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MPN-02 Metamorphism and metamorphic processes

Pseudosection analysis for talc-Na pyroxene-bearing piemontite-quartz schist in the Sanbagawa belt, Japan

Takao Hirajima, Kyoto University (Japan)
Taro Ubukawa, Kyoto University (Japan)
Keisaku Mtsumoto, Kyoto University (Japan)
 

Various modes of occurrence of talc were identified in piemontite-quartz schists collected from schist and eclogite units in the Kotsu area of the Sanbagawa belt, eastern Shikoku, Japan. They can be classified into the following types: A) matrix and B) pull-apart talc. The matrix talc is associated with aegirineaugite or glaucophane in the eclogite unit and with albite or chlorite in the schist unit. The pull-apart talc is developed at the pull-apart of microboudin structures of Na-amphibole, along with albite or chlorite in samples from both units, suggesting that the pull-apart talc was formed by Na-amphibole consuming reactions in both units. The talc-aegirineaugite-phengite association is found in a thin layer (a few millimetres thick), with higher Na₂O/(Na₂O+Al₂O₃+MgO) ratio in the ANM diagram projected from phengite, epidote and other minerals, in the eclogite unit. Crystals of aegirineaugite have decreased jadeite content [= 100xAl/(Na + Ca)] and increased aegirine content [= 100x(Na − Al)/(Na + Ca)] from the core (ca Jd₄₀Aeg₄₀Di₂₀) to the rim (ca Jd₂₃Aeg₅₃Di₂₄), and are replaced by winchite and albite in varying degrees at the crystal margins. Na-amphibole is glaucophane/crossite, commonly rimmed by Al-poor crossite or winchite at the margin in the eclogite unit, although it is relatively homogeneous crossite in the schist unit. These textures suggest that the talc-phengite-(aegirineaugite or glaucophane) assemblage equilibrated during an early stage of metamorphism and the pull-apart talc was formed at a later stage in the eclogite unit. A plausible petrogenetic grid in the NCKFe³⁺MASH system with excess piemontite (regarded as epidote), hematite, quartz and water, pseudosection analysis for the aegirineaugite-bearing layer and the observed mineral assemblages suggest that the talc-aegirineaugite-phengite assemblage is stable under high pressure conditions (ca 560-580°C and 18-20 kbar). The pull-apart talc was formed at ca 565-580°C and 9.5-10.5 kbar by the reaction of glaucophane/crosstie + paragonite = talc + albite during the decompression stage, suggesting that the piemontite-quartz schist in the eclogite unit experienced high-pressure metamorphism at ca 50-60 km depth and was then exhumed to ca 30 km depth under nearly adiabatic conditions.