Sandmann, Sascha, Herwartz, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0003-3604-8295, Kirst, Frederik, Froitzheim, Nikolaus, Nagel, Thorsten J., Fonseca, Raul C., Muenker, Carsten and Janak, Marian (2016). Timing of eclogite-facies metamorphism of mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps, Slovenia) based on Lu-Hf garnet geochronometry. Lithos, 262. S. 576 - 586. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1872-6143

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Abstract

The metamorphic series of the Pohorje Mountains represents a part of the Eastern Alpine realm that was subjected to ultrahigh-pressure conditions during the Cretaceous Eo-Alpine orogenic cycle. The Slovenska Bistrica Ultramafic Complex located in the south-eastern Pohorje Mountains is an 8 km wide serpentinite body that contains lenses of garnet-bearing ultramafites and eclogites. It is embedded in and part of a mixed continental unit of metapelitic gneisses, orthogneisses, and eclogites. We present Lu-Hf garnet chronometry coupled with geochemical and petrological data from three samples: one garnet lherzolite, one eclogite from within the ultramafic complex, and one eclogite from the surrounding mixed unit. All obtained ages are identical within error, i.e. 96.6 +/- 1.2 Ma and 94.8 +/- 5.1 Ma, respectively, for the two eclogites and 91.6 +/- 4.1 Ma for the garnet lherzolite. Garnet of all samples shows homogeneous concentrations of major bivalent elements due to high temperature re-equilibration. It does, however, preserve growth-related zoning with respect to Lu in all three samples implying that Lu-Hf ages still record garnet growth. The coincidence of ages suggests that the ultramafic complex and the surrounding continental mixed unit share the same subduction history, i.e. the complex was part of the subducting plate during and after the garnet growth stages. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
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Sandmann, SaschaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Herwartz, DanielUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-3604-8295UNSPECIFIED
Kirst, FrederikUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Froitzheim, NikolausUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Nagel, Thorsten J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Fonseca, Raul C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Muenker, CarstenUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Janak, MarianUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-260762
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.08.002
Journal or Publication Title: Lithos
Volume: 262
Page Range: S. 576 - 586
Date: 2016
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication: AMSTERDAM
ISSN: 1872-6143
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
RB-SR AGES; SM-ND; U-PB; PROGRADE METAMORPHISM; PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS; WESTERN ALPS; EXCESS ARGON; ZIRCON; EVOLUTIONMultiple languages
Geochemistry & Geophysics; MineralogyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26076

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