World's youngest blueschist belt from Leti Island in the non-volcanic Banda outer arc of Eastern Indonesia

Author: Ade Kadarusman, Shigenori Maruyama, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Tsutomu Ota, Akira Ishikawa
Informations
JournalGondwana Research
PublisherElsevier, Elsevier Inc.
Volume & IssueVol. 18,Issue 1
Pages189-204
Publication Year2010
ISSN1342937X
Source TypeGoogle Scholar
Citations
Scopus: 24
Google Scholar: 37
PubMed: 24
Abstract
The Timor–Tanimbar region constitutes part of the non-volcanic outer Banda Arc of Eastern Indonesia. Here, the world's youngest ‘A’-type high-pressure metamorphic belt crops out with different stages of evolution. Whereas an advanced domal uplift stage is seen in Timor island, the high-pressure (HP) metamorphic belt is still in the first stage of tectonic extrusion on the eastern small islands of Kisar, Leti, Moa, Sermata and Laibobar. The metamorphic rocks on Leti are among the best exposed in the islands. They are tectonically juxtaposed against overlying ultramafic rocks and underlying unmetamorphosed continental shelf sediments, bound by normal and reverse faults, respectively. The Leti metapelites display four progressive metamorphic zones: chlorite–biotite, garnet, chloritoid–staurolite and kyanite zones, with increasing grade. Zonation in Leti metabasite unit is comparable, and progressively changes …
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