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Journal of Petrology
Vol; 22, No. 1
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The Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the
Metamorphosed Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks of the
Jijal Complex, Kohistan, NW Pakistan
ABSTRACT
The Jijal complex, covering more than 150 sq. km in the extreme north of Pakistan, is a tectonic
wedge of garnet granulites intruded in the south by a 10 x 4 km slab of ultramafic rocks. The
granulites are divisible into plagioclase-bearing (basic to intermediate) and plagioclase-free
(ultrabasic to basic) types, the two types reflecting differences in bulk chemistryl Garnet +
plagioclase + clinopyroxene + quartz + rutile + hornblende + epidote is the most common
assem.blage' The plagioclase-free rocks are composed mainly of two or three of the minerals garnet,
amphibole, clinopyroxene and epidote. Orthopyroxene occurs in websteritic rocks devoid of elpiOote.
Much of the amphibole and some epidote appear to be prograde products. Although variation
diagrams do not reveal a genetic link between the two types of granulite, it is considered that they
are comagmatic rather than the products of two or more unrelated magmas.
The compositions of garnet (Py2s,a6Alm27_a3Gro16_26), clinopyroxene (Mgaa_tfles_fiCasFqy
Alro3 3'0-9'9 per cent), orthopyroxene (with up to 5.5 per centAlror), a*phibole t*itrt t"
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16'3.per cent AlrO, and high Al"t/Aliu), and the abundance of garnet suggest a high-pressure origin
for the granulites. The rocks appear to have differentiated from a tholeiitic magma of oceaiic
affinity or they may be genetically related to the pyroxene granulites of Swat considered to have
originally crystallized from a calc-alkaline magma of island arc or continental margin affinity. They
probably cryitallized in the ancient Tethyan crust/upper mantle (or less likely in a coniinental
margin), later to be metamorphosed to granulites (67V790oC, 12-14 kb) during the collision of
the Indian-Asian landmasses, and carried upwards during later Himalayan orogenic episodes.
The ultramafic rocks are alpine-type in nature and devoid of garnet. They are dominated by
diopsidites; dunites, peridotites, and harzburgites together form <50 per cent ofthe area oloutcrop.
The chemistry of the rocks, and their olivines (Forr_ro) and clinopyroxenes (Mgnr.r_orFer.r_r.,
Caor.o-ll.") are similar to those of alpine complexes of the harzburgite subtype. It is not-cje"ai
whether they represent a faulted slab of suboceanic crust/upper mantle, manile diapirs in deep
orogenic roots, or dismembered ultramafic rocks differentiated from a basaltic magma. They seem
to have a complex history; their present mineralogy is suggestive of high grade metamoiphism
(800-850 "C, 8-12 kb). They are magmatically unrelated to the garnet granulites and were
probably intruded into the latter as plastic crystalline material after both had been independently
metamorphosed, but belore the entire complex was carried tectonically into its present
surroundings. The abundances of the diopsidites is in marked contrast to other alpine-type
complexes and the possibility of Ca and Si metasomatism during or before their metamorphism
should not be totally ruled out.
INTRODUCTION
Mucs of Kohistan and adjacent areas, the northernmost part of the North-West
Frontier Province of Pakistan, is occupied by the rocks of the Kohistan complex.
The latter extends E-W for more than 200 km between Nanga Parbat and eastern
Afghanistan. and N-S, along the Swat river, for about 70 km (Jan & Kempe,
L973). The comple* consists of three NE-trending belts, consisting of amphibolites,
Uournal of Pehology,Yol.22,Part I, pp. 85-126. I 98 ll
M. Q. JAN AND R. A. HOWrE
pyroxene granulites, and quaftz diorites. In the south the amphibolites have a
faulted contact with Palaeozoic schists. Occurrence along or near this contact of
glaucophane schists, serpentinites and other ultramafic rocks is suggestive of a
major tectonic activity (Coleman, 1971, 1972; Moores, 1973). The fault is
probably an extension of the Indus suture line which, according to Gansser (1974),
marks'the subduction of the Indian plate and its thrust below the Tibetan mass'.
Along the Indus near Jijal (35o 05'N,72o 55'E), however, the amphibolites
andPalaeozoic schists are separated from each other by a fault-bounded block or
wedge of garnet granulites and ultramafic rocks, which constitute the Jijal complex.
It covers an area of at least 150 sq. km (Fig. 1); its eastern and western extensions
are not known because of the inaccessibility of the area; however, to the west it
does not extend beyond the drainage divide between the Indus and Swat valleys.
(To avoid confusion the term ultramafic, in this paper, refers to the alpine-type,
garnet-free, rocks. The term is not used for the plagioclase-free garnet granulites,
e.g. garnetites, hornblende-rocks, garnet pyroxenites, epidote-rich rocks.)
The northern part of the Jijal complex is occupied by the garnet granulites and
the southern part by the ultramafic rocks. The latter form a NW-trending and
northerly dipping body of rocks more than 45 sq. km in area (Jan & Tahirkheli,
1969). However, small bodies of serpentinized ultramafic rocks (some containing a
green spinel) also occur in the granulites, especially along the Patan fault, and
xenolithic lenses and patches of the granulites occur in the ultramafic rocks and
along the southern margin of the complex. The small bodies generally have sheared
contacts; the contact between the two main masses, however, is interfingered or
'gradational' (Qureshi & Jan, 1977), possibly because the ultramafic rocks were
intruded as plastic material. The contact relationship is further exacerbated here by
the occurrence of pyroxenites which represent both rock-types and which are
difficult to'assign to one or the other type in the field.
This paper presents a detailed account of the geochemistry and mineralogy of
the complex with the help of chemical analyses for 28 rocks and 40 minerals.
Physical constants for most of the minerals are given and the distribution of iron
and magnesium between the co-existing minerals is discussed, along with estimates
of temperature and pressure of formation for the two types of rocks.
Analytical techniques
Disc and Frantz magnetic separators and heavy liquids were used for mineral
separation. Only those rocks were chosen for separation which showed equilibrium
texture and in which the minerals, especially plagioclase if present, showed no (or
only marginal) zoning. Small quantities of rocks, weighing less than 500 g, were
crushed for separation in the hope that uniform conditions of chemical equilibrium
would have been reached in the smaller volume of the chemical system. The
minerals were ground to between 200 and 300 B.S.M. but the garnets were
powdered to <300 mesh; the analysed concentrates, especially garnets, were purer
than 99.5 pet' cent. Densities were determined by taking about 3.0 g of material in
density bottles; the reported values are at 0 oC and should be accurate in most
THE JIJAL COMPLEX. PAKISTAN
Frc. l. Geological sketgh map of the Jijal complex. Numbers indicate the locations of the analysed samples.
