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Whole-rock geochemistry of rock units from the Pfitscher Joch area, Western Tauern Window

Franz, Gerhard | Berryman, Eleanor | Kutzschbach, Martin | Meixner, Anette | Kasemann, Simone | Lucassen, Friedrich | Loges, Anselm | Schultze, Dina

GFZ Data Services

(2021)

In the Western Tauern Window, Zillertal Alps (Austria/Italy), metasediments of a Mesozoic intra-montane basin ("Pfitsch-Mörchner basin"; Veselá and Lammerer, 2008) are exposed. The (me-ta)sediments were deposited on a Variscan basement, which comprises different types of meta-granitoids and their (Pre)-Variscan metamorphic country rocks. The chemical composition (major and trace elements) of these rocks is presented for 205 samples. In the metasediments (103 samples), we distinguish the following units (from base to top): metaconglomerate (14 samples) – mica schist (19) – carbonate-mica schist (9) – tourmaline gneiss (35) – lazulite quartzite (25) – marble (1). In the basement to the NW of the basin, we distinguish two different types of orthogneiss (both Zentralgneis of the Tux unit, in the local nomenclature two varieties Augenflasergneis and Schrammacher gneiss; 32 samples) and the roof pendant of these gneisses with serpentinite (10 samples), amphibolite, and paragneiss (no analyses presented). In the SE of the basin we distinguish orthogneiss from the Zillertal branch of the Zentralgneis (7 samples), biotite-chlorite-plagioclase gneiss (9 samples), amphibolite, and (Pre-)Variscan graphitic micaschist with the local name Furtschagl schist (no analyses presented), and at the base of the basin sediments a schistose pyrite quartzite (31) with lenses of magnetite-chloritoide-staurolite-chlorite rich rocks (13 samples MCSC-lenses, interpreted as paleosol, Barrientos and Selverstone, 1987). From a subset of these samples (23 samples), rare earth elements were determined, and from another subset of 25 samples 11B/10B boron isotope ratios and whole rock B-contents. This extends a previously published data set of B isotope ratios in tourmaline from the metasedimen-tary unit (Berryman et al. 2017). For a test of stratigraphic correlation, typical rocks from the meta-conglomerate, the carbonate-mica schist, lazulite quartzite, and marble (one sample each) were analyzed for 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios.

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
Tauern Window
Variscian basement
metasediments
boron isotopes
boron contents
rare earth elements
tourmalinite
GEOCHEMISTRY
CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS
ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS
ISOTOPE RATIOS

MSL enriched keywords
sedimentary rock
conglomerate
metamorphic rock
quartzite
gneiss
amphibolite
schist
marble
serpentinite
minerals
sulfide minerals
pyrite
oxide mineral
magnetite
silicate minerals
nesosilicates
staurolite
cyclosilicates
tourmaline
phyllosilicates
clay
chlorite
mica
biotite
tectosilicates
feldspar - plagioclase
Phanerozoic
Mesozoic
analysis
microchemical analysis
trace elements
whole rock analysis
trace elements
measured property
boron

MSL enriched sub domains i

geochemistry


Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2021.013


Authors

Franz, Gerhard

Department of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;

Berryman, Eleanor

0000-0002-3875-5826

CammetMINING of Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;

Kutzschbach, Martin

0000-0002-2938-8147

Department of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;

Meixner, Anette

Faculty of Geosciences MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;

Kasemann, Simone

0000-0002-6913-7748

Faculty of Geosciences MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;

Lucassen, Friedrich

0000-0002-2151-6116

Faculty of Geosciences MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;

Loges, Anselm

0000-0002-7575-999X

Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;

Schultze, Dina

0000-0002-2141-5155

Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;


Contributers

Franz, Gerhard

ContactPerson

Department of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;

Franz, Gerhard

ContactPerson

Department of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;


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Contact

Franz, Gerhard

Department of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;

Franz, Gerhard

Department of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;


Citiation

Franz, G., Berryman, E., Kutzschbach, M., Meixner, A., Kasemann, S., Lucassen, F., Loges, A., & Schultze, D. (2021). Whole-rock geochemistry of rock units from the Pfitscher Joch area, Western Tauern Window [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2021.013