Metastable persistence of pelitic metamorphic assemblages at the root of a Cretaceous magmatic arc - Fiordland, New Zealand

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 233-247

  Daczko, N R ^a   Milan, L A ^a   Halpin, J A ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electron microprobe monazite geochronology; Kyanite sillimanite; Pseudosection; THERMOCALC; Upper amphibolite facies

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GONDWANA; GRANULITE FACIES; METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; P-T-T PATH; PELITE; PETROGRAPHY; SCHIST;

AUSTRALASIA; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 63049117896     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00815.x     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Allibone, A. H. & Tulloch, A. J., 2004. Geology of the Plutonic Basement Rocks of Stewart Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 43, 233-256.
2. Allibone, A. H., Turnbull, I. M., Milan, L. A., Carroll, S. A. & Daczko, N. R., 2005. The granulite facies Western Fiordland Orthogneiss in southwest Fiordland. In: Program and Abstracts, Geological Society of New Zealand 50th Annual Conference, Kaikoura, New Zealand (eds Pettinga, J.R. & Wandres, A.M.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication, 119A, 1-2.
3. Allibone, A. H., Turnbull, I. M., Tulloch, A. J. & Cooper, A. F., 2007. Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand: Field relations, geochemistry, and correlation. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 50, 283-314.
4. Allmendinger, R. W., Jordan, T. E., Kay, S. M. & Isacks, B. L., 1997. The evolution of the Altiplano-Puna Plateau of the Central Andes. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 25, 139-174.
5. Barboza, S. A., Bergantz, G. W. & Brown, M., 1999. Regional granulite facies metamorphism in the Ivrea Zone: Is the mafic complex the smoking gun or a red herring? Geology, 27, 447-450.
6. Bard, J. P., 1983. Metamorphism of an obducted island arc: Example of the Kohistan sequence (Pakistan) in the Himalayan collided range. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 65, 133-144.
7. Barker, F. & Grantz, A., 1982. Talkeetna Formation in the southeastern Talkeetna Mountains, southern Alaska: An early Jurassic andesitic intraoceanic island arc. Abstract Programs - Geological Society of America, 14, 147.
8. Benson, W. N. & Keble, R. A., 1935. Geology of the regions adjacent to Preservation and Chalky Inlets, Fiordland, New Zealand. Part IV. Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the fossiliferous Ordovician rocks. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 65, 244-294.
9. Berry, R. F., Chmielowski, R. M., Steele, D. A. & Meffre, S., 2007. Chemical U-Th-Pb monazite dating of the Cambrian Tyennan Orogeny, Tasmania. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 757-771.
10. Bradshaw, J. Y., 1989. Origin and metamorphic history of an Early Cretaceous polybaric granulite terrain, Fiordland, southwest New Zealand. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 103, 346-360.
11. Bradshaw, J. Y., 1990. Geology of crystalline rocks of northern Fiordland: Details of the granulite facies Western Fiordland Orthogneiss and associated rock units. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 33, 465-484.
12. Bradshaw, J. Y., 1991. Zoned garnets in metapelites in western Fiordland, southwest New Zealand: Polychronic crystallisation and insight into the nature and extent of Early Cretaceous regional metamorphism. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 34, 261-270.
13. Braga, R., Giacomini, F., Messiga, B. & Tribuzio, R., 2001. The Sondalo Gabbroic Complex (Central Alps, northern Italy): Evidence for emplacement of mantle derived melts into amphibolite-facies metapelites. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 26, 333-342.
14. Brown, E. H., 1996. High-pressure metamorphism caused by magma loading in Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 14, 441-452.
15. Clarke, G. L., Klepeis, K. A. & Daczko, N. R., 2000. Cretaceous granulites at Milford Sound, New Zealand; metamorphic history and emplacement in a convergentmargin setting. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 359-374.
16. Cooper, R. A. & Tulloch, A. J., 1992. Early Palaeozoic terranes in New Zealand and their relationship to the Lachlan Fold BeH. Tectonophysics, 214, 129-144.
17. Coggon, R. & Holland, T. J. B., 2002. Mixing properties of phengitic micas and revised garnet-phengite thermobarometers. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 683-696.
18. Daczko, N. R., Klepeis, K. A. & Clarke, G. L., 2002. Thermo-mechanical evolution of the crust during convergence and deep crustal pluton emplacement in the western province of Fiordland, New Zealand. Tectonics, 21, 1022.
19. DeBari, S. M. & Coleman, R. G., 1989. Examination of the deep levels of an island-arc - evidence from the Tonsina ultramafic-mafic assemblage, Tonsina, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, 4373-4391.
