U-Pb systematics of garnet: dating the growth of garnet in the late Archean Pikwitonei granulite domain at Cauchon and Natawahunan Lakes,Manitoba, Canada |
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Authors: | K Mezger G N Hanson S R Bohlen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York, 11794 Stony Brook, NY, USA;(2) Present address: U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, 94025 Menlo Park, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | This study considers the potential of using the U-Pb dating of garnet for determining quantitative P-T-t paths for the late Archean metamorphism in the Pikwitonei granulite domain. Garnets for U-Pb dating were selected mainly
from samples that also provide information on pressure and temperature. The garnets used for dating were clear and free of
any visible inclusions. Pb concentrations range from 63 ppb to 966 ppb and U from 136 ppb to 1143 ppb. The measured 206Pb/204Pb ratios range from 52.8 to 529.4. The ages are generally discordant with U/Pb ages that may lie above or below concordia.
The discordance is caused by a recent disturbance of the U/Pb ratio in the garnets as indicated by replicate analyses on the
same garnet separates that reproduce 207Pb/206Pb ages well within analytical uncertainty and in most cases within ±1.5 Ma at 2600–2750 Ma. High grade metamorphism continued
over a period of at least one hundred million years, but the garnet-K-feldspar Pb-Pb ages suggest that, during this time,
garnet growth has been favored during three distinct periods in the Cauchon Lake area: 2700–2687 Ma 2660–2637 Ma 2605–2591
Ma The ca. 2695 Ma garnet ages from Cauchon Lake date the time of melting and staurolite breakdown during prograde metamorphism,
the ca. 2640 Ma ages date the time of extensive migmatization and the last period of metamorphic garnet growth, the ca. 2600
Ma ages date the time of crystallization of igneous garnet in late granitic intrusions. Peak metamorphism occurred around
2640 Ma followed by the intrusions of pegmatites starting at 2629 Ma. The Pb-Pb ages for garnet are similar to the U-Pb ages
for zircon that date a leucocratic mobilizate (2695 Ma), a plagioclaseamphibole mobilizate (2637 Ma) and pegmatite (2598 Ma)
(Heaman et al. 1986 a; Krogh et al. 1986; this study). Xenocrysts of garnet from 2600 Ma old graphic granites give minimum
ages of 2984 Ma and 2741 Ma which are minima for the times of garnet growth in the source of the granites. The agreement of
the zircon and garnet ages suggests that the metamorphism may have been punctuated by events that led to the development of
melts or encouraged mineral growth at specific times. If so, the prograde and retrograde paths of metamorphism in the area
may have contained minor excursions in pressure, temperature or fluid fugacities. In the Natawahunan Lake area some 50 km
northwest of Cauchon Lake, garnet growth associated with the prograde breakdown of staurolite occurred at ca. 2744–2734 Ma.
This suggests that a similar style of metamorphism may have occurred earlier in the Natawahunan Lake area than at Cauchon
Lake area, or higher grades of metamorphism were reached earlier and were of longer duration associated with the somewhat
greater depths in the Natawahunan Lake area. These results indicate the these garnets, which are 0.1–1 cm in diameter, have
maintained closed system behavior for U and Pb at peak metamorphic conditions, i.e. temperatures up to 800° C and pressures
of 7.5 kb. |
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