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PETROGRAPHY
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Mineral assemblages in the Jijal garnet granulites
Granulites I + + + + (+,0) 0
with 2 + + + + 0 (+,0)
essential 3 + + 0 + + (+,0)
plagioclase 4 + + + + ++
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opaques)
l0 0 +00+0
ll 0 ++0+0 (+, 0) (Spinel)
t2 (+, o) +00++
Pyroxene-rich assemblages; most have opaque minerals (no rutile)
130 + +0 (+, o) 0
140 (+, o) +0 (+, o) 0+ (oPx)
150 + +0 0 +
authors. Tectonic fabrics, Mg-rich olivine and pyroxenes (Mg/Fe -9/l), common
concentrations of Cr-spinel (Thayer, 1960, 1967; Jackson & Thayer, 1972), and
little compositional variation in the rocks (Moores, 1969) are among their special
features. The Jijal rocks share all these characteristics; they are devoid of
plagioclase, micas, and primary amphibole. Den Tex (1969) subdivided the alpine
peridotites into two genetic classes, the ophiolitic or truly alpine-type, and the
root-zone peridotites found in very hilh-grade metamorphic terrains in deeply
eroded mountain roots. The Jijal rocks probably should be placed in the second
group.
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Variation diagrams
oxide percentages have been plotted against the Thornton & Tuttle (1960)
differentiation index, DI : sum of weight per cent normative e + or + ab + ne + lc
+ fts, in Fig. 2. with increase in DI, the plagioclase-bearing rocks show an increase
in sio, and total alkalis (essentially sodium), and a decrease in Alro' Fe oxides,
CaO, and MgO. Such trends cannot be seen in the plagioclase-free rocks because
of their restricted DI range due to low alkalis and silica. Interestingly, however,
there is a gap in the DI values between 5.41 and 18.95 (ignoring sample 289, with
Dr : 16.26, which is clearly behaving independently due to (?)metasomatism).
This lack of intermediate DI values could arise from a lack of analyses of truly
representative rocks; nevertheless, the possibility of two magmas cannot be ruled
out.
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similarly in the case of Ca and Mg but have an almost perpendicular trend for Si
and (?) Al. The two types of rock also seem to have opposed trends for the other
elements despite the fact that this type of variation diagram produces smoother
trends than most other variation diagrams.
Some of the trace elements have also been plotted against (] Si + K
- Ca - Mg)
in Fig. 4. Whether any conclusions can be drawn from the distribution of trace
elements is debatable; signiflcant differences in the pre- and post-metamorphic
modal composition between the two types of rocks, lack of suitable laboratory
standards, and high-grade metamorphism are some of the main factors which could
render such conclusions invalid.
The low Cr and Ni contents and the different variation trends for the two types
of rocks raise a serious question: are the plagioclase-free granulites really
meta-igneous?
The Cr'airO Ni values for the granulites are lower than those reported for
basic-ultrabasic rocks of somewhat similar composition. Cr, apart from making its
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andradite) : 100 diagram showing the fields ofgarnets from eclogites (l), granulites (2), amphibolites (3), and
epidote amphiboles (4) (after Dobretsov et a/.,1972).
eclogiteJike rocks, e.g. Pinus et al., 1970) were explored using Niggli's approach as
recommended by Leake (1964). It is commonly agreed that in basic magmas a
systematic decrease with increasing differentiation occurs in the Niggli numbers mg
(mg : Mg/(Mg * Fe,o,u, + Mn) and fm, and a systematic increase in si, al, alk, and
ti. By plotting these values in various ways, the trends generated by igneous rocks
are significantly different from those given by the mixtures of sediments (in this
case the appropriate combinations of pelitic rocks and limestones/dolomites)
which can duplicate the chemistry of basic and ultrabasic rocks. Metasomatic
rocks, on the other hand, are expected to show scattered plots on these variation
diagrams. A few gf the plagioclase-free rocks may have been metasomatized
(epidote, sericitic mica, amphibole and chlorite are common as retrograde
98 M. Q. JAN AND R. A. HOWrE
products), but the effects of metasomatism are not pronounced except in the
garnetiferous hornblende rock (? and other hornblende-rich rocks). The few
departures from igneous trends, except in the hornblende rock, seem to be due
essentially to bulk mineralogy.
The following values were used for plotting: mg against c, ti, Ni, Cr, and si; c
against si, al, and al-alk; and a 100 mg + (al - alk) + c : 100 triangular plot.
Although in some cases the rocks fall in the overlapping fields of igneous and
metasedimentary rocks, it can be concluded on the following grounds that the Jijal
granulites, including the plagioclase-free type, are meta-igneous: (1) they generally
follow the igneous trends on various diagrams; (2) they lack associated calcareous
or pelitic rocks; (3) their normative compositions are not abnormal for igneous
rocks and they have chemical similarities with some magmatic rocks; (4) the
plagioclase-free rocks occur as local masses throughout the complex; and (5)
sporadic occurrences of xenoliths have been noted in the plagioclase-bearing type.
Taken as a unit, the Jijal granulites show an increase in Sr, Zn, and Zr, and a
decrease in Ni and, less obviously, in Cr with increase in the index. The variations
in Ba, Co, Cu, and Ga, however, seem to be independent for the two types of
granulites. For Co, the plagioclase-free rocks show a sharp rise and the plagioclase-
bearing rocks a sharp decline as the index increases. The variation in Ba, Cu, and
Ga can be interpreted in more than one way. The behaviour of trace elements,
therefore, cannot discriminate between the rival hypotheses of comagmatic or
independent origin for the two types of granulites.
The variations in Ba and Sr merit comment. Ba is generally assumed to be
captured in K-bearing minerals, but in the Jijal rocks KrO is typically low and there
is no potassium mineral. Yet the distribution of Ba is different for the two types of
granulites and it is not clear which major element it follows. Such breaks in the
distribution of trace elements in the Huntly region were considered by Weedon
(1970) to be ofpetrogenetic significance.
Sr is normally considered to substitute for Ca or even K; it is usually"more
concentrated in apatite, epidote, and plagioclase than in other common calcic
minerals. In Jijal, the Sr content is generally very low in the plagioclase-free
granulites. Out of the three rocks with appreciable Sr content, one is the possibly
metasomatized rock (SI 289) while the other two are considerably altered,
containing retrograde epidote. Whether or not Sr has been added to the three rocks
from an unknown source is difficult to tell; ignoring these three, the values of Sr for
the two types of granulites are markedly different.
