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OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR METEORIC WATER INFILTRATION DURING MYLONITIZATION AND UPLIFT IN THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE CORE COMPLEX, NEVADA

FRICKE, HC ; WICKHAM, SM ; ONEIL

Contributions to mineralogy and petrology, 1992-07, Vol.111 (2), p.203-221 [Periódico revisado por pares]

NEW YORK: Springer Nature

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  • Título:
    OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR METEORIC WATER INFILTRATION DURING MYLONITIZATION AND UPLIFT IN THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE CORE COMPLEX, NEVADA
  • Autor: FRICKE, HC ; WICKHAM, SM ; ONEIL
  • Assuntos: Earth sciences ; Earth, ocean, space ; Exact sciences and technology ; Geochemistry & Geophysics ; Hydrology ; Isotope geochemistry ; Isotope geochemistry. Geochronology ; Mineralogy ; Minerals ; Petrology ; Physical Sciences ; Plate tectonics ; Science & Technology ; Water
  • É parte de: Contributions to mineralogy and petrology, 1992-07, Vol.111 (2), p.203-221
  • Descrição: Stable isotope analyses of rocks and minerals associated with the detachment fault and underlying mylonite zone exposed at Secret Creek gorge and other localities in the Ruby-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex in northeastern Nevada provide convincing evidence for meteoric water infiltration during mylonitization. Whole-rock delta-O-18 values of the lower plate quartzite mylonites (greater-than-or-equal-to 95% modal quartz) have been lowered by up to 10 per mil compared with structurally lower, compositionally similar, unmylonitized material. Biotite from these rocks has delta-D values ranging from -125 to -175, compared to values of -55 to -70 in biotite from unmylonitized rocks. Mylonitized leucogranites have large disequilibrium oxygen isotope fractionations (DELTA(quartz-feldspar) up to approximately 8 per mil) relative to magmatic values (DELTA(quartz-feldspar) approximately 1 to 2 per mil). Meteoric water is the only major oxygen and hydrogen reservoir with an isotopic composition capable of generating the observed values. Fluid inclusion water from unstrained quartz in silicified breccia has a delta-D value of -119 which provides a plausible estimate of the delta-D of the infiltrating fluid, and is similar to the isotopic composition of present-day and Tertiary local meteoric water. The quartzite mylonite biotites would have been in equilibrium with such a fluid at temperatures of 480-620-degrees-C, similar to independent estimates of the temperature of mylonitization. The relatively high temperatures required for isotopic exchange between quartz and water, the occurrence of fluid inclusion trails and deformed veins in quartzite mylonites, and the spatial association of the low-O-18, low-D rocks with the shear zone all constrain isotopic exchange to the mylonitic (plastic) deformation event. These observations suggest that a significant amount of meteoric water infiltrated the shear zone during mylonitization to depths of at least 5 to 10 km below the surface. The depth of penetration of meteoric fluids into the lower plate mylonites was at least 70 meters below the detachment fault. In contrast. the upper-plate unmylonitized fault slices are dominated by brittle fracture and are often intensely veined (carbonates) or silicified (volcanic rocks and breccias). The fluids associated with the veining and silicification were also meteoric as evidenced by low delta-O-18 values of the veins. which are often 10 per mil lower than the adjacent carbonate matrix, and the exceptionally low delta-O-18 values (down to -4.4) of the breccias. Several previous studies have documented the infiltration of meteoric fluids into the brittley deformed upper plate rocks of core complexes, but this study provides convincing evidence that surface fluids have penetrated lower plate rocks undergoing plastic deformation. It is proposed that infiltration took place as the shear zone began the transition from plastic flow to brittle fracture while the lower plate rocks were being uplifted. During this period, plastic flow and brittle fracture were operating simultaneously, perhaps allowing upper plate meteoric fluids to be seismically pumped down into the lower plate mylonites.
  • Editor: NEW YORK: Springer Nature
  • Idioma: Inglês
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