Abstract (eng)
The major focus of this thesis is on deformation–assisted re–equilibration phenomena and more specifically on the effects of deformation on Rb–Sr isotopic re–equilibration in muscovite. The selected approach includes a detailed microstructural and compositional analysis of the rock–forming minerals of Permian meta–pegmatites in order to characterize their deformation behaviour and related chemical alteration and to evaluate the behaviour of the bulk rock system during Cretaceous deformation. The link between deformation and the Rb–Sr isotope data of muscovite is established through the related major element composition.
Combined microstructural and mineral chemical analysis of the rock–forming minerals muscovite and albite feldspar indicate that significant portions of the Permian meta–pegmatites were affected by deformation, coupled with significant deformation–related chemical alteration of both, muscovite and albite feldspar. However, the data demonstrate that Rb–Sr isotopic data of muscovite obviously do not correlate with major element composition. Detailed results of the Rb–Sr isotopic analysis of several well–characterized grain size– and magnet–fractions of deformed Permian relic magmatic muscovite from single samples contest existing models of isotopic rehomogenization. The results demonstrate that a, presumably deformation–related, loss of total Sr has a significant effect on the 87Rb/86Sr ratios of muscovite without significant 87Sr/86Sr isotopic rehomogenization. The slopes of muscovite–internal ´errorchrons´, which are constructed by up to five muscovite grain size– and magnet–fractions, obviously bracket the timing of the event that affected the geochronometer. Yet another point is the presence of at least one muscovite grain size–and magnet–fraction, typically the one with the lowest 87Rb/86Sr and 87Sr/86Sr ratios, in almost every sample that is interpreted to still reflect a Permo–Triassic formation or cooling age.
Investigations of different grain size– and magnet–fractions of muscovite from single samples provide a comprehensive dataset documenting significant systematic variations in the Rb–Sr isotopic system even at hand specimen scale. Furthermore, this study has demonstrated the dependence of major and trace element, and isotope distribution on local deformation and effective deformation mechanisms.