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Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1123-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1123-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
Research article
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25 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 25 Sep 2018

Constraints on Alpine Fault (New Zealand) mylonitization temperatures and the geothermal gradient from Ti-in-quartz thermobarometry

Steven B. Kidder, Virginia G. Toy, David J. Prior, Timothy A. Little, Ashfaq Khan, and Colin MacRae

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By quantifying trace concentrations of titanium in quartz (a known geologic “thermometer”), we constrain the temperature profile for the deep crust along the Alpine Fault. We show there is a sharp change from fairly uniform temperatures at deep levels to a very steep gradient in temperature in the upper kilometers of the crust.
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