The Madurai Block in the Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT) of Peninsular India is one of the largest crustal blocks within the Neoproterozoic Gondwana assembly.This block is composed of three sub-blocks:the Neoarchean Northern Madurai block,Paleoproterozoic Central Madurai block and the dominantly Neoproterozoic Southern Madurai Block.The margins of these blocks are well-known for the occurrence of ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) granulite facies rocks mostly represented by Mg-Al metasediments.Here we report a dismembered layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion occurring in association with Mg-Al gran-ulites from the classic locality of Ganguvarpatti in the Central Madurai Block.The major rock types of the layered intrusion include spinel orthopyroxenite,garnet-bearing gabbro,gabbro and gabbroic anortho-site showing rhythmic stratification and cumulate texture.The orthopyroxene-cordierite granulite from the associated Mg-Al layer is composed of spinel,cordierite and orthopyroxene.The pyroxene in both rock units is high-Al orthopyroxene formed under UHT metamorphic conditions.Conventional thermo-barometry yields near-peak metamorphic conditions of 9.5-10 kbar pressure and a minimum tempera-ture of 980 ℃.We computed P-T pseudosections and contoured for the compositional as well as modal isopleths of the major mineral phases,which yield temperature above 1000 ℃.FMAS petrogenetic grid,Al-in-orthopyroxene isopleth,conventional thermobarometry and calculated pseudosection reveal a clockwise pressure-temperature (P-T) path and near isothermal decompression.The U-Pb data on zircon grains from the layered magmatic suite indicate emplacement of the protolith at ca.2.0 Ga and the meta-morphic overgrowths yield weighted 206Pb/238U mean ages ca.520 Ma.Monazite from the garnet-bearing gabbro and Opx-Crd granulite yielded 206Pb/238U weighted mean ages of ca.532 Ma and 523 Ma marking the timing of metamorphism.We correlate the layered intrusion to a Paleoproterozoic suprasubduction zone setting,defining the Ganguvarpatti area as part of a collisional suture assembling the Northern and Central Madurai Blocks.The Paleoproterozoic magmatism and late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian UHT meta-morphism can be linked to the tectonics of the Columbia and Gondwana supercontinents.

Bing Yu;M.Santosh;Ming-Xian Wang;Cheng-Xue Yang

School of Earth Sciences and Resources,China University of Geosciences Beijing,No.29 Xueyuan Road,Haidian District,Beijing 100083,China;Department of Earth Science,University of Adelaide,Adelaide,SA 5005,Australia

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[1]Bing Yu;M.Santosh;Ming-Xian Wang;Cheng-Xue Yang-.Paleoproterozoic emplacement and Cambrian ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism of a layered magmatic intrusion from the Central Madurai Block,southern India:From Columbia to Gondwana)[J].地学前缘（英文版）,2022(01):28-45

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