Influence of the whole-rock composition on the crystallization of Sodic amphiboles (Piemonte zone, Western Alps)

Ofioliti

Volumn 26, Issue 2 B, 2001, Pages 445-456

  Martin, Silvana ^a   Cortiana, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Geologia Paleontologia e Geofisica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blue amphiboles; Blueschist; Geochemistry; Metaophiolite. north western alps

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650598129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 03912612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Ayrton S., Burgnon C., Haarpainter T., Weidmann M. and Frank E., 1982. Géologie du front de la nappe de la Dent Blanche dans la région des Monts-Dolins, Valais. Ecl. Geol. Helv., 7: 269-286.
2. Baldelli C., Dal Piaz G.V. and Polino R., 1983. Le quarziti manganesifere di Varenche-St. Barthelemy. Sequenza sopraoceanica della falda piemontese. Ofioliti, 8: 207-221.
3. Ballèvre M. and Kienast J.R., 1987. Découverte et signification de paragenèses à grenat-amphibole bleu dans la couverture mésozoïque de la nappe de la Dent-Blanche (Alpes occidentales). C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, II, 305: 43-47.
4. Barnicoat A.C. and Bowtell S.A. 1995. Sea-floor hydrothermal alteration in metabasites from high-pressure ophiolites of the Zermatt-Aosta area of western Alps. Boll. Museo Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 13: 191-220.
5. Bebout G.E., Ryan J.G., Leeman W.P. and Bebout A.E., 1999. Fractionation of trace elements by subduction-zone metamorphism- effect of convergent-margin thermal evolution. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 71: 63-81.
6. Beccaluva L., Dal Piaz G.V. and Macciotta G., 1984. Transitional to normal MORB affinities in ophiolitic metabasites from the Zermatt-Saas, Combin and Antrona Units, western Alps: implications for the paleogeographic evolution of the western Tethyan basin. Geol. Mijnb., 63: 165-177.
7. Bocquet J., 1971. Cartes de répartition de quelques minéraux du métamorphisme alpin dans les Alpes franco-italiennes. Ecl. Geol. Helv., 64: 71-103.
8. Brown E.H. and Ghent E.D., 1983. Mineralogy and phase relations in the blueschist facies of the Black Butte and Ball Rock areas, northern California Coast Ranges. Am. Mineral., 68: 365-372.
9. Caby R., 1981. Le Mésozoique de la zone du Combin en Val d'Aoste (Alpes Graies): imbrication tectoniques entre series issues des domaines pennique, austroalpin et océanique. Géol. Alpine, 57: 5-13.
10. Cartwright I. and Barnicoat A.C., 1999. Stable isotope geochemistry of Alpine ophiolites: a window to ocean-floor hydrothermal alteration and constraints on fluid-rock interaction during high pressure metamorphism. Int. J. Earth Sci., 88: 219-235.
11. Cortiana G., 1993. Studio geologico-strutturale del contatto tra la zona Sesia Lanzo e le ofioliti piemontesi nella media valle d'Ayas. Unpubl. master thesis, Univ. Padova, 167 pp.
12. Dal Piaz G.V., 1967. Le "granatiti" (rodingiti s.l.) nelle serpentine delle Alpi occidentali italiane. Mem. Soc. Geol. It., 6: 267-313.
13. Dal Piaz G.V., Cortiana G., Del Moro A., Martin S., Pennacchioni G. and Tartarotti P., 2001. Tertiary age and paleostructural inferences of the eclogitic imprint in the Austroalpine outliers and Zermatt-Saas ophiolite, western Alps. Int. J. Earth Sci., 90: 668-684.
14. Dal Piaz G.V., Di Battistini G., Kienast J.R. and Venturelli G., 1979. Manganiferous quartzitic schists of the Piemonte Ophiolite nappe in the Valsesia-Valtournanche area, Italian Western Alps. Mem. Sci. Geol., Univ. Padova, 32, 24 pp.
15. Dal Piaz G.V. and Ernst W.G., 1978. Areal geology and petrology of eclogites and associated metabasites in the Piemonte ophiolite nappe, Breuil-St. Jacques area, Italian Western Alps. Tectonophysics, 51: 99-126.
16. Dal Piaz G.V., Hunziker J.C. and Martinotti G., 1972. La zona Sesia Lanzo e l'evoluzione tettonico-metamorfica delle Alpi nordoccidentali interne. Mem. Soc. Geol. It., 11: 433-466.
17. Dal Piaz G.V. and Omenetto P., 1978. Brevi note su alcune mineralizzazioni della falda Piemontese in Val d'Aosta. Ofioliti, 3 (2/3): 161-176.
18. Dal Piaz G.V., Venturelli G., Spadea P. and Di Battistini G., 1981. Geochemical features of metabasalts and metagabbros from the Piemonte ophiolite nappe, Italian Western Alps. N. Jb. Mineral. Abh., 142: 248-269.
19. Dungan M.A., Vance J.A. and Blanchard D.P., 1983. Geochemistry of the Shuksan Greenschists and Blueschists, North Cascades, Washington: variable fractionated and altered metabasalts of oceanic affinity. Contr. Mineral. Petrol., 82: 131-146.
20. Engel A.E.J., Engel C.G. and Havens R.G., 1965. Chemical characteristics of oceanic basalts and the upper mantle. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 76: 719-734.
21. Ernst W.G., 1979. Coexisting sodic and calcic amphiboles from high-pressure metamorphic belts and the stability of barroisitic amphibole. Mineral. Mag., 43: 269-278.
