(40)A/Ar-39 step-heating dating of phlogopite and kaersutite megacrysts from the Zelezna hurka (Eisenbuhl) Pleistocene scoria cone, Czech Republic

(40)A/Ar-39 step-heating of mica and amphibole megacrysts from hauyne-bearing olivine melilitite scoria/tephra from the Zelezna hurka yielded a 435 +/- 108 ka isotope correlation age for phlogopite and a more imprecise 1.55 Ma total gas age of the kaersutite megacryst. The amphibole megacrysts may constitute the first, and the younger phlogopite megacrysts the later phase of mafic, hydrous melilitic magma crystallization. It cannot be ruled out that the amphibole megacrysts are petrogenetically unrelated to tephra and phlogopite megacrysts and were derived from mantle xenoliths or disaggregated older, deep crustal pegmatites. This is in line both with the rarity of amphibole at Zelezna hurka and with the observed signs of magmatic resorption at the edges of amphibole crystals.

Keywords

Bohemian Massif, Železná hůrka, Eisenbühl, argon dating, mica, amphibole, melilitite

Citation

GEOLOGICA CARPATHICA. 2020, vol. 71, issue 4, p. 382-387.
http://www.geologicacarpathica.com/browse-journal/volumes/71-4/article-954/

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Peer-reviewed

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Published version

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en

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