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Eocene ultra-high temperature (UHT) metamorphism in the Gruf complex (Central Alps): constraints by LA-ICPMS zircon and monazite dating in petrographic context.

Christian Nicollet, Valérie Bosse, View ORCID ProfileMaria Iole Spalla and Federica Schiavi
Journal of the Geological Society, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-017
Christian Nicollet
Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, OPGC, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Valérie Bosse
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Maria Iole Spalla
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra ‘A. Desio’, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Federica Schiavi
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The Gruf complex in the Lepontine Alps is one of the rare occurrences of Phanerozoic ultra-high temperature (UHT) metamorphism in the world, but its age is still a matter of debate. Here we present LA-ICPMS dating in a petrographic context of zircon and monazite from a UHT restitic granulite. Zircons and monazites are both included in large crystals and in retrograde symplectites. In such restitic rocks, partial melting or fluid interactions are unlikely, precluding resetting of the monazite chronometers. Zircon cores yield Permian ages, which are interpreted as the age of charnockitization. They are sometimes surrounded by a narrow rim at 32 Ma. Monazites are strongly zoned, but all yield a 31.8 ± 0.3 Ma age interpreted as the time of complete (re-)crystallization during the UHT paragenesis. We propose that the zircons dated a post-Hercynian metamorphism which is responsible for the widespread formation of granulites in the Southern Alps and the crust differentiation. This fluid-absent melting event produced refractory lithologies, such as restites in charnockites. We suggest that Gruf UHT paragenesis is alpine in age and crystallized from these refractory lithologies. We conclude that the lower restitic crust produced in the Permian had the ability to achieve UHT conditions during the fast exhumation and heating related to lithospheric thinning in Alpine time.

Supplementary material: Analytical procedures for monazite analysis and dating, plus details of the major elements of the minerals, isotope data and trace element measurements in zircon are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4123619

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Eocene ultra-high temperature (UHT) metamorphism in the Gruf complex (Central Alps): constraints by LA-ICPMS zircon and monazite dating in petrographic context.

Christian Nicollet, Valérie Bosse, Maria Iole Spalla and Federica Schiavi
Journal of the Geological Society, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-017
Christian Nicollet
Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, OPGC, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Journal of the Geological Society, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-017
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