On the basis of chemical variations alone, it is hard to suggest that the
plagioclase-bearing and the plagioclase-free granulites are comagmatic. However,
chemical breaks on variation diagrams between basic rocks and their comagmatic
ultrabasic rocks are not totally unexpected. The intimate association of the two
types of granulite can be better explained if they are regarded as comagmatic rather
than being the products of two or more unrelated magmas. There is a likelihood
that the granulites represent a metamorphosed sequence of hypersthene gabbros
with sonie 'more and some less basic rocks which differentiated from an
alumina-rich, (?i alkali-poor tholeiitic magma.
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN 99
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Chemical and XRF analyses of the ultramafic rocksfrom the Jijal complex
^s13/8 SI 278 SI 275 SIJ 76 SI 272 SID 52 SI 294 SIJ 81 SI 275a SI 295
sio, 40.63 42.20 44.50 50.12 50.21 50.32 50.40 51.05 52.92 53.75
Tio, 0.06 0.09 0.r2 o.23 0. I I 0.r5 0.12 0.09 0.10 0.23
Al203 0.45 0.49 0'41 3.81 0.83 2.30 1.65 1.45 0.78 r.49
Fero, 8.95 4.35 2.78 0.29 1.36 0.27 r'33 0.94 1.13 2-17
FeO 9.14 5.54 5.62 5.70 3.52 5.76 6.05 4.52 1.87 4.40
MnO 0.30 0.15 0.14 0.15 0.1 I 0.12 0.16 0.15 0.10 0.18
Mgo 38.29 44.69 44.86 21.48 26.29 25.23 25.50 26.08 19.00 21.63
CaO 0.82 1.39 0.72 17.56 16.10 15.25 14.88 t5.42 21.79 14.55
NarO 0.10 0.03 0'09 0.15 0.20 0.15 0.19 0.28 0.23 0. 16
KrO 0.04 0.02 0'0r 0.04 0'01 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.01
HrO+ 1.07 0.11 0.32 r.19 1.06 2.29 1.51 r.82 l.0l o.42
Hro- 0'19 0.08 0.06 0.12 0.19
Prot 0.00 0.00 0'00 0.07 0.02 0.10 0.09 0.08 0.00 0.00
TOTAL 99.85 99.25 99.65 101.4 99.88 102.0 102.0 101.9 99.07 99.18
PPM
Co 355 137 145 23 28 64 48 27 <10 28
Cr 191 5900 3445 2813 2990 1746 2206 2819 3080 2835
Cu <30 r3't 55 <30 77 <30 <30 39 <30 59
Ga <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 r7 <10 <10
Ni 545 t736 2483 206 433 282 273 235 240 210
Rb 10 11 <10 <10 12 <10 10 10 13 <10
Sr <15 <15 <15 24 <15 20 22 30 20 20
Y <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 18 <10 <10
Zn 60 47 40 <30 150 <30 <30 <30 40 60
Zr <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 <10
CIPW norms
a 1'42
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0. 0.06 0.24 0.06 o.t2 0.24 0.12 0.t2 0.06
ab 0.85 0.25 0.16 1.21 1.69 1.27 1.61 2.37 1.95 r'3s
an 0.66 1.14 0'69 9.60 1.34 5.54 3.53 2.64 1.04 3.32
*ol t.42 2.40 1.20 32.\',1 32.13 29.00 29.10 30.61 44.69 2845
en )di 1.14 1.98 0.99 24.30 26.63 )', .)1 )).A7 24.28 37.12 22.83
fsJ 0.12 o.tz 0.07 4.60 2. 18 3.66 3.57 2.86 1.98 2.65
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ls)' 2.48 0.92 l'71 0.94 0.58 1.63 r.78 1.19 0.29 3.59
lo \.r 49. 18 65.88 61.02 16.98 22.21 21.45 20.93 21.41 3.39
la) 5.60 4.38 4.37 3.54 2.Ol 3'89 3.67 2.18 0.20
mt t2.98 6'31 4.03 0.42 1.91 0.39 1.93 1.36 1.64 3.15
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ap 0. l7 0.05 0.24 0.21 0.19
SI 3 18. Moderately altered dunite containing olivine, magnetite, serpentine and chromitic spinel-
SI 278. Mildly aitered harzburgite consisting of olivine (Foo), orthopyroxene, chromite, magnetite, serpentine and
(?) talc.
SI 2?5. Harzburgite composed of 86.5 per cent olivine (Forr.,), 10.1 per cent enstatite, l'0 per cent diopside, l'1 per cent
serpentine, 0.45 per cent talc, and 0'87 per cent ofchromite with minor magnetite.
SIJ 76. Py.o*.nite containing diopside, (?) tremolite (talc), serpentine, orthopyroxene, chromite, magnetite. The
amphibole and/or talc seem to replace the serpentine'
SI 272. Oliuin. clinopyroxenite containing also serpentine, talc, (?) orthopyroxene, chromite and magnetite. Olivine
(Fo.).
SID 52. Similar to above but also containing a carbonate, no orthopyroxene.
SI 294. Similar to 272 but without orthopyroxene.
SU 8 l. Similar to 294 but also containing a little tremolite which may be later than serpentine'
SI 2?5a. Coarse-grained clinopyroxenite vein in harzburgite 2?5, composed of 86'4 per cent diopside, l2'5 per cent
serpentine, and 1.2 per cent ghromite and a little magnetite'
3l 295. W.btt"rite containing diopside, magnesian bronzite, chromite, serpentine, talc, (?) amphibole, and magnetite.
1OO M. Q. JAN AND R. A, HOWIE
MINERALOGY
Plagioclase. Plagioclase is present only in the granulites. In many rocks it is
cloudy or saussuritized and full of tiny prisms of (clino)zoisite, but in a few rocks it
may also contain patches of an epidote with intergrown qvaftz. White mica, quartz,
and albite are among its alteration products. In some rocks where the feldspar is
fresh, its composition, based on maximum symmetrical extinction angle on ulbit.
twins, is from Anro to Anor. Twinning is usually poorly developed and is on albite
andlor periclinelacline laws. In some rocks the plagioclase appears to lack
twinning almost completely whilst in a few it is complexly twinned on Carlsbad +
albite + pericline/acline laws (sample SI 326).
