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Ion microprobe analysis of oxygen isotope ratios in quartz from Skye granite: healed micro-cracks,fluid flow,and hydrothermal exchange
Authors:J. W. Valley  Colin M. Graham
Affiliation:(1) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA, US;(2) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK, GB
Abstract: Quartz grains in hydrothermally altered granites from the Isle of Skye are highly heterogeneous and not equilibrated in oxygen isotope ratio at the 20 μm scale. Ion microprobe analysis of one grain shows a gradient of 13‰ over 400 μm and a greater range in δ 18O than all quartz previously analyzed on the Isle of Skye. Other crystals from the same outcrop are homogeneous. Digitized cathodoluminescence images reveal patterns of magmatic zoning and brittle fracturing not otherwise detectable. The ion probe analysis correlates low δ 18O values on a micro-scale to one set of healed cracks. Thus, quartz exchanges oxygen isotopes primarily by solution and reprecipitation along fractures, in contrast to more reactive feldspar that appears to exchange from the grain boundary inward. Macroscopic models of isotope exchange are not realistic for these rocks; the flow of hydrothermal fluids was heterogeneous, anisotropic and crack controlled. Received: 23 October 1995/Accepted: 9 April 1996
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