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Polyphased rare-element magmatism during late orogenic evolution: geochronological constraints from NW Variscan Iberia
Reconstructing drainage pathways in the North Atlantic during the Triassic utilizing heavy minerals, mineral chemistry, and detrital zircon geochronology
Sedimentology and provenance of the Lower Old Red Sandstone Grampian outliers: implications for Caledonian orogenic basin development and the northward extension of the Midland Valley Basin
Assessing mineral fertility and bias in sedimentary provenance studies: examples from the Barents Shelf
Abstract The development of laser ablation techniques using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry has enabled the routine and fast acquisition of in situ U–Pb and Pb–Pb isotope ratio data from single detrital grains or parts of grains. Detrital zircon dating is a technique that is increasingly applied to sedimentary provenance studies. However, sand routing information using zircon analysis alone may be obscured by repeated sedimentary reworking cycles and mineral fertility variations. These biases are illustrated by two clear case studies from the Triassic–Jurassic of the Barents Shelf where the use of U–Pb geochronology on apatite and rutile and Pb–Pb isotopic data from K-feldspar is highly beneficial for provenance interpretations. In the first case study, U–Pb apatite ages from the (Induan – Norian) Havert, Kobbe and Snadd formations indicate an evolving provenance and identify possible episodes of storage within foreland basins prior to delivery onto the Barents Shelf. In the second case study, U–Pb rutile and Pb isotopic analyses of K-feldspar from the Norian–Pliensbachian Realgrunnen Subgroup provide a clear distinction between north Norwegian Caledonides and Fennoscandian Shield sources and suggest that a similar approach may be used to test competing models for sand dispersal for this Subgroup in regions farther north than this study.
Phase equilibria constraints on crystallization differentiation: insights into the petrogenesis of the normally zoned Buddusò Pluton in north-central Sardinia
Abstract The Buddusò Pluton in NE Sardinia (Italy) is a normally zoned intrusion composed of three units with chemical composition ranging from hornblende-bearing tonalites (SiO 2 ∼ 65 wt%) to leucocratic monzogranites (SiO 2 ∼ 76 wt%). Zircon crystals in the pluton are dated at 292.2 ± 0.7 Ma and have ε Hf values ranging from −4 to −8, with no systematic differences observed between the units. The pluton, which is isotopically homogeneous at the whole-rock scale in terms of Sr and Nd isotopes, shows textural evidence indicating local crystal–melt segregation. In this paper, we have implemented a novel approach based on path-dependent phase-equilibria modelling to test the hypothesis that the internal chemical variability of the pluton was generated by crystallization differentiation of a homogeneous parental magma. Our modelling indicates that this hypothesis is valid if the mechanism by which this occurs is compaction in a rheologically locked crystal-rich magma and if the separation occurs at 0.3 GPa from a tonalitic magma with water content >2 wt%. Finally, a subset of the magmatic enclaves in the pluton are considered to be autoliths, formed by the disruption of the compacted crystal mush and interaction between these cumulates and the felsic melt.
Triassic sand supply to the Slyne Basin, offshore western Ireland – new insights from a multi-proxy provenance approach
Provenance of Lower Cretaceous clastic reservoirs in the Middle East
Heavy-Mineral Assemblages In Sandstone Intrusions: Panoche Giant Injection Complex, California, U.S.A.
Paleo- to Mesoarchean polymetamorphism in the Barberton Granite-Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Constraints from U-Pb monazite and Lu-Hf garnet geochronology on the tectonic processes that shaped the belt
Abstract In central parts of the Scandinavian Caledonides, detrital zircon signatures provide evidence of the change in character of the Baltoscandian crystalline basement, from the characteristic Late Palaeoproterozoic granites of the Transscandinavian Igneous Belt (TIB, c. 1650–1850 Ma) in the foreland Autochthon to the typical, mainly Mesoproterozoic-age profile ( c. 950–1700 Ma) of the Sveconorwegian Orogen of southwestern Scandinavia in the hinterland. Late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian shallow-marine Vemdal quartzites of the Jämtlandian Nappes (Lower Allochthon) provide strong bimodal signatures with TIB (1700–1800 Ma) and Sveconorwegian, sensu stricto (900–1150 Ma) ages dominant. Mid-Ordovician turbidites (Norråker Formation) of the Lower Allochthon in Sweden, sourced from the west, have unimodal signatures dominated by Sveconorwegian ages with peaks at 1000–1100 Ma, but with subordinate components of older Mesoproterozoic zircons (1200–1650 Ma). Latest Ordovician shallow-marine quartzites also yield bimodal signatures, but are more dispersed than in the Vemdal quartzites. In the greenschist facies lower parts of the Middle Allochthon, the Fuda (Offerdal Nappe) and Särv Nappe signatures are either unimodal or bimodal (950–1100 and/or 1700–1850 Ma), with variable dominance of the younger or older group, and subordinate other Mesoproterozoic components. In the overlying, amphibolite to eclogite facies lower part of the Seve Nappe Complex, where the metasediments are dominated by feldspathic quartzites, calcsilicate-rich psammites and marbles, most units have bimodal signatures similar to the Särv Nappes, but more dispersed; one has a unimodal signature very similar to the Ordovician turbidites of the Jämtlandian Nappes. In the overlying Upper Allochthon, Lower Köli (Baltica-proximal, Virisen Terrane), Late Ordovician quartzites provide unimodal signatures dominated by Sveconorwegian ages ( sensu stricto ). Further north in the Scandes, previously published zircon signatures in quartzites of the Lower Allochthon are similar to the Vemdal quartzites in Jämtland. Data from the Kalak Nappes at 70°N are in no way exotic to the Sveconorwegian Baltoscandian margin. They do show a Timanian influence (ages of c. 560–610 Ma), as would be expected from the palinspastic reconstructions of the nappes. Thus the detrital zircon signatures reported here and published elsewhere provide supporting evidence for a continuation northwards of the Sveconorwegian Orogen in the Neoproterozoic, from type areas in the south, along the Baltoscandian margin of Baltica into the high Arctic. Supplementary material: LA-ICP-MS U–Pb analyses are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18699 .
