Linking Tarim between South China and North India in the periphery of Supercontinent Rodinia

The Tenth Symposium on Polar Science/Ordinary sessions: [OG] Polar Geosciences, Wed. 4 Dec. / 3F Seminar room, National Institute of Polar Researc

Provenance of Garnet in the Neoarchean Verbaard granitoid gneiss: A case study from Beit Bridge Complex, Cetral Zone, Southern Africa

The Tenth Symposium on Polar Science/Ordinary sessions: [OG] Polar Geosciences, Wed. 4 Dec. / Entrance Hall (1st floor), National Institute of Polar Researc

Fluid-induced high-temperature metasomatism at Rundvågshetta in the Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica: Implications for the role of brine during granulite formation

We report new petrological, phase equilibria modeling, and fluid inclusion data for pelitic and mafic granulites from Rundvågshetta in the highest-grade region of the Neoproterozoic Lützow-Holm Complex (LHC), East Antarctica, and provide unequivocal evidence for fluid-rock interaction and high-temperature metasomatism in the presence of brine fluid. The studied locality is composed dominantly of well-foliated pelitic granulite (K-feldspar + quartz + sillimanite + garnet + ilmenite) with foliation-parallel bands and/or layers of mafic granulite (plagioclase + orthopyroxene + garnet + ilmenite + quartz + biotite). The boundary between the two lithologies is defined by thin (about 1–20 cm in thick) garnet-rich layers with a common mineral assemblage of garnet + plagioclase + quartz + ilmenite + biotite ± orthopyroxene. Systematic increase of grossular and decrease of pyrope contents in garnet as well as decreasing Mg/(Fe + Mg) ratio of biotite from the pelitic granulite to garnet-rich rock and mafic granulite suggest that the garnet-rich layer was formed by metasomatic interaction between the two granulite lithologies. Phase equilibria modeling in the system NCKFMASHTO demonstrates that the metasomatism took place at 850–860 °C, which is slightly lower than the peak metamorphism of this region, and the modal abundance of garnet is the highest along the metapelite–metabasite boundary (up to 40%), which is consistent with the field and thin section observations. The occurrence of brine (7.0–10.9 wt.% NaCleq for ice melting or 25.1–25.5 wt.% NaCleq for hydrohalite melting) fluid inclusions as a primary phase trapped within plagioclase in the garnet-rich layer and the occurrence of Cl-rich biotite (Cl = 0.22–0.60 wt.%) in the metasomatic rock compared to that in pelitic (0.15–0.24 wt.%) and mafic (0.06–0.13 wt.%) granulites suggest infiltration of brine fluid could have given rise to the high-temperature metasomatism. The fluid might have been derived from external sources possibly related to the formation of major suture zones formed during the Gondwana amalgamation

Significance of coexistence of crystalized melt inclusions and primary CO2 -rich fluid inclusions in granulites from the Neoproterozoic - Cambrian Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica

第6回極域科学シンポジウム[OG] 地圏11月16日（月）　国立極地研究所３階セミナー

Resolving orogenic events in construction of the Lutzow-Holm Complex, east Antarctica

第2回極域科学シンポジウム/第31回極域地学シンポジウム 11月17日（木） 国立極地研究所　2階大会議

‘Okunen’ in a long, hot orogen: a timeline of tectonometamorphic activity in southern LützowHolm Bay

第3回極域科学シンポジウム/第32回極域地学シンポジウム 11月30日（金） 統計数理研究所 ３階セミナー

Phase equilibrium modeling of pelitic gneiss and the origins of carbon in the graphite from Rundvagshetta in the Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica

第6回極域科学シンポジウム[OG] 地圏11月16日（月）　国立極地研究所１階交流アトリウ

Detrital zircon geochronology of the Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica: implications for Antarctica-Sri Lanka correlation

The Lützow-Holm Complex (LHC) of East Antarctica has been regarded as a collage of Neoarchean (ca. 2.5 Ga), Paleoproterozoic (ca. 1.8 Ga), and Neoproterozoic (ca. 1.0 Ga) magmatic arcs which were amalgamated through the latest Neoproterozoic collisional events during the assembly of Gondwana supercontinent. Here, we report new geochronological data on detrital zircons in metasediments associated with the magmatic rocks from the LHC, and compare the age spectra with those in the adjacent terranes for evaluating the tectonic correlation of East Antarctica and Sri Lanka. Cores of detrital zircon grains with high Th/U ratio in eight metasediment samples can be subdivided into two dominant groups: (1) late Meso- to Neoproterozoic (1.1–0.63 Ga) zircons from the northeastern part of the LHC in Prince Olav Coast and northern Sôya Coast areas, and (2) dominantly Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic (2.8–2.4 Ga) zircons from the southwestern part of the LHC in southern Lützow-Holm Bay area. The ca. 1.0 Ga and ca. 2.5 Ga magmatic suites in the LHC could be proximal provenances of the detrital zircons in the northeastern and southwestern LHC, respectively. Subordinate middle to late Mesoproterozoic (1.3–1.2 Ga) detrital zircons obtained from Akarui Point and Langhovde could have been derived from adjacent Gondwana fragments (e.g., Rayner Complex, Eastern Ghats Belt). Meso- to Neoproterozoic domains such as Vijayan and Wanni Complexes of Sri Lanka, the southern Madurai Block of southern India, and the central-western Madagascar could be alternative distal sources of the late Meso- to Neoproterozoic zircons. Paleo- to Mesoarchean domains in India, Africa, and Antarctica might also be distal sources for the minor ∼2.8 Ga detrital zircons from Skallevikshalsen. The detrital zircons from the Highland Complex of Sri Lanka show similar Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic (ca. 2.5 Ga) and Neoproterozoic (ca. 1.0 Ga) ages, which are comparable with those of the LHC, suggesting that the two complexes might have formed under similar tectonic regimes. We consider that the Highland Complex and metasedimentary unit of the LHC formed a unified latest Neoproterozoic suture zone with a large block of northern LH–Vijayan Complex caught up as remnant of the ca. 1.0 Ga magmatic arc.Yusuke Takamura, Toshiaki Tsunogae, M.Santosh, Yukiyasu Tsutsum