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Inherited igneous zircons in jadeitite predate high-pressure metamorphism and jadeitite formation in the Jagua Clara serpentinite mélange of the Rio San Juan Complex (Dominican Republic)

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This study utilizes zircon SIMS U–Pb dating, REE and trace-element analysis as well as oxygen isotope ratios of zircon to distinguish jadeite-rich rocks that formed by direct crystallization from a hydrous fluid from those that represent products of a metasomatic replacement process. Zircon was separated from a concordant jadeitite layer and its blueschist host, as well as from loose blocks of albite-jadeite rock and jadeitite that were all collected from the Jagua Clara serpentinite-matrix mélange in the northern Dominican Republic. In the concordant jadeitite layer, three groups of zircon domains were distinguished based on both age as well as geochemical and oxygen isotope values: age groups old (117.1 ± 0.9 Ma), intermediate (three dates: 90.6, 97.3, 106.0 Ma) and young (77.6 ± 1.3 Ma). Zircon populations from the blueschist host as well as the other three jadeite-rich samples generally match zircon domains of the old age group in age as well as geochemistry and oxygen isotope ratios. Moreover, these older zircon populations are indistinguishable from zircon typical of igneous oceanic crust and hence are probably inherited from igneous protoliths of the jadeite-rich rocks. Therefore, the results suggest that all investigated jadeite-rich rocks were formed by a metasomatic replacement process. The younger domains might signal actual ages of jadeitite formation, but there is no unequivocal proof for coeval zircon-jadeite growth.

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Acknowledgments

The work presented here is part of the PhD thesis of A. Hertwig that was financially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SCHE 517/10-1). We are grateful to Peter Segler at the Selfrag Lab and Mineral Processing Laboratories of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg for assistance during zircon separation. We would also like to thank Joe Wooden and other staff of the US Geological Survey–Stanford University Ion Probe Laboratory for assistance during SHRIMP analyses. Comments of Craig Grimes and an anonymous reviewer helped to substantially improve the manuscript. WiscSIMS is partly supported by the US National Science Foundation (EAR 1355590).

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  1. Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    Andreas Hertwig, Hans-Peter Schertl & Walter V. Maresch

  2. Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    William C. McClelland

  3. WiscSIMS, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706-1692, USA

    Kouki Kitajima & John W. Valley

  4. Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, Geotechnik und Bergbau, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 09599, Freiberg, Germany

    Klaus Stanek

  5. Centre of Isotopic Research, Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), 199106, St.-Petersburg, Russia

    Sergey A. Sergeev

  6. Geological Faculty, St.-Petersburg State University, 199034, St.-Petersburg, Russia

    Sergey A. Sergeev

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Hertwig, A., McClelland, W.C., Kitajima, K. et al. Inherited igneous zircons in jadeitite predate high-pressure metamorphism and jadeitite formation in the Jagua Clara serpentinite mélange of the Rio San Juan Complex (Dominican Republic). Contrib Mineral Petrol 171, 48 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-016-1256-6

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