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Microstructures and mineral chemistry in amphibolites from the western Tauern Window (Eastern Alps), and P-T deformation paths of the Alpine greenschist-amphibolite facies metamorphism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Bernhard Schulz ,
Claude Triboulet  and
Claude Audren
Bernhard Schulz
Affiliation:
Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie der Universität, Schloßgarten 5, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
Claude Triboulet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Pétrologie Minéralogique, C.N.R.S. U.R.A. 736, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Claude Audren
Affiliation:
Géosciences Rennes, Laboratoire Tectonophysique, Institut de Géologie, Avenue du Général Leclerc, F-35042 Rennes Cedex, France
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Abstract

Amphibolites in the Mesozoic part of the parautochthonous Lower Schieferhülle (LSH), the allochthonous Upper Schieferhülle (USH) and the overlying Austroalpine basement (AA) in and around the western Tauern Window (Eastern Alps) suffered a progressive Alpine deformation. Lineations and foliations L1-S1, L2-S2 defined by preferentially oriented (Na-Ca) amphiboles as well as F3 folds and further foliations Smyl and S4 in the metabasites are structures of successive deformational stages with a constant W-E main extension axis of strain. The (Na-Ca) amphiboles in assemblages with epidote, chlorite, albite/oligoclase and quartz are zoned with similar continuous zonation trends from early actinolite in the cores to magnesio-hornblende and tschermakitic hornblende, and from magnesio-hornblende to late actinolite in the rims in the three lithostratigraphic units. Geothermobarometry involving tremolite-edenite and (pargasite-hastingsite)-tremolite end-member equilibria in amphiboles allowed us to reconstruct prograde-retrograde P-T paths for the Alpine greenschist-amphibolite facies event. The paths passed P/T max at 6–7 kbar/600°C. Similar shapes of the paths in AA, USH and Mesozoic LSH indicate a common metamorphic history and a stacking of these units prior to or during the pre-P max evolution. Moderate P-T ratios are characteristic for the temperature-dominated compression paths and indicate continental collisional rather than subduction zone metamorphism. The middle to late Alpine greenschist-amphibolite facies event appears as an independent metamorphism along a complete P-T loop which may have followed an earlier and poorly documented high-pressure/low-temperature event.

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amphibolitesmicrostructuresgeothermobarometryP-T-t-deformation pathsAlpine orogenywestern Tauern Window

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 59 , Issue 397 , December 1995 , pp. 641 - 659
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1995

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