锆石饱和温度 zircon saturation temperatures and preservation of inheritance.pdf

Hot and cold granites? Implications of zircon saturation temperatures and preservation of inheritance Calvin F. Miller  Susanne Meschter McDowell*  Department of Geology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA Russell W. Mapes*  ABSTRACT Zircon Saturation Thermometry Zircon saturation temperatures (TZr) calculated from bulk- Watson and Harrison (1983) established the following relationship rock compositions provide minimum estimates of temperature if among zircon solubility, temperature, and major element composition the magma was undersaturated, but maxima if it was saturated. of melt: For plutons with abundant inherited zircon, TZr provides a useful estimate of initial magma temperature at the source, an important ln D Zr,zircon/melt {3.8 [0.85(M 1)]} 12,900/T, (1) parameter that is otherwise inaccessible. Among 54 investigated plutons, there is a clear distinction between TZr for inheritance- where DZr,zircon/melt is the ratio of Zr concentration (ppm) in zircon rich (mean 766 C) and inheritance-poor (mean 837 C) granitoids. (476,000 ppm) to that in the saturated melt; M is a compositional The latter were probably undersaturated in zircon at the source, factor that accounts for dependence of zircon solubility on SiO2 and and hence the calculated TZr is likely to be an underestimate of peraluminosity of the melt [(Na K 2·Ca)/(Al·Si), all in cation their initial temperature. These data suggest fundamentally differ- fraction]; and temperature, T, is in kelvins (however, all temperatures ent mechanisms of magma generation,