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dc.contributor.authorRaimondo, T.
dc.contributor.authorClark, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorHand, M.
dc.contributor.authorCliff, J.
dc.contributor.authorAnczkiewicz, R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:05:53Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:05:53Z
dc.date.created2014-02-13T20:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationRaimondo, Tom and Clark, Chris and Hand, Martin and Cliff, John and Anczkiewicz, Robert. 2013. A simple mechanism for mid-crustal shear zones to record surface-derived fluid signatures. Geology. 41 (6): pp. 711-714.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28583
dc.identifier.doi10.1130/G34043.1
dc.description.abstract

Ion microprobe analyses of garnet porphyroblasts from three separate splays of the mid-crustal Walter-Outalpa shear zone, Curnamona Province, South Australia, indicate homogeneous δ18O values of <3‰. Integrated Lu-Hf geochronology and electron microprobe compositional mapping demonstrate that closed-system growth of these isotopically light garnets initiated as early as 531 Ma, prior to peak metamorphism and deformation during the Delamerian Orogeny (514–490 Ma). We attribute this to the prograde burial and dehydration of altered fault panels under thick sedimentary sequences during pre-orogenic basin formation. Contrary to established fluid transport models, surficial fluid signatures were not imposed at depth by large fluxes of downward-penetrating fluids, but rather by the exposure and meteoric alteration of fault rocks that were subsequently buried and reactivated as ductile shear zones. The existence of low δ18O values in deeply exhumed shear zones may therefore be indicative of fault structures that have a prior history of surface exposure, weathering, burial and re-exposure.

dc.publisherGeological Society of America
dc.titleA simple mechanism for mid-crustal shear zones to record surface-derived fluid signatures
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume41
dcterms.source.startPage711
dcterms.source.endPage714
dcterms.source.issn0091-7613
dcterms.source.titleGeology
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