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A fluid inclusion study of the Tourmaline Hill Granite, Umberatana, South Australia: Implications for hydrothermal activity and wallrock metasomatism

Eine Untersuchung von Flüssigkeitseinschlüssen am Tourmaline Hill Granite, Umberatana, Südaustralien: Hinweise auf hydrothermale Aktivität und Nebengesteinsmetasomatose

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Homogenization temperatures and salinity data are documented for fluid inclusions present in quartz from a Palaeozoic alkaline to peralkaline granite intrusion. A wide range of salinities (3.8 to 60.6 wt% NaCl equivalent) and homogenization temperatures (25.8 to 537 °C) indicates a sequential entrapment of different fluids, whereby the detected salinities decreased as a direct result of decreasing homogenization temperatures. Fluids were saturated with NaCl at 537°C and the development of hydrothermal solutions occurred at 1 100 ± 300 bars. Hydrothermal activity and the release of volatiles, F and B, during granite crystallization resulted in phlogopitization and tourmalinization of intruded metapelites. Volatile degassing, the presence of hypersaline hydrothermal fluids and contamination on the periphery of the intrusives by aluminous sediments led to the transport of K, Rb, Li, Mg, Cs, Be and Ta via halogen complexes from the granite system into the metapelitic aureole.

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Homogenisationstemperaturen und Salinitätsdaten von Flüssigkeitseinschlüssen in einer paläozoischen alkalinen-peralkalinen Granitintrusion sind dokumentiert. Eine weite Spanne von Salinitätsdaten (3.8 bis 60.6 Gewichts% NaCl äquivalent) und Homogenisationstemperaturen (25.8 bis 537 °C) deutet einen aufeinanderfolgenden Einschluß von fluiden Phasen an, wobei die Salinitäten mit verringerten Homogenisationstemperaturen abnahmen. Die Fluida waren bei 537°C mit NaCl gesättigt; hydrothermale Aktivität und der Verlust von Gasen, F und B, während der Granitkristallisation verursachte Phlogopitisierung und Turmalinisierung der intrudierten Metapelite. Entgasung, hochsaline hydrothermale Lösungen und Kontamination am Rande der Intrusionen durch Al-reiche Sedimente führte zum Transport von K, Rb, Li, Mg, Cs, Be und Ta als Halogen-Komplexe von der Granitintrusion in die metapelitische Kontaktaureole.

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Lottermoser, B.G. A fluid inclusion study of the Tourmaline Hill Granite, Umberatana, South Australia: Implications for hydrothermal activity and wallrock metasomatism. Mineralogy and Petrology 36, 135–148 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01164486

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