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- Klonowska, Iwona, et al.
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Pressure–temperature evolution of a kyanite–garnet pelitic gneiss from Åreskutan: evidence of ultra-high-pressure metamorphism of the Seve Nappe Complex, west-central Jämtland, Swedish Caledonides
- 2014
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Ingår i: Geological Society Special Publication. - 0305-8719 .- 2041-4927. ; 390, s. 321-336
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- New evidence is presented for ultra-high-pressure metamorphism of kyanite–garnet pelitic gneiss in the Åreskutan Nappe of the Seve Nappe Complex, in the central part of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Modelled phase equilibria for a peak pressure assemblage garnet + phengite + kyanite + quartz (coesite) in the NCKFMMnASH system record pressure and temperature conditions of c. 26–32 kbar at 700–720 °C, possibly up to ultra-high-pressure conditions. Subsequent decompression, simultaneous with an increase of temperature to c. 800–820 °C, led to partial melting largely owing to the dehydration and breakdown of phengite. Based on existing isotope age data, we conclude that the Middle Seve Nappe in central Jämtland experienced deep subduction in the late(st) Ordovician, prior to decompression and partial melting of the pelitic protoliths during Early Silurian extrusion, giving way in the Mid to Late Silurian to thrusting on to the Baltoscandian platform. Nappe emplacement probably continued into and through the Early Devonian.
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- Kosminska, Karolina, et al.
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Blueschist facies metamorphism in Nordenskiold Land of west-central Svalbard
- 2014
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Ingår i: Terra Nova. - : Wiley. - 0954-4879 .- 1365-3121. ; 26:5, s. 377-386
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent fieldwork in Nordenskiold Land, Svalbard's Southwestern Basement Province, has established the presence of high-pressure (HP) lithologies. They are strongly retrogressed blueschists consisting mainly of garnet and Ca-amphibole with remnants of ferroglaucophane and phengite. The pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions were estimated using phase equilibrium modelling in the NCKFMMnASHTO system. P-T estimates based on the garnet, phengite and ferroglaucophane compositional isopleths and modelled paragenetic assemblage indicate peak metamorphism at 470-490 degrees C and 14-18 kbar. These data fall close to the 7-8 C km(-1) geo-therm, which is similar to that from Motalafjella, the only previously known occurrence of blueschists in Svalbard's Caledonides. The newly discovered blueschists could have formed during the early stage of the Caledonian Orogeny and may represent a vestige of missing marginal basins of the western Iapetus developed at the onset of subduction. The likely counterpart to Svalbard's blueschists is the ophiolitic sequence in the Pearya Terrane of northern Ellesmere Island.
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- Majka, Jaroslaw, et al.
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Microdiamond discovered in the Seve Nappe (Scandinavian Caledonides) and its exhumation by the "vacuum-cleaner" mechanism
- 2014
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Ingår i: Geology. - 0091-7613 .- 1943-2682. ; 42:12, s. 1107-1110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When a continent collides with an island arc or other continent, continental crust of the subducted continent may be buried to depths exceeding 100 km, and exposed to pressures that can cause formation of coesite and diamond. This process leads to substantial density increase in SiO2-rich rocks and, in turn, to a reduction of the buoyancy of the subducted material, which should inhibit exhumation. Nevertheless, coesite- and diamond-bearing continental crustal rocks are known from several occurrences worldwide. We report on the discovery of microdiamond in kyanite-garnet gneiss from allochthonous metasediments of the Seve Nappe Complex in the Scandinavian Caledonides. Our discovery calls for general reconsideration of existing exhumation models of deeply subducted continental crust. We propose that the diamond-bearing rocks were subducted in an arc-continent collision setting, and their exhumation was facilitated by local pressure reduction resulting from extraction of the forearc lithospheric block.
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- Majka, Jaroslaw, et al.
