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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Early Mesoproterozoic metamorphism in the Barossa Complex, South Australia : links with the eastern margin of Proterozoic Australia |
Author: | Morrissey, L. Hand, M. Wade, B. Szpunar, M. |
Citation: | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013; 60(8):769-795 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd. |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0812-0099 1440-0952 |
Statement of Responsibility: | L. J. Morrissey, M. Hand, B. P. Wade and M. Szpunar |
Abstract: | LA-ICP-MS U–Pb geochronological data from metamorphic monazite in granulite-facies metapelites in the Barossa Complex, southern Australia, yield ages in the range 1580–1550 Ma. Metapelitic rocks from the Myponga and Houghton Inliers contain early biotite–sillimanite-bearing assemblages that underwent partial melting to produce peak metamorphic garnet–sillimanite-bearing anatectic assemblages. Phase equilibrium modelling suggests a clockwise P–T evolution with peak temperatures between 800 and 870C and peak pressures of 8–9 kbar, followed by decompression to pressures of 6 kbar. In combination with existing age data, the monazite U–Pb ages indicate that the early Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Barossa Complex is contemporaneous with other high geothermal gradient metamorphic terranes in eastern Proterozoic Australia. The areal extent of early Mesoproterozoic metamorphism in eastern Australia suggests that any proposed continental reconstructions involving eastern Proterozoic Australia should share a similar tectonothermal history. |
Keywords: | Monazite, U–Pb geochronology Barossa Complex, eastern Proterozoic Australia Mesoproterozoic, metamorphism. |
Rights: | © 2013 Geological Society of Australia |
DOI: | 10.1080/08120099.2013.860623 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP1095456 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2013.860623 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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