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Mineral parageneses and metamorphic reactions in metasedimentary enclaves from the Archaean Gneiss Complex of north-west India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Ram. S. Sharma  and
Brian F. Windley
Ram. S. Sharma
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India
Brian F. Windley
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The University, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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Abstract

Three metasedimentary enclaves up to a kilometre in length of contrasting compositions within the polymetamorphic Banded Gneissic Complex (> 2580Ma) have been studied for their mineral parageneses and metamorphic conditions. The largest enclave, consisting of kyanite-chloritoid-muscovite schist with quartz or corundum, and kyanite-fuchsite-corundum ± diaspore, was metamorphosed at most under lower amphibolite conditions, and is thus not isofacial with the surrounding schists and gneisses (of the ‘basement’ complex) which reached sillimanite-grade metamorphism in the last orogenic cycle (Aravalli: 1650–950Ma Orogeny) in Rajasthan.

The second enclave is a calc-silicate rock which occurs as a small lens. The presence of two generations of wollastonite which formed during different metamorphic events in the calcite-quartz-grossularite-anorthite-clinopyroxene assemblage indicates polymetamorphism.

The third enclave is a metabasic rock which records a complete polymetamorphic history in discontinuous zones in garnet coexisting with hornblende-chlorite-plagioclase-quartz±epidote. To explain the garnet zoning a model involving partial resorption of early garnet during the initial recrystallization stage of superimposed regional metamorphism is preferred to the alternative based on a single prograde metamorphism and retrogression.

The mineralogy of the calc-silicate and metabasic enclaves gives a recrystallization temperature of c. 700°C and a pressure in the range of 8–3 kbar during the second metamorphism.

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 48 , Issue 347 , June 1984 , pp. 195 - 209
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1984

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