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Title: Anti-clockwise P-T paths in the lower crust: an example from a kyanite-bearing regional aureole, George Sound, New Zealand
Contributor(s): Clarke, GL (author); Fitzherbert, JA (author); Milan, Luke  (author)orcid ; Daczko, NR (author); Degeling, HS (author)
Publication Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00854.x
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15943
Abstract: The George Sound Paragneiss (GSP) represents a rare Permo-Triassic unit in Fiordland that occurs as a km-scale pillar to gabbroic and dioritic gneiss of 'c'. 120 Ma Western Fiordland Orthogneiss (WFO). It is distinguished from Palaeozoic paragneiss common in western Fiordland (Deep Cove Gneiss) by SHRIMP and laser-ablation U-Pb ages as young as 'c'. 190 Ma and ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Lu >0.2828 for detrital zircon grains. The Mesozoic age of the GSP circumvents common ambiguity in the interpretation of Cretaceous v. Palaeozoic metamorphic assemblages in the Deep Cove Gneiss. A shallowly dipping S₁ foliation is preserved in the GSP distal to the WFO, cut by 100 m scale migmatite contact zones. All units preserve a steeply dipping S₂ foliation. S₁ staurolite and sillimanite inclusions in the cores of metapelitic garnet grains distal to the WFO preserve evidence for prograde conditions of T < 650 °C and P < 8 kbar. Contact aureole and S₂ assemblages include Mg-rich, Ca-poor cores to garnet grains in metapelitic schist that reflect WFO emplacement at ≈760 °C and ≈6.5 kbar. S₂ kyanite-bearing matrix assemblages and Ca-enriched garnet rims reflect ≈650 °C and ≈11 kbar. Poorly oriented muscovite- biotite intergrowths and rare paragonite reflect post-S₂ high-P retrogression and cooling. Pseudosection modelling in NCKFMASH defines a high-P anti-clockwise P-T history for the GSP involving: (i) mid-P amphibolite facies conditions; preceding (ii) thermal metamorphism adjacent to the WFO; followed by (iii) burial to high-P and (iv) high-P cooling induced by tectonic juxtaposition of cooler country rock.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28(1), p. 77-96
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1525-1314
0263-4929
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 040304 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970104 Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Environmental and Rural Science

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