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    Continental subduction recorded by Neoproterozoic eclogite and garnet amphibolites from Western Hoggar (Tassendjanet terrane, Tuareg Shield, Algeria)

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    Berger, J.
    Ouzegane, K.
    Bendaoud, A.
    Liégeois, J.P.
    Kiesnast, J.R.
    Bruguier, O.
    Caby, R.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Geodynamics and mineral resources
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2014
    Publisher
    Elsevier
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    Neoproterozoic eclogite and garnet amphibolites, representing retrogressed eclogites, from the Tassendjanet-Tidéridjaouine terrane in the Pan-African Western Hoggar (Tuareg shield, Southern Algeria) form lenses enclosed in 1.8 Ga subalkaline Paleoproterozoic orthogneisses. They lie along a major sinistral shear zone marking the boundary with the Archean/Paleoproterozoic granulitic In Ouzzal terrane and are associated with high-pressure metasediments. According to thermodynamic calculations, peak condition of the eclogitic stage is 650 °C, 20-22 kbar followed by post-peak heating and exhumation at 730 °C, 10-14 kbar and cooling to 610 °C, 7-10 kbar. Their major, trace-element and isotopic compositions are consistent with emplacement of former basalts in the shoulder of a 700-800 Ma continental rift that evolved to an oceanic basin. The eclogite and garnet amphibolites were thus part of the continental portion of a subducting slab that was pulled down by a denser oceanic lithosphere. Sheath and recumbent folds associated with the exhumation of HP units are verging toward the west, meaning that the former slab was dipping to the east. U-Pb zircon dating on metamorphic zircons bordering ilmenite and rutile in the eclogite gave an age of 623 ± 2 Ma, interpreted as the syn-collisional exhumation stage of the high-pressure unit. This event was rapidly followed by transpressional tectonics and abundant magmatism linked to the northward motion of the adjacent In Ouzzal terrane.
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    Berger, J.; Ouzegane, K.; Bendaoud, A.; Liégeois, J.P.; Kiesnast, J.R.; Bruguier, O.; Caby, R. (2014). Continental subduction recorded by Neoproterozoic eclogite and garnet amphibolites from Western Hoggar (Tassendjanet terrane, Tuareg Shield, Algeria). , Precambrian Research, Vol. 247, 139-158, Elsevier, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.002.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/2060
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.002
    url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.04.002
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    Article
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    Language
    eng
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