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The combined Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd mineral-whole rock, and zircon U-Pb, REE and Hf isotope study of ultra high pressure rocks from the CCSD program

Fachliche Zuordnung Mineralogie, Petrologie und Geochemie
Förderung Förderung von 2006 bis 2011
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 21971348
 
Erstellungsjahr 2013

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Ultrahigh pressure (UHP) rocks from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) program were chosen to study the trace element and Lu-Hf isotope systems in combination with U-Th-Pb dating of distinct zircon domains. The results show that the combined use of trace element and U-Th-Pb isotope compositions of zircon and PT information from their mineral inclusions, allow the linkage between U-Pb ages and metamorphic reactions. Inherited and metamorphic zircons were distinguished based on cathodoluminescence imaging, mineral inclusions, trace element contents and Hf isotope composition. Up to three phases of zircon growth or re-crystallisation can be identified in a single sample. The ages are interpreted to date the time of 1) prograde and 2) UHP metamorphism during Middle Triassic subduction, and 3) retrograde metamorphism during Late Triassic exhumation. The Sulu orogen can be divided from south-east to north-west in a high-pressure crustal slice and two different ultrahigh-pressure crustal slices. All three crustal slices underwent different subduction and exhumation histories. Studies of the Hf isotope analyses of UHP zircon domains from different samples give new insights in the understanding of the behavior of the Lu-Hf system during UHP metamorphism. Inherited zircons of mainly middle Neoproterozoic ages have variable trace element pattern that are considerably different from those of metamorphic zircon domains. Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd grt-cpx isochrones from CCSD and Dabie eclogites yield surprisingly uniform ages that are in average about 6-8 Myr younger than the UHP zircon age. Why the different chronometers yield distinct ages could not been finally clarified.

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