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Geology; September 2008; v. 36; no. 9; p. 735-738; DOI: 10.1130/G25144A.1
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Late Miocene coesite-eclogite exhumed in the Woodlark Rift

Suzanne L. Baldwin1, Laura E. Webb1 and Brian D. Monteleone1,*

1 Syracuse University, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA

Late Miocene–Pliocene eclogites were exhumed in the Woodlark Rift of eastern Papua New Guinea, an actively extending region west of the Woodlark Basin seafloor spreading center. We report the discovery of coesite in late Miocene eclogite from the lower plate of one of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands metamorphic core complexes within the Woodlark Rift. Zircon crystallization temperatures (650–675 °C) and 238U/206Pb age (ca. 8 Ma), and rutile thermometry (695–743 °C) combined with garnet-pyroxene thermometry (600–760 °C) and garnet-pyroxene-phengite barometry (18–27 kbar), indicate that the coesite-eclogite was exhumed from mantle depths (≥90 km) to the Earth's surface at plate tectonic rates (cm yr–1). This late Miocene coesite-eclogite is the youngest exhumed ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) rock on Earth, and its preservation ahead of the westward-propagating seafloor spreading center forces reevaluation of models for UHP exhumation, as well as the geologic and tectonic evolution of the Woodlark Rift.

Key Words: coesite-eclogite • ultrahigh-pressure exhumation • Woodlark Rift




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