Abstract (eng)
Permian garnets from a deformed metapegmatite (Koralpe, Eastern Alps) contain 1 µm to 2 nm diameter inclusions of 7 phases, defining concentric and sector zones. During Cretaceous eclogite facies metamorphism and deformation, trails of coarser inclusions (1 – 10 µm in diameter, largely the same phases) formed, following healed cracks. These trails crosscut the zoning and are flanked by 10 – 100 µm wide ‘bleaching zones’ (BZs), where submicron inclusions are absent. The microstructure partly formed isochemically, although some trails show alteration. In BZs the garnet lattice is rotated up to 0.45º and diffusion coefficients were ≥ 100x larger. Misorientation axes indicate that dislocations represent a plastic wake. Healed cracks primed the volume near the crack plane to re-equilibrate faster. Zoning patterns are defined by varying inclusion abundances and characteristics and reflect magmatic growth. The outermost zone consists of inclusions elongated parallel to garnet <111> directions out of the interface plane, implying growth simultaneous with garnet. 13 inclusion-host crystallographic orientation relationships (CORs) are described, encompassing 93% of measured inclusions. 8 are ‘statistical CORs’: not all crystallographic directions are fixed. CORs are only partially explained by minimization of lattice strain. EBSD detects statistical CORs effectively, these may have been previously overlooked. Inclusions did not form via independent crystallization and later incorporation. Re-integrated compositions are weakly non-stoichiometric. Profiles across zoning show element covariation trends, best explained by varying inclusion abundance. The preferred interpretation is that inclusions formed by oriented nucleation at the garnet interface. However, only the oriented needles explicitly contradict the exsolution hypothesis.