2012
Methods to estimate the pressure-temperature histories of garnet peridotite and eclogite in the ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belts: A review of geothermobarometers and their geological applications
Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences
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- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 6
- First page
- 225
- Last page
- 246
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- DOI
- 10.2465/gkk.120531
Ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks, represented by coesite- or its pseudomorph-bearing eclogites, have been found mainly from continent-continent collision orogenic belts, and garnet peridotite bodies are also known to occur in such UHP belts. The UHP eclogites and garnet peridotite bodies/layers/lenses are commonly enclosed within metamorphic rocks derived from continent crustal materials composed by moderate to low pressure metamorphic minerals, although they should have been located under deep mantle depths (>
50km). Therefore, elucidation of juxtaposition processes between the mantle material and the host crustal material is one of main subjects for the petrology in the UHP belts. Delineating of pressure-temperature (P-T) paths of these UHP garnet peridotite bodies can give us indispensable constraints to clarify the juxtaposition process of mantle and crustal materials in the continent-collision settings and the exhumation processes of deeply subducted rocks with higher density than the crustal rocks. In this paper, we summarize the commonly used methods to determine P-T histories of the UHP garnet peridotite bodies (i.e., geo-thermometer and barometer) and discuss P-T paths of UHP rocks in collision type orogenic belts, and their tectonic significance. © 2012, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences. All rights reserved.
50km). Therefore, elucidation of juxtaposition processes between the mantle material and the host crustal material is one of main subjects for the petrology in the UHP belts. Delineating of pressure-temperature (P-T) paths of these UHP garnet peridotite bodies can give us indispensable constraints to clarify the juxtaposition process of mantle and crustal materials in the continent-collision settings and the exhumation processes of deeply subducted rocks with higher density than the crustal rocks. In this paper, we summarize the commonly used methods to determine P-T histories of the UHP garnet peridotite bodies (i.e., geo-thermometer and barometer) and discuss P-T paths of UHP rocks in collision type orogenic belts, and their tectonic significance. © 2012, Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences. All rights reserved.
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- DOI : 10.2465/gkk.120531
- ISSN : 1349-7979
- ISSN : 1345-630X
- SCOPUS ID : 85024713139