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Composition of melt and garnet. a) Garnet and melt FeO and MgO composition in wt.% at different temperatures. Filled symbols indicate garnet and open symbols indicate melt. b) Variation of trace element composition of the melt with temperature. Filled symbols are for Th and U contents in experiments containing significant amounts of allanite.  

Composition of melt and garnet. a) Garnet and melt FeO and MgO composition in wt.% at different temperatures. Filled symbols indicate garnet and open symbols indicate melt. b) Variation of trace element composition of the melt with temperature. Filled symbols are for Th and U contents in experiments containing significant amounts of allanite.  

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Garnet is the most commonly used mineral in thermobarometry, whereas zircon is the most robust chronometer to date high-grade metamorphic rocks. To provide a basis for correlation of zircon and garnet growth, we determined experimentally the trace element partitioning between zircon, a hydrous granitic melt and garnet at 20 kbar and 800–1000 °C for...

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... experiments produced peraluminous granitic melts with an alumina saturation index [ASI = Al/(K + Na + 2Ca) expressed in molar fraction] between 1.15 and 1.49 (Table 3). The melt shows a moderate trend to more mafic compositions at higher temperature with increasing in MgO and FeO contents (Fig. 4a). The measured totals of 84-89 wt.% oxides indicate that the melts contain additional about 11-16 wt.% of H 2 O, in agreement with mass balance having 11 wt.% of H 2 O in the starting material and 70-90% melt in the experiments. Compositional variations in experiments run at identical conditions are due to some difference in the ...
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... (Fig. 5). EDS and WDS analyses were performed along one or more profiles across the garnet crystals and the small standard deviation on multiple analyses reported in Table 4 testifies to the homogeneity of garnet. With increasing temperature, there is a systematic increase in the pyrope component of garnet (Py 25 @800 °C-Py 44 @1000 °C, Table 4, Fig. 4a), whereas the grossular component decreases (Gr 22 @800 °C-Gr 8 @1000 °C). Normalisation of the garnets including also the measured trace elements indicates that only a small amount of Fe 3+ of less then 5% of the total iron is required to obtain charge balance. An interesting feature of the experiments is the observed change of Mg# ...
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... decreases (Gr 22 @800 °C-Gr 8 @1000 °C). Normalisation of the garnets including also the measured trace elements indicates that only a small amount of Fe 3+ of less then 5% of the total iron is required to obtain charge balance. An interesting feature of the experiments is the observed change of Mg# (Mg/(Mg + Fe 2+ )) of garnet relative to melt ( Fig. 4a). At 800 to 900 °C garnet has a lower Mg# than the melt, at 950 °C it is identical and at 1000 °C garnet has a higher Mg# than melt. Therefore, garnetproducing partial melting of felsic rocks at low temperature will generate a restite that has a significantly lower Mg# and a melt that has a higher Mg# than the ...
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... trace element composition of the melt within each experiment is homogeneous (Table 3). The Ba content of the melts is slightly higher than in the starting material indicating that the experiments contained high amounts of melt (N 80%). The small decrease of Ba with increasing T is related to an increase in melt volume (Fig. 4b). Apart from Ba, a general increase of trace elements in the melt is observed with increasing T (Table 3 and Fig. 4b). The most systematic change in concentration is observed in Zr because the melts are buffered with zircon over the whole temperature range. This systematic change provides good evidence that the melts attained trace ...
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... Ba content of the melts is slightly higher than in the starting material indicating that the experiments contained high amounts of melt (N 80%). The small decrease of Ba with increasing T is related to an increase in melt volume (Fig. 4b). Apart from Ba, a general increase of trace elements in the melt is observed with increasing T (Table 3 and Fig. 4b). The most systematic change in concentration is observed in Zr because the melts are buffered with zircon over the whole temperature range. This systematic change provides good evidence that the melts attained trace element equilibrium. Hf shows a similar correlation to Zr, although the increase is less pronounced. Therefore Hf/Zr ...

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