Oliuine. The occurrence of olivine is restricted to the ultramafic rocks. The
compositions of six olivines were determined optically; one of these was also
chemically analysed (Table 4, anal.l). The composition (Forr.r) of the olivine from
harzburgite 275, determined by plotting con the curve given in Deer et at. (1962a),
Tenle 4
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NarO, KrO and 0.45 per cent NiO). cr I .648, D - 3.33 I ; Mg : 92.t. Analyst: M.Q.J.
2. Chromite from SI 275. Analyst: M.Q.J.
3. Green spinel from garnet-spinel-clinopyroxene-amphibole lens (SI 297c) n Jijal ultramafic rocks.
(Microprobe analysis by R. F. Symes).
4. Dark-coloured spinel associated with the green spinel in Sl297c. (Microprobe analysis by R. F. Symes).
* Total iron was'determined as FerO, in the spinel analyses. The amounts of FerO, and FeO was re-
calculated to give approximately the spinel R2+: R3+ ratio of I :2, following Deer et a!. (1962b).
t Includes 0.009 Ni.
lo2 M. Q. JAN AND R. A. HOWIE
matches closely that determined from the analysis (Fonr.r); however, the value
(Foru) derived from the density is markedly low in Mg. Most of the Mg-rich
olivines plotted by Deer et al. (1962a) also give lower Fo contents on the density
curve,
The variation in the composition of the Jijal olivines is small (Fonr., to Forn) and
within the range (Foro-Forr) displayed by the olivines of alpine peridotites (Green,
1964; Challis, 1965; Jackson & Thayer, 1972). Olivines from peridotites in layered
complexes may be as magnesian as those in alpine peridotites but the range in
composition of the former is greater, extending to Foro (Loney et al., I97l) and
below (Jackson & Thayer, L972). Il'vitskiy and Kolbantsev (1968), however,
report comparatively closer ranges in the composition of the olivines (Fonr.u-n'.,
and Fon..7-sn.r)from alpine and layered complexes, respectively.
In some alpine is less magnesian in pyroxenites than in
complexes, olivine
olivine-rich rocks but such a tendency is not apparent in Jijal. Similarly,
Himmelberg & Loney (1973) found that in the Vulcan Peak peridotite, Oregon,
chromitites (and a peridotite with a higher than usual amount of accessory
Cr-spinel) contain the most magnesian olivine. Olivine compositions have not been
determined from the 'chromitites' of Jijal; however, no sympathetic relationship is
observable between the Fo content of the olivine and the Cr content in the whole
rock analysis.
Spinel. Analyses of three spinels are given in Table 4. One of these (column 2) is
from harzburgite 27 5 and the other two from a granulite. In all three, total iron was
determined as FerO, and FeO was recalculated to give an approximate R2+'R3+
ratio of 1 :2. According to Deer et al. (I962b) and Irvine (1967), natural spinels are
usually fairly close to the ideal R2+Rl+ formula and the recalculation seems
justified.
The analysed chromite has a dark brown colour when it occurs as very thin
grains; most of the grains, however, are almost black in thin-section. The Fe
content of the chromite is higher than in most chromites from alpine complexes
(Thayer, 1970), including those of Hindubagh (Bilgrami, 1968) and Malakand
(Ahmed, 1978) which also have much higher MgO. However, occasional analyses
of alpine chromites with high Fe can be found in the literature. The chromite in
dunite (4-VP-68) from Vulcan Peak (Himmelberg & Loney, 1973), for example, is
very similar to the Jijal chromite, whilst Ehrenberg (1975, Table 1, anal. JJ) has
reported a chromite from Sierra Nevada with 43.1 per cent FeO. The relatively
high CaO content of the Jijal analysis may be due to contamination resulting from
the repeated addition and evaporation of acids to dissolve the chromite.
The Fel+/(Cr + Al + Fe3+) ratio of the analysis is 0.106; such low values seem
to be characteristic of the chromites in alpine compl'exes (Himmelberg & Loney,
1973); however, Rodgers (1973) has shown that such low values can also be found
in the chromites of stratiform complexes. On Me/(Mg + Fe2+) us Al/(Al +
Cr + Fe3+) and total Fe plots such as the ones used by Rodgers (1973), the Jijal
chromite, like the New Caledonian alpine chromites, falls in the marginal part of
the field for'stratiform complexes but well within the field of alpine complexes.
The two spinels (columns 3 and 4) are intimately associated in granulite29Tc;n
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN 103
some, the dark coloured, almost black, spinel is sprinkled in the form of dense dust
in the green variety. The chemical composition of the two is remarkably similar and
the cause for the difference in their colour is not clear. In both, considerable Fe2+ is
replacing Mg (Mg/f'e2+:2.24 in the green and 2.34 in the dark variety),
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in the Jijal granulites except in the case or rock 2e7c,
where it becomes an important phase. The spinel-bearing rock occurs in the form of
a band a few centimetres thick that separates a garnet granulite part(297b) from a
websterite part (297a) in a large granulite xenolith in the ultramafic rocks. The
spinel-bearing rock is chemically very similar to the garnet granulite (297b) except
for a higher CaO and lower FeO in the former. It is not clear whether the spinel
was produced during the regional or later retrograde metamorphism or by contact
metamorphism/metasomatism imposed by 297a (? hot websterite intrusion)
surviving the regional metamorphism which affected the websterite as well as the
granulite.
The two spinels are very low in Cr in contrast to those of the pyroxenite
inclusions in basalts (Wilkinson, 1973) and of alpine peridotites (Medaris, 1972).
Although their host rock is not a part of the alpine ultramafic rocks of Jijal, it may
be mentioned that Cr-depleted spinels have been reported from ultramafic rocks
affected by contact metamorphism (Springer, 1974; Frost, 1975) and by
metasomatism accompanied by low oxygen activity (Hamlyn, l9'15).
Garnet. Analyses of 10 garnets from the granulites, together with physical data
for eight of them, are presented in Table 5. The structural formulae, recalculated on
the basis of 24 oxygens, approach closely the ideal formula X?+Y:+Z3O,.
However, in 297b, 283, 2'70, and 338 the amount of cations in X is slightly less and
in Y slightly more than that required by the ideal formula, probably due to slight
underestimation of their FeO contents (see Deer et al., 1962a). The garnets are
composed essentially of the components almandine (27-43 per cent), pyrope
(28-46 per cent), and grossular (16-28 per cent).
