Miladinova, Irena ORCID: 0000-0002-2808-0378, Froitzheim, Nikolaus, Nagel, Thorsten J., Janak, Marian, Fonseca, Raul O. C., Sprung, Peter and Muenker, Carsten (2022). Constraining the process of intracontinental subduction in the Austroalpine Nappes: Implications from petrology and Lu-Hf geochronology of eclogites. J. Metamorph. Geol., 40 (3). S. 423 - 457. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1525-1314

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Abstract

High- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks occur in the Austroalpine Nappes in a similar to 400 km long belt from the Texel Complex in the west to the Sieggraben Unit in the east. Garnet growth during pressure increase was dated using Lu-Hf chronometry. The results range between c. 100 and 90 Ma, indicating a short-lived period of subduction. Combined with already published data, our estimates of metamorphic conditions indicate a field gradient with increasing pressure and temperature from the northwest to the southeast, where the rocks experienced ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism. The P-T conditions of the eclogites generally lie on the 'warm' side of the global range of subduction-zone metamorphic conditions. The oldest Cretaceous eclogites (c. 100 Ma) are found in the Saualpe-Koralpe area derived from widespread gabbros formed during Permian to Triassic rifting. In the Texel Complex garnets showing two growth phases yielded a Variscan-Eoalpine mixed age indicating re-subduction of Variscan eclogite-bearing continental crust during the Eoalpine orogeny. Jurassic blueschist-facies metamorphism at Meliata in the Western Carpathians and Cretaceous eclogite-facies metamorphism in the Austroalpine are separated by a time gap of c. 50 Ma and therefore do not represent a transition from oceanic to continental subduction but rather separate events. Thus, we propose that subduction initiation was intracontinental at the site of a Permian rift.

Item Type: Journal Article
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CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Miladinova, IrenaUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-2808-0378UNSPECIFIED
Froitzheim, NikolausUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Nagel, Thorsten J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Janak, MarianUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Fonseca, Raul O. C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Sprung, PeterUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Muenker, CarstenUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-596324
DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12634
Journal or Publication Title: J. Metamorph. Geol.
Volume: 40
Number: 3
Page Range: S. 423 - 457
Date: 2022
Publisher: WILEY
Place of Publication: HOBOKEN
ISSN: 1525-1314
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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MOUNTAINS EASTERN ALPS; HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; SM-ND; FACIES METAMORPHISM; POHORJE MOUNTAINS; GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY; RB-SR; U-PB; ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS; TEXEL COMPLEXMultiple languages
GeologyMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/59632

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