Original paper
Hydrothermal alteration of the Strzelin granite, SW Poland
Ciesielczuk, Justyna; Janeczek, Janusz
Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Band 179 Heft 3 (2004), p. 239 - 264
published: Jan 16, 2004
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2004/0179-0239
ArtNo. ESP154017903002, Price: 29.00 €
Abstract
The Strzelin granite in SW Poland is seen in hand specimens as a fresh rock, except for bleached, approximately 5-mm-thick zones around numerous hydrothermal veins. Detailed investigations revealed, however, that at least 20 % of the whole intrusion was significantly affected by hydrothermal fluids. The degree of the alteration of the granite ranges from apparently unaltered granite to heavily altered rocks, which consist of almost no primary minerals. The mineral assemblage of hydrothermally altered granite is the same as in the hydrothermal veins and consists of hydrothermal quartz, feldspars, chlorite, titanite, muscovite, sericite, prehnite, clinozoisite, laumontite, saussurite, kaolinite and calcite. Laumontite replaced both K-feldspars and plagioclase. Mass balance calculations suggest the input of calcium and water to the highly altered granite associated with silica removal that caused decrease in rock volume. Hydrothermal mineral assemblages in the Strzelin granite formed at P-T conditions corresponding to zeolite facies and even incomplete prehnite-pumpellyite facies of low-grade metamorphism.
Keywords
hydrothermal alteration • granite • laumontite • mass balance • strzelin • poland