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Paper
Relationships between eclogite-facies mineral assemblages, deformation microstructures, and seismic properties in the Yuka terrane, North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt, NW China
2019
Overview
To understand the relationships between eclogite-facies mineral assemblages, deformation microstructures, and the seismic properties of subducting oceanic crust, eclogites from the Yuka terrane, North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt, NW China were studied. Observations of mineral textures, deformation microstructures, and petrofabrics in the eclogites indicate that garnet, omphacite, and phengite were deformed by intra-crystalline deformation (i.e., dislocation creep) during prograde metamorphism. In contrast, amphibole, which was formed by the topotactic replacement of omphacite at fluid-present conditions, is considered to have been deformed by diffusional flow (dissolution–precipitation creep) during amphibolite-facies retrogression associated with exhumation. Based on the petrofabrics in the samples, the seismic properties of the eclogites were calculated depending on eclogite-facies mineral assemblages such as garnet + omphacite (GO), garnet + omphacite + phengite (GOP), garnet + omphacite + phengite + lawsonite (GOPL), garnet + omphacite + phengite + amphibole (GOPA), and garnet + omphacite + amphibole (GOA). We found that the seismic signatures of each of the eclogite-facies mineral assemblages were different. In particular, phengite-bearing eclogites (the GOP/GOPA assemblages), depending on phengite content, produced the strongest seismic anisotropy (AVp and AVs), with a strong polarization anisotropy, that was at least three times higher than bimineralic (phengite-absent) eclogite (GO assemblage). Our results show that phengite, as a stable phase at high pressure and temperature conditions, can play an important role in the creation of trench-parallel seismic anisotropy in the eclogite-facies mineral assemblages found in subduction zones.
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American Geophysical Union
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