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Sm-Nd garnet and U-Pb monazite dating of high-grade metamorphism and crustal melting in the West Uusimaa area, southern Finland
Authors: Mouri H., Väisänen M., Huhma H., Korsman K.
Publisher: Geological Society of Sweden
Publication year: 2005
Journal: GFF
Journal name in source: GFF
Volume: 127
Issue: 2
First page : 123
Last page: 128
Number of pages: 6
ISSN: 1103-5897
DOI: https://doi.org/DOI:10.1080/11035890501272123
Web address : http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:24344494352
The 100 km wide late Svecofennian granite-migmatite zone in southern Finland contains the Sulkava, the Turku and the West Uusimaa low-pressure, high-temperature granulite areas. In the West Uusimaa area the peak metamorphic conditions are estimated at T = 750-800°C and P = 4-5 kbars. Detailed isotopic dating of different parts of migmatites (mesosomes and leucosomes) as well garnet-orthopyroxene gneisses was undertaken by conventional analysis of U-Pb on monazite and Sm-Nd on garnet. U-Pb monazite ages show that the West Uusimaa area underwent a granulite facies metamorphism at peak conditions between 1832±2 Ma and 1816±2 Ma. The area was then cooled down to 700-600°C at 1.81-1.79 Ga according to Sm-Nd garnet-whole rock data. These results together with previous data show that all the three granulite areas in southern Finland share a coeval thermal event probably stemming from common or similar heat sources.
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