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Provenance of Albian to Cenomanian exotics-bearing turbidites in the Western Carpathians : a heavy mineral analysis

Aubrecht Roman, Bellová Simona, Mikuš Tomáš

Geological Quarterly

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2020

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Vol. 64, No. 3

658--680

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Throughout the Cretaceous, Tethyan oceanic branches gradually closed, and various ophiolites became obducted and eroded. Their remnants, however, provide an abundance of exotic clasts of unknown origin. Sandstone samples from the oldest, Albian exotics-bearing strata of the Pieniny Klippen Belt and Central Western Carpathians were analysed for heavy minerals. These samples were dominated by a high content of chrome-spinels, zircon, tourmaline, apatite and rutile. Titanite, kyanite, monazite, epidote, sillimanite and staurolite were much less abundant. Garnet was generally also rare; however, it was locally common, as were blue amphiboles, pyroxenes and kyanite. The spinels found in the samples were predominantly derived from harzburgites (supra-subduction peridotites and volcanic rocks). The blue amphiboles represented glaucophanes to ferroglaucophanes, and were derived from HP/LT metabasites. Pyroxenes (enstatite, less commonly augite and diopside) most likely came from coeval volcanics. Most of the tourmalines were derived from metasedimentary rocks and locally from granitoids. Furthermore, some have a complex zonation with two phases of tourmaline, or tourmaline intergrown with quartz. These were likely derived from ophiolitic sources. The results from our analysis indicate a dominance of ophiolites and older sediments with local input of continental crust metamorphic rocks. A resulting palaeogeographic reconstruction involves secondary doubling of the Neotethys suture zone and its lateral shift north of the Central Western Carpathians, which formed a common source for exotics in the Pieniny Klippen Belt and the Central Western Carpathians.

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Alteration of mélange-hosted chromitites from Korydallos, Pindos ophiolite complex, Greece: evidence for modification by a residual high-T post-magmatic fluid

Kapsiotis A. N.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2014

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Vol. 64, no. 4

473--494

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The peridotites from the area of Korydallos, in the Pindos ophiolitic massif, crop out as deformed slices of a rather dismembered sub-oceanic, lithospheric mantle section and are tectonically enclosed within the Avdella mélange. The most sizeable block is a chromitite-bearing serpentinite showing a mesh texture. Accessory, subhedral to euhedral Cr-spinels in the serpentinite display Cr# [Cr/(Cr + Al)] values that range from 0.36 to 0.42 and Mg# [Mg/(Mg + Fe2+)] values that vary between 0.57 and 0.62, whereas the TiO2 content may be up to 0.47 wt.%. The serpentinite fragment is characterized by low abundances of magmaphile elements (Al2O3: 0.66 wt.%, CaO: 0.12 wt.%, Na2O: 0.08 wt.%, TiO2: 0.007 wt.%, Sc: 4 ppm) and enrichment in compatible elements (Cr: 2780 ppm and Ni: 2110 ppm). Overall data are in accordance with derivation of the serpentinite exotic block from a dunite that was formed in the mantle region underneath a back-arc basin before tectonic incorporation in the Korydallos mélange. Two compositionally different chromitite pods are recognized in the studied serpentinite fragment, a Cr-rich chromitite and a high-Al chromitite, which have been ascribed to crystallization from a single, progressively differentiating MORB/IAT melt. Although both pods are fully serpentinized only the Al-rich one shows signs of limited Cr-spinel replacement by an opaque spinel phase and clinochlore across grain boundaries and fractures. Modification of the ore-making Cr-spinel is uneven among the Al-rich chromitite specimens. Textural features such as olivine replacement by clinochlore and clinochlore disruption by serpentine indicate that Cr-spinel alteration is not apparently related to serpentinization. From the unaltered Cr-spinel cores to their reworked boundaries the Al2O3 and MgO abundances decrease, being mainly compensated by FeOt and Cr2O3 increases. Such compositional variations are suggestive of restricted ferrian chromite (and minor magnetite) substitution for Cr-spinel during a short-lived but relatively intense, low amphibolite facies metamorphic episode (temperature: 400–700 °C). The presence of tremolite and clinochlore in the interstitial groundmass of the high-Al chromitite and their absence from the Cr-rich chromitite matrix imply that after chromitite formation a small volume of a high temperature, post-magmatic fluid reacted with Cr-spinel, triggering its alteration.

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Chemical composition and alter ation of Cr-spinels from Meliata and Penninic serpentinized peridot ites (Western Carpathians and Eastern Alps)

Mikuš T., Spišiak J.

Geological Quarterly

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2007

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Vol. 51, No 3

257-270

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Cr-spinel is a relatively wide spread accessory mineral in the Mesozoic ophiolites of the Western Carpathians (mainly in the Meliata Unit) and in the Penninic Unit (Rechnitz tectonic window group). Cr-spinel chemical composition in both these occurrences (Meliaticum, Penninicum) shows the lherzolitic character of the original ultrabasites. It was found impossible to distinguish the source rocks (peridotites) of these two oceanic domains on the basis of the chemical composition of the Cr-spinels. Many Cr-spinels from both tectonic units are af fected by various levels of alter ation (in general, decrease of Al2O3, Cr2O3, MgO, enrichment in FeO, Fe2O3, SiO2, locally also in MnO and ZnO).