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| Cárdenas-Párraga, Juan, García-Casco, Antonio, Harlow, George E., Blanco-Quintero, Idael Francisco, Agramonte, Yamirka Rojas, Kröner, Alfred (2012) Hydrothermal origin and age of jadeitites from Sierra del Convento Mélange (Eastern Cuba) European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (2) 313-331 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2171 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | origin and age of jadeitites from Sierra del Convento Mélange
(Eastern Cuba)
JUAN CÁRDENAS-PÁRRAGA1,*,...Abstract: Jadeitite (jadeite jade) from Sierra del Convento (eastern Cuba) occurs in a subduction-related serpentinite-matrix...inclusions and omphacite exsolution in jadeite crystals, as well as
replacement or infilling by omphacite. Minor...environment. Late-stage crystallizations include omphacite, albite and epidote from fluids nearly saturated...high-temperature, Eastern Cuba, Caribbean.
1. Introduction
localities occur in the Sierra del Convento mélange
(Garcı́a-Casco | 👁 Image
| García-Casco, Antonio, Rodríguez Vega, A., Cárdenas Párraga, J., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Lázaro, C., Blanco Quintero, I., Rojas Agramonte, Y., Kröner, A., Núñez Cambra, K., Millán, G., Torres-Roldán, R. L., Carrasquilla, S. (2009) A new jadeitite jade locality (Sierra del Convento, Cuba): first report and some petrological and archeological implications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 158 (1) 1-16 doi:10.1007/s00410-008-0367-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PAPER
A new jadeitite jade locality (Sierra del Convento, Cuba): first
report and some petrological and...serpentinite-matrix subduction mélange of the
Sierra del Convento (eastern Cuba) in a context associated
with tectonic...are
varied and include combinations of jadeite, omphacite,
albite, paragonite, analcime, clinozoisite-epidote...MineroMetalúrgico, Las Coloradas s/n., Moa 83329, Holguı́n, Cuba
J. Cárdenas Párraga C. Lázaro I. Blanco Quintero...Obispo no. 61, Plaza de
Armas, 10100 La Habana, Cuba
Y. Rojas Agramonte A. Kröner
Institut für Geowissenschaften | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mélange is distributed in the Caribbean (Guatemala, Cuba, and Dominican Republic),
circum-Pacific (Japan...South of Motagua fault,
Guatemala
3. Sierra del Convento, Cuba
Locality
Jadeitite
Table 1. Summary...HP-LT conditions, including garnet amphibolite, omphacite-taramite-zoisite rock, albitite, phengiticmuscovite...lower P-T trajectory with
garnets containing both omphacite and clinozoisite and
interpreted P-T of 550–600...125–113 Ma (Harlow et al., 2004).
2.3. Sierra del Convento, Cuba
2.2. South of Motagua fault, Guatemala | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clinozoisite-eclogite, and jadeitite, albitite, mica rock, and omphacite-taramite
TE
rock (Harlow, 1994, Harlow et al...mica albite rock, etc.)
RI
as well as taramite omphacite rocks, chloritite and rarely garnet metabasite...occasional dark blue-green veins colored by
blue omphacite (Harlow et al., 2004b). Coexisting lithologies...blueschist-altered eclogite, lawsonitite, glaucophane-omphacite rock, garnet-quartz-phengite
schist, and graphite-bearing...Coexisting tectonic blocks in the area
SC
are omphacite-glaucophane blueschist and epidote-amphibolite | 👁 Image
| Hertwig, Andreas, McClelland, William C., Kitajima, Kouki, Schertl, Hans-Peter, Maresch, Walter V., Stanek, Klaus, Valley, John W., Sergeev, Sergey A. (2016) Inherited igneous zircons in jadeitite predate high-pressure metamorphism and jadeitite formation in the Jagua Clara serpentinite mélange of the Rio San Juan Complex (Dominican Republic) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 171 (5) doi:10.1007/s00410-016-1256-6 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Motagua Fault Zone, Guatemala; Sierra del Convento, Cuba;
Rio San Juan Complex, Dominican Republic)...Zone
(Harlow 1994; Harlow et al.
