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JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 57-75Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.10.006
Keywords
Polyhalite; Microfabric; Haselgebirge; Metamorphic reaction; Evaporite; Vein
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P22,728]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 22728] Funding Source: researchfish
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In the Hallstatt salt mine (Austria), polyhalite rocks occur in 0.5-1 m thick and several metre long tectonic lenses within the protocataclasite to protomylonite matrix of the Alpine Haselgebirge Fm.. Thin section analysis of Hallstatt polyhalites reveals various fabric types similar to metamorphic rocks of crust-forming minerals, e.g. quartz and feldspar. Polyhalite microfabrics from Hallstatt include: (1) polyhalite mylonites, (2) metamorphic reaction fabrics, (3) vein-filling, fibrous polyhalite and (4) cavity-filling polyhalite. The polyhalite mylonites contain a wide range of shear fabrics commonly known in mylonitic quartzo-feldspathic shear zones within the ductile crust and developed from a more coarse-grained precursor rock. The mylonites are partly overprinted by recrystallised, statically grown polyhalite grains. Metamorphic reaction fabrics of polyhalite fibres between blodite (or astrakhanite) [Na2Mg(SO4)(2)center dot 4H(2)O] and anhydrite have also been found. According to previous reports, blodite may occur primarily as nodules or intergrown with loweite. Reaction fabrics may have formed by exsolution, (re-)crystallisation, parallel growth or replacement. This fabric type was only found in one sample in relation with the decomposition of blodite at ca. 61 degrees C in the presence of halite or slightly above, testifying, therefore, a late stage prograde fabric significantly younger than the main polyhalite formation. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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