SOME REMARKS ON HIGH-TEMPERATURE - LOW-PRESSURE METAMORPHISM IN CONVERGENT OROGENS

被引:145
作者
SANDIFORD, M [1 ]
POWELL, R [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MELBOURNE,DEPT GEOL,PARKVILLE,VIC 3052,AUSTRALIA
关键词
ISOSTASY; METAMORPHISM; OROGEN; STRAIN;
D O I
10.1111/j.1525-1314.1991.tb00527.x
中图分类号
P5 [地质学];
学科分类号
0709 ; 081803 ;
摘要
Many high-temperature-low-pressure (high-T-low-P) metamorphic terranes show evidence for peak mineral growth during crustal thickening strain increments at pressures near the maximum attained during the heating-cooling cycle. Such terranes are not readily explained as the conductive response to crustal thickening since the resulting Moho temperatures would greatly exceed the crustal liquidus and because heating due to conductive equilibration on length scales appropriate to lithospheric-scale strains must greatly outlast the deformation. Consequently, high-T-low-P metamorphism may be generated during crustal thickening only when significant heat is advected within the crust, as for example may occur during the segregation of granitic melts. We show that without the addition of asthenospheric melts and at strain rates appropriate to continental deformation the conditions required for significant lower crustal melting during deformation are only likely to be attained if heat flow into the lower crust during crustal thickening is increased substantially, for example, by removing the mantle part of the lithosphere. A simple parameterization of lithospheric deformation involving the vertical strain on the scale of the crust, f(c), and the lithosphere, f(l), respectively, allows the potential energy of the evolving orogen to be readily evaluated. Using this parameterization we show that an important isostatic consequence of the deformation geometries capable of generating such high-T-low-P metamorphism during crustal thickening (with f(c) >> f(l)) is an imposed upper limit to crustal thicknesses which is much lower than for homogeneous deformations (f(c) = f(l)) for the same initial lithospheric configuration.
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