20. Ducea, M. & Saleeby, J. B., 1998. Crustal recycling beneath continental arcs; silica-rich glass inclusions in ultramafic xenoliths from the Sierra Nevada, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 156, 101-116.
21. Dufek, J. & Bergantz, G. W., 2005. Lower crustal magma genesis and preservation: A stochastic framework for the evaluation of basalt-crust interaction. Journal of Petrology, 46, 2167-2195.
22. Eberhart-Phillips, D. & Rayners, M., 2001. A complex, young subduction zone imaged by three-dimensional seismic velocity, Fiordland, New Zealand. Geophysical Journal International, 146, 731-746.
23. Evans, B. W. & Davidson, G. F., 1999. Kinetic control of metamorphic imprint during synplutonic loading of batholiths: An example from Mount Stuart, Washington. Geology, 27, 415-418.
24. Flowers, R. M., Bowring, S. A., Tulloch, A. J. & Klepeis, K. A., 2005. Tempo of burial and exhumation within the deep roots of a magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand. Geology, 33, 17-20.
25. Garrido, C. J., Bodinier, J.-L., Burg, J.-P. et al., 2006. Petrogenesis of mafic garnet granulite in the lower crust of the Kohistan Paleo-arc Complex (Northern Pakistan): Implications for intra-crustal differentiation of Island Arcs and generation of continental crust. Journal of Petrology, 47, 1873-1914.
26. Gibson, G. M. & Ireland, T. R., 1995. Granulite formation during continental extension in Fiordland, New Zealand. Nature, 375, 479-482.
27. Gibson, G. M., McDougall, I. & Ireland, T. R., 1988. Age constraints on metamorphism and the development of a metamorphic core complex in Fiordland, southern New Zealand. Geology, 16, 405-408.
28. 2O in metamorphism and unexpected behaviour in the preservation of metamorphic mineral assemblages. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 445-454.
29. Hacker, B. R., Mehl, L., Kelemen, P. B., Rioux, M., Behn, M. D. & Luffi, P., 2008. Reconstruction of the Talkeetna intraoceanic arc of Alaska through thermobarometry. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, 1-16.
30. Hand, M., Mawby, J., Kinny, P. & Foden, J., 1999. U-Pb ages from the Harts Range, central Australia: Evidence for early Ordovician extension and constraints on Carboniferous metamorphism. Journal of the Geological Society, 156, 715-730.
31. Himmelberg, G. R., Haeussler, P. J. & Brew, D. A., 2004. Emplacement, rapid burial, and exhumation of 90-Ma plutons in southeastern Alaska. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, 87-102.
32. Holland, T. J. B. & Powell, R., 1998. An internally consistent thermodynamic dataset for phases of petrological interest. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 309-343.
33. Holland, T. J. B. & Powell, R., 2003. Activity-composition relations for phases in petrological calculations: An asymmetric multicomponent formulation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 145, 492-501.
34. 2O. European Journal of Mineralogy, 10, 395-406.
35. Hollis, J. A., Clarke, G. L., Klepeis, K. A., Daczko, N. R. & Ireland, T. R., 2004. The regional significance of Cretaceous magmatism and metamorphism in Fiordland, New Zealand, from U-Pb zircon geochronology. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 607-627.
36. Ireland, T. R. & Gibson, G. M., 1998. SHRIMP monazite and zircon geochronology of high-grade metamorphism in New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 16, 149-167.
37. Kelsey, D. E., Powell, R., Wilson, C. J. L. & Steele, D. A., 2003. (Th + U)-Pb monazite ages from Al-Mg-rich metapelites, Rauer Group, east Antarctica. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 146, 326-340.
38. Kimbrough, D. L., Tulloch, A. J., Coombs, D. S., Landis, C. A., Johnston, M. R. & Mattinson, J. M., 1994. Uranium-lead ages from the Median Tectonic Zone, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 37, 393-419.
39. Klepeis, K. A. & Clarke, G. L., 2004. The evolution of an exposed mid-lower crustal attachment zone in Fiordland, New Zealand. In: Vertical Coupling and Decoupling in the Lithosphere (eds Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K., Taylor, G. & Tikoff, B.), Geological Society Special Publications, 227, 197-229.
40. Krabbendam, M., Wain, A. & Andersen, T. B., 2000. Pre-Caledonian granulite and gabbro enclaves in the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: indications of incomplete transition at high pressure. Geological Magazine, 137, 235-255.
41. Mahar, E. M., Baker, J. M., Powell, R., Holland, T. J. B. & Howell, N., 1997. The effect of Mn on mineral stability in metapelites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 15, 223-238.
