapped in the mantle wedge. Based on the deep-seated, polymetamorphic nature of the xenoliths, the Nd depleted mantle model age of an orthogneissic xenolith, and on regional tectonostratigraphic considerations, we suggest that the xenolith source was Proterozoic continental crust. Although old zircon inheritance in the host trondhjemite is minimal, it may be explained by a lack of interaction of the magma with the traversed lithosphere. Studies of Palaeogene shallow intrusions exposed 140 km west of Chalcatzingo in the Guerrero terrane (Pepechuca plug) and 80 km southeast of that place in the Mixteco terrane (Puente Negro dikes) reveal the presence of similar very high-grade aluminous xenoliths. However, these magmas were probably generated by partial melting of Triassic–Jurassic metasediments of the Guerrero terrane underplated by basaltic magmas in Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous times or from Precambrian crust assimilated by underplated mafic magmas of Oligocene age, respectively.     

吉林辉南幔源橄榄岩流变学与组构特征及其动力学启示

吉林辉南位于华北克拉通(NCC)东北部边缘,新生代玄武岩中含有大量的新鲜幔源包体.包体类型主要为尖晶石二辉橄榄岩.由包体矿物化学成分计算的平衡温度为:982～1085℃.氧化缀饰方法揭示了样品中橄榄石的显微特征,表明包体存在形态各异的位错样式:位错壁、亚颗粒、位错环、位错网等,指示样品可能经历了以位错蠕变为主的塑性变形...     

滇西富碱斑岩及其中包体岩石的地幔流体交代作用特征

滇西富碱斑岩体中,有多处产出深浅来源不同的包体岩石。针对寄主岩石和包体岩石的岩相学和岩石化学成分的对比研究发现:寄主岩石较包体岩石更富S iO2,A l2O3,N a2O和K2O,而包体岩石较寄主岩石更富C aO,M gO,F e2O3和F eO,岩石蚀变以角闪石化、钠黝帘石化和硅化为主,结合具超基性岩性的包体岩石发育碎裂结构,碎裂粒间出现与交代成因角闪石共生的微晶硅质、碳质、碳酸盐和金云母等表现地幔流体显交代作用的特征矿物组合,由此判定交代主岩和包体岩石的流体富含碱质和硅质,是与富碱岩浆同源的来自富集地幔源区的地幔流体,其交代作用的功能和能量明显优于一般意义上的地壳流体作用,而此交代作用促进了成矿元素和挥发份的聚集,且富碱斑岩与地幔流体的交代作用之间存在有利的时差关系。     

Equilibration and reaction in Archaean quartz-sapphirine granulite xenoliths from the Lace kimberlite pipe, South Africa

Ultrahigh-temperature quartz-sapphirine granulite xenoliths in the post-Karoo Lace kimberlite, South Africa, comprise mainly quartz, sapphirine, garnet and sillimanite, with rarer orthopyroxene, antiperthite, corundum and zinc-bearing spinel; constant accessories are rutile, graphite and sulphides. Comparison with assemblages in the experimentally determined FMAS and KFMASH grids indicates initial equilibration at >1040 °C and 9–11  kbar. Corona assemblages involving garnet, sillimanite and minor cordierite developed on a near-isobaric cooling P–T  path as both temperature and, to a lesser extent, pressures decreased. Garnet-orthopyroxene Fe-Mg exchange thermometers record temperatures of only 830–916 °C. These estimates do not indicate the peak metamorphic conditions but instead reflect the importance of post-peak Fe-Mg exchange during cooling. Correction of mineral Fe-Mg compositions for this exhange using a convergence approach of Fitzsimons & Harley (1994 ) leads to retrieved P–T  estimates from garnet-orthopyroxene thermobarometry ( c . 1000 °C and 10.5±0.7  kbar) that are consistent with the petrogenetic grid constraints. U-Pb dating of a single zircon grain gives an age of 2590±83  Ma, interpreted as the age of the metamorphic event. Protolith major and trace element chemistries of the xenoliths differ from sapphirine-quartzites typical of the Napier Complex (Antarctica) but are comparable to less siliceous, high Cr and Ni, sapphirine granulites reported from several ultrahigh temperature granulite terranes.