P– T evolution and episodic zircon growth in barroisite eclogites of the Lanterman Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
• Main Authors: Kim, Taehwan, Kim, Yoonsup, Cho, Moonsup, Lee, Jong Ik
• Other Authors: Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; Victoria Land
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12474; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjmg.12474; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jmg.12474; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/jmg.12474

Abstract Prograde P–T–t paths of eclogites are often ambiguous owing to high variance of mineral assemblages, large uncertainty in isotopic age determinations and/or variable degree of retrograde equilibration. We investigated these issues using the barroisite eclogites from the Lanterman Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, which are relatively uncommon but free of retrogression. These eclogites revealed three stages of prograde metamorphism, defining two distinctive P–T trajectories, M 1–2 and M 3 . Inclusion minerals in garnet porphyroblasts suggest that initial prograde assemblages (M 1 ) consist of garnet+omphacite+barroisite/Mg‐pargasite+epidote+phengite+paragonite+rutile/titanite+quartz, and subsequent M 2 assemblages of garnet+omphacite+barroisite+phengite+rutile±quartz. The inclusion‐rich inner part of garnet porphyroblasts preserves a bell‐shaped Mn profile of the M 1 , whereas the inclusion‐poor outer part (M 2 ) is typified by the outward decrease in Ca/Mg and X F e (=Fe 2+ /(Fe 2+ +Mg)) values. A pseudosection modelling employing fractionated bulk‐rock composition suggests that the eclogites have initially evolved from ~15 to 20 kbar and 520–570°C (M 1 ) to ~22–25 kbar and 630–650°C (M 2 ). The latter is in accordance with P–T conditions estimated from two independent geothermobarometers: the garnet–clinopyroxene–phengite (~25 ± 3 kbar and 660 ± 100°C) and Zr‐in‐rutile (~650–700°C at 22 – 27 kbar). The second segment (M 3A–B ) of prograde P–T path is recorded in the grossular‐rich overgrowth rim of garnet. Apart from disequilibrium growth of the M 3A garnet, ubiquitous overgrowth of the M 3B garnet permits us to estimate the P–T conditions at ~26 ± 3 kbar and 720 ± 80°C. The cathodoluminescence ( CL ) imaging of zircon grains separated from a barroisite eclogite revealed three distinct zones with bright rim, dark mantle and moderately dark core. Eclogitic phases such as garnet, omphacite, epidote and rutile are present as fine‐grained inclusions in the mantle and rim of zircon, in contrast to ...