Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Phase equilibria modelling and textural relationship of metapelitic granulites and Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses from Mauranipur area, Bundelkhand Craton, central India

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Arabian Journal of Geosciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The Bundelkhand Craton (BuC) is a major Archean cratonic nucleus of the Central Indian Shield, consisting of supracrustal units of greenschist to granulite facies assemblages. The Mauranipur area is located in the Babina–Mauranipur Greenstone Belt of the central portion of the Bundelkhand Craton and is characterized by metapelitic granulites and garnet-biotite-bearing gneisses. The metapelitic granulites and garnet-biotite-bearing gneisses occur in several positions, including as enclaves within TTGs and as discordant cross-cutting associations. Grt-Opx-Sil-Pl-Kfs-Ilm-Qz-melt is inferred to represent the peak metamorphic conditions of the metapelitic granulites, whereas Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses contain Grt-Bt-Pl-Ilm-Kfs-Qz. Field observations, petrography, conventional geothermobarometry, and phase equilibrium modelling interpretations reveal peak and retrograde metamorphic phases within metapelitic granulites and peak metamorphism within Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses. The peak metamorphic conditions of metapelitic granulites are represented by Grt-Opx-Sil-Pl-Kfs-Ilm-Qz-melt, and XMg isopleth lines of garnet and orthopyroxene delineate the P–T conditions that range from 5.8 to 7.2 kbar and > 825ºC. The retrograde metamorphism is documented by the presence of the Grt-Bt-Pl-Sil-Ilm-Kfs-Qz mineral assemblage, where XMg isopleth lines define the P–T parameters ranging from > 4.3 kbar and 540–750ºC. The phase equilibria modelling has also been used to constrain the metamorphic evolution of Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses, in which peak condition is recognized by the presence of Grt-Bt-Pl-Ilm-Kfs-Qz, with P–T parameters ranging from 3 to 5.7 kbar and 600 to 700ºC. We infer that metapelitic granulites and Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses first experienced crustal thickening, indicating subduction and/or collision-related tectonic processes, and then experienced rapid crustal exhumation.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Basu AK (1986) Geology of parts of the Bundelkhand Granite massif Central India. Record Geol Surv India 117:61–124

    Google Scholar 

  • Basu AK (2001) Some characteristics of the Precambrian crust in the northern part of Central India. Geol Soc India Spec Publ 55:181–204

    Google Scholar 

  • Bhattacharya A, Krishnakumar KR, Raith M, Sen SK (1991) An improved set of a-X parameters for Fe–Mg–Ca garnets and refinements of the orthopyroxene-garnet thermometer and the orthopyroxene-garnet-plagioclase-quartz barometer. J Petrol 32:629–656

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brown M (1993) P-T–t evolution of orogenic belts and the causes of regional metamorphism. J Geol Soc 150:227–241

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brown M (2007) Metamorphic conditions in orogenic belts: a record of secular change. Int Geol Rev 49:193–234

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brown M (2010) When did one-sided subduction begin on Earth? The metamorphic record and modeling. In 5th International Archean Symposium Abstracts. Geol Surv Western Australia Perth Record 18:176–179

    Google Scholar 

  • Chauhan H, Saikia A, Ahmad T (2018) Episodic crustal growth in the Bundelkhand craton of central India shield: Constraints from petrogenesis of the tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite gneisses and K-rich granites of Bundelkhand tectonic zone. J Earth Sys Sci 127(3):1–34

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Connolly JAD (2005) Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming: A tool for geodynamic modelling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation. Earth Planet Sci Lett 236:524–541

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Connolly JAD (2009) The geodynamic equation of state: what and how. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 10(10):1–19

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eriksson PG, Banerjee S, Octavian C, Sarkar S, Bumby A, Mtimkulu MN (2007) Prime controls on Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic sedimentation: change over time. Gondwana Res 12:550–559

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferry JM, Spear FS (1978) Experimental calibration of the partitioning of Fe and Mg between biotite and garnet. Contrib Mineral Petrol 66:113–117

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fuhrman ML, Lindsley DH (1988) Ternary-feldspar modeling and thermometry. Am Mineral 73:201–215

    Google Scholar 

  • Guiraud M, Powell R, Rebay G (2001) H2O in metamorphism and unexpected behaviour in the preservation of metamorphic mineral assemblages. J Metamorph Geol 19:445–454

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harley SL (1985) Garnet-orthopyroxene bearing granulites from Enderby Land, Antarctica: metamorphic pressure temperature-time evolution of the Archaean Napier Complex. J Petrol 26:819–856

