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Fluid-mineral interactions and constraints on monazite alteration during metamorphism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

B. Budzyń ,
C. J. Hetherington ,
M. L. Williams ,
M. J. Jercinovic  and
M. Michalik
B. Budzyń*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków Research Centre, Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków, Poland
C. J. Hetherington
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053, USA
M. L. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, USA
M. J. Jercinovic
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, USA
M. Michalik
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Kraków, Poland
*
*E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Clasts of metamorphosed Cadomian granites from the ∼50—60 Ma Carpathian flysch in Gródek near the Rożnowskie Lake (Silesian Unit, SE Poland) are studied. They are considered to represent the Silesian Ridge, one of the hypothetical, currently unexposed source areas that supplied Carpathian sedimentary basins with clastic material. The gneisses preserve several examples of corona textures that include cores of primary monazite surrounded by polygonal grains of secondary apatite with thorianite inclusions, with intermediate zones of lamellar grains of secondary monazite and outermost rims of clay minerals, or various combinations thereof. Preservation of the complete textures is rare with polygonal apatite with thorianite inclusions, lamellar grains of monazite and clay minerals being particularly prevalent. Locally, polygonal apatite with thorianite inclusions surrounded by allanite and REE-epidote corona with a bastnasite-synchysite phase occurs also. The textures observed developed during primary monazite breakdown and replacement by secondary minerals. The variation in reaction products indicates that alteration was strictly dependent on the local chemical system.

Keywords

monazite breakdownapatiteallaniteepidotegneissWestern Outer Carpathians
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 659 - 681
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2010

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