The Mg/(Fe2+ + Ca) ratio of the garnets is influenced by this ratio in their tiost
rocks. They are richer in Fe2+, Mn, Fe2+/Mg and (Fe + Mg)/Ca than their host
rocks. Similar relationships have already been found by Buddington (1952), Howie
& Subramaniam (1957), and Subramaniam (1962). Like the garnets of eclogites
(Coleman et al., 1965) and other high-pressure metamorphic rocks, they are
generally lower in Cr, Cu, Ni, and higher inZnthan their host rocks.
The andradite component is low in all the analyses despite the fact that andradite
garnet is stable to high pressures and temperatures.
The Mn content of the garnets is also low, partly due to the poverty of their host
rocks in Mn and partly to high-grade metamorphic conditions. Although
spessartine is stable at high P and Z (Mottana, 1974), Saxena (1968) and Hsu
(1968) assert that the composition of the host rock plays a role in determining the
proportion of spessartine in garnet, and a number of authors have found that low
grade garnets are enriched in MnO content (Barth, 1936; Miyashiro & Shido,
te73).
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dependent upon the normative an/(ol+ hy) ratio of their host rocks and the
composition and proportion of the associated minerals (Church, 1968), increasing
pressure also favours the accommodation of grossular relative to almandine in
Fe2+-Mg garnets. This is strongly suggested by the higher grossular content in the
garnets of glaucophane schists, eclogites (Coleman et al., 1965; Dobretsov e/ a/.,
1972), kyanite eclogite and grospydite xenoliths in kimberlites (Sobolev et al.,
1968), and by exferimental work (Green & Ringwood, 1967; Akella & Kennedy,
1971; Hensen,1976).
The Jijal granulite garnets are richer in grossular, and, especially, pyrope than
most garnets of the granulite facies. However, Scharbert & Kuart (1974) have
reported up to 40 per cent grossular in garnets of Moldanubian granulites, and
N6mec (1967) considers that up to 50 per cent grossular can be accommodated in
the almandinic garnets of granulites. A comparison of the Jijal garnets with those
from various parageneses (Dobretsov et al., 1972, table 32) shows that they are
most similar to the garnets of eclogites from metamorphic complexes. They have
lower almandine than occurs in the garnets from granulites and higher pyrope than
in those from diopside-plagioclase rocks. The pyrope - (almandine + spessartine)
- (grossular + andradite) contents of(1972).
the garnets were plotted on the triangular
diagram (Fig. a) of Dobretsov et al. Eight plot in the overlapping fields of
eclogite and granulite and two in the eclogite garnet field. One of the latter two is
from the possibly metasomatized rock (289) which is mineralogically non-eclogitic
(garnetiferous hornblende rock). The experimental evidence cited above (see also
Green & Ringwood, 1972) suggests that the garnet-clinopyroxene-plagioclase
assemblage (the most common in the Jijal granulites) developed at lower pressures
than typical eclogites.
Epidote.In addition to retrograde epidote after plagioclase and garnet, and in the
epidote-rich granulites (assemblage 16 and 17), certain Jijal granulites contain
minor amounts of epidote which seems to be in stable co-existence with other
minerals, including fresh plagioclase. Two analyses of epidotes give pistacite, 100
Fe3+/(Fe3+ + Al), contents of 14.6 (SI 291) and 19.3 (SI 290). Epidote has not
been found in any local granulite containing orthopyroxene.
Although the epidote minerals are generally regarded as being stable only up to
about the middle of the amphibolite facies, there is some evidence that under
favourable conditions they may be stable even in granulite facies environments.
Den Tex & Vogel (1962) suggested the recognition of an epidote granulite
sub-facies in the granulites of NW Spain, considered to have formed between 630
and 690 oC and 8 to 10 kb (Den Tex et al.,1972).In the basic granulites around
oC and 6-8 kb, Manna
Saltora, W. Bengal, considered to have formed at 750-830
& Sen (1974) noted an unusual variety of garnetiferous-pyroxene granulite
containing a large amount of 'prograde (?) epidote'. Tire experimental work of Liou
(1973) suggests that epidote is stable under high Prro at temperatures of the
granulite facies and, while studying the brown hornblende mylonite from the St.
oC.
Paul Rocks, Millhollen & Wyllie (1974) noted its formation at more than I100
Thus there is a likelihood that in some Jijal granulites epidote is a primary
(prograde) metamorphic mineral. Typically this occurs in large grains with sharp
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN IO7
boundaries against other minerals. However, the possibility should not be ruled
out
that in some rocks in which epidote occurs garnet granulites completely
re-equilibrated at lesser depths, and hence lower p-z conditions, during
upward
transport and are not isofacial with the remaining granulites. This, at least, seems
to
be the case with the well-formed paragonite, 100 Na/(Na + K) : 96, found
in an
epidote-bearing granulite (29I). Such retrograde epidote is found replacing other
minerals along fractures, as abundant needles in plagioclase, and as large to
small
grains found in abundance (up to 50 per cent) in a few rocks where
it may show
radial growth and cut across large grains ofprograde epidote.
Orthopyroxene. Orthopyroxene is a common mineral in the ultramafic rocks of
Jijal, but in the garnet granulites it is restricted to the less abundant, plagioclase-free
websteritic rocks' However, unstable relics of hypersthene have also been noted in
a
plagioclase-bearing granulite. Analyses of five orthopyroxenes are given
in Table 6.
Two are from ultramafic rocks (275 and 295) and the remaining three from
granulites; their compositions have been plotted in Fig. 5. Four of the pyroxenes
are bronzites whilst that from harzburgite 275 is enstatite; their enstatite contents
are dependent upon the Mg/Fe2+ ratios of their host rocks, and their refractive
indices and density increase with iron content. The bronzites of the Jijal granulites,
like the orthopyroxenes of the granulite facies (Howie, 1965), are strongly pleo-
chroic with a pink to red, B yellow, and 7 green.
Of the two orthopyroxenes from the ultramafic rocks, the one from harzburgite
275 is very similar to those from alpine ultramafic rocks (Jackson & Thayer,
okL
Medaris, 1972). The orthopyroxene from websterite 2gs, however, has a
considerably lower enstatite content, reflecting the lower mol. ratio Mgo/(Mgo +
Feo total + Mno) of its host rock compared with alpine peridotites. Co1npur.a to
the orthopyroxenes of harzburgites from Burro Mountains (Loney et al., lg1l),
orthopyroxene 275 is much lower in cr and v while the values for co, cu, and Ni
are fairly close.
