Discovery of an albite gneiss from the Ile de Groix (Armorican Massif, France): geochemistry and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of its Ordovician protolith - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers Accéder directement au contenu
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Discovery of an albite gneiss from the Ile de Groix (Armorican Massif, France): geochemistry and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of its Ordovician protolith

Susanne Th. Schmidt
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Michel Ballevre
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Olivier Bruguier
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Résumé

For the first time, an albite orthogneiss has been recognised and dated within the HP-LT blueschist facies metabasites and metapelites of the Ile de Groix. It is characterised by a peraluminous composition, high LILE, Th and U contents, MORB-like HREE abundances and moderate Nb and Y values. A U-Pb age of 480.8 ± 4.8 Ma was obtained by LA-ICP-MS dating of zircon and titanite. It is interpreted as the age of the magmatic emplacement during the Early Ordovician. Morphologically different zircon grains yield late Neoproterozoic ages of 546.6-647.4 Ma. Zircon and titanite U-Pb ages indicate that the felsic magmatism from the Ile de Groix is contemporaneous with the acid, pre-orogenic magmatism widely recognised in the internal zones of the Variscan belt, related to the Cambro-Ordovician continental rifting. The magmatic protolith probably inherited a specific chemical composition from a combination of orogenic, back-arc and anorogenic signatures because of partial melting of the Cadomian basement during magma emplacement. Besides, the late Devonian U-Pb age of 366 ± 33 Ma obtained for titanite from a blueschist facies metapelite corresponds to the age of the HP-LT peak metamorphism.

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insu-00714570 , version 1 (05-07-2012)

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Alifé El Korh, Susanne Th. Schmidt, Michel Ballevre, Alexey Ulianov, Olivier Bruguier. Discovery of an albite gneiss from the Ile de Groix (Armorican Massif, France): geochemistry and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of its Ordovician protolith. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012, 101 (5), pp.1169-1190. ⟨10.1007/s00531-011-0732-5⟩. ⟨insu-00714570⟩
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