Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Deep continental subduction

Petrologic characterization of Guatemalan lawsonite eclogite: Eclogitization of subducted oceanic crust in a cold subduction zone
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Published:January 01, 2006
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Tatsuki Tsujimori, Virginia B. Sisson, Juhn G. Liou, George E. Harlow, Sorena S. Sorensen, 2006. "Petrologic characterization of Guatemalan lawsonite eclogite: Eclogitization of subducted oceanic crust in a cold subduction zone", Ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: Deep continental subduction, Bradley R. Hacker, William C. McClelland, J.G. Liou
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Early Cretaceous lawsonite eclogites and related high-pressure rocks occur as tectonic inclusions within serpentinite mélange south of the Motagua fault zone, Guatemala. Petrologic and microtextural analyses of mafic high-pressure rocks reveal three metamorphic stages linked to several deformational textures. The prograde stage represents an incipient eclogitization and is preserved in prograde garnet, along with an older S1–S2 foliation. The prograde assemblage is garnet (X Mg = ∼0.22) + omphacite (∼52 mol% jadeite) or jadeite (∼83 mol % jadeite) + lawsonite + chlorite + rutile + quartz ± phengite (3.6 Si p.f.u.); some rocks also have ilmenite...
- amphibole group
- blueschist facies
- brittle deformation
- Central America
- chain silicates
- chemical composition
- clinoamphibole
- clinopyroxene
- Cretaceous
- crust
- deformation
- eclogite
- eclogite facies
- facies
- foliation
- garnet group
- geologic barometry
- geologic thermometry
- glaucophane
- grossular
- Guatemala
- jadeite
- lawsonite
- Lower Cretaceous
- melange
- Mesozoic
- metaigneous rocks
- metamorphic rocks
- metamorphism
- metasomatic rocks
- mica group
- mineral assemblages
- mineral composition
- Motagua Fault
- nesosilicates
- oceanic crust
- orthosilicates
- P-T conditions
- paragenesis
- phengite
- plate tectonics
- prograde metamorphism
- pumpellyite
- pumpellyite group
- pyroxene group
- serpentinite
- sheet silicates
- silicates
- sorosilicates
- structural analysis
- subduction
- subduction zones
- textures
- eclogitization
- Quebrada Seca
- Quebrada del Mico