The three bronzites from the websteritic members of the granulites (297a,104b,
320E) are significantly different from the bronzite of the ultramafic websterite
(295). Apart from being more strongly pleochroic and having lower
enstatite
contents, the granulite bronzites are poorer in Ti (except l04b), Cr, and richer in Al
and, in the case of 297a, in Fe3+, co, cu, v, and pb than the ultramafic bronzite.
Clinopyroxene. Analyses of four clinopyroxenes from the ultramafic rocks and
ten from the garnet granulites are presented in Table 7. The former are diopsides
and have light- to grass-green powders, colourless to very faint green in ttrin
section; the latter are diopsidic (similar in colour to those in the ultr;mafic rocks)
to salitic (dark green powders, green in thin section). The aand,yof the pyroxenes
generally plot a little above the trend established by Deer'et at. (197g, p. zszl
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departure. The Ca-Mg-Fe ratios obtained from plotting 2V against areconsider-
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ably different from those derived from the analyses and suggest that the Hess
(1949) and Muir (1951) diagrams are not suitable for composition
determinations
of certain diopsidic-s3litic pyroienes (? those with high Altu + Fer*).
The essential variation in the chemistry of the analysed clinopyroxenes is in
the
108 M. Q. JAN AND R. A, HOWIE
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Orthopyroxenes from the Jijal complex
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granulites also show substantial variations in Al, Fe3+, and Na. With increase in
Fe, the amounts of Si, Ca, Cr, and Ni fall and V rises. Co, Cu, and Pb are generally
higher in the granulite clinopyroxenes than in those from the ultramafic rocks.
Mg
10 20 30 40 Fe2*+Fe3t+ Mn
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clinopyroxenes after White (1964).
'Fe_Mg
DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN THE COEXISTING MINERALS
The Fe-Mg distribution in coexisting minerals has been investigated by a
number of workers. The distribution coefficient (Kr) for the Fe-Mg exchange
reaction is defined as
ri;l"":(P.J"/(P.J"
Pyroxene pairs. Despite the chemical factors (Binns, L962;F.ay & Sen, 1970;
Maxey & Vogel, 1974; Lindh, 1975) and non-ideal mixing in the iron-rich
pyfoxenes (Davidson, 1968; Virgo & Hafner, 1970) that can influence KD it is
commonly accepted that crystallization conditions have significant control over Ko
(Kretz, 1963; Scharbert & Kuart, 1974; Sen & Manna, 1976); see also Wells
(1977) and Herzberg (1978). Although there is a scatter in the K, values, the
igneous pyroxenes have significantly higher K, Mg-Fe values (near 0.73) than
those of metamorphic pyroxenes with typical values of 0.54 (e.g. Lindh, 1975). The
K, Mg-Fe for the pyroxene-pairs from the Jijal complex are 0.52 (SI 275) and
0.50 (SI 295) for the ultramafic rocks, and 0.52 (SI297a),0.62 (SI 320E) and
0'56 (SI 104b) for the granulites. These values are close to those of metamorphic
pyroxenes and suggest that even the ultramafic rocks may have re-equilibrated at
lower than magmatic temperatures.
Hornblende-pyroxene pairs. It has been noted in a number of areas that Ko
Fe-Mg has a narrow range for hornblende-hypersthene pairs and a much broader
range for hornblende-clinopyroxene pairs. The value for the hornblende-ortho-
pyroxene pair in sI 104b is 0.97; and those for hornblende-clinopyroxene are 1.65
(SI 283), 1.62 (SI 297b), and 1.72 (SI 104b), all belonging to the garnet granulites
and falling within the range shown by Swedish charnockites (Saxena & Hollander,
1969) and W. Bengal granulites (Sen & Manna, 1976) but distinctly lower than
those of the Quairading granulites (Davidson, l9'll). The values for the
hornblende-clinopyroxene pairs are more similar to those of orthopyroxene
eclogites formed in the transitional granulite facies of Colton, U.S.A., than to those
from other types (Lappin & Smith, 1978).
Hornblende-garnet patrs. The K, Fe-Mg values for these pairs (0.22 in SI 283;
0.27 in 289;0.34 in 291:'0.25 in 297b; and 0.33 in SI 104b) in granulites cover
the same range as in the Halmstadt charnockites, whereas those from Varberg have
a greater iarige (Saxena & Hollander, 1969). Rao & Satyanarayana (197i) have
reported distinctly higher values for the amphibolite pairs in Mysore, India.
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN 115
It is worth noting that mineral pairs other than pyroxenes are considered to be
more strongly influenced by the composition of the phases in question, especially
Al (particularly Aliu) in hornblende, Fe3+ in clinopyroxene and Mn and/or ca in
garnet (Kretz, 1960; Saxena & Hollander, 1969; Davidson, lg7r). However, the
extent of the influence of these constituents over Kois not fully understood.
Garnet-clinopyroxene pairs. Partitioning of elements during the gabbro-eclogite
transition is commonly considered to be sensitive to temperature and pressure
(Loomis, 1977). variation h Ko Fe2+-Mg between co-existing garnet and
clinopyroxene is thought to be mainly in response to ?", the influence of p and
composition being small to negligible (Banno, 1970; Mori & Bannoo 1973; Irving,
1974; Riheim & Green, 1975; Wood, 1976).
Irving's (1974) study of more than 300 garnet-clinopyroxene pairs from
eclogites and garnet pyroxenites shows that the pairs from glaucophanitic terrains
have the highest K, Fe2+-Mg values (generally )1?), whereas those from
inclusions in basalts and from 'alpine-type' peridotites have the lowest values
(<2.1). The values from the Jijal granulites are:4.73 (SI 292),4.84 (290),4.99
(320E), 5.18 (338), 5.24 (104b), 6.50 (270), 6.58 (297b) and 7.42 (283),
averaging 5'68. These values and their lower range, ignoring the rather high value
in 283, suggests equilibration of the garnet-clinopyroxenes under not greatly
varying granulite facies conditions.
Enstatite-oliuine pair. The Ko Fe-Mg for this mineral pair in harzburgite SI 275
is 0.91. However, although Frost (1975) found a similar value (0.91) for this pair
from'ordinary' and high-pressure, high-temperature peridotites, ultramafic nodules
in basalts, and contact metamorphosed ultramafic rocks, he suggested that the
Fe-Mg distribution in the pair is rather insensitive to temperature changes (cf.
Springer, 1974).
