Ben-Xun Su, Shi-Ying Wang, P. L. Dharmapriya, Jing Wang, Sanjeewa P. K. Malaviarachchi, Kui-Feng Yang, Hong-Rui Fan
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Abstract
Pegmatitic dyke-like carbonate rocks mainly composed of very coarse-grained calcite, are a rare type of carbonate rocks found in some of orogenic belts in the world. These specific carbonate rocks generally occur intimately with high-temperature granulites and marbles. In the Proterozoic Highland Complex of Sri Lanka which is a segment of the Mozambique suture, they are associated with marbles and granitic pegmatites, and intercalated with high-grade calc-silicate gneisses and highly folded ortho- and para-gneisses. These pegmatitic carbonate rocks do not show any signs of metamorphic or deformed overprint, but instead well preserve igneous textures and contain various silicate crustal xenoliths. The calcite crystals occur as euhedral to subhedral grains and are large in size from 1 to 15 cm. The diverse colors of calcite from white to yellow and blue derive from mineral inclusions and their own compositions. Non-carbonate minerals, commonly present in typical carbonatites such as phlogopite, apatite, clinopyroxene, olivine, plagioclase, iron oxides and spinel, are all found in the rocks. Meanwhile, a skarn-type assemblage of wollastonite, garnet, clinopyroxene and sulfide occurs in contact between the carbonate rocks and gneiss xenoliths, which probably resulted from antiskarn reactions. Chemical compositions of major constituent minerals (calcite, dolomite and apatite) of the carbonate rocks are intermediate between typical marbles and mantle-derived carbonatites and akin to crustal-origin carbonatites worldwide. We thus classify the studied rocks as ‘anatectic carbonatite pegmatite’, and suggest that they originated from the melting of a mixture of marbles and surrounding silicate rocks at crustal levels during high-temperature metamorphism.
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Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology is an international journal that accepts high quality research papers in the fields of igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochemistry and mineralogy.
Topics of interest include: major element, trace element and isotope geochemistry, geochronology, experimental petrology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, mineralogy, major and trace element mineral chemistry and thermodynamic modeling of petrologic and geochemical processes.