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Petrochemistry of metamorphosed pillows, and the geochemical status of the amphibolites (Proterozoic) from the Sirohi district, Rajasthan, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. K. Bhattacharyya  and
A. D. Mukherjee
P. K. Bhattacharyya
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700032, India
A. D. Mukherjee
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700032, India
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Abstract

Relic pillows in the middle Proterozoic amphibolites, occurring in the Sirohi Road–Abu Road tract of Rajasthan, India exhibit contrasted mineral assemblages from core to rim – mimetic after the crystalline core, the zone of incipient crystallization, and the rim of the original pillows. The major element distribution pattern across the pillows indicates exchange of Na–Al for Ca (Mg, Fe) in an inner reaction zone, surrounding the core and in the inner margin of the rim, and Fe–Al exchange for Ca–Si at the outer margin of the rim.

Despite such exchanges around the rims, these pillows have retained their initial geochemical characteristics internally and thus have largely acted as closed systems during post-emplacement metamorphism. Mineral parageneses indicate that the contrasted mineral assemblages could evolve from domainal characters of the co-existing fluids, the compositions of which were only buffered by the reacting minerals during regional metamorphism.

The major, minor and trace element contents of the pillows and of amphibolites of diverse petrographic character in the region further establish that the pillow interiors and the massive amphibolites were least modified during metamorphism(s), and represent oceanic tholeiites. Their average 2300 ppm K, 4.5 ppm Rb, 150 ppm Sr, along with the K/Rb and K/Sr ratios of 510 and 15 respectively resemble that of the low K-tholeiites, occurring nearest to the trenches in modern island arcs. On the other hand, the higher values of 17300 ppm K, 4.9 ppm Rb, and 210 ppm Sr of the banded and the schistose amphibolites indicate that they were contaminated in various magnitudes by oceanic sediments.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 121 , Issue 5 , September 1984 , pp. 465 - 473
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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