Sequential trace element analysis of zoned skarn garnet: Implications for multi-stage fluxing and flow of magmatic fluid into a skarn system
- Authors
- Park, Changyun; Park, Chaewon; Song, Yungoo; Choi, Seon-Gyu
- Issue Date
- 15-12월-2019
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Garnet; Skarn; Trace elements; Magma processes; Oscillatory zoning
- Citation
- LITHOS, v.350
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- LITHOS
- Volume
- 350
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/60914
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105213
- ISSN
- 0024-4937
- Abstract
- A high-resolution fluid flux-flow model for a shallow crustal system related to skarn formation was established using oscillatory zoning in garnet. In situ analytical methods were used to determine major and trace element contents of andradite-rich and lower-andradite-content garnet zones. Continuous analysis of pure andradite (And(87-98)) shows these garnets record first- and second-order fluid fluxes. The first-order fluid flux exhibits a stepwise increase in Sn contents and a decrease in the contents of other elements (Ti, V, W, As, Mo, Y, and rare earth elements), indicating that pure andradite records a large range changes in fluid flux from the magma. The second-order flux is evident from oscillatory variations in the contents of Sn and other elements, reflecting small-scale and pulsed changes in the fluid flux from a degassing magma reservoir. Based on the garnet major and trace element variations and mineral textures, these fluid fluxes in the skarn system were controlled by pulsed degassing of a cooling magma. Continuous analysis of oscillatory zoning in garnet with a lower andradite content (And(72-81)) showed that Sn concentrations increase gradually and other element concentrations decrease gradually. This garnet crystallized from a fluid that was locally equilibrated with a small-scale, stagnant fluid. Thick and low-andradite garnet bands (And(62-76)) are observed to have grown between the first-order fluid fluxing events. These bands are Al-rich and have retrograde textures, indicating prolonged magma residence after the first-order fluid flux, suggesting that circulating fluids persisted for a relatively long time. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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