Application of mineral chemistry in determination protolith and thermobarometry the Sartip Abad metamorphic rocks (Qorveh-Kurdistan Province)

Thermobarometry suggests that ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) to high-pressure (HP) rocks across the Western Gneiss Region ponded at the Moho following as much as 100 km of exhumation through the mantle and before exhumation to the upper crust. Eclogite across the c. 22 000 km study area records minimum pressures of c. 8–18 kbar and temperatures of c. 650–780 C. One orthopyroxene eclogite yields an UH...

In continental arcs the extension of geothermal gradients derived from shallow crustal levels to depth predicts widespread melting at pressures that are inconsistent with seismic studies. Numerical models of low-pressure metamorphism in continental arcs suggest that these extrapolations are problematic because magmatic advection is the dominant mechanism of heat transport in these terranes rath...

Amphibole (Amp) plays a crucial role in the study of several earth and planetary processes. One its most common applications is thermobarometry, especially for volcanic-magmatic systems. However, many thermobarometers require input melt composition, which not always available volcanic products (e.g., partially crystallized melts or devitrified glasses), show rather high errors characterizing de...

the study area is located at the sanandaj-sirjan zone in the west and north-west of azna and north-east of doroud, iran. the quartz-schists are divided into two main groups: amphibole-quartz schist and garnet-quartz schist. field and microstructural studies show several deformational phases. the d1 episode which is represented by s1, matches with m1 metamprphism and d2 deformation matches with ...

[1] The Talkeetna arc is one of two intraoceanic arcs where much of the section from the upper mantle through the volcanic carapace is well exposed. We reconstruct the vertical section of the Talkeetna arc by determining the (re)crystallization pressures at various structural levels. The thermobarometry shows that the tonalites and quartz diorites intruded at 5–9 km into a volcanic section esti...

Abstract Elastic thermobarometry of host-inclusion systems for back-calculating pressure (P) and temperature (T) conditions inclusion entrapment relies on the assumption that hostinclusion rheology is purely elastic. In this study, we have explored both elastic non-elastic behavior zircon-in-garnet (ZiG) by in situ Raman spectroscopy at high T ambient P. We show upon heating, plastic relaxation...