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hawkesworth C, Dhuime B, Pietranik A, Kemp A, Storey C (2010) The generation and evolution of the continental crust. J Geol Soc 167:229–248

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holdaway MJ, Lee SM (1977) Fe–Mg cordierite stability in high natural pelitic rocks based on experimental, theoretical and natural observations. Contrib Mineral Petrol 63:175–198

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holland TJB, Powell RTJB (1998) An internally consistent thermodynamic data set phases of petrological interest. J Metamorph Geol 16(3):309–343

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holland TJB, Powell R (2011) An improved and extended internally consistent thermodynamic dataset for phases of petrological interest, involving a new equation of state for solids. J Metamorph Geol 29:333–383

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hölttä P, Heilimo E, Huhma H, Kontinen A, Mertanen S, Mikkola P, Paavola J, Peltonen P, Semprich J, Slabunov A, Sorjonen-Ward P (2014) The Archaean Karelia and Belomorian Provinces, Fennoscandian Shield. In: Dilek Y, Furnes H (eds) Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 55–102

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Jayananda M, Peucat JJ, Chardon D, Krishna Rao B, Fanning CM, Corfu F (2013) Neoarchean greenstone volcanism and continental growth, Dharwar craton, southern India: Constraints from SIMS U-Pb zircon geochronology and Nd isotopes. Precambr Res 227:55–76

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Joshi KB, Bhattacharjee J, Rai G, Halla J, Ahmad T, Kurhila M, Choudhary AK (2017) The diversification of granitoids and plate tectonic implications at the Archaean-Proterozoic boundary in the Bundelkhand Craton, central India. Geol Soc Spec Publ 449:123–157

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kamber B (2015) The evolving nature of terrestrial crust from the Hadean, through the Archaean, into the Proterozoic. Precambr Res 258:48–82

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kaur P, Zeh A, Chaudhri N, Eliyas N (2016) Unravelling the record of Archaean crustal evolution of the Bundelkhand Craton, northern India, using U-Pb zircon–monazite ages, Lu-Hf isotope systematics, and whole-rock geochemistry of granitoids. Precambr Res 281:384–413

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kumar G, Kumar S, Yi K (2021) Three distinct Archean crustal growth events as recorded from 3.48 Ga migmatite, 2.70 Ga leucogranite, and 2.54 Ga alkali granite in the Bundelkhand Craton Central India. J Asian Earth Sci 219:104886

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lal RK (1993) Internally consistent recalibrations of mineral equilibria for geothermobarometry involving garnet–orthopyroxene–plagioclase–quartz assemblages and their application to the South Indian granulites. J Metamorph Geol 11:855–866

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lana C, Kisters A, Stevens G (2010) Exhumation of Mesoarchean TTG gneisses from the middle crust: Insights from the Steynsdorp core complex, Barberton granitoid–greenstone terrain, South Africa. Bull Geol Soc Am 122:183–197

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee HY, Ganguly J (1988) Equilibrium compositions of coexisting garnet and orthopyroxene: Experimental determinations in the system FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2, and applications. J Petrol 29:93–113

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Malviya VP, Arima M, Pati JK, Kaneko Y (2006) Petrology and geochemistry of metamorphosed basaltic pillow lava and basaltic komatiite in the Mauranipur area: subduction related volcanism in the Archean Bundelkhand craton, Central India. J Mineral Petrol Sci 101(4):199–217

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mondal MEA, Goswami JN, Deomurari MP, Sharma KK (2002) Ion microprobe 207Pb/206/Pb ages of zircon 1426 Slabunov AI, Singh VK from the Bundelkhand massif, northern India: Implication for crustal evolution of Bundelkhand – Aravalli protocontinent. Precambr Res 117:85–100

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nance R, Murphy J, Santosh M (2014) The supercontinent cycle: a retrospective essay. Gondwana Res 25:4–29

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nasipuri P, Saha L, Hangqiang X, Pati J, Satyanaryanan M, Sarkar S, BhandariA, Gaur Y (2019) Paleoarchean crustal evolution of the Bundelkhand Craton, North Central India. Earth’s Oldest Rocks 793.

