Hot fluids or rock in eclogite metamorphism? (Reply)

Alfredo Camacho (), James K. W, Bastiaan-J. Hensen and Jean Braun
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Alfredo Camacho: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University
James K. W: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University
Bastiaan-J. Hensen: School of Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales
Jean Braun: Géosciences Rennes, CNRS UMR 6118, Université de Rennes 1

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7082, E4-E5

Abstract: Abstract Bjørnerud and Austrheim 1 interpret the geological evidence in the rocks of Holsnøy at Lindås nappe, Norway, to be inconsistent with our cold-crust model2, but do not question our new argon isotopic data, on which we base the thermal history of the terrain. A critical flaw underlying their arguments1,3 is the implicit assumption that element diffusion does not occur in dry environments, although there is clear evidence to the contrary2,4,5. Counter to earlier claims3,6 of element and isotope immobility in dry rocks, we have demonstrated the existence of diffusion profiles in phlogopite associated with the uptake of argon during the Caledonian in ‘unreacted’ protolith of the Lindås nappe. Diffusion has taken place in these dry rocks and cannot be ignored.

Date: 2006
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