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A mechanism for Nb incorporation in rutile and application of Zr-in-rutile thermometry: A case study from granulite facies paragneisses of the Mogok metamorphic belt, Myanmar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2018

Maw Maw Win ,
M. Enami ,
T. Kato  and
Ye Kyaw Thu
Maw Maw Win
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
M. Enami*
Affiliation:
Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
T. Kato
Affiliation:
Institute for Space–Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Ye Kyaw Thu
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
*
* E-mail:enami@nagoya-u.jp
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Abstract

Rutile grains occur extensively in host phases of biotite and quartz-feldspar aggregate in high-temperature paragneisses of the Mogok metamorphic belt of Myanmar. They occur as an isolated phase and sometimes show intergrowth texture with ilmenite. Most rutile grains contain up to 3.7 wt.% Nb2O5, which shows positive correlations with Fe and trivalent elements. Niobium substitutes for Ti by a coupled substitution with the trivalent cations (M3+) of Nb5+M3+Ti4+ -2. Fine-grained rutile grains included in ilmenite are distinctly poor in Nb (<0.1 wt.% as Nb2O5) and contain Fe of 1.7–3.2 wt.% as Fe2O3, suggesting vacancybearing substitution of Fe3+ 4 Ti4+ -3□–1, where □ indicates a vacancy. The rutile grains in the felsic phases contain high Zr contents of up to 4200 ppm, suggesting equilibrium temperatures over 800°C using the Ti-in-rutile geothermometer. These high-temperature conditions are consistent with those estimated by conventional methods reported in the literature and suggest widespread occurrences of the upperamphibolite and granulite facies metamorphic rocks in the middle segment of the Mogok metamorphic belt. In contrast, the Zr contents of rutile grains in biotite are usually <1000 ppm, implying equilibrium temperatures lower than 750°C. Most of the rutile grains poorer in Zr might have been included in biotite and were isolated from the zircon-bearing system during an early stage of prograde metamorphism. Some other rutile grains poorer in Zr might have been an exsolved phase from Ti-rich biotite during retrograde metamorphism, which was furthered by the infiltration of metamorphic fluid under lower-amphibolite facies conditions.

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niobiumzirconiumrutileMogok metamorphic rockMyanmar

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 81 , Issue 6 , December 2017 , pp. 1503 - 1521
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2017

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Present address: Yadanabon University, Amarapura, Mandalay, Myanmar

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