2011), Sierra del Convento
(García-Casco et al. 2009;
Cárdenas-Párraga...for zircon from the jadeitites of the
Sierra del Convento in Cuba (hydrothermal zircon, Cárdenas-Párraga...high-pressure metamorphic rocks including garnet-omphacite blueschists, jadeite-lawsonite blueschists, both...their P–T paths (all clockwise):
P–T paths of omphacite-free and jadeite-lawsonite blueschists follow | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K)AlSiO4
—
Ol
Olivine
(Mg,Fe)2 SiO4
—
Omp
Omphacite
Ideally (CaNa)[(Mg,Fe)Al](Si2 O6 )2
Pyroxene...in eastern Cuba eventually spurred the recognition of the jadeitites of Sierra del Convento
(Garcı́a-Casco...occurrences: for example, the Baja Verapaz and Sierra de Santa Cruz
ultramafics (ophiolitic) north of...Moa-Barracoa ophiolite north of the Sierra del Convento
mélange in eastern Cuba (Garcı́a-Casco et al. 2009)...and in print
Zrn: 113 Ma
PS
PB
PB , R
Sierra del Convento,
Cubac
Rı́o San Juan complex,
Dominican | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mostly consisting
of jadeite, ‘‘omphacite jade’’ mostly consisting of omphacite (Ou Yang, 2006; Ou Yang et...compositions, pure jadeite and tiny
exsolution blebs of omphacite within jadeite (Fig. 2b),
the composition of which...an association of Napyroxenes with jadeite and omphacite compositions both
showing a complex zoning (Fig...where pure jadeite contains
exsolution blebs of omphacite. (online version in colour)
eschweizerbart_xxx...coexisting, plotting in the fields of jadeite and omphacite, respectively. (online version in colour)
Fig | 👁 Image
| Maresch, Walter V., Grevel, Christiane, Stanek, Klaus Peter, Schertl, Hans-Peter, Carpenter, Michael A. (2012) Multiple growth mechanisms of jadeite in Cuban metabasite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (2) 217-235 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2179 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | subduction-zone complex of the Escambray Massif in
central Cuba have been studied by optical and transmission electron...jadeite, the latter with rims and patches of omphacite. TEM observations indicate extensive replacement...replacement of magmatic pyroxene by jadeite and omphacite along a broad front encroaching upon the augite...presumably plagioclase was formerly present. Omphacite dominates where augite is internally
replaced...are replaced by jadeite together with lesser omphacite in epitactic relationship with the enclosing augite | 👁 Image
| | Report (article/chapter) | | of pyroxenes
rich in this component (as in the omphacite common
in eclogite), called for high-pressure–low-temperature...described
jadeitite from the Sierra del Convento region of eastern Cuba. Maresch et al. (2012) presented...possible occurrence in the Escambray area
of central Cuba, briefly mentioned by Millán &
Somin (1981). The...might have come from more distant sources such
as Cuba or Guatemala (Harlow 1994; Seitz et al.
2001; Harlow...well as jadeite-rich
albite rocks, jadeite-rich omphacite rocks and rare
pumpellyite-bearing jadeite-rich | 👁 Image
| Schertl, Hans -Peter, Maresch, Walter V., Stanek, Klaus P., Hertwig, Andreas, Krebs, Martin, Baese, Rauno, Sergeev, Sergey S. (2012) New occurrences of jadeitite, jadeite quartzite and jadeite-lawsonite quartzite in the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola: petrological and geochronological overview. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (2) 199-216 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2201 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thickness in blocks of jadeitelawsonite- or omphacite-garnetbearing blueschist of the mélange. Two...important phases so far found in both suites are omphacite, phengite, glaucophane,
epidote, albite, calcite...high-pressure matrix minerals such as jadeite and omphacite, indicating
coeval zircon growth. The cores of...subduction zone exposed in neighbouring eastern Cuba, are possible. Jadeitites and jadeite-rich rocks...rare high-temperature jadeitite as documented in Cuba.
