Accessory Minerals in Felsic Igneous Rocks - Part 9 Monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon from late-Variscan biotite and two-mica granites of the Aue-Schwarzenberg Granite Zone (Western Erzgebirge−Vogtland metallogenic province, Germany)
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Förster, Hans-Jürgen (2021): Accessory Minerals in Felsic Igneous Rocks - Part 9 Monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon from late-Variscan biotite and two-mica granites of the Aue-Schwarzenberg Granite Zone (Western Erzgebirge−Vogtland metallogenic province, Germany). GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.8.2021.008
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I N R E V I E W : Förster, Hans-Jürgen (2021): Accessory Minerals in Felsic Igneous Rocks - Part 9 Monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon from late-Variscan biotite and two-mica granites of the Aue-Schwarzenberg Granite Zone (Western Erzgebirge−Vogtland metallogenic province, Germany). GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.8.2021.008
Abstract
This data set is Part 9 of a series of data sets dealing with the composition of accessory minerals from felsic igneous rocks compiles chemical data for monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon from several, late-Variscan granite occurrences in the Aue-Schwarzenberg Granite Zone (ASGZ) located in the Western Erzgebirge−Vogtland metallogenic province of Germany. The rocks treated in this data set encompass the biotite granites of the Aue suite, Bernsbach and Beierfeld, and the two-mica granites from Lauter and the Schwarzenberg suite.
The data set contains the complete pile of electron-microprobe analyses for monazite-(Ce) (MONA-ASGZ-2021), xenotime-(Y) (XENO-ASGZ-2021) and zircon (ZIRC-ASGZ-2021). Tables are presented as Excel (xlsx) resp. machine-readable csv formats. The content of the tables and further information on the granites and regional geology are provided in the data description file and the supplementary literature.
The ASGZ (about 325-322 Ma) is located within the deep-reaching Gera-Jáchymov Fault Zone and includes the F-poor biotite granites of the Aue suite (including the granite occurrences at Schlema-Alberoda, Aue, Auerhammer, and Schneeberg), Bernsbach and Beierfeld, and the F-poor two-mica granites of the Schwarzenberg suite (covering the granite occurrences at Schwarzenberg, Neuwelt, and Erla) and Lauter (Fig. 1). The granite encountered by drilling at the village Burkersdorf does not represent an independent intrusion, but is instead a subsurface exposure of the westerly Kirchberg granite, at the contact to the metamorphic country rock.
The petrography, mineralogy, geochemistry, isotopic composition, and geochronology of the ASGZ rocks have been comprehensively described by Förster et al. (2009). The paper of Förster (2010) reports a selection of results of electron-microprobe analyses of monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon, but the bulk of the obtained data remained unpublished. This paper also provides a mineralogical mass-balance calculation for the lanthanides and actinides of the Aue and Schwarzenberg granite suites and a selection of back-scattered electron images displaying the intergrowths, texture, and alteration patterns of the radioactive and REE-Y-Zr-bearing accessory species.
The F-poor biotite granites of the ASGZ are weakly to mildly peraluminous (A/CNK = 1.07 – 1.14; SiO2 = 70 – 76 wt.%). The F-poor two-mica granites are mildly to strongly peraluminous (A/CNK = 1.17 – 1.26) and cover a similar range in silica concentration (69 – 77 wt%). From this granite group, only more fractionated, higher evolved sub-intrusions were subjected to the study of accessory-mineral composition. Some granites of this zone are genetically related with ortho-magmatic W-Mo veins and para-magmatic vein-type U mineralization.
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Förster, Hans-Jürgen;GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
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Förster, Hans-Jürgen
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Rhede, Dieter; Appelt, Oona
Keywords
monazite, xenotime, zircon, mineral composition, magma differentiation, electron-microprobe analysis, rare earth elements, thorium, uranium, biotite granite, two-mica granite, Aue-Schwarzenberg Granite Zone, Variscan orogeny, late Carboniferous, Erzgebirge-Vogtland
affiliation: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
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title: Accessory Minerals in Felsic Igneous Rocks - Part 9 Monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon from late-Variscan biotite and two-mica granites of the Aue-Schwarzenberg Granite Zone (Western Erzgebirge−Vogtland metallogenic province, Germany)
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The data set contains the complete pile of electron-microprobe analyses for monazite-(Ce) (MONA-ASGZ-2021), xenotime-(Y) (XENO-ASGZ-2021) and zircon (ZIRC-ASGZ-2021). Tables are presented as Excel (xlsx) resp. machine-readable csv formats. The content of the tables and further information on the granites and regional geology are provided in the data description file and the supplementary literature.
The ASGZ (about 325-322 Ma) is located within the deep-reaching Gera-Jáchymov Fault Zone and includes the F-poor biotite granites of the Aue suite (including the granite occurrences at Schlema-Alberoda, Aue, Auerhammer, and Schneeberg), Bernsbach and Beierfeld, and the F-poor two-mica granites of the Schwarzenberg suite (covering the granite occurrences at Schwarzenberg, Neuwelt, and Erla) and Lauter (Fig. 1). The granite encountered by drilling at the village Burkersdorf does not represent an independent intrusion, but is instead a subsurface exposure of the westerly Kirchberg granite, at the contact to the metamorphic country rock.
The petrography, mineralogy, geochemistry, isotopic composition, and geochronology of the ASGZ rocks have been comprehensively described by Förster et al. (2009). The paper of Förster (2010) reports a selection of results of electron-microprobe analyses of monazite-(Ce), xenotime-(Y) and zircon, but the bulk of the obtained data remained unpublished. This paper also provides a mineralogical mass-balance calculation for the lanthanides and actinides of the Aue and Schwarzenberg granite suites and a selection of back-scattered electron images displaying the intergrowths, texture, and alteration patterns of the radioactive and REE-Y-Zr-bearing accessory species.
The F-poor biotite granites of the ASGZ are weakly to mildly peraluminous (A/CNK = 1.07 – 1.14; SiO2 = 70 – 76 wt.%). The F-poor two-mica granites are mildly to strongly peraluminous (A/CNK = 1.17 – 1.26) and cover a similar range in silica concentration (69 – 77 wt%). From this granite group, only more fractionated, higher evolved sub-intrusions were subjected to the study of accessory-mineral composition. Some granites of this zone are genetically related with ortho-magmatic W-Mo veins and para-magmatic vein-type U mineralization.
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