INGEOSUR   20376
INSTITUTO GEOLOGICO DEL SUR
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Dolomitic marbles and associated calc-silicates, Tandilia Belt, Argentina: geothermobarometry, metamorphic evolution and P-T path.
Autor/es:
DELPINO, S.; DRISTAS, J.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2008 vol. 25 p. 501 - 525
ISSN:
0895-9811
Resumen:
The metamorphic evolution of dolomitic marbles and associated calc-silicate rocks from Punta Tota (NE Tandilia belt, Buenos
Aires province, Argentina) has been evaluated through petrographic, geothermobarometric, and fluid inclusion studies. Thin beds of
dolomitic marble are intercalated in amphibolites and constitute the upper part of a stratified basement sequence, which starts at the
base with garnet migmatites showing a great abundance of pegmatitic segregates, overlain by biotitegarnet gneisses. Peak metamorphic
conditions are estimated at 750800 C and 56 kb, followed by near isobaric cooling to about 500450 C and 5.56.5 kb.
Anhydrous progressive metamorphic assemblages in both marbles (Fo + Cal + Dol + Cpx + Spl) and adjacent calc-silicate rocks
(Cpx + An + Cal + Qtz) strongly retrogressed to hydrous minerals (Tr, Tlc, Grs, Czo, Srp) with decreasing temperatures and
increasing water activities. The intense rehydration of the rocks relates to the emplacement of volatile-rich pegmatitic bodies
(Qtz + Pl + Kfs + Bt + Grt), which also resulted in the crystallization of clinochlore + phlogopite in the marble and biotite + muscovite
in the adjacent calc-silicate rocks. Metamorphic reactions based on textural relations and evaluated on a suitable petrogenetic
grid, combined with geothermobarometric results and fluid inclusion isochores, indicate a metamorphic evolution along a counterclockwise
PT path. Two probable geotectonic settings for the determined PT trajectory are proposed: (1) thinning of the crust
and overlying supracrustal basin in an ensialic intraplate tectonic setting and (2) development of a marginal back-arc basin, associated
with an oceaniccontinental convergent plate margin. In both models, the initial extensional regime is followed by a compressional
stage, with overthickening of the basement and supracrustal rocks, during the climax of the Transamazonian cycle at
approximately 1800 Ma ago. Continuous convergence and blockage of structures produce transition to transcurrent tectonics (transpression)
with a consequent moderate uplift.T path. Two probable geotectonic settings for the determined PT trajectory are proposed: (1) thinning of the crust
and overlying supracrustal basin in an ensialic intraplate tectonic setting and (2) development of a marginal back-arc basin, associated
with an oceaniccontinental convergent plate margin. In both models, the initial extensional regime is followed by a compressional
stage, with overthickening of the basement and supracrustal rocks, during the climax of the Transamazonian cycle at
approximately 1800 Ma ago. Continuous convergence and blockage of structures produce transition to transcurrent tectonics (transpression)
with a consequent moderate uplift.