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DOI | 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.01.001 |
P-T path and timing of crustal thickening during amalgamation of East and West Gondwana: A case study from the Hafafit Metamorphic Complex, Eastern Desert of Egypt | |
Abu El-Enen, Mahrous M.1; Abu-Alam, Tamer S.2,6; Whitehouse, Martin J.3; Ali, Kamal A.4; Okrusch, Martin5 | |
通讯作者 | Abu El-Enen, Mahrous M. |
来源期刊 | LITHOS
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ISSN | 0024-4937 |
EISSN | 1872-6143 |
出版年 | 2016 |
卷号 | 263页码:213-238 |
英文摘要 | The southeastern sector of the Hafafit Metamorphic Complex, southern Eastern Desert of Egypt comprises infrastructural orthogneisses of tonalite and syenogranite parentage, amphibolites, and a volcano-sedimentary association. These are overthrust by an obducted suprastructural ophiolite nappes via the Nugrus thrust. The protolith of the biotite-hornblende-gneisses was formed during island-arc accretion, while that of the garnet-biotite gneisses were formed in a within-plate regime, consistent with a transition to a post-collisional setting. The volcano-sedimentary association comprises interbedded and intercalated highly foliated metapelitic schists, metabasites, and leucocratic gneisses, deposited in a back-arc basin. The metapelites and the leucocratic gneisses originated from immature Fe-shales and arkoses derived from intermediate-mafic and acidic igneous rocks, respectively, via weak chemical weathering in a tectonically active island arc terrane. The intercalated amphibolites were derived from tholeiitic basalts generated in a back-arc setting. The volcano-sedimentary association was metamorphosed under upper-amphibolite fades conditions with pressures of 9-13 kbar and temperatures of 570-675 degrees C, as derived from conventional geothermobarometry and pseudosection calculation. A steep, tight clockwise P-T path is constrained and a geothermal gradient around 20 degrees C/km is estimated for the peak metamorphism. We assume that deformation and metamorphism are due to crustal thickening during the collision of East and West Gondwana, where peak metamorphism took place in the middle to lower crust at 33 km average crustal depth. This was followed by a subsequent quasi-isothermal decompression due to rapid exhumation during wrench tectonics. Sinistral transcurrent shearing with extensional denudation resulted in vertical ductile thinning that was accompanied by heat input from magmatism, as indicated by a higher geothermal gradient during retrograde metamorphism and exhumation of the complex. U-Pb data from magmatic zircons yields protolith ages of 731 +/- 3 Ma for the biotite-hornblende gneisses and 646 +/- 12 Ma for the garnet-biotite gneisses. Conforming to field evidence, our geochronology data point to a depositional age of the volcano-sedimentary cover at around 650 Ma. The age of metamorphism is constrained by a low Th/U ratio of a zircon grain crystallized at an age of 597 +/- 6 Ma. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Eastern Desert Volcano-sedimentary association Gondwana continental collision U Pb zircon age dating Clockwise P-T path |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Egypt ; Sweden ; Saudi Arabia ; Germany ; Norway |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000385325200013 |
WOS关键词 | TECTONIC SETTING DISCRIMINATION ; ARABIAN-NUBIAN SHIELD ; SR-ND ISOTOPES ; CORE COMPLEX ; TRACE-ELEMENT ; CHEMICAL CLASSIFICATION ; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM ; EMPIRICAL CALIBRATION ; SEDIMENTARY-ROCKS ; MIXING PROPERTIES |
WOS类目 | Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Mineralogy |
WOS研究方向 | Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Mineralogy |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/194979 |
作者单位 | 1.Mansoura Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Geol, Mansoura 35516, Egypt; 2.Tanta Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Geol, Tanta, Egypt; 3.Swedish Museum Nat Hist, Dept Geosci, Box 50007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden; 4.King Abdulaziz Univ, Fac Earth Sci, Dept Mineral Resources & Rocks, POB 80206, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; 5.Inst Geog & Geol, Hubland, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany; 6.Norwegian Polar Res Inst, Tromso, Norway |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Abu El-Enen, Mahrous M.,Abu-Alam, Tamer S.,Whitehouse, Martin J.,et al. P-T path and timing of crustal thickening during amalgamation of East and West Gondwana: A case study from the Hafafit Metamorphic Complex, Eastern Desert of Egypt[J],2016,263:213-238. |
APA | Abu El-Enen, Mahrous M.,Abu-Alam, Tamer S.,Whitehouse, Martin J.,Ali, Kamal A.,&Okrusch, Martin.(2016).P-T path and timing of crustal thickening during amalgamation of East and West Gondwana: A case study from the Hafafit Metamorphic Complex, Eastern Desert of Egypt.LITHOS,263,213-238. |
MLA | Abu El-Enen, Mahrous M.,et al."P-T path and timing of crustal thickening during amalgamation of East and West Gondwana: A case study from the Hafafit Metamorphic Complex, Eastern Desert of Egypt".LITHOS 263(2016):213-238. |
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