Retrogression of ultrahigh-pressure eclogite, Western Gneiss Region, Norway

Abstract 2 O3 contents (0.17 wt %–0.37 wt %), provided its grain boundaries were unaffected by partial recrystallisation or replacement. Classical geothermobarometry based on element partitioning between coexisting mineral phases suggests metamorphic conditions within the diamond stability field for the samples from both the HP and UHP areas. The primary clinopyroxene in the associated orthopyroxene-free eclogites contains aligned inclusions of either needle-shaped quartz ± = +  3 quartz during early eclogite-facies retrogression. Further retrogression partially transformed the needle-shaped quartz to irregularly shaped albite within the clinopyroxene and partially transformed both clinopyroxene generations to amphibole that occasionally preserves the needles. The similarity of both the maximum metamorphic conditions and the mineral exsolution microstructures in the eclogites from UHP and HP areas indicates a shared metamorphic history within the stability field of diamond, but a history that diverged during retrogression. Consequently, the alternations of UHP and HP areas in the WGR may have formed by a process that allowed for spatial variations in retrogression efficiency, such as the localisation of strain (recrystallisation) or fluid flow (diffusion) or both, rather than by tectonic stacking of UHP and HP units. Evidence for the UHP metamorphism of WGR crustal rocks is now found from NE to SW along the entire coastal section that covers previously recognised UHP and interjacent areas.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Sprache
Englisch

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Retrogression of ultrahigh-pressure eclogite, Western Gneiss Region, Norway ; volume:35 ; number:6 ; year:2023 ; pages:1125-1147 ; extent:23
European journal of mineralogy ; 35, Heft 6 (2023), 1125-1147 (gesamt 23)

Urheber
Spengler, Dirk
Włodek, Adam
Zhong, Xin
Loges, Anselm
Cuthbert, Simon J.

DOI
10.5194/ejm-35-1125-2023
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023122103445858222215
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  • Spengler, Dirk
  • Włodek, Adam
  • Zhong, Xin
  • Loges, Anselm
  • Cuthbert, Simon J.

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