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    Cordierite-bearing gneisses occur in a 10-15 km zone southeast of Munnar, India. Cordierite forms in aluminous rocks subjected to thermal or regional metamorphism, and is associated with minerals like andalusite, spinel, quartz, and biotite. Studies of the cordierite gneiss in Munnar suggest it formed under conditions of isothermal decompression, possibly related to crustal thinning and extension after an earlier collision, and indicate a history of isothermal decompression accompanied by CO2-rich fluid flow led to the formation of the cordierite gneiss. The presence of the little studied cordierite gneiss suggests

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    Cordierite-bearing gneisses occur in a 10-15 km zone southeast of Munnar, India. Cordierite forms in aluminous rocks subjected to thermal or regional metamorphism, and is associated with minerals like andalusite, spinel, quartz, and biotite. Studies of the cordierite gneiss in Munnar suggest it formed under conditions of isothermal decompression, possibly related to crustal thinning and extension after an earlier collision, and indicate a history of isothermal decompression accompanied by CO2-rich fluid flow led to the formation of the cordierite gneiss. The presence of the little studied cordierite gneiss suggests

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    Cordierite-bearing gneisses occur in a 10-15 km zone southeast of Munnar, India. Cordierite forms in aluminous rocks subjected to thermal or regional metamorphism, and is associated with minerals like andalusite, spinel, quartz, and biotite. Studies of the cordierite gneiss in Munnar suggest it formed under conditions of isothermal decompression, possibly related to crustal thinning and extension after an earlier collision, and indicate a history of isothermal decompression accompanied by CO2-rich fluid flow led to the formation of the cordierite gneiss. The presence of the little studied cordierite gneiss suggests

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    Cordierite gneisses in Munnar granite, south-western India: implications for

    isothermal decompression history


    S, Rajesh and A. P. Pradeepkumar

    Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India


    E-mail: [email protected]

    Abstract

    The Munnar (N10°05'00";E77°05'00") granite is an E-W trending irregular body emplaced


    within the migmatite and apophyses extend into the surrounding gneisses. The granite dated
    to be 740 ±30 m.y (Odom, 1982) is traversed by pegmatite, aplite and quartz veins. Gneissic
    layering and foliation are apparent in all but the least deformed granitic rocks in the study
    area. Field investigations reveal that the rocks in Munnar include granite, hornblende biotite
    gneiss, cordierite gneiss, granite gneiss, carbonatite, syenite and migmatite. In Munnar
    cordierite-bearing gneisses occurring as elongate patches in a 10- to 15-km-wide zone along
    the southeastern part of Munnar town. Cordierite (Al3(Mg,Fe)2[Si5AlO18]) which usually
    occurs in aluminous rocks that have been subjected to thermal or regional metamorphism.
    Generally cordierite in gneisses is associated with minerals like andalusite, spinel, quartz, and
    biotite. The textural relationship of this rock is consistent with the following main reactions:
    garnet + quartz = cordierite + hypersthene + biotite. Munnar granite intrusion can be noticed
    as the country rock. In some areas around Munnar small patches of charnockite are found
    within the migmatitic/cordierite gneiss which is having relict pyroxenes and appearance of
    newly formed hornblende. Near Devimalai (17 km from Munnar) cordierite develops at the
    contact between granite and calc-granulite and it has been suggested that the cordierite
    develops at the expense of garnet (Thampi et al. 1979), indicating the possibility of these
    being Type 2 Magmatic (a) Peritectic type of Clarke (1995). Numerous petrologic studies
    have been done on rocks of Achankovil shear zone especially in relation to the formation of
    cordierite (Sinha-Roy et al. 1984; Srikantappa et al. 1985; Ravindra Kumar and Chacko
    1986; Santosh 1987; Soman et al. 1995a, 1995b, Shaji 2009). Most of these studies conclude
    that granulite formation, including the development of the cordierite gneiss, occurred under
    conditions of isothermal decompression, possibly related to crustal thinning and extension
    following earlier collision-related thickening and also suggest a history of isothermal
    decompression accompanied by the flow of CO2-rich fluids for the formation of the
    cordierite gneiss. The presence of this little studied cordierite gneiss in the Munnar area of
    Madurai block suggests that isothermal decompression was a component in the evolutionary
    history of the Munnar area and Madurai block.

    Key words: cordierite gneiss, granulite, isothermal decompression

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