La Hornblendita Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego): Petrografía, geoquímica y geocronología
; Linares Salgado, Jorge Enrique ; Ostera, Hector Adolfo
; Valín Alberdi , María L. Otros responsables
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12/2002
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Asociación Geológica Argentina
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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
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Se presentan descripciones petrográficas y datos geoquímicos y geocronológicos sobre la denominada Hornblendita Ushuaia, un complejo de rocas mesocráticas a melanocráticas hidratadas que aflora en las inmediaciones de la ciudad de Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. El conjunto litológico está constituido principalmente por hornblenditas, hornblendito-piroxenitas, dioritas, gabros, sienitas y monzodioritas. La composición mineralógica de la muestra más representativa es de hornblenda y diópsido como minerales esenciales, biotita y feldespato potásico en menor proporción, titanita, apatita y minerales opacos (principalmente magnetita, ilmenita, pirita y calcopirita) como accesorios. Los fenómenos de alteración consisten en albitización, epidotización, cloritización y carbonatización, los cuales produjeron sustanciales cambios químicos que pudieron haber afectado cualquier clasificación de la roca. Sin embargo, se considera que el magma parental ha sido calcoalcalino, de tipo Andino, relacionado con el Batolito Andino, producido durante el evento subductivo regional. Evidencias geológicas concluyen que estos cuerpos ígneos no pertenecen en modo alguno a una columna ofiolítica. La geoquímica calcoalcalina es atribuida a un proceso de fusión parcial. En realidad, no constituyen fundidos primarios del manto sino fluidos mantélicos evolucionados y contaminados que ascendieron hacia niveles corticales, favoreciendo un proceso de asimilación, en un ambiente de emplazamiento de arco magmático. Los ensayos radimétricos sobre una muestra de hornblendita, usando el método de K/Ar sobre roca total, dieron una edad de 113 ± 5 Ma.
The Ushuaia Hornblendite (Tierra del Fuego): petrography, geochemistry and geochronology. Petrographic descriptions and geochemical and geochronological data are given for the so-called Ushuaia Hornblendite, a complex of mesocratic and melanocratic hydrated rocks that crops out in the vicinity of the city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. The complex consists mainly of hornblendites and hornblendite-piroxenites, diorites, gabbros, syenites and monzodiorites. The mineralogy of the most representative specimen shows that it is composed of hornblende and diopside as essential minerals, with biotite and potassic feldspar as minor constituents, and sphene, apatite, and opaque minerals (mainly magnetite, ilmenite, pyrite and chalcopyrite) as accessories. Alteration processes include albitization, epidotization, chloritization and carbonatization, that represent substantial chemical changes that would affect any chemical classification of the rocks. Nevertheless, it is considered that the parental magma was of calc-alkaline Andean Type, related to the Andean Batholith, produced during regional subduction, and not in any way to an ophiolitic sequence. The calc-alkaline geochemistry is attributed to partial melting. In fact, the magma did not derive from primary mantle melts but came from evolved and contaminated mantle fluids that ascended toward crustal levels, thus favouring an assimilation process, in a magmatic arc setting. Potassium-argon whole-rock dating of one hornblendite sample gave an age of 113 ± 5 Ma.
The Ushuaia Hornblendite (Tierra del Fuego): petrography, geochemistry and geochronology. Petrographic descriptions and geochemical and geochronological data are given for the so-called Ushuaia Hornblendite, a complex of mesocratic and melanocratic hydrated rocks that crops out in the vicinity of the city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. The complex consists mainly of hornblendites and hornblendite-piroxenites, diorites, gabbros, syenites and monzodiorites. The mineralogy of the most representative specimen shows that it is composed of hornblende and diopside as essential minerals, with biotite and potassic feldspar as minor constituents, and sphene, apatite, and opaque minerals (mainly magnetite, ilmenite, pyrite and chalcopyrite) as accessories. Alteration processes include albitization, epidotization, chloritization and carbonatization, that represent substantial chemical changes that would affect any chemical classification of the rocks. Nevertheless, it is considered that the parental magma was of calc-alkaline Andean Type, related to the Andean Batholith, produced during regional subduction, and not in any way to an ophiolitic sequence. The calc-alkaline geochemistry is attributed to partial melting. In fact, the magma did not derive from primary mantle melts but came from evolved and contaminated mantle fluids that ascended toward crustal levels, thus favouring an assimilation process, in a magmatic arc setting. Potassium-argon whole-rock dating of one hornblendite sample gave an age of 113 ± 5 Ma.
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