Granulitic metamorphism in the Laouni terrane (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) |
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Authors: | Abderrahmane Bendaoud Amel Derridj Khadidja Ouzegane Jean-Robert Kienast |
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Institution: | aFaculté des Sciences de la Terre, de Géographie et d’Aménagement du Territoire, U.S.T.H.B., B.P. 32, Dar el Beida, Algiers, Algeria;bFaculté des Hydrocarbures et de la Chimie, Université m’Hamed Bougara, 35000 Boumerdés, Algeria;cLaboratoire de Pétrologie, CNRS UMR 7097 IPGP, Université de Paris 7, Tour 26-O, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | In the Laouni terrane, which belongs to the polycyclic Central Hoggar domain, various areas contain outcrops of formations showing granulite-facies parageneses. This high-temperature metamorphism was accompanied by migmatization and the emplacement of two types of magmatic suite, one of continental affinity (garnet pyroxenites and granulites with orthoferrossilite–fayalite–quartz), and the other of arc affinity (layered metanorites). Paragenetic, thermobarometric and fluid-inclusion studies of the migmatitic metapelites and metabasites make it possible to reconstruct the P–T–aH2O path undergone by these formations. This path is clockwise in the three studied areas, being characterized by a major decompression (Tamanrasset: 10.5 kbar at 825 °C to 6 kbar at 700 °C; Tidjenouine: 7.5 kbar at 875 °C; to 3.5 kbar at 700 °C; Tin Begane: 13.5 kbar at 850 °C; to 5 kbar at 720 °C), followed by amphibolitization that corresponds to a fall of temperature (from 700 to 600 °C) and an increase in water activity (from 0.2–0.4 to almost 1).The main observed features are in favour of petrogenesis and exhumation related to the Eburnean orogeny. However, the lacks of good-quality dating work and a comparison with juvenile Pan-African formations having undergone high-pressure metamorphism, in some cases reaching the eclogite facies, do not rule out the possibility that high-temperature parageneses are locally due to Pan-African events. |
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Keywords: | Laouni Hoggar LATEA Granulite Eburnean Pan-African |
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