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New occurrence of UHP eclogites in Limousin (French Massif Central): Age, tectonic setting and fluid-rock interactions

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Kyanite and zoisite eclogites from the Limousin area in the Variscan French Massif Central (FMC) have been formed by deep subduction to 100 km depth at peak pressure-temperature conditions around 660 degrees C and 2.9 GPa. They belong to a thin tectonic unit comprising ophiolitic bodies devoid of HP-UHP markers and forming a transported suture zone now separating the two main lithotectonic units of the FMC with contrasted tectono-metamorphic features (namely the lower and upper allochthons). Composition of kyanite-eclogites is similar to supra-subduction-zone basalts found in back-arc basins or island arcs (LREE depleted, negative Nb-Ta anomalies, epsilon Nd: +6 to + 9). Zoisite eclogites have the major-element fingerprint of ultrabasic iron-rich plagioclase cumulates common in continental intrusions or forming Fe-Ti oceanic gabbros. The distribution of immobile trace-elements is however more comparable to alkaline Si-undersaturated rocks, but the Sr-Nd isotopic composition (Sr-87/Sr-86: 0.706; epsilon Nd: -3 to -5) suggests the intervention of an old radiogenic crustal component during their petrogenesis. The chemical composition of hydrous zoisite eclogites does not correspond closely to a common magmatic precursor. It is thus suggested that, by analogy with well exposed worldwide HP-UHP terranes, at least a part of the trace-element signature and the isotopic compositions are controlled by channelled fluid-rock interaction at UHP conditions, leading to localised segregation of zoisite that hosts nearly all Sr and LREE budgets of the bulk eclogite. Sr-Nd isotopic composition of these samples is thus controlled by zoisite and probably represents the isotopic composition of the fluid phase present during UHP recrystallisation. Zircons extracted from a zoisite eclogite were dated in-situ by LA-ICP-MS. Crystallisation of the magmatic precursor is bracketed between 489 and 475 Ma and the UHP event is dated at 412 +/- 10 Ma, in agreement with published ages for the Eo-Variscan HP stage in the FMC. A late resetting of the U-Pb isotopic system at 382 +/- 7 Ma is related to an anatectic high pressure-medium pressure event, well known in the Limousin area. The oceanic eclogites dated in this study are tentatively linked to the Galicia-South Brittany Lower Paleozoic Ocean; they show evidence of the existence of an intra-oceanic subduction zone at the Lower Ordovician and of partial closure of this oceanic domain by ocean-continent subduction during Early Devonian.

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hal-00512835 , version 1 (31-08-2010)

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Julien Berger, Olivier Femenias, Daniel Ohnenstetter, Olivier Bruguier, Gaelle Plissart, et al.. New occurrence of UHP eclogites in Limousin (French Massif Central): Age, tectonic setting and fluid-rock interactions. Lithos, 2010, 118 (3-4), pp.365-382. ⟨10.1016/j.lithos.2010.05.013⟩. ⟨hal-00512835⟩
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