Major and trace element compositions of the Buendnerschiefer samples


Autoria(s): Garofalo, Paolo Stefano
Cobertura

MEDIAN LATITUDE: 46.578333 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: 8.251111 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 46.170000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 7.440000 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 51.440000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 9.610000

Data(s)

30/08/2012

Resumo

The Bündnerschiefer of the Swiss-Italian Alps is a large sedimentary complex deposited on the Piemonte-Liguria and Valais oceans and associated continental margins from the upper Jurassic to Eocene. It is made of a large variety of sequences associated or not with an ophiolitic basement. The Bündnerschiefer makes an accretionary prism that developed syn-tectonically from the onset of alpine subduction, and it records orogenic metamorphism following episodes of HP metamorphism. The Bündnerschiefer shares important similarities with the Otago schists of New Zealand and with the Wepawaug schists of Connecticut, both of which form accretionary prisms and have an orogenic metamorphic imprint. With the aim of testing the hypothesis of mobility of chemical components as a function of metamorphic grade, in this work I present fifty-five bulk chemical analyses of various lithological facies of the Bündnerschiefer collected along the well-studied field gradient of the Lepontine dome of Central Switzerland, in the Prättigau half window of East Switzerland, and in the Tsaté Nappe of Valle d'Aosta (Italy). The dataset includes the concentration of major components, large ion lithophile elements (Rb, Sr, Ba, Cs), high field strength elements (Zr, Ti, Nb, Th, U, Ta, Hf), fluid-mobile light elements (B, Li), volatiles (CO2, S), REEs, and Y, V, Cr, Co, Sn, Pb, Cu, Zn, Tl, Sb, Be, and Au. These data are compared against the compositions of the global marine sediment reservoir, typical crustal reservoirs, and against the previously measured compositions of Otago and Wepawaug schists. Results reveal that, irrespective of their metamorphic evolution, the bulk chemical compositions of orogenic metasediments are characterized by mostly constant compositional ratios (e.g., K2O/Al2O3, Ba/Al2O3, Sr/CaO, etc.), whose values in most cases are undistinguishable from those of actual marine sediments and other crustal reservoirs. For these rocks, only volatile concentrations decrease dramatically as a function of metamorphic temperature, and significant deviations from the reservoir signatures are evident for SiO2, B, and Li. These results are interpreted as an indication of residual enrichment in the sediments, a process taking place during syn-metamorphic dehydration from the onset of metamorphism in a regime of chemical immobility. Residual enrichment increased the absolute concentrations of the chemical components of these rocks, but did not modify significantly their fundamental ratios. This poor compositional modification of the sediments indicates that orogenic metamorphism in general does not promote significant mass transfer from accretionary prisms. In contrast, mass transfer calculations carried out in a shear zone crosscutting the Bündnerschiefer shows that significant mass transfer occurs within these narrow zones, resulting in gains of H2O, SiO2, Al2O3, K2O, Ba, Y, Rb, Cu, V, Tl, Mo, and Ce during deformation and loss of Na2O, CO2, S, Ni, B, U, and Pb from the rock. These components were presumably transported by an aquo-carbonic fluid along the shear zone. These distinct attitudes to mobilize chemical elements from orogenic sediments may have implications for a potentially large number of geochemical processes in active continental margins, from the recycling of chemical components at plate margins to the genesis of hydrothermal ore deposits.

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text/tab-separated-values, 2751 data points

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https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.771378

doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.771378

Idioma(s)

en

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PANGAEA

Direitos

CC-BY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

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Fonte

Supplement to: Garofalo, Paolo Stefano (2012): The composition of Alpine marine sediments (Bündnerschiefer Formation, W Alps) and the mobility of their chemical components during orogenic metamorphism. Lithos, 128-131, 55-72, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.10.009

Palavras-Chave #Aluminium oxide; Antimony; Barium; Beryllium; Boron; Bündnerschiefer Formation, Western Alps; Caesium; Calcium oxide; Carbon, organic, total; Carbon dioxide; Cerium; Chloride; Chromium(III) oxide; Cobalt; Copper; Dysprosium; Erbium; Europium; Fluorine; Gadolinium; Geological sample; GEOS; Gold; Hafnium; Holmium; Iodine; Iron oxide, Fe2O3; Lanthanum; LATITUDE; Lead; Lithium; LONGITUDE; Loss on ignition; Lutetium; Magnesium oxide; Manganese oxide; Molybdenum; Neodymium; Nickel; Niobium; Nitrogen, inorganic; Phosphorus oxide; Potassium oxide; Praseodymium; Rubidium; Samarium; Sample code/label; Silicon dioxide; Sodium oxide; Strontium; Sulfur, total; Tantalum; Terbium; Thorium; Thulium; Tin; Titanium oxide; Uranium; Vanadium; WAlps; Ytterbium; Yttrium; Zinc; Zirconium
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