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Title: Garnet zoning patterns record multiple processes of chemical transfer during subduction
In garnets from eclogites and blueschists formed within the subduction setting, fine-scale, oscillatory elemental zoning is a common feature, sometimes considered to record open-system fluid exchange during prograde metamorphism. We present oxygen isotope data for garnets with such zoning from five exhumed subduction zone complexes. Short length scale fluctuations in elemental and oxygen isotope zoning (which are themselves spatially decoupled) cannot be linked to open-system fluid exchange during garnet crystallization in all samples; these data do not provide evidence for a genetic relationship between elemental oscillations and fluid fluxing. However, garnets from one setting do provide clear evidence for syn-growth ingress of elementally and isotopically buffering fluids, a process that operated simultaneously with the formation of elemental oscillations. Our findings indicate multiple mechanisms of chemical transfer operate at the grain–rock scale during subduction, and that some subduction zone rocks may experience only limited interaction with external prograde fluids. These results are consistent with a picture of highly heterogenous volatile transfer during subduction, and suggest that some proportion of the fluid inventory inherited at shallow depths may be transferred to sub-arc depths.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1831766
PAR ID:
10501133
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Elsevier
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Volume:
631
ISSN:
0012-821X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
118634
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Oscillatory zoning Garnet Subduction fluids Oxygen isotopes
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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