Formation of Al-rich titanite (CaTiSiO₄O–CaAlSiO₄OH) reaction rims on ilmenite in metamorphic rocks as a function of fH₂O and fO₂

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• 作者：Daniel Harlov ; Peter Tropper ; Wolfgang Seifert ; Timo Nijland and Hans-Jü ; rgen Fö ; rster
• 关键词：Titanite ; Al– ; OH titanite ; Oxygen barometry ; Water barometry ; Tamil Nadu ; Ivrea-Verbano Zone ; Bamble Sector ; Ö ; tztal Complex
• 刊名：Lithos
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：May 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：88
• 期：1-4
• 页码：72-84
• 全文大小：490 K

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Reaction rims of titanite on ilmenite are described in samples from four terranes of amphibolite-facies metapelites and amphibolites namely the Tamil Nadu area, southern India; the Val Strona area of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, northern Italy, the Bamble Sector, southern Norway, and the northwestern Austroalpine Ötztal Complex. The titanite rims, and hence the stability of titanite (CaTiSiO₄O) and Al–OH titanite, i.e. vuaganatite (hypothetical end-member CaAlSiO₄OH), are discussed in the light of fH₂O- and fO₂-buffered equilibria involving clinopyroxene, amphibole, biotite, ilmenite, magnetite, and quartz in the systems CaO–FeO/Fe₂O₃–TiO₂–SiO₂–H₂O–O₂ (CFTSH) and CaO–FeO/Fe₂O₃–Al₂O₃–SiO₂–H₂O–O₂ (CFASH) present in each of the examples. Textural evidence suggests that titanite reaction rims on ilmenite in rocks from Tamil Nadu, Val Strona, and the Bamble Sector originated most likely due to hydration reactions such as clinopyroxene + ilmenite + quartz + H₂O = amphibole + titanite and oxidation reactions such as amphibole + ilmenite + O₂ = titanite + magnetite + quartz + H₂O during amphibolite-facies metamorphism, or, as in the case of the Ötztal Complex, during a subsequent greenschist-facies overprint. Overstepping of these reactions requires fH₂O and fO₂ to be high for titanite formation, which is also in accordance with equilibria involving Al–OH titanite. This study shows that, in addition to P, T, bulk–rock composition and composition of the coexisting fluid, fO₂ and fH₂O also play an important role in the formation of Al-bearing titanite during amphibolite- and greenschist-facies metamorphism.