The inception and growth of leucosomes: microstructure at the start of melt segregation in migmatites
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Abstract
Abstract The beginning stages of melt segregation and the formation of leucosomes are rarely preserved in migmatites. Most arrays of leucosomes record a more advanced stage where flow dominates over segregation. However, the early stages in the formation of leucosomes and the segregation of melt are preserved in a partially melted meta‐argillite from the metatexite zone (>800 °C) of the contact aureole around the Duluth Complex, Minnesota. The rock contains 2.4 modal% leucosome in a matrix consisting of 40.5% in situ neosome and 57.1% cordierite + plagioclase framework. The domainal microstructure in the matrix is a pre‐anatectic feature resulting from the bulk composition. Terminal chlorite reactions produced a large volume of cordierite which, with plagioclase, formed a framework that enclosed patches of biotite + quartz + plagioclase ± K‐feldspar. Upon melting, these fertile domains became patches of in situ neosome. Plagioclase in the neosome is less sodic than in the leucosome, hence segregation of melt occurred during crystallization, not melting. Segregation was delayed because the cordierite + plagioclase framework was strong enough to resist dilatation and compaction until after crystallization started. The leucosomes are small (i.e. they are microleucosomes) and display a systematic progression in morphology as length and aspect ratio increase from ~1 to 19 mm and from ~2.5 to >30 respectively. Small equant micropores form first, and in places these coalesce into small (~1 mm, aspect ratio ~2.5), isolated, blunt‐ended, elliptical microleucosomes. In the next stage, micropores develop ahead of, and at ~45° to the left and right of the blunt tip of a microleucosome; one of these develops into an elliptical leucosome and an en echelon array of either a left‐ or right‐stepping elliptical microleucosome forms. Each elliptical microleucosome in the en echelon arrays is separated by a bridge of matrix. Next, microleucosomes of greater length (>4 mm) and aspect ratio (>5) form when the bridges of cordierite + plagioclase matrix rupture and the elliptical microleucosomes link together to form a zigzag‐shaped microleucosome. Finally, still longer microleucosomes with greater aspect ratios (~30) are formed by the joining of zigzag arrays. Such a progression is characteristic of the way ductile fractures grow. The segregation of melt was driven by the pressure gradient between the dilatant fracture and an adjacent in situ neosome, which drew melt to the growing fracture, thereby creating a microleucosome. The microleucosomes are filled arrays of ductile fractures. Melt was contiguous only between microleucosomes and adjacent patches of in situ neosome. The length‐scale of segregation was ~5 mm, the size of a typical patch of in situ neosome, and restricted by the surrounding impermeable cordierite + plagioclase framework. The melt in the microleucosome was the most fractionated and the last to crystallize. All microleucosomes contain entrained minerals as a consequence of their mechanism of growth. Rupture of the bridges resulted in the entrainment of pre‐anatectic phases. However, microleucosomes that cross patches of in situ neosome are also contaminated with peritectic phases that were transported with the melt.
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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