Detrital zircon age constraints on basement history on the margins of the northern Rockall Basin
Abstract Detrital zircon dating has proven to be an effective way to constrain ages of submerged basement terranes on the margins of the northern Rockall Basin, a region where direct evidence of crustal affinities is scarce or absent. Zircons have been dated from sandstones of Paleocene–Oligocene age known to have been derived from the east (Hebridean Platform) and west (Rockall and George Bligh highs). The results show that the Hebridean Platform is a westward extension of the Lewisian Complex, with Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic ages that can be directly correlated with events identified in the Outer Hebrides and NW Scotland. The detrital zircons derived from the Hebridean Platform also provide evidence for a Mesoproterozoic thermal event and two phases of intrusions in the Palaeozoic. The Rockall High consists of a Palaeoproterozoic terrane dated as c. 1760–1800 Ma, similar to ages previously determined from both basement samples and detrital sediment. The data also provide evidence for the subsequent intrusion of alkaline igneous rocks in the Paleocene–Eocene. The George Bligh High represents an Archaean terrane heavily affected by Palaeoproterozoic tectonothermal events, and was also the site of intrusion of alkaline igneous rocks during Paleocene time.
3.8 Ga zircons sampled by Neogene ignimbrite eruptions in Central Anatolia: COMMENT
Torellian ( c . 640 Ma) metamorphic overprint of Tonian ( c . 950 Ma) basement in the Caledonides of southwestern Svalbard
Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift: REPLY
HOW ARE THE EMPLACEMENT OF RARE-ELEMENT PEGMATITES, REGIONAL METAMORPHISM AND MAGMATISM INTERRELATED IN THE MOLDANUBIAN DOMAIN OF THE VARISCAN BOHEMIAN MASSIF, CZECH REPUBLIC?
Basin formation near the end of the 1.60–1.45 Ga tectonic gap in southern Laurentia: Mesoproterozoic Hess Canyon Group of Arizona and implications for ca. 1.5 Ga supercontinent configurations
Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift
Revised regional correlations and tectonic implications of Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks in northern New Mexico, USA: New findings from detrital zircon studies of the Hondo Group, Vadito Group, and Marqueñas Formation
Early Mesozoic Plutonism of the Cordillera de la Costa (34°–37°S), Chile: Constraints on the Onset of the Andean Orogeny
Abstract The African continental crust was assembled by a series of orogenies over a period of billions of years mainly in Precambrian times. Tracing the build-up history of this stable crust is not always straightforward due to multiphase deformation and regions with poor outcrop. Episodes of metamorphism and magmatism associated with multiple Wilson cycles are recorded in zircons, which found their way into sediments derived from the hinterland. Dating of zircon populations in detrital rocks can hence provide age spectra which reflect the metamorphic and magmatic events of the region. Microbeam dating of detrital zircon is used to characterize the crustal development history of the Rehoboth Province of southern Africa. We investigated a quartzite of the Late Palaeo-Early Mesoproterozoic Billstein Formation, formed in a continental basin, and a quartz-feldspar arenite layer of the late Mesoproterozoic Langberg Formation conglomerates, immature sediments formed within a felsic volcanic system (both close to Rehoboth Town). The combined data indicate three episodes of crustal evolution in the Rehoboth Province. The oldest phase is only documented in the Billstein quartzite by three 2.98–2.7 Ga Archaean zircons. A Palaeoproterozoic phase between 2.2 and 1.9 Ga is older than any known exposures of the Rehoboth Province. The Billstein quartzite shows a main peak at 1.87 Ga, corresponding to the 1863±10 Ma Elim Formation. The Langberg sample reflects magmatism related to the entire Namaqua–Natal Wilson cycle between c. 1.32 and 1.05 Ga. The absence of zircons of that age range in the Billstein quartzite indicates a pre-Namaqua age for the Billstein Formation. Our data shows that there were at least three episodes of crustal development at 2.98–2.7 Ga, 2.05–1.75 and 1.32–1.1 Ga. We have documented the existence of a previously unrecognized 2.98–2.7 Ga Archaean crustal component, which was probably exposed in the Rehoboth Province during the Palaeoproterozoic and thus indicates a much longer geological history for the Rehoboth Province than previously known.