Key-words: Rio San Juan Complex, jadeitite, blueschist | 👁 Image
| Shi, Guanghai, Harlow, George E., Wang, Jing, Wang, Jun, Enoch, N.G., Wang, Xia, Cao, Shu Min, Enyuancui, W. (2012) Mineralogy of jadeitite and related rocks from Myanmar: a review with new data. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (2) 345-370 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2190 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | shiguanghai@263.net.cn; shigh@cugb.edu.cn
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Guangdong Province Material Testing Center, Guangzhou 510080, PR...species, including jadeite, omphacite, kosmochlor, Cr-bearing jadeite-omphacite, albite, celsian,
banalsite...newly reported here. Amphiboles, kosmochlor and omphacite formed
closely related to the paragenetic sequence...jadeite, and the clinopyroxene in mafic rock by omphacite. Relict ilmenite replaced by titanite in omphacitite...species of amphibole, terrestrial kosmochlor and
omphacite (Ou Yang, 1984; Harlow & Olds, 1987; Shi et al | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | associated with albitite and omphacite–bearing rocks
such as omphacite–bearing metagabbros and omphacitite...facies metamorphism according
to the occurrence of omphacite and magnesio–riebeckite
(Nishiyama and Miyazaki...scientific research
can be donated by the authors. Omphacite–bearing rocks
occur also in the Mie mélange and...meta–hornblendite, albitite, zoisite rock,
rodingite, omphacite–bearing metagabbro, omphacitite, and jadeitite...in a very limited area together with albitite, omphacite–bearing metagabbro and omphacitite (Nishiyama | 👁 Image
| Flores, Kennet E., Martens, Uwe C., Harlow, George E., Brueckner, Hannes K., Pearson, Norman J. (2013) Jadeitite formed during subduction: In situ zircon geochronology constraints from two different tectonic events within the Guatemala Suture Zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 371. 67-81 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.015 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | et al., 2012). Abbreviations for the main units: Sierra de Santa Cruz ophiolite (SSC), Baja Verapaz ophiolite...serpentinite mélange that hosts garnet amphibolite,
omphacite–taramite metabasite, jadeitite, albitite, and...lesser amounts of paragonite (Pg), phengite (Ph),
omphacite (Omp), albite (Ab), minor zircon (Zrn), apatite...Mon—monazite, Ms—Muscovite, Ne—nepheline, Omp—omphacite, Pg—paragonite, Ph—
phengitic muscovite, Phl—phlogopite...Omp
is unaffected. Zircons are contained within omphacite and albite
and contain Omp and fluid inclusions | 👁 Image
| Escuder-Viruete, Javier, Valverde-Vaquero, Pablo, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, Gabites, Janet, Castillo-Carrión, Mercedes, Pérez-Estaún, Andrés (2013) Timing of deformational events in the Río San Juan complex: Implications for the tectonic controls on the exhumation of high-P rocks in the northern Caribbean subduction–accretionary prism. Lithos, 177. 416-435 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2013.07.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | peridotite massifs: GH, Gaspar
Hernández; LC, Loma del Catey; LM, Loma El Morrito; EH, Helechal. Locations:...porphyroblasts growing in an S1J foliation
with omphacite, zoisite, rare phengite and rutile define an M1J...(2008) for the same eclogite and one sample
of omphacite–blueschist, respectively. These authors also obtain...5, 80.3 ± 1.1 and 62.1 ± 1.4 Ma
for eclogite, omphacite blueschist and jadeite blueschist, respectively...subduction-related
Mabujina Amphibolite Complex, Central Cuba. For these authors, the
Precambrian ages suggest | 👁 Image
