Thermobarometry of garnet–clinopyroxene–hornblende granulites from the Kapuskasing structural zone

TLDR: Amphibole mixing properties and standard state properties for the end members tremolite, tschermakite, pargasite, ferrotremolite and ferrotchermakites have been refined through analysis of relevant phase equilibrium experiments, coexisting cummingtonite-hornblende pairs, and natural mineral parageneses.

Abstract: Amphibole mixing properties and standard state properties for the end members tremolite, tschermakite, pargasite, ferrotremolite, ferrotschermakite, and ferropargasite have been refined through analysis of relevant phase equilibrium experiments, coexisting cummingtonite–hornblende pairs, and natural mineral parageneses. When merged with the mineral properties given by R.G. Berman, these amphibole properties allow the calculation of numerous equilibria suitable for thermobarometry in a wide range of bulk compositions at amphibolite to granulite metamorphic grades. The method was applied to texturally equilibrated garnet–pyroxene–hornblende gneisses and compared both to results based on anhydrous assemblages and to those for garnet–biotite gneisses from the Kapuskasing structural zone. Thermometer resetting is apparent only in garnet–biotite gneisses, whereas touching garnet–pyroxene pairs in mafic gneiss show little evidence of retrograde Fe–Mg exchange. Computed metamorphic temperatures (garnet–clinopyrox...