Melt‐producing and melt‐consuming reactions in the Achankovil cordierite gneisses, South India
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Abstract Migmatitic cordierite gneisses within the Achankovil Zone (AZ) of southern Pan‐African India record melt‐producing and subsequent melt‐consuming mineral reactions. Early mineral assemblages Bt‐Sil‐Qtz and Bt‐Sil‐Spl, deduced from inclusion textures in garnet prophyroblasts, break down via successive dehydration melting reactions to high‐ T phase assemblages (e.g. Grt‐Crd‐Liq, Opx‐Liq, Spl‐Crd‐Liq). Later back reactions between the restite and the in situ crystallizing melt resulted in thin cordierite coronas separating garnet from the leucosome, and partial resorption of garnet to Opx‐Crd or Crd‐Bt‐Qtz symplectites. Leucosomes generally display a moderate (low‐strain gneisses) to strong (high‐strain gneisses) depletion of alkali feldspar attributed to mineral‐melt back reactions partly controlled by the degree of melt segregation. Using a KFMASH partial petrogenetic grid that includes a melt phase, and qualitative pseudosections for microdomains of high and low Al/Si ratios, the successive phase assemblages and reaction textures are interpreted in terms of a clockwise P–T path culminating at about 6–7 kbar and 900–950 °C. This P–T path is consistent with, but more detailed than published results, which suggests that taking a melt phase into account is not only a valid, but also a useful approach. Comparing P–T data and lithological and isotopic data for the AZ with adjacent East Gondwana fragments, suggests the presence of a coherent metasedimentary unit exposed from southern Madagascar via South India (AZ) and Sri Lanka (Wanni Complex) to the Lützow–Holm Bay in Eastern Antarctica.Keywords:
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The quarry examined in this research is located near the small village named Puklica on the northwestern slopes od Mt. Papuk. Rocks in the quarry, that are represented by various types of gneiss, granites and migmatites, together with the rocks from progressive metamorphic complex, make the constituent parts of Mt. Papuk and most of the crystallyne basement of the Pannonian Basin. Based on the field research results, microscopy and microtectonics, it is determined that migmatites formed by partial melting of gneiss. Granite emplacement and formation of folded migmatites in the central parts of the quarry took place after the partial melting. Based on the mineral chemsitry results, it is determined that granites in the quarry correspond with granits tipically found in the upper continetnal crust while geothermobarometry provided PT-conditions during the formation of migmatites.
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