Crystallization processes of quartz in a granitic magma; Cathodoluminescence zonation pattern controlled by temperature and titanium diffusivity

花崗岩質マグマから晶出する石英の結晶化プロセス; 温度及びチタン拡散に律速されたカソードルミネッセンス累帯パターン

湯口 貴史*; 小北 康弘  ; 加藤 丈典*; 横田 倫太郎*; 笹尾 英嗣   ; 西山 忠男*

Yuguchi, Takashi*; Ogita, Yasuhiro; Kato, Takenori*; Yokota, Rintaro*; Sasao, Eiji; Nishiyama, Tadao*

本研究は、花崗岩質マグマから晶出した石英を用いて、石英の生成メカニズムや結晶化温度からマグマ溜りの冷却プロセスに関する熱的変遷を論じた。本研究では、中部日本の土岐花崗岩体に産出する石英に着目し、(1)石英粒子の形状や産状の情報、(2)石英の結晶内部構造を反映するカソードルミネッセンス(CL)パターン、及び(3)石英中のチタン濃度から算出した結晶化温度を取得することで、石英の連続的な成長様式に関する新知見を得た。土岐花崗岩体の石英は、複数のCLパターンに区分できる。それらのCLパターンの相違は、メルト(マグマ)の温度やメルト中のチタンの拡散性に依存する。石英のCLパターンと結晶化温度条件から、土岐花崗岩体を形成したマグマの冷却温度条件を詳細に区分した。本研究により、マグマ溜りの詳細な熱史の解明に石英を用いたアプローチの有用性が示された。

Quartz from a granitic pluton is found to have formed through sequential growth events under different mechanisms and crystallization temperatures, which can provide new insights into magmatic processes of granitic magmas that were eventually consolidified into plutons. The events were identified using (1) the description of crystal shape and occurrence, (2) the study of the internal structure with cathodoluminescence (CL), and (3) derivation of the crystallization temperatures based on TitaniQ thermometry. The magmatic quartz crystals from the Toki granite, central Japan, are characterized as having the following internal structures: oscillatory zonation, no-oscillatory zonation with luminescence graduation (gradational zonation), and heterogeneous CL. The quartz crystals with oscillatory zonation were formed in the temperature range of about 800 C to below 700 C, which is referred to as oscillatory zoning temperature (OZT) conditions. The CL zonation pattern was controlled by the temperature conditions and titanium diffusivity in the melt (magma). The crystallization process of quartz within the Toki granite reveals the cooling processes of the granitic pluton; the lithofacies with a high frequency of oscillatory-zoned quartz underwent slower cooling under the OZT conditions than those in other lithofacies.