Preliminary thermal modelling of the massif anorthosite-charnockitic gneiss interface from Gruber Mountains, central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 287-300

  Ravikant, V ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Antarctica; Charnockitic gneiss; Crustal thickening; Magmatic underplating; Petrology; Thermal modelling

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; CHARNOCKITE; GEOTHERMOMETRY; GNEISS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0032450824     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. ASHWAL. L.D., MORGAN, P. and HOISCH, T.D. (1992). Tectonics and heat sources for granulites metamorphism of supracrustal bearing terranes. Precamb. Res., v.55, pp.525-538.
2. BAUER, W., JACOBS, J. and PAECH, H.J. (1996). Structural evolution of polyphase metamorphosed basement rocks in central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica.In: M. Santosh and M. Yoshida (Eds.) Gondwana Research Group, Misc. Publ. No.4, pp.4-6.
3. BHATTACHARYA, A. KRISHNAKUMAR, K., RAITH, M. and SEN, S.K. (1991). An improved set of a-X parameter in Fe-Mg-Ca garnets and refinement of the orthopyroxene garnet thermometer and the garnet-orthopyroxene-plagioclase-quartz barometer. Jour. Petrol., v. 32, pp.629-656.
4. BOHLEN, S.R. (1987).Pressure-temperature-time paths and a tectonic model for the evolution of granulites. Jour. Geol., v.95, pp.617-632.
5. BOHLEN, S.R. and MEZGER, K. (1989). Origin of granulite terranes and the formation of the lowermost continental crust. Sci., v.244, pp.326-329.
6. CHAKRABORTY, S.K., MUKERJI, S. and KAUL, M.K. (1996). Petrology of the Gruber anorthosite massif, Central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Ind. Min., v.50, pp.189-204.
7. CHAPMAN, D.S. and FURLONG, K.P. (1992). Thermal state of the continental lower crust. In: Fountain, D.M., Arculus, R., and Kay, R.W. (Eds.) Continental Lower crust Developments in Geotectonics, No. 23, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.179-199.
8. CLARK, S.P. Jr. and RINGWOOD, A.E. (1964). Density distribution and the constitution of the mantle. Rev. Geophys., v.2, pp.35-88.
9. CLEMENS, J.D. and WALL, V.J. (1981). Crystallization and origin of some peraluminous (S-type) granitic magmas. Canadian Mineral., v.19, pp.111-132.
10. CLEMENS, J.D. and VIELZEUF, D. (1987). Constraints on melting and magma production in the crust. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., v.86, pp.287-306.
11. CRANK, J. and NICOLSON, P. (1947). A practical method for numerical evaluation of solutions of partial differential equations of the heat conduction type. Proc. Cambridge Philosop. Soc., v.43, pp.50-67.
12. ECKERT, E.J., Jr., NEWTON, R.C. and KLEPPA, O.J. (1991). The ΔH of reaction and recalibration of garnet-pyroxene-plagioclase-quartz geobarometers in the CMAS system by solution calorimetry. Amer. Mineral., v.76, pp.148-160.
13. ELLIS, D.J. and GREEN, D.H. (1979). An experimental study of the effect of Ca upon garnet-clinopyroxene Fe-Mg exchange equilibria, Contrib. Mineral. and Petrol., v.71, pp.13-22.
14. EMSLIE, R.F. (1985). Proterozoic anorthosite massifs.In: A. Tobi and J.L.R. Touret (Eds.), The Deep Proterozoic Crust in the North Atlantic Provinces. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp.39-60.
15. ENGLAND, P.C. and THOMPSON, A.B. (1984). Pressure-temperature-time paths of regional metamorphism. I. Heat transfer during the evolution of regions of thickened continental crust. Jour. Petrol., v.25, pp.894-928.
16. GANGULY, J., SINGH, R.N. and RAMANA RAO, D.V. (1995). Thermal perturbation during charnockitization and granulite facies metamorphism in southern India. Jour. Metamor. Geol., v.13, pp. 419-430.
17. GRANT, J.A. (1985). Phase equilibria in partial melting of pelitic rocks. In: Ashworth, J.R. (Ed.), Migmatites. Blackie and Son, Glasgow, pp.86-144.
18. GREEN, T.H. (1966). High pressure experiments on the genesis of anorthosites. In: Petrology of the Upper Mantle, pp.206-233, Publication No. 444 of the Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, Australian Natl. Univ., Canberra.
19. GREEN, D.H. and RINGWOOD, A.E. (1967). An experimental investigation of the gabbro-eclogite transformation and its petrological applications. Geochim. Comochim. Acta, v.31, pp.767-833.
20. HARLEY, S.L. (1989). The origins of granulites: a metamorphic perspective. Geol. Mag., v.126, pp.215-247.
21. HARLEY, S.L. (1992). Proterozoic granulite terranes. Chapter 8. In: Condie, K.C. (Ed.), Proterozoic Crustal Evolution. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.301-359.
