Reactive fluid flow and origin of the fracture-controlled greisens in the Horní Blatná granite pluton, Krušné hory Mts.

Magmatic intrusions emplaced in the shallow continental crust are often associated with hydrothermal alteration and mineralization systems. Alteration zones and their assemblages can be described by means of reaction progress and this variable then used to calculate the time-integrated fluid fluxes, responsible for the mineral formation, if gradients in fluid composition, temperature and pressure are known or estimated. Two limiting cases of this approach have been applied in previous numerical models: (i) infiltration of aqueous fluid that is out of equilibrium with the host rocks, thus producing an alteration sequence as the fluid flux increases, and (ii) fluid flow in local equilibrium with host rocks, where mineral changes are induced by pressure and temperature gradients along the flow path. These two models generally yield results that differ by several orders of magnitude but are both in use for estimating fluid fluxes and transport properties in the lithosphere. We propose a combined model that evaluates the disequilibrium fluid infiltration and the pressure-temperature gradients simultaneously, and apply it to the interpretation of fracture-controled greisen alteration in the Horní Blatná granite pluton in the Krušné hory Mts. (Czech Republic). The Horní Blatná pluton is a composite..