The application of spinel-bearing metapelites to P/T determinations: An example from South India |
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Authors: | Nigel Harris |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Earth Sciences, Open University, Milton, Keynes, England |
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Abstract: | Metasedimentary migmatites from the Archean charnockitic terrain of South India contain the five phase equilibrium assemblage spinel-cordierite-garnet-corundum-sillimanite. The assemblages is a result of anatexis which has generated a silica-deficient anhydrous restite. Peak metamorphic conditions are defined by the intersection of two divariant reactions in the A12O3-SiO2-FeO-MgO system at which the five phases coexist. These reactions are univariant and their intersection invariant if the Fe/Mg ratio of at least one femic phase is fixed.The location of the invariant point in P/T space is derived from extracting standard stage thermodynamic data from published equilibria experiments in the system Al2O3-SiO2-FeO. Microprobe analyses of coexisting spinel, almandine and cordierite specify the Fe/Mg distributions between phases and allow the computation of the five phase invariant point for
=P
total (770° C, 5.9 kb) and
=O (740° C, 4.8 kb). A low
, implied by evidence of extreme anatexis, indicates a P/T field of T=740±20° C and Ptotal=4.8±0.5 kb which is consistent with the field of equilibration of interlayered charnockites computed from garnet-hypersthene and garnet-plagioclase pairs. |
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