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Mineral chemistry, geothermobarometry and pre-Alpine high-pressure metamorphism of eclogitic amphibolites and mica schists from the Schobergruppe, Austroalpine basement, Eastern Alps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Bernhard Schulz
Bernhard Schulz*
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Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schloβgarten 5, D-8520 Erlangen, Germany
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Abstract

Alternating eclogitic amphibolites, mica schists and orthogneisses in the Schobergruppe to the south of the Tauern Window suffered a post-Upper-Ordovician progressive deformation D1-D2 which produced parallel planar-linear structures in all the rocks. Zoned garnets, preferentially oriented zoned clinopyroxenes (Jd 35-42%) and albite (An 7-9%) give evidence of high-pressure metamorphism (550-650°C 14-16 kbar) of the metabasites. Ca-amphiboles crystallized during subsequent decompression. In a kyanite-staurolite-garnet mica schist 300 metres below the metabasites, garnetbearing assemblages grew synchronous with the development of foliations S1 and S2. Garnets are zoned with increasing XMg and decreasing-increasing-rcdecreasing Xca from cores to rims. Albitic plagioclase (An 1-3%) and micas are enclosed in garnet cores and rims, are in contact with garnet, and occur with garnet in microlithons. When these minerals are used for geothermobarometry, a prograde P-T evolution (460 to 680°C with coeval pressure variations which reach high-pressure conditions can be estimated. This suggests that garnet-plagioclase geobarometry with albitic plagioclase works in the relevant P-T field. Similar garnet zonation trends and a similarly shaped P-T path from mica schists of an adjacent region with late-Variscan cooling ages, points to an eady-Variscan age of the syn-D1-D2 high-pressure and subsequent amphibolite-facies metamorphism.

Keywords

mineral chemistrygarnet-plagioclase barometryP-T-t-deformation pathsVariscanAustroalpine basement
Type
Geochemistry and Petrology
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 57 , Issue 387 , June 1993 , pp. 189 - 202
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1993

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