Abstract
Calculated mineral equilibria are used to account for the formation of sapphirine-plagioclase, spinel-plagioclase and corundum-plagioclase symplectites replacing kyanite in quartz-plagioclase-garnet-kyanite granulite facies gneisses from the Southern Domain of the Athabasca granulite terrane, a segment of the Snowbird tectonic zone in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Metamorphic conditions of >14kbar and 800 degrees C are established for the high pressure, garnet-kyanite assemblage using constraints from P-T pseudosections and Zr-in-rutile thermometry. Replacement of kyanite by symplectites reflects the reaction of kyanite with the matrix following near-isothermal decompression to
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 311-330 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Journal of Metamorphic Geology |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |
Keywords
- Athabasca granulite terrane
- chemical potential
- garnet-kyanite granulite
- sapphirine-spinel-corundum-plagioclase symplectite
- Snowbird tectonic zone
- WESTERN CANADIAN SHIELD
- SNOWBIRD TECTONIC ZONE
- ATHABASCA MYLONITE ZONE
- HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM
- HIGH-P GRANULITES
- GEOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS
- NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN
- HETEROGENEOUS STRAIN
- PHASE-EQUILIBRIA
- BOHEMIAN MASSIF