Girardeau, Jacques; Lagabrielle, Yves (1992): Mineralogy and structural specification of ODP Leg 125 peridotite samples [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763170, Supplement to: Girardeau, J; Lagabrielle, Y (1992): Deformation history of peridotites from Mariana Forearc, conical seamount, Leg 125. In: Fryer, P; Pearce, JA; Stokking, LB; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 125, 519-532, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.125.178.1992
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Abstract:
Abundant serpentinite seamounts are found along the outer high of the Mariana forearc at the top of the inner slope of the trench. One of them, Conical Seamount, was drilled at Sites 778, 779, and 780 during Leg 125.
The rocks recovered at Holes 779A and 780C, respectively, on the flanks and at the summit of the seamount, include moderately serpentinized depleted harzburgites and some dunites. These rocks exhibit evidence of resorption of the orthopyroxene, when present, and the local presence of very calcic-rich diopside in veins oblique to the main high-temperature foliation of the rock.
The peridotites, initially well-foliated with locally poikiloblastic textures, show overprints of a two-stage deformation history: (1) a high-temperature (>1000°C), low-stress (0.02 GPa), homogeneous deformation that has led to the present Porphyroclastic textures displayed by the rocks and (2) heterogeneous ductile shearing at a much higher stress (0.05 GPa). This heterogeneous shearing probably describes a single tectonic event because it began at high temperatures, producing dynamic recrystallization of olivine in the shear zone, and ended at low temperatures in the stability field of chlorite and serpentine. In a few samples, olivine shows evidence of quasi-hydrostatic recrystallization at a very high temperature. Here, we propose that this recrystallization was related to fluid/magma percolation, a process that can also account for the resorption of the orthopyroxene and for the late crystallization of diopside veins in the rock.
The impregnation by fluid or magma, development of the main high-temperature, low-stress deformation, and subsequent migration recrystallization of olivine probably occurred in a mantle fragment involved in the arc formation. In addition, this mantle has preserved structures that may have formed earlier in the oceanic lithosphere upon which the arc formed.
Heterogeneous ductile shear zones in the peridotites may have developed during uplift. The "cold" deformation may have taken place during diapiric rise of hot mantle that underwent subsequent serpentinization or gliding along normal faults associated with the extension of the eastern margin of the forearc.
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Median Latitude: 19.527350 * Median Longitude: 146.674750 * South-bound Latitude: 19.512500 * West-bound Longitude: 146.653500 * North-bound Latitude: 19.542200 * East-bound Longitude: 146.696000
Date/Time Start: 1989-02-28T10:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-03-09T04:30:00
Event(s):
125-779A * Latitude: 19.512500 * Longitude: 146.696000 * Date/Time Start: 1989-02-28T10:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-03-04T03:00:00 * Elevation: -3958.0 m * Penetration: 317.2 m * Recovery: 73.24 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg125 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 37 cores; 317.2 m cored; 0 m drilled; 23.1 % recovery
125-780C * Latitude: 19.542200 * Longitude: 146.653500 * Date/Time Start: 1989-03-06T05:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1989-03-09T04:30:00 * Elevation: -3095.0 m * Penetration: 163.5 m * Recovery: 14.44 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg125 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 18 cores; 163.5 m cored; 0 m drilled; 8.8 % recovery
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- Girardeau, J; Lagabrielle, Y (1992): (Table 1) Petrology of ODP Hole 125-779A peridotite samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763166
- Girardeau, J; Lagabrielle, Y (1992): (Table 3) Structural specifications of ODP Hole 125-779A peridotite samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763168
- Girardeau, J; Lagabrielle, Y (1992): (Table 2) Petrology of ODP Hole 125-780C peridotite samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763167
- Girardeau, J; Lagabrielle, Y (1992): (Table 4) Structural specifications of ODP Hole 125-780C peridotite samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.763169