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Near vertical iso- illite- crystallinity surfaces cross-cut the recumbent fold structure of the Morcles nappe, Swiss Alps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

M. Burkhard  and
D. Goy-Eggenberger
M. Burkhard*
Affiliation:
Institut de Géologie, rue E. Argand 11, Case Postale 2, CH 2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
D. Goy-Eggenberger
Affiliation:
Institut de Géologie, rue E. Argand 11, Case Postale 2, CH 2007 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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*E-mail: martin.burkhard@unine.ch
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Abstract

Metamorphic isograd surfaces are mapped within the Morcles nappe using illite crystallinity (IC) and (clay-) mineral parageneses in 268 samples. The diagenesis-anchizone and the anchizone-epizone boundaries are nearly vertical surfaces which crosscut the present-day recumbent fold nappe structure. Frontal parts of the nappe are diagenetic (Tmax <200°C) whereas rear parts both in the normal and inverted limb are epizonal (Tmax >300°C). We demonstrate that the calcite content of shales, marls or limestones has no influence on the average IC. Deviations of individual samples from the mean IC of any given diagenetic and lower anchizonal site are very large, however, without it being possible to associate deviations with any obvious rock parameter. The standard deviations of populations of IC values decrease strongly with increasing metamorphic grade (toward smaller IC values). Mapping the diagenesis-anchizone boundary requires a much larger sampling effort than the same exercise for the anchizone-epizone boundary.

Keywords

iso-illite crystallinityrecumbent fold structureMorcles nappeSwiss Alps
Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 159 - 170
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2001

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