Amphibolite facies conditions in the oceanic crust: example of amphibolitized flaser-gabbro and amphibolites from the Chenaillet ophiolite massif (Hautes Alpes,France) |
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Authors: | Catherine Mevel Renaud Caby Jean-Robert Kienast |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratoire de Pétrographie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75230 Paris Cedex 05 France;2. Centre Géologique et Géophysique, Université des Sciences, 34060 Montpellier France |
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Abstract: | Petrological and mineralogical data on amphibolitized gabbros from an Alpine ophiolite massif (Chenaillet Massif, France) are presented. Comparison with metagabbros dredged from the ocean floor shows that synkinematic amphibolite facies conditions may be reached in gabbros after their initial crystallization in the vicinity of the ridge. It is suggested that sub-horizontal plastic flow took place in the gabbroic layer near the axis of a slowly spreading ocean ridge before the intrusion of diabase dykes. This thermo-tectonic regime which at the Chenaillet produced flaser-gabbros and layers of foliated amphibolites with brown hornblende and pargasite, probably also affected most of the other ophiolitic gabbros of the Piemont zone prior to the low-temperature/high-pressure Alpine metamorphism. |
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