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Fluid-controlled quartz recovery in granulite as revealed by cathodoluminescence and trace element analysis (Bamble sector, Norway)

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Dispersed quartz veinlets in Proterozoic enderbitic charnockite from Tromøy, Bamble sector (southern Norway), with Ti-concentrations of mostly 80–180 ppm, produce bright blue cathodoluminescence (CL), against contrasting micro-textures of secondary pure quartz with low CL intensity. The textures comprise grain boundary alteration, healed micro-fractures, patches of secondary quartz, and euhedral quartz nuclei. The secondary quartz locally makes up 50% of the total quartz. Trace element analysis has been done by electron-probe micro-analysis (EPMA), laser-induced coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS), and additional electron-paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. These studies testify systematic trace element reduction and extensive quartz recovery during retrograde metamorphism. We assume healing of a part of the aqueous fluid inclusions during a late thermal event, possible correlated with Paleozoic magmatic activity in the Oslo-Rift. During final cooling, aqueous fluids were largely retrapped in patches of secondary quartz associated with healed fractures, whereas carbonic inclusions (without secondary quartz) may have survived retrograde metamorphism. The variable but generally high salinity of fluid inclusions is assumed to be in part the result of quartz recovery by which ion concentrations were increased in the percentage range.

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Cathodoluminescence equipment was financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as a part of project SFB-468, Geological Interfaces. Prof. J.L.R. Touret and Dr. G.-J. de Haas are highly acknowledged for their reviews and helpful suggestions for improvement of the manuscript. Mrs. C. Kaubisch is kindly acknowledged for her assistance in preparing the line drawings.

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    Alfons M. van den Kerkhof, Andreas Kronz & Klaus Simon

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van den Kerkhof, A.M., Kronz, A., Simon, K. et al. Fluid-controlled quartz recovery in granulite as revealed by cathodoluminescence and trace element analysis (Bamble sector, Norway). Contrib Mineral Petrol 146, 637–652 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-003-0523-5

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