Melting the metagranitoids: important but poorly understood aspect of crust evolution
Melting processes in metagranitoids will be investigated by answering following questions: 1. Is the pervasive melt flow on grain boundaries the major melt transport mechanism in metagranitoids, instead of interconnected leucosome network known from metasediments? 2. Do the large melt quantities in metagranitoids result from fluid-fluxed melting and how the fluids entre the migmatites? Are dehydration melting and fluid-fluxed domains contemporaneous or superimposed? 3. What are the consequences of fluid-fluxed melting on melt generation, melt quantities, melt ascent, evolution of density stratification within the crust and therefore on crustal-scale exhumation mechanisms? The questions will be answered by studying of rock textural variations, related whole rock and mineral chemistry variations including REE and Sr/Nd isotopes, mapping melt pathways from crustal- to microscale, comparison of observed/modelled melt quantities in relation to H2O amount, variation in ages and REE of zircon and monazite. Consequences on exhumation at crustal-scale will be studied by analogue modelling.