42. Matzel, J. E., Bowring, S. A. & Miller, R. B., 2004. Protolith age of the Swakane Gneiss, North Cascades, Washington: Evidence of rapid underthrusting of sediments beneath an arc. Tectonics. 23, TC6009; doi: 10.1029/2003TC0015777.
43. Mikhail, E. M., 1976. Observations and Least Squares. Dun-Donelly, New York, p. 479.
44. Miller, R. B., Brown, E. H., McShane, D. P. & Whitney, D. L., 1993. Intra-arc crustal loading and its tectonic implications, North Cascades crystalline core, Washington and British Columbia. Geology, 21, 255-258.
45. Mortimer, N., 2004. New Zealand's geological foundations. Gondwana Research, 7, 261-272.
46. Mortimer, N., Tulloch, A. J., Spark, R. N. et al., 1999. Overview of the Median Batholith, New Zealand: A new interpretation of the Geology of the Median Tectonic Zone and adjacent rocks. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 29, 257-268.
47. Muir, R. J., Ireland, T. R., Weaver, S. D. et al., 1998. Geochronology and geochemistry of a Mesozoic magmatic arc system, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 155, 1037-1052.
48. O'Brien, P. J. & Rotzler, J., 2003. High-pressure granulites: formation, recovery of peak conditions and implications for tectonics. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 3-20.
49. Oliver, G. J. H., 1980. Geology of the granulite and amphibolite facies gneisses of Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 23, 27-41.
50. Powell, R. & Holland, T. J. B., 1988. An internally consistent dataset with uncertainties and correlations: 3. Applications to geobarometry, worked examples and a computer program. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 6, 173-204.
51. Powell, R., Hergt, J. & Woodhead, J., 2002. Improving isochron calculations with robust statistics and the bootstrap. Chemical Geology, 185, 191-204.
52. Price, R. C., Ireland, T. R., Maas, R. & Arculus, R. J., 2006. SHRIMP ion probe zircon geochronology and Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry for southern Longwood Range and Bluff Peninsula intrusive rocks of Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 49, 291-304.
53. Rioux, M., Hacker, B., Mattinson, J., Kelemen, P., Blusztajn, J. & Gehrels, G., 2007. Magmatic development of an intra-oceanic arc: high-precision U-Pb zircon and whole rock isotopic analyses from the accreted Talkeetna arc, south-central Alaska. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 1168-1184.
54. Rubatto, D., Williams, I. S. & Buick, I. S., 2001. Zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the Reynolds Range, central Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 140, 458-468.
55. Treloar, P. J., Petterson, M. G., Jan, M. Q. & Sullivan, M. A., 1996. A reevaluation of the stratigraphy and evolution of the Kohistan arc sequence, Pakistan Himalaya: Implications for magmatic and tectonic arc-building processes. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 153, 681-693.
56. Tulloch, A. J. & Kimbrough, D. L., 2003. Paired plutonic belts in convergent margins and the development of high Sr/Y magmatism: peninsular ranges batholith of Baja-California and Median batholith of New Zealand. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 374, 275-295.
57. Tulloch, A. J., Ramezani, J., Kimbrough, D. L., Faure, K. & Allibone, A. H., in press. U-Pb geochronology of Paleozoic plutonism in western New Zealand: Implications for S-type granite generation and growth of the east Gondwana margin. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
58. Valley, P. M., Whitney, D. L., Paterson, S. R., Miller, R. B. & Alseben, H., 2003. Metamorphism of the deepest exposed arc rocks in the Cretaceous to Paleogene Cascades belt, Washington: Evidence for large-scale vertical motion in a continental arc. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 203-220.
59. Wain, A. L., Waters, D. J. & Austrheim, H., 2001. Metastability of granulites and processes of eclogitisation in the UHP region of western Norway. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 609-625.
60. Ward, C. M., 1984. Geology of the Dusky Sound area, Fiordland, with Emphasis on the Structural-Metamorphic Development of some Porphyroblastic Staurolite Pelites. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 353 pp.
61. 3. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 497-511.
62. 2O (NCKFMASH). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 139-153.
63. White, R. W., Pomroy, N. E. & Powell, R., 2005. An in-situ metatexite-diatexite transition in upper amphibolite facies rocks from Broken Hill, Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 579-602.
64. Yoshino, T. & Okudaira, T., 2004. Crustal growth by magmatic accretion constrained by metamorphic P-T paths and thermal models of the Kohistan Arc, NW Himalayas. Journal of Petrology, 45, 2287-2302.