Prograde evolution of the Scottish Caledonides and tectonic implications

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作者
Ashley, Kyle T. [1 ]
Thigpen, J. Ryan [1 ]
Law, Richard D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Virginia Tech, Dept Geosci, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Forward stability model; Prograde evolution; Tectonic model; Thermal profiles; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; DUCTILE THRUST ZONE; MOINE SUPERGROUP; BARROVIAN METAMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; NW SCOTLAND; FERRIC IRON; GARNET COMPOSITION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; HEAT-SOURCES;
D O I
10.1016/j.lithos.2015.03.011
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
Recent thermometric analyses of samples collected in thrust-parallel structural transects across the Scandian (435-415 Ma) orogenic wedge in northwest Scotland provide a comprehensive characterization of the synorogenic retro-wedge thermal architecture. However, the paucity of petrologically-important Metamorphic mineral phases (e.g., staurolite, Al-silicates) has limited investigation of pressure-temperature (P-T) histories, which hinders our ability to examine the nature of orogen-scale kinematic and thermal coupling. New data collected along a foreland-to-hinterland transect from the Moine to the Haver thrust sheets provides additional constraints for characterizing the prograde metamorphic evolution. In addition, we characterized Ti diffusion profiles in quartz inclusions in garnet to constrain duration of metamorphic heating. These results are used to develop coupled kinematic-thermal models of Scandian orogenic evolution. Early garnet core growth conditions are constrained by isopleth intersections, with peak P-T estimates determined by conventional exchange and net transfer thermobarometry and thermodynamic calculations. Most samples follow normal prograde heating and burial profiles, with peak conditions of 450 degrees C and 5.0 kbar in the immediate hanging wall to the Moine thrust, increasing in temperature and pressure to 733 degrees C and 9.5 kbar in the immediate hanging wall to the Haver thrust. These normal prograde pressure trajectories are interpreted to reflect burial of incipient thrust sheets beneath the overriding wedge at the leading edge of the orogen. Prograde heating coeval with burial is interpreted to result from surface-directed isotherm perturbation due to thrust-related advection in the overriding wedge. One exception to this is a sample from the top of the Moine thrust sheet, where prograde heating occurs during decompression (540 degrees C and 8.1 kbar to 590 degrees C and 7.0 kbar). In this case, the short lag times between motion on the Moine and Ben Hope thrusts may have limited advectionary heating until after exhumation associated with motion on the underlying Moine thrust was underway. Ti diffusion profiles in quartz inclusions in garnet suggest the near-peak thermal evolution of these rocks occurred over very short time scales (< 200,000 years). While most of the garnets are inferred to be Scandian in age, we document evidence for pre-Scandian garnet cores in structurally higher (more hinterland positioned) samples that must have grown under higher temperatures. In the hanging wall of the Moine thrust, high grossular garnets with estimated formation conditions >9 kbar are probably of detrital origin. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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