Oliuine-diopside pair. The Fe-Mg distribution between this pair seems to be
temperature sensitive (Medaris, 1972; Frost, 1975). The K, Fe-Mg (:0.47) for
the pair from harzburgite 275 is between those of the high-temperature peridotites
and the olivine diopside pairs formed under greenschist facies conditions (Frost,
r97 s).
temperature estimates range from 650 to 800 'C. (The temperature values given by
ca in the Gar-cpx method are not always realistic; Perchuk, 1968.) Dobretsov et
al. (1975) have criticized the garnet-amphibole and clinopyroxene-amphibole
geothermometers of Perchuk, but in the present case they yield consistent results.
Of particular interest is the rather narrow range of temperature estimates (at an
assumed pressure of 12 kb) given by the method of Riheim & Green (1975). wood
(1977) has shown that this latter method is applicable to most natural rock
Tasrr 8
II
2'.to 6800 6500 7800
283 6550 6250 650" 7500 7900
289 7000
290 7600 6100 8340
291 7500
292 '1700 6400 8500
297b 6800 7250 6500 6400 7350
338 7300 630. 7 100
104b 7300 7000 6',t50 740" 7680 8100 7250 8150 7000 <9000 724"
3208 7000 1200 805. 830. '120" 750" <800" 7900
297a 8880 8200 7500 <8000
assemblageso and in the case of the South Harris granulites (considered by Wood
to have formed at 825 oC, 13 kb) gave results that are in excellent agreement with
those derived from a number of other methods; see also Saxena (1979).
The estimated 12 kb of pressure seems reasonable. Based on the diagram of
Riheim & Green (1975), minimum estimated pressures for the plagioclase-free
granulites are about 12 kb for 270,283 and 297b, 13. kb for 104b, and 14 kb for
292 and 320E. Similarly maximum pressures for the plagioclase-bearing granulites
(290 and 338) could not have been more than 13.5 kb. One of the plagioclase-free
garnet-clinopyroxene rocks of Jijal (SI 299,Table 1) is chemically similar to the
garnet pyroxenite (R 392) experimentally investigated by Irving (1974; table 6).
For SI 29.9 rock, a pressure of 12 kb at750 oC is sufficient for the formation of a
plagioclase-free garnet-clinopyroxene assemblage.
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN 117
Fe 2+ + Fe3+
+
Lin
Fro. 7. Mg - (Fer* + Fe3+ + Mn) - Ca plots of the coexisting minerals from the garnet granulites oi Jijal.
Solid circles-clinopyroxenes, open circles----orthopyroxenes, solid triangles-garnets, solid squares-
amphiboles. Tielines have been omitted in some cases for the sake of clarity. The parallel trend of the
garnet-clinopyroxene tie-lines may be suggestive of similar metamorphic conditiorrs (Yoder & Tilley, 1962).
which it passed. The abundance of the hornblende rocks, and epidote, in the
southern marginal part of the granulites lends some support to this idea, whereas
the mixtures of hornblende patches, garnetites, and plagioclase-granulites may in
part be due to severe structural disturbances. The chemical nature of the
hornblende rocks, characterized by a high Na/K ratio like the rest of the granulites,'
may also be an indication that the fluids had an internal origin. Less likely, during
their upward transport the granulites were completely recrystallized locally under
high P",o (water being of an external origin), such that the assemblages with
hornblende and epidote are not isofacial with the rest.
The Jijal granulites were called hornblende eclogite by Desio (19-74). However,
evidence presented above, including the sections on garnets and clinopyroxenes,
and the abnormally large extent of the Jijal rocks, do not favour this view.
The ultramafic rocks. Temperature estimates for the ultramafic rocks are based
on a limited number of mineral analyses, i.e. chromite, olivine and two pyroxenes
from sample 275, two pyroxenes from 295, and the clinopyroxene ftom 272
(coexisting stably with enstatite which has not been analysed). Because of the
highly magnesian nature of the pyroxenes, experimental data on Ca-Mg pyroxene
solid solution can be applied to them. The results of the various geothermometers
are given in Table 9.
The plot of Fe2+/Mg for the olivine-clinopyroxene pair from 275 falls slightly on
the lower temperature side of the curve for chondrites considered to have
recrystallized at about 800 'C (Medaris, 1972). On O'Hara's (1967) grid, 295 and
275 give different 7-P values and the pressures are so high that the rocks fall in the
field of garnet peridotites. Pressure estimates using AlrO, (Mori & Green, 1976)
and Cal(Ca'+ Mg) (Mysen, 1976) in orthopyroxene n 275 and 295 range from 10
to more than 20 kb. Mysen & Boettcher (1975) found that the Cr-Alui distribution
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN ll9
Iasr,B 9
Temperature estimates ('C) for the ultramafrc rocks
Based on:
Two-pyroxene geothermometers: (1) wood & Banno (1973); (z) perchuk & vaganov (1977).
(3)Ca:Mg:Feclinopyroxenecoexistingwithorthopyroxene(Fleet,
. 1974).Ca/(Ca+M$ofclinopyroxene
t1.c99xrltenc9 with orthopyroxene: (4) Davis & Boyd (1966); (5) Mysen (1976); (6) warner & Luth-(1974);
(7) Lindsley & Dixon (1976), and Mori & Green (1976).
Irvine-Jackson Cr-spinel-olivine method: (8) after Medaris (1975); (9) after Fuji (197?).
to represent the northern boundary of the Indian plate, onto which the Jijal
complex was obducted as the bottom of the island arc (see, for example, Tahirkheli
et al.,1979).
. The granulites are characterizedby an abundance ofgarnet and can be classified
into plagioclase-bearing (basic to intermediate) and plagioclase-free (ultrabasic to
basic) types. Out of the 17 assemblages identified, plagioclase + garnet +
clinopyroxene + quartz + rutile is the most abundant; it may be joined by
hornblende andlor epidote, in some to the exclusion of the clinopyroxene. The
plagioclase-free granulites are less abundant and are represented by rocks rich to
very rich in either garnet, hornblende, clinopyroxene, or epidote. They may form
mappable units, especially in the south, or may be in confused intimate mixtures
with the plagioclase-bearing type.
The granulites follow igneous rather than sedimentary trends on Niggli-type
diagrams, the departures being due to bulk mineralogy rather than to metasomat-
ism, except in the hornblende-rich rocks. Variation diagrams split them into at least
two series and it is not certain if the plagioclase-bearing and plagioclase-free rocks
are genetically related. However, chemical 'breaks' between basic to intermediate
rocks and their comagmatic ultrabasic rocks are not totally unexpected. The
intimate association and other aspects of the rocks can be better explained if they
are considered to be comagmatic rather than being the products of two or more
unrelated magmas. Since the intermediate rocks, with high Ca/(Na + K), and
ultrabasic rocks do not have chemical analogues among the common volcanic
rocks, it is considered that the entire range of the granulites represents a
metamorphosed differentiated plutonic sequence of norites, with minor
hypersthene-qtartz diorites, olivine gabbros, troctolites, pyroxenites and
feldspathic allivalites.
