Garnet composition as a petrogenetic indicator: An example from a marble -- calc-silicate granulite interface at Kondapalle, Eastern Ghats Belt, India

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2002
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Abstract
TheP-T-fluid histories of aluminous garnet+clinopyroxene-bearing calc-silicate granulites are commonly constrained through interpretation of sequential reaction textures based on activity-corrected petrogenetic grids for model systems, for example the widely used CAS(CO~2~-H~2~O) topologies. Application of these topologies to calc-silicates of diverse bulk composition is limited by the fact that the role of clinopyroxene and hence of garnet composition in the garnet-forming reactions is ignored or not adequately considered. In this contribution the complexities that arise from the involvement of clinopyroxene in the garnet-forming reactions are critically evaluated. As an example, the paragenetic relations and compositional features of clinopyroxene and coronitic garnet across paired scapolite- and wollastonite-dominated reaction zones (scp+cpx±qtz,cal,qtz --- wo+cal+cpx±scp) developed between marble layers (cal±cpx,wo,scp) and their host calc-silicate granulite (cpx+pl±qtz,scp) at an exposure in the high-grade Eastern Ghats Belt (India) are examined. The microtextural features and systematic changes of modal and phase compositions across the profile indicate that clinopyroxene, scapolite, plagioclase, quartz and calcite as well as wollastonite participated in the garnet-forming reactions. Using the sub-assemblage qtz+cal+cpx+scp+grt+v in the system CaO-FeO-Al~2~O~3~-SiO~2~-CO~2~ it is demonstrated that at the ambient *P-T-X*~fluid~ conditions, the reaction coefficients of the participating phases are uniquely defined by the garnet composition. As a result, the *P-T* slope of a garnet-forming reaction changes with the garnet composition, with sharp changes at "singular points" across which one or more phases change their sides with respect to garnet in a given reaction. To consider the consequences of these complexities on the reaction topology of calc-silicate granulites, a new petrogenetic grid for the system CaO-FeO-Al~2~O~3~-SiO~2~-CO~2~ involving clinopyroxene has been constructed. The effects of fluid composition (CO~2~-H~2~O-O~2~), fluid pressure (P~fluid~\
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Authors Pulak Sengupta
Journal american journal of science
Year 2002
DOI
10.2475/ajs.302.8.686
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