22. HARLEY, S.L. and HENSEN, B.J. (1990).Archaean and Proterozoic high grade terranes of East Antarctica (40-80° E).: a case study for diversity in granulite facies metamorphism. Chapter 12. In: J.R. Ashworth and M. Brown (Eds.), High temperature Metamorphism and Crustal Anatexis, Unwin Hyman, London, pp.320-370.
23. HAUGERUD, R.A. (1986). 1DT-interactive screen oriented micro-computer program for simulation of 1-dimensional geothermal histories. U.S.G.S., Open-file Report 86-511, 19p and 5 1/4″ diskette.
24. HEMINGWAY, B.S., ROBIE, R.A., EVANS, H.T. JR. and KERRICK, D.M. (1991). Heat capacities and entropies of sillimanite, fibrolite, andalusite, kyanite and quartz and the AI2SiO5 phase diagram. Amer. Mineral., v.76 (9), pp. 1597-1613.
25. HEIER, K.S. and ADAMS, J.A.S. (1965). Concentration of radioactive elements in deep crustal material. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., v.29, pp.53-61.
26. HUNGELING, A. and THYSSEN, F. (1991). Reflection seismic measurements in western Neuschwabenland. In: Thomson, M.R.A., Crame, J.A. and Thomson, J.W. (Eds.), Geological Evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp.73-76.
27. JACOBS, J. and THOMAS, R.J. (1994). Oblique collision at about 1.1 Ga along the southern margins of the Kaapvaal continent, South-east Africa. Geologische Rundschau, v. 83, pp.322-333.
28. KAMPF, H. and STACKEBRANDT, W. (1985). Geologic investigations in the Eliseev Anorthosite Massif, Central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Zeitschrift fur Geologishe Wissenschaften, v.13, pp.321-333.
29. KILPATRICK, J.A. and ELLIS, D.J. (1992). C-type magmas : igneous charnockites and their extrusive equivalents. Transactions of the Royal Soc. Edinburgh (Earth Sci.), v.83, pp.155-164.
30. KOGAN, A.L. (1972). Results of deep seismic sounding of the earth's crust in East Antarctica. In: R.J. Adie (Ed.), Antarctic Geology and Geophysics, Universitetforlaget, Oslo, pp.485-489.
31. LACHENBRUCH, A.H. and SASS, J.S. (1977a). Heat flow in the United States and the thermal regime of the crust. In: Heacock, J.G. (Ed.), The Earth's Crust. Amer. Geophy. Union, Monograph, No.20, pp.626-675.
32. LACHENBRUCH, A.H. and SASS, J.S.( 1977b). Models of an extending lithosphere and heat flow in the Basin and Range province. Geol. Soc. America Mem., v.152, pp.209-249.
33. LEBRETON, N. and THOMPSON, A.B. (1988). Fluid absent (dehydration) melting of biotite in metapelites in the early stages of crustal anatexis. Contrib. Mineral. and Petrol., v.99, pp.226-237.
34. MCBIRNEY, A.R. and HUNTER, R.H. (1995). The cumulate paradigm reconsidered. Jour. Geol., v.103, pp.114-122.
35. MERCIER, J.G. and CARTER, N.L. (1975). Pyroxene geotherms. Jour. Geophy. Res., v. 80, pp.3349-3362.
36. MIKHALSKY, E.V., BELIATSKY, B.V., SAAVA, E.V., WETZEL, H.U., FEDOROV, L.V. and HAHNE, K. (1995). Isotope systematics and evolution of metamorphic rocks from the northern Humboldt mountains (the Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica). Proc. VII ISAES, Siena, Italy (Abs. Vol.) p.270.
37. MOECHER, D.P., ANOVITZ, L.M. and ESSENE, E.J. (1988). Calculation of clinopyroxene-garnet-plagioclase-quartz geobarometers and application to high grade metamorphic rocks. Contrib. Mineral. and Petrol., v.100, pp.92-106.
38. MUKERJI, S., KAUL, M.K., SINGH, R.K., SRIVASTAVA, D. and JAYARAM, S. (1988). Anorthosites of Gruber Massif, Central Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica - an appraisal. Scientific Report of Fifth Indian Expedition to Antarctica, Technical Publ. No. 5, Dept. of Ocean Devp., New Delhi, pp. 99-108.
39. MUKHERJEE, A. (1989). P-T-time history and thermal modelling of an anorthosite-granulite interface, Eastern Ghats metamorphic belt, India. In: J.S. Daly, R.A. Cliff and B.W.D. Yardley (Eds.), Evolution of metamorphic belts, Geol. Soc. Spl. Pub., No. 43, pp.265-274.