Garnets in the granulites are essentially composed of almandine (27-43 per
cent), pyrope (28-46 per cent), and grossular (16-28 per cent). The latter two
components are higher than those found in garnets of most granulites and are
indicative of high-pressure conditions. High pressure is also suggested by the large
amount of AlrO, in the clinopyroxenes (up to 9.9 per cent), amphibole (up to 16'3
per cent), and orthopyroxene (up to 5.5 per cent), supplemented by the high
Alvi/Aliv ratios (up to 0.68) of their amphiboles, the common presence of rutile, the
abundance of garnet, and the high density (3.2-3.5) of the rocks compared with
that of the neighbouring rocks (S3.0).However, a number of factors, especially the
Alvi/Aliv ratios (about 1: 1) and the presence of higher Tschermak's component
andlor acmite and lower jadeite components in the clinopyroxene suggest that
pressures were not those of the eclogite facies. It is estimated that the rocks
equilibrated within the ranges of 11-15 kb and 650-800 oC (perhaps 670-790 'C
and 12-14 kb).
The presence or absence of plagioclase is a consequence of bulk chemistry rather
than differences in pressure. Plagioclase disappeared more readily in the more
basic, Na-poor rocks at the same pressures under which it was stable in the less
basic, Na.rich rocks. There is a strong possibility that much of the amphibole and
some epidote ars of primary metamorphic origin formed under elevated P",o, the
THE JIJAL COMPLEX, PAKISTAN 121
necessary water being provided internally when most of the granulites were being
dehydrated. However, much, possibly all, of the epidote in the epidote-rich rocks
may be of retrograde origin.
The Jijal granulites are poor in K, Rb, Ni, and Cr. Although some K, Rb, (? and
Na) may have been expelled to upper levels of the Earth's crust during
metamorphism, the magma may well have been depleted in the four elements. The
Jijal rocks have analogues in the calc-alkaline series but their Na/K ratios are
closer to those of oceanic tholeiites (Engel et a1.,1965; Bryan et a1., 1976) than to
other volcanic rocks. They may have been derived from a tholeiitic magma of
oceanic affinity or they may be genetically related to the pyroxene granulites of
Swat considered to
have originally crystallized from an andesitic basalt
(calc-alkaline) magma of island arc/continental margin affinity. The Jijal rocks
may have originally crystallized in the old rethyan crust upper mantle or an
ancient continental margin and then later subducted to great depth (-40 km)
during the collision of the Indian-Asian landmasses, metamorphosed to granulites,
and brought up during later Himalayan orogenic episode(s).
In a road cut at Patan, a room-sized relic block of noritic rock traversed by veins
of garnet granulite lends support to the view that the garnet granulites may
represent high-pressure equivalents of norites and related rocks, i.e. they may
represent a separate (perhaps basal) part of the huge Swat pyroxene granulite
'lopolith', with the plagioclase-free garnet granulites representing a cumulate
portion.
The ultramafic rocks are mostly represented by diopsidites; peridotites, dunites
and websterites together make less than 50 per cent by area of the outcrops.
Serpentinization is mild and selective, except along shear zones, and texture and
petrography suggest that they are alpine-type in nature. The mole per cent
MgO/(MgQ + Fe,o,", + MnO) and AlrO, contents of the rocks, and the
composition of clinopyroxene (Mg+s.s-+sFez.s 6) and olivine (Fosz-as), are similar to
those of the harzburgite subtype ultramafic complexes (Jackson & Thayer, lgl-z).
The lack of plagioclase and garnet and the low Alro, content of their pyroxeires
indicate intermediate pressures for the Jijal ultramafic rocks. Their present
mineralogy also is suggestive of equilibrium conditions in the granulite facies
(800-850 "C and 8-12 kb). The rocks are depleted in alkalis and alumina, and are
thus not capable of producting basaltic magmas on partial melting.
The abundance of diopsidites is in marked contrast to other alpine complexes
where olivine-rich rocks are more abundant. It is tempting to connect the Jijal
ultramafic rocks and granulites magmatically with the Swat noritic granulites (Jan
& Howie, 1980) found to the north. However, the distinct chemical and
mineralogical differences, especially in the pyroxenite members from the three
suites, raise serious objections to such an interpretation (Jan, 1977). The possibility
of Ca and Si metasomatism for the production of abundant diopside during or
before the granulite facies metamorphism should not be ruled out. At least the thin
diopsidite veins in the peridotites seem to have formed by Ca + Si metasomatism
above 500 'C.
It is difficuli to .decide whether the Jijal ultramafic rocks represent a faulted
122 M. Q. JAN AND R. A. HOWIE
suboceanic crust/upper mantle slab, irrantle diapirs emplaced into deep orogenic
roots, or dismembered ultramafic rocks differentiated from a basaltic trtug-u. Th.
7"-P estimates for their final equilibration suggest an oceanic or suboceanic rather
than continental thermal regime. The complexity of the origin of alpine peridotites
has been illustrated by Wyllie (1967, 1969). Like most other alfine peridotites
(Den Tex, L969), the Jijal ultramafic rocks have a complex history. one of the
earlier events in their evolution is possibly recorded by the closure of their
pyroxenes to the redistribution of Cr (? and other trivalent cations) at temperatures
greater than 1100'C. Amongst the latest events is their low grade andselective
'metasomatism' (development of serpentine, talc, tremolite) which may be
contemporaneous with, and post-date, the upward migration of the Jijal tectonic
wedge.
The Jijal garnet granulites may represent a portion of the high-pressure part of a
paired metamorphic belt in the southern part of Kohistan (the lower pressure belt
being represented to the north of the Jijal belt by amphibolites and pyroxene
granulites).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Critical reading of the manuscript by Dr D. R. c. Kempe, the useful suggestions
of Dr J. N. walsh during the chemicar analyses, the microprobe analyses by
Messrs R. F. symes, Ian Young, and cavit Mahmut, and the 2v determinaiions by
Dr M. Majid are gratefully acknowledged. professor M. J. o'Hara and Dr L. L.
Perchuk kindly supplied pre-prints of their papers. M.Q.J. is indebted to the British
Council for the award of a grant which enabled him to study in England for more
than three years.
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