  • Felix G, Ogg J, Martin VK (2008) On the geologic time scale. Newsl Stratigraphy 43:5–13

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pandey R, Chalapathi Rao NV, Pandit D, Sahoo S, Dhote P (2018) Imprints of modal metasomatism in the Post-Deccan subcontinental lithospheric mantle: petrological evidence from an ultramafic xenolith in an Eocene lamprophyre, NW India. J Geol Soc Lon, Spl Publ 463:117–136

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pradhan VR, Meerta JG, Pandit MK, Kamenova G, Mondal MEA (2012) Paleomagnetic and geochronological studies of the mafic dyke swarms of BundelkhandCraton, central India; Implications for the tectonic evolution and paleogeographic reconstructions. Precambr Res 198–199:51–76

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perchuk LL, Aranovich LYA, Podlesskii KK, Lavrenteva IV (1985) Precambrian granulites of the Alden Shield Eastern Siberia USSR. J Metamorph Geol 3:265–310

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perkins D, Chipera SJ (1985) Garnet-orthopyroxene-plagioclase-quartz barometry: refinement and application to the English River subprovince and the Minnesota River valley. Contr Mineral Petrol 89:69–80

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pathak P, Dwivedi SB, Kumar RR (2022a) Metamorphic evolution of the amphibolites from Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: P-T constraints and phase equilibrium modeling. J Env Earth Sci 4(1):15–31

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pathak P, Dwivedi SB, Kumar RR (2022b) Geochemistry and Phase equilibrium modelling of garnet-biotite gneiss from Mauranipur, Bundelkhand Craton, Northern India; implication for tectonic setting and metamorphism. J Goandwana Scienctific Res 7(2):186–192

    Google Scholar 

  • Pati JK (2020) Evolution of Bundelkhand Craton. Episodes 43(1):69–87

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pattison DRM (2003) Petrogenetic significance of orthopyroxene-free garnet + clinopyroxene + plagioclase ± quartz-bearing metabasites with respect to the amphibolite and granulite facies. J Metamorph Geol 21:21–34

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ramiz M, Mondal M, Farooq SH (2019) Geochemistry of ultramafic-mafic rocks of the Madawara Ultramafic Complex in the southern part of the Bundelkhand Craton, Central Indian Shield: Implications for mantle sources and geodynamic setting. Geol J 54(4):2185–2207

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Raza MH, Nasipuri P, Saha L, Pati J, Alfimova N, Champati A (2021) Phase relations and in-situ U-Th-Pb total monazite geochronology of Banded Iron Formation, Bundelkhand Craton, North-Central India, and their geodynamic implications. Int J Earth Sci 111:1–29

    Google Scholar 

  • Saha L, Pant NC, Pati JK, Upadhyay D, Berndt J, Bhattacharya A, Satyanarayanan M (2011) Neoarchean high-pressure margarite-phengitic muscovite-chlorite corona mantled corundum in quartz-free high-Mg, Al phlogopite-chlorite schists from the Bundelkhand Craton, north central India. Contrib Mineral Petrol 161:511–530

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saha L, Frei D, Gerdes A, Pati JK, Sarkar S, Patole V, Bhandari A, Nasipuri P (2016) Crustal geodynamics from the Archaean Bundelkhand Craton, India: constraints from zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope studies. Geol Mag 153:79–192

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Samadi R, Torabi G, Kawabata H, Miller N (2021) Biotite as a petrogenetic discriminator: Chemical insights from igneous, meta-igneous and meta-sedimentary rocks in Iran. Lithos. 386:106016

  • Sen SK, Bhattacharya A (1984) An orthopyroxene-garnet thermometer and its application to the Madras charnockites. Contrib Mineral Petrol 88:64–71

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Singh VK, Slabunov A (2013) The Greenstone belts of the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: New geochronological data and geodynamic setting. In: International association for Gondwana research conference series, no 16. pp 170–171

  • Singh SP, Dwivedi SB (2009) Garnet sillimanite–cordierite–quartz-bearing assemblages from the early Archean supracrustal rocks of Bundelkhand massif central India. Curr Sci 97:103–107

    Google Scholar 

  • Singh SP, Dwivedi SB (2015) High-grade metamorphism of the Bundelkhand massif and its implications for crustal evolution of the middle Archean crust of central India. J Earth Sys Sci 124:197–211

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Singh V, Alexander S, Sergei S, Zoya R, Natalia N, Maksim G, Oleg S, Neeraj C (2018) Occurrence of Archean iron bearing rocks from Babina, Mauranipur and Girar area of the Bundelkhand region: As potential reserves. Archaeol Anthropol Open Access. 3:108–113