40. NEWTON, R.C. and PERKINS, D. III. (1982). Thermodynamic calibration of geobarometers based on the assemblage garnet-plagioclase-orthopyroxene-clinopyroxene-quartz. Amer. Mineral., v.67, pp.203-222.
41. PASSCHIER, C.S. and TROUW, R.J. (1996). Microtectonics. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 289p.
42. PERCHUK, L.L. and LAVRENT'YEVA, I.V. (1990). Garnet-orthopyroxene and garnet-amphibole geothermo-barometry: experimental data and thermodynamics. Intl. Geol. Rev., v.32, pp.486-507.
43. PERCIVAL, J.A., FOUNTAIN, D.M. and SALISBURY, M.H. (1992). Exposed crustal cross-sections as windows on the lower crust. In : Fountain, D.M., Arculus, R. and Kay, R.W. (Eds.), Continental Lower Crust, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.317-362.
44. PHILPOTTS, A.R. (1994). Principles of igneous and metamorphic petrology. Prentice Hall, New Delhi, 498p.
45. RAVICH, M.G. and SOLOV'EV, D.S. (1966). Geology and petrology of the central part of the Oromy Maud Land Mountains - In: Tr. Nauchuo-issled. Inst. Geol. Arktiki : Antarktika-Leningrad, v,141, 290p.
46. Ravikant, V.and Kundu, A. (1998) Reaction textures of the retrograde pressure-temperature-deformation paths in the granulites of Schirmacher Hills, East Antarctica. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, v.51, pp.305-314
47. RICHARDSON, S.W. (1968). Staurolite stability in a part of the system Fe-Al-Si-O-H. Jour. Petrol., v.9, pp.467-488.
48. ROY, R.F., BLACKWELL, D.D. and BIRCH, F. (1968). Heat generation of plutonic rocks and continental heat flow provinces. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., v.5, pp.1-12.
49. SCHATZ, J.F. and SIMMONS, G. (1972). Thermal conductivity of earth materials at high temperatures. Jour. Geophys. Res., v.77, pp.6966-6983.
50. SCOATES, J. (1990). Syn-magmatic deformation of anorthosite: an assessment of the subsolidus evolution of anorthositic rocks in the 1.4 Ga Laramie anorthosite complex, Wyoming. Geol. Soc. .America, Abstr. Prog., 22:A300.
51. SEN, S.K. and BHATTACHARYA, A. (1984). An orthopyroxene-garnet thermometer and its application to the Madras charnockites. Contrib. to Mineral. and Petrol., v.88, pp.64-71.
52. SIMPSON, C. and WINTSCH, R.P. (1989). Evidence for deformation induced K-feldspar replacement by myrmekite. Jour Metamorp. Geol., v.7, pp.261-275.
53. SPERA, S. (1980). Thermal evolution of plutons: a parametrised approach. Science, v.207, pp.299-301.
54. 2O-undersaturated granitic liquids. Amer. Jour. Sci., v.282, pp.1567-1595.
55. Tingey, R.J. (1991). The regional geology of Archaean and Proterozoic rocks in Antarctica. In: Tingey, R.J. (Ed.), The Geology of Antarctica, Oxford Science Publishers, Oxford, pp.1-74.
56. VERMA, S.K., VYAGHESWARA RAO, M.B.S. and GOPAL, B.V. (1994). Gravity survey (helicopter supported) between Schirmacher Oasis and Wohlthat Mountains, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Ninth Indian Expedition to Antarctica, Scientific Report, DOD Tech. Publ. No. 6, pp.209-217.
57. 2O). Carnegie Institute, Washington, Yearbook, pp.518-521.
58. WELLS, P.R.A. (1977). Pyroxene thermometry in simple and complex systems. Contrib. Mineral. and Petrol., v.62, pp.129-139.
59. WELLS, P.R.A. (1980). Thermal models for the magmatic accretion and subsequent metamorphism of continental crust. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., v.46, pp.253-265.
60. WIEBE, R.A. (1992). Proterozoic anorthosite complexes. In: K.C. Condie (Ed.), Proterozoic Crustal Evolution, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.215-261.
61. Wood, B.J. and Banno, S.S. (1973). Garnet-orthopyroxene and orthopyroxene-clinopyroxene relationships in simple and complex systems. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., v.42, pp.109-124.
62. YOUNG, D.N. and ELLIS, D.J. (1991). The intrusive Mawson charnockites : evidence for a compressional plate margin setting of the Proterozoic mobile belt of East Antarctica. In: M.R.A. Thomson, J.A. Crame and J.W. Thomson (Eds.), Geological Evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge University Press, pp.25-31.
63. ZHAO, J,-X., ELLIS, D.J., KILPATRICK, J.A. and MCCULLOCH, M.T. (1997). Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic study of charnockites and related rocks in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica : implications for charnockite petrogenesis and proterozoic crustal evolution. Precam. Res., v.81, pp.37-66.