An apatite-rich enclave in the High Tatra granite (Western Carpathians): petrological and geochronological study

Year, pages: 2008, 295 - 306

A mafic, coarse-grained apatite-rich enclave found in the High Tatra granite, Western Carpathians, is an ultrapotassic rock with mixed (mantle-crustal) geochemical and mineralogical signatures. A U-Pb zircon age dates the intrusion at 345±5.1 Ma. Zircon cores preserve ages of 361±7.6 Ma and 391±4.6 Ma. The apatite-rich rock could be interpreted as a cumulate material related to common Tatra granite of comparable age (360–340 Ma). This rock, of very unusual mineralogy, is an atypical cumulate formed in rocks of granitoid composition.

Gaweda, A. 2008. An apatite-rich enclave in the High Tatra granite (Western Carpathians): petrological and geochronological study. In Geologica Carpathica, vol. 59, no.4, pp. 295-306. 1335-0552.

Gaweda, A. (2008). An apatite-rich enclave in the High Tatra granite (Western Carpathians): petrological and geochronological study. Geologica Carpathica, 59(4), 295-306. 1335-0552.