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Multiple monazite growth in the Areskutan migmatite: evidence for a polymetamorphic Late Ordovician to Late Silurian evolution in the Seve Nappe Complex of west-central Jamtland, Sweden
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Geosciences. - : Czech Geological Society. - 1802-6222 .- 1803-1943. ; 57:1, s. 3-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Monazite from granulite-facies rocks of the angstrom reskutan Nappe in the Scandinavian Caledonides (Seve Nappe Complex, Sweden) was dated using in-situ U-Th-total Pb chemical geochronology (CHIME). Multi-spot analyses of a non-sheared migmatite neosome yielded an age of 439 +/- 3 Ma, whereas a sheared migmatite gave 433 +/- 3 Ma (2 sigma). Although the obtained dates are rather similar, a continuous array of single dates from c. 400 Ma to c. 500 Ma suggests possibly a more complex monazite age pattern in the studied rocks. The grouping and recalculation of the obtained results in respect to Y-Th-U systematics and microtextural context allowed distinguishing several different populations of monazite grains/growth zones. In the migmatite neosome, low-Th and low-Y domains dated at 455 +/- 11 Ma are considered to have grown under high-grade sub-solidus conditions, most likely during a progressive burial metamorphic event. The monazites with higher Th and lower Y yielded an age of 439 +/- 4 Ma marking the subsequent partial melting event caused by decompression. The youngest (423 +/- 13 Ma) Y-enriched monazite reveals features of fluid-assisted growth and is interpreted to date the emplacement of the Areskutan onto the Lower Seve Nappe. In the sheared migmatite, the high-Th and low-U (high Th/U) monazite with variable Y contents yielded an age of 438 +/- 4 Ma, which is interpreted to date the partial melting event. Relatively U-rich rims on some of the monazite grains again reveal features of fluid-assisted growth, and thus their age of 424 +/- 6 Ma is interpreted as timing of the nappes emplacement. These results call, however, for further more precise, isotopic (preferably ion microprobe) dating of monazite in the studied rocks.
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- Majka, Jaroslaw, et al.
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Pressure–temperature estimates on the Tjeliken eclogite : new insights into the (ultra)-high-pressure evolution of the Seve Nappe Complex in the Scandinavian Caledonides
- 2014
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Ingår i: Geological Society Special Publication. - London : Geological Society. - 0305-8719 .- 2041-4927. ; 390, s. 369-384
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The metamorphic evolution of the Tjeliken eclogite, occurring within the Seve Nappe Complex of northern Jämtland (Swedish Caledonides), is presented here. The prograde part of the pressure and temperature (P–T) path is inferred from the mineral inclusions (pargasitic amphibole) in garnet and intracrystalline garnet exsolutions in omphacite. Peak metamorphic conditions of 25–26 kbar at 650–700 °C are constrained from geothermobarometry for the peak-pressure assemblage garnet + omphacite + phengite + quartz + rutile, using the garnet–clinopyroxene Fe–Mg exchange thermometer in combination with the net-transfer reaction (6 diopside + 3 muscovite = 3 celadonite +2 grossular + pyrope) geobarometer, the average P–T method of THERMOCALC and pseudosection modelling. Quartz inclusions with well-developed radial cracks were identified within omphacite, which suggest that the studied rock could have been buried down to the coesite stability field. Post-peak P–T evolution is inferred from diopside–plagioclase symplectites and amphibole coronas around garnet. Previous studies in northern Jämtland suggest a substantial gap between the P–Tconditions of the Lower and Middle Seve nappes: 14–16 kbar and 550–680 °C and 20–30 kbar and 700–800 °C, respectively. The Tjeliken eclogite has been considered previously to be a part of Lower Seve by most authors, but the newP–T data suggest that it may be an isolated klippe of Middle Seve.
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- Meade, F. C., et al.
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Bimodal magmatism produced by progressively inhibited crustal assimilation
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nature Communications. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2041-1723. ; 5, s. 4199-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The origin of bimodal (mafic-felsic) rock suites is a fundamental question in volcanology. Here we use major and trace elements, high-resolution Sr, Nd and Pb isotope analyses, experimental petrology and thermodynamic modelling to investigate bimodal magmatism at the iconic Carlingford Igneous Centre, Ireland. We show that early microgranites are the result of extensive assimilation of trace element-enriched partial melts of local metasiltstones into mafic parent magmas. Melting experiments reveal the crust is very fusible, but thermodynamic modelling indicates repeated heating events rapidly lower its melt-production capacity. Granite generation ceased once enriched partial melts could no longer form and subsequent magmatism incorporated less fertile restite compositions only, producing mafic intrusions and a pronounced compositional gap. Considering the frequency of bimodal magma suites in the North Atlantic Igneous Province, and the ubiquity of suitable crustal compositions, we propose 'progressively inhibited crustal assimilation' (PICA) as a major cause of bimodality in continental volcanism.
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