| Wen, Jiabao, Shi, Guanghai, Xing, Biqian, Long, Taafee, Zhang, Jinhong (2023) Unique Interstitial Textures within Coarse-Grained Jadeitite from Kazakhstan and Their Significance in Locality Identification. Minerals, 13 (4) 513 doi:10.3390/min13040513 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals, minor omphacite, and little analcime, and Type II, comprising mainly omphacite and analcime,...northern Motagua Fault Zone in Guatemala [1–3], Cuba [4], Dominica [5], Japan (Itoigawa–Omi [6], Osayama...this location is jadeite + albite + analcime + omphacite, which can be found in block and water drop shapes...(Type I) and jadejadeite–omphacite–analcime domains (Type II). ite–omphacite–analcime domains (Type II)...predominately of jadeite crystals (~90 vol.%), minor omphacite (~9I MTDs vol.%) consists and analcime (~1 vol | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | conditions of selected jadeitites from Guatemala, Cuba, Iran, Dominican Republic,
and Italian Alps (modified...Southern Motagua Mélange (Guatemala); SC, Sierra del Convento (Cuba); IR, Iran; RSJC, Rio San Juan Complex...taramite–jadeitite;
2Cpx–JD, two pyroxene ( jadeite + omphacite) jadeitite; Ky–JD, kyanite–jadeitite. P and E...as the compositional gap
between jadeite and omphacite are another index to assess temperature. Harlow...amphibole, two coexisting pyroxenes ( jadeite + omphacite),
and kyanite, they defined five mineralogical types; | 👁 Image
| Stanek, Klaus P., Maresch, Walter V., Scherer, Erik, Krebs, Martin, Berndt, Jasper, Sergeev, Sergey S., Rodionov, Nikolay, Pfänder, Jörg, Hames, Willis E. (2019) Born in the Pacific and raised in the Caribbean: construction of the Escambray nappe stack, central Cuba. A review. European Journal of Mineralogy, 31 (1) 5-34 doi:10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2795 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | construction of the
Escambray nappe stack, central Cuba. A review
Klaus P. STANEK1,*, Walter V. MARESCH2... USA
Abstract: The Escambray Massif of central Cuba is the largest metamorphic complex exposed in the...metamorphism; Lu–Hf, U–Pb
and Ar–Ar geochronology; Cuba.
1. Introduction
1.1. Regional setting of subduction-related... but collisional features are best
preserved on Cuba.
The subduction-related metamorphic rocks shown...central Cuba:
a case study
The nappe stack exposed in the Escambray Mountains
(Fig. 1b) of Cuba represents | 👁 Image
| | Report (article/chapter) | | implications from structural and geochronological data of Cuba
K. P. STANEK1*, W. V. MARESCH2 & J. L. PINDELL3...n. Magmatism ceased at least in
onshore central Cuba at about 75 Ma, probably as the southern edge of...metamorphism of high-pressure metamorphic rocks in Cuba cluster at 70 Ma; rapid uplift/
exhumation of these...Bahamas Platform along the Eocene suture zone in Cuba.
Between the arc’s interaction with Yucatán and...Caribbean. Although magmatism ceased in central Cuba by 75 Ma,
traces of continuing Early Palaeogene | 👁 Image
| Hastie, Alan R., Mitchell, Simon F., Treloar, Peter J., Kerr, Andrew C., Neill, Iain, Barfod, Dan N. (2013) Geochemical components in a Cretaceous island arc: The Th/La–(Ce/Ce*)Nd diagram and implications for subduction initiation in the inter-American region. Lithos, 162. 57-69 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to the east to form the Greater Antilles islands (Cuba, Jamaica,
Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Virgin...Albian–Coniacian
Quibiján and Téneme Formations, Cuba (Groups 3T and 3Q1 — Marchesi et al.,
2007); (6)...phengite–omphacite–whole rock metamorphic age determination of 118.2 ± 0.6 Ma for an eclogite from
Cuba. Pindell...(2011) suggested that subduction initiation in
the Cuba region would have occurred prior to ~ 130 Ma. Similarly...on
modelled P–T–t paths in the Sierra del Convento mélange, Eastern
Cuba.
Many of the P–T–t paths are based | 👁 Image
| Harlow, George E., Summerhayes, Glenn R., Davies, Hugh L., Matisoo-Smith, Lisa (2012) jade gouge from Emirau Island, Papua New Guinea (Early Lapita context, 3300 BP): a unique jadeitite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (2) 391-399 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2175 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jd94Ae6 to Jd63Ae36, and without any coexisting omphacite. This contrasts with Jd-Di or Jd-Aug compositional...sources moving
over recent time from Guatemala to Cuba and Hispaniola
(Garcı́a-Casco et al., 2009, Schertl...Islands, Sepik valley and Torare River.
Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea (Fig. 1), a small green
stone...Matisoo-Smith
Ae
Aegirine
Aegirine Augite
J
8016
Omphacite
S-
DEI
Ec
g
Augite
a
d
e
i
t
e
5019...Papua Indonesia, of Wichmann (Visser, 2004), omphacite from eclogite samples 8016 (a line), 5019 (dashed | 👁 Image
| Yui, Tzen-Fu, Fukoyama, Mayuko, Iizuka, Yoshiyuki, Wu, Chao-Ming, Wu, Tsai-Way, Liou, J.G., Grove, Marty (2013) Is Myanmar jadeitite of Jurassic age? A result from incompletely recrystallized inherited zircon. Lithos, 160. 268-282 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Burma) can be divided into the Western
province and the Eastern province, separated by the Sagaing fault
(Fig...The Western province is also named as the Burma microplate,
whereas the Eastern province is part of the...onshore along the
western margin of the Western province (the Burma microplate)
marks the presently active...subduction system (Mitchell, 1993).
The Eastern province of Myanmar is composed of the Paleozoic
Mogok...prominent metamorphic belts within the Western province
(Fig. 1). These three metamorphic belts, from | 👁 Image
| GOTO, Atsushi, KUNUGIZA, Keitaro, MIYAJIMA, Hiroshi (2017) Phase relation in the NaAlSiO4–SiO2–H2O system for the hydrothermal precipitation of jadeite, albite, natrolite, and analcime in jadeitite of the Itoigawa–Omi area, Japan. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 112 (5) 271-280 doi:10.2465/jmps.170402b | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | jadeitite has been reported in other localities such as Cuba (e.g., Cárdenas–Párraga et al., 2012), Myanmar (e...based on the presence of large amphibole laths in omphacite–bearing jadeitite.
The details of the hydrothermal...can see a sample composed of
serpentinite and omphacite jadeitite in the Fossa Magna
Museum (Fig. 3)...Morishita et al., 2007).
Jadeitite rarely contains omphacite, phlogopite, edenitic pargasite, titanite, rutile...jadeitite.
zircon, pectolite, and prehnite. Omphacite occurs as
patches of fine–grained aggregates, and | 👁 Image
| Hyppolito, Thais, Angiboust, Samuel, Juliani, Caetano, Glodny, Johannes, Garcia-Casco, Antonio, Calderón, Mauricio, Chopin, Christian (2016) Eclogite-, amphibolite- and blueschist-facies rocks from Diego de Almagro Island (Patagonia): Episodic accretion and thermal evolution of the Chilean subduction interface during the Cretaceous. Lithos, 264. 422-440 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.09.001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | intergrows replacing omphacite
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inclusions in garnet II, and relict omphacite (XJd45) included in edenitic-pargasitic...epidote, and
phengite (Fig. 3a-d) ± diopside, ± omphacite, ± glaucophane, actinolite, ± chloritoid and ±...inclusions (+ albite) within garnet mantles (Fig. 3a). Omphacite
can be rarely observed as relics within hornblende...(Alm48Prp4Grs43Sps4).
CE
P
Clinopyroxene with omphacite compositions (XJd31-XJd45, Mg# = 0.64-0.76) is...aegirine molecule is minor (Aeg0-Aeg10) (Table A.1). Omphacite was not
observed enclosed in garnet grains in | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Motagua fault zone in Guatemala through Cuba
SC
RI
PT
towards the Dominican Republic (García-Gasco...was reached at ca. 70 Ma. Various garnet- and
omphacite-bearing blueschist blocks show clockwise P-T-t...filling of veins in combination with
carbonates. Omphacite often constitutes either cores in or overgrowths...abundant in
the matrix-quartz-free rock suite, omphacite, epidote-group minerals, and calcite.
Extensive...and accessory minerals are
albite, phengite, omphacite, glaucophane, and titanite. The second matrix-quartz-free | 👁 Image
| CHAPMAN, A. D., LUFFI, P. I., SALEEBY, J. B., PETERSEN, S. (2011) Metamorphic evolution, partial melting and rapid exhumation above an ancient flat slab: insights from the San Emigdio Schist, southern California. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 29 (6) 601-626 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00932.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Sierra de Salinas schists of southern
California were underplated beneath the southern Sierra Nevada...temperatures and partial
melting in San Emigdio and Sierra de Salinas schists, inverted metamorphism in the...high-temperature Pelona, Orocopia, Rand, San Emigdio and Sierra de Salinas schist (collectively referred to
as...schist was underplated directly beneath the southern Sierra Nevada
batholith (SNB) and the once contiguous...conjugate massif to the
Shatsky Rise, a large igneous province (LIP) 2000 km
south-east of Japan (Saleeby, 2003; |
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