    Google Scholar 

  • Singh PK, Verma SK, Moreno JA, Singh VK, Malviya VP, Oliveira EP, Mishra S, Arima M (2019) Geochemistry and Sm-Nd isotope systematics of mafic-ultramafic rocks from the Babina and Mauranipur greenstone belts, Bundelkhand Craton, India: Implications for tectonic setting and Paleoarchean mantle evolution. Lithos 330–331:90–107

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Singh PK, Verma SK, Singh VK, Moreno JA, Oliveira EP, Li XH, Malviya VP, Prakash D (2021) Geochronology and petrogenesis of the TTG gneisses and granitoids from the Central Bundelkhand granite-greenstone terrane, Bundelkhand Craton, India: Implications for Archean crustal evolution and cratonization. Precam Res 359:106–210

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Slabunov A, Singh VK, Joshi KB, Li X (2017) Paleoarchean zircons from quartzite of South Bundelkhand Supracrustal Complex: Origin and implications for crustal evolution in Bundelkhand Craton. Central India: Curr Sci 112:794–801

    Google Scholar 

  • Slabunov AI, Singh VK (2019) Meso-neoarchaean crustal evolution of the bundelkhand craton, Indian Shield: new data from greenstone belts. Int Geol Rev 61:1409–1428

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Slabunov A, Singh V (2022) Giant quartz veins of the Bundelkhand Craton, Indian Shield: New Geological Data and U-Th-Pb Age. Minerals 12:168

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tajcmanová L, Connolly JAD, Cesare B (2009) A thermodynamic model for titanium and ferric iron solution in biotite. J Metamorph Geol 27:153–164

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Thompson AB (1976) Mineral reactions in pelitic rocks: I. Prediction of P-T–X (Fe–Mg) phase relations. II. Calculations of some P–T–X (Fe–Mg) phase relations. Am J Sci 276:401–454

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Turner CC, Meert JG, Pandit MK, Kamenov GD (2014) A detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic transect across the Son Valley sector of the Vindhyan Basin, India: Implications for basin evolution and paleogeography. Gondwana Res 26:348–364

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vielzeuf D, Montel JM (1994) Partial melting of metagreywackes Part I. Fluid-absent experiments and phase relationships. Contrib Miner Petrol 117:375–393

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • White RW, Powell R, Holland TJB, Worley B (2000) The effect of TiO2 and Fe2O3 on metapelitic assemblages at greenschist and amphibolite facies conditions: mineral equilibria calculations in the system K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-TiO2-Fe2O3. J Metamorph Geol 18:497–511

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • White RW, Powell R (2002) Melt loss and the preservation of granulite facies mineral assemblages. J Metamorph Geol 20:621–632

    Google Scholar 

  • White RW, Powell R (2010) Retrograde melt-residue interaction and the formation of near-anhydrous leucosomes in migmatites. J Metamorph Geol 28(6):579–597

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • White RW, Powell R, Holland TJB, Johnson TE, Green ECR (2014) New mineral activity–composition relations for thermodynamic calculations in metapelitic systems. J Metamorph Geol 32:261–286

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whitney DL, Evans BW (2010) Abbreviations for names of rock-forming minerals. Am Mineral 95:185–187

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wu CM, Zhang J, Ren LD (2004) Empirical Garnet–Biotite–Plagioclase–Quartz (GBPQ) geobarometry in medium- to high-grade metapelites. J Petrol 45:1907–1921

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the Director of IIT (BHU) for his encouragement and for providing us with a well-equipped infrastructure as well as a research environment in which to conduct our research. Pratigya Pathak gratefully acknowledges the MHRD Fellowship, the Government of India, for financial assistance. We are also grateful to the Petrography Thin Section Lab, Department of Geology (BHU). We are also very grateful to Abdullah M. Al-Amri, Editor-in-Chief, Arabian Journal of Geosciences and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive reviews.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, 221005, India

    Pratigya Pathak, Shyam Bihari Dwivedi & Ravi Ranjan Kumar

Authors
  1. Pratigya Pathak
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Shyam Bihari Dwivedi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Ravi Ranjan Kumar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Pratigya Pathak.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no competing interests.

Additional information

Responsible Editor: Domenico M. Doronzo

Supplementary Information

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary file1 (DOCX 12 KB)

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Pathak, P., Dwivedi, S.B. & Kumar, R.R. Phase equilibria modelling and textural relationship of metapelitic granulites and Grt-Bt-bearing gneisses from Mauranipur area, Bundelkhand Craton, central India. Arab J Geosci 15, 1642 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10944-3

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10944-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation