High-temperature metamorphic garnets from grenvillian granulites of Southwestern Oaxacan complex (Southern Mexico): petrology, geochemistry, geothermobarometry, and tectonic implication

dc.contributor.author Culí, Laura ca
dc.contributor.author Solé, Jesús ca
dc.contributor.author Oalmann, Jeffry A. G ca
dc.contributor.author Campeny, Marc ca
dc.contributor.other Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona ca
dc.coverage.spatial Oaxaca (Mèxic : Estat) ca
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-05T13:06:10Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-05T13:06:10Z
dc.date.issued 2021-07-26
dc.description The basement of eastern Mexico comprises Grenvillian-age granulite-facies metamorphic rocks. The Oaxacan Complex represents the largest outcrop belt of this basement in Mexico. In this work, southwestern Oaxacan Complex garnets are studied from a petrographical, geochemical, and geothermobarometrical perspective for the first time. The studied garnets display different grain sizes nucleated in a polyphase evolution. The almandine end member proportion is similar in all of the studied lithotypes. The highest pyrope concentrations are found in Qz Fsp paragenesis and ultramafic rocks and the lowest pyrope concentrations are found in amphibolite. The highest grossular and spessartine concentrations are found in the amphibolite lithotype. Southwestern Oaxacan Complex garnets from paraderivate samples are more enriched in Rb, Ba, Pb, Ni, and Zn than those from orthoderivate samples enriched in Ti and V. This fact is related to the nature of the protoliths and the mineral phases that fractionate the same minor and trace elements. Garnets from para- and orthoderivate samples display 0.02–1.1 Eu/Eu* anomalies. This fact indicates that almost all of the garnets formed while the plagioclase was stable, and it does not rule out the interpretation that some garnets were peritectic. The pressure obtained using a Grt-Opx-Pl-Qz geobarometer in the southwestern Oaxacan Complex is higher than the pressure obtained in the northern part of the Complex, and it is consistent with the pressure obtained in the Grenvillian-age granulites of the Novillo Gneiss from northeastern Mexico. Geothermobarometric studies reveal different P-T features at the study site, so different structural levels of the orogen are inferred.
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dc.format.extent 23 p. ca
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2072/515453
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/min11080805
dc.identifier.citation Minerals 2021, 11, 805 ca
dc.identifier.entitat consorcis ca
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11703/127798
dc.language eng ca
dc.provenance Recercat (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) ca
dc.publisher MDPI ca
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dc.subject Orogènesi ca
dc.subject Tectònica ca
dc.subject Granat ca
dc.subject Geotèrmia ca
dc.subject.category Ciència i tecnologia ca
dc.subject.forma articles ca
dc.title High-temperature metamorphic garnets from grenvillian granulites of Southwestern Oaxacan complex (Southern Mexico): petrology, geochemistry, geothermobarometry, and tectonic implication
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