Sx. Hu et al., The Lanshantou kyanite-bearing eclogite with coesite inclusions in the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt and its PTt path, ACT GEO S-E, 75(4), 2001, pp. 409-420
Coesite inclusions are found in kyanite from the Lanshantou eclogite in the
Sulu ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic belt. This discovery extends the
stable region of kyanite to over 2.4 GPa. As an important UHP metamorphic
belt in China, the Sulu eclogite belt is the product of A-subduction induce
d by strong compression of the Yellow Sea terrane to the Jiaodong-northerea
stern Jiangsu terrane during the interaction of the Eurasian plate and Pala
eo-Pacific plate in the Indosinian. It stretches about 350 km and contains
over 1000 eclogite bodies. Most eclogites in this belt belong to Groups B a
nd C in the classification of Coleman et al., and commonly contain kyanite,
while the Lanshantou eclogite belongs to Group A and contains coesite. The
Mao, CaO and FeO contents in garnet and pyroxene show regular variation fr
om the core to the rim, which reveals the PTt paths of progressive metamorp
hism during the Early Mesozoic (240-200 Ma) and retrogressive metamorphism
during the Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic exhumation.