22. Ernst W.G. and Dal Piaz G.V., 1978. Mineral parageneses of eclogitic rocks and related mafic schists of Piemonte ophiolite nappe, Breuil- St. Jacques area. Am. Mineral., 64: 15-31.
23. Evans B.W., 1990. Phase relations of epidote-blueschists. Lithos, 25: 3-23.
24. Griffin B.J., Muhling J.R., Carrol G.W. and Rock, N.M.S., 1991. RECALC3 - a package for processing analyses produced by electron microprobe. Am. Mineral., 76: 295-298.
25. Hermann A.G. and Knacke D., 1973. Coulometrisches Verfahren zur Bestimmung von Gesamt-Carbonat- und Nichtcarbonat-Kohlenstoff in magmatischen, metamorphen und sedimentaren Gesteinen. Z. Anal. Chem., 266: 196-201.
26. Holland T.J.B., 1979. Experimental determination of the reaction paragonite = jadeite + kyanite = H2O, and internally consistent thermodynamic data for part of the system Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2- H2O, with application to eclogites and blueschists. Contr. Mineral. Petrol., 82: 214-220.
27. Humphris S.E. and Thompson G., 1978. Hydrothermal alteration of oceanic basalts by seawater. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 42: 107-125.
28. Leake B.E., Woolley A.R., Birch W.D., Gilbert M.C., Grice J.D., Hawthorn F.C., Kato A., Kisch H.J., Krivovichev V.G., Linthout K., Laird J., Maresch W.V., Nickel E.H., Rock N.M.S., Schumacher J.C., Smith D.C., Stephenson N.C.N, Ungaretti L., Whittaker E.J.W. and Youzhi G., 1997. Nomenclature of amphiboles. Report of the Subcommittee on amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association Commission on new minerals and mineral names. Eur. J. Mineral., 9: 623-651.
29. Liou J.G., Maruyama S. and Cho M., 1987. Very low grade metamorphism of volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks-mineral assemblages and mineral facies. In: M. Frey (Ed.), Low temperature metamorphism. Blackie, p. 59-113.
30. Lombardo B., Nervo R., Compagnoni R, Messiga B., Kienast J.R., Mevel C., Fiora L., Piccardo G.B. and Lanza R., 1978. Osservazioni preliminari sulle ofioliti metamorfiche del Monviso (Alpi Occidentali). Rend. Soc. Ital. Min. Petrogr., 34: 253-305.
31. Maresch W.V., 1977. Experimental studies of glaucophane: an analysis of present knowledge. Tectonophysics, 43: 109-125.
32. Messiga B. and Scambelluri M., 1988. Comparison between two types of coronitic eclogites from the Western Alps: implications for a pre-eclogitic evolution. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr., Mitt., 68: 225-235.
33. Miyashiro A. and Shido F. 1975. Tholeiitic and calc-alkalic series in relation to the behaviours of titanium, vanadium and nickel. Am. J. Sci., 275: 265-278.
34. Müllen E., 1983. MnO/TiO2/P2O5: a minor element discriminant for basaltic rocks of oceanic environments and its implications for petrogenesis. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 62: 53-62.
35. Pfeifer H.R., Colombi A., Ganguin J., Hunziker J.C., Oberhänsli R. and Santini L., 1991. Relics of high-pressure metamorphism in different lithologies of the Central Alps: an update inventory. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt., 71: 441-451.
36. Philippot P., 1993. Fluid-melt-rock interaction in mafic eclogites and coesite-bearing metasediments: constraints on volatile recycling during subduction. Chem. Geol., 108: 93-112.
37. Pognante U., 1985. Coronitic reactions and ductile shear zones in the eclogitic ophiolite metagabbros, western Alps, Italy. Chem. Geol., 50: 99-109.
38. Pognante U. and Kienast J.R., 1987. Blueschist to eclogite transformations in Fe-Ti gabbros: a case for the western Alps ophiolites. J. Petrol., 28: 271-292.
39. Reddy S.M., Wheeler J. and Cliff R.A., 1999. The geometry and timing of orogenic extension: an example from the Western Italian Alps. J. Metam. Geol., 17: 573-589.
40. Scambelluri M. and Rampone E., 1999. Mg-metasomatism of oceanic gabbros and its control on Ti-clinohumite formation during eclogitisation. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 135: 1-17.
41. Seyfried W.E. Jr., 1987. Experimental and theoretical constraints on hydrothermal alteration processes at mid-ocean ridges. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci, 15: 317-335.
42. Serri G., 1980. Chemistry and petrology of gabbroic complexes from the northern Apennine ophiolites. In: Panayiotou A. (Ed.), Ophiolites, Proceed. Int. Ophiolite Symp., Cyprus Geol. Serv., p. 296-313.
43. Sperlich R., 1988. The transition from crossite to actinolite in metabasites of the Combin Unit in Vallée St. Barthélemy (Aosta, Italy). Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt., 68: 215-224.
44. Shipboard Scientific Party, 1989. In: Robinson P.T. and Von Herzen R. (Eds.), Site 735. Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 118.
45. Staudigel H., Planck T., White B. and Schmincke H.-U., 1996. Geochemical fluxes during seafloor alteration of the basaltic upper oceanic crust: DSDP Site 417 and 418, AGU Geophys. Monogr., 96: 19-37.
46. Thompson G., 1983. Basalt-seawater interaction. In: Rona. P.A., Bostroem K., Laubier L. and Smith K.L. (Eds.), Hydrothermal processes at seafloor spreading centres., Plenum Press, New York, p. 225-278.