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ABSTRACT The Ordovician Bronson Hill arc and Silurian–Devonian Central Maine basin are integral tectonic elements of the northern Appalachian Mountains (USA). However, understanding the evolution of, and the relationship between, these two domains has been challenging due to complex field relationships, overprinting associated with multiple phases of Paleozoic orogenesis, and a paucity of geochronologic dates. To constrain the nature of this boundary, and the tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians, we present U-Pb zircon dates from 24 samples in the context of detailed mapping in northern New Hampshire and western Maine. Collectively, the new geochronology and mapping results constrain the timing of magmatism, sedimentation, metamorphism, and deformation. The Bronson Hill arc formed on Gondwana-derived basement and experienced prolonged magmatic activity before and after a ca. 460 Ma reversal in subduction polarity following its accretion to Laurentia in the Middle Ordovician Taconic orogeny. Local Silurian deformation between ca. 441 and 434 Ma may have been related to the last stages of the Taconic orogeny or the Late Ordovician to early Silurian Salinic orogeny. Silurian Central Maine basin units are dominated by local, arc-derived zircon grains, suggestive of a convergent margin setting. Devonian Central Maine basin units contain progressively larger proportions of older, outboard, and basement-derived zircon, associated with the onset of the collisional Early Devonian Acadian orogeny at ca. 410 Ma. Both the Early Devonian Acadian and Middle Devonian to early Carboniferous Neoacadian orogenies were associated with protracted amphibolite-facies metamorphism and magmatism, the latter potentially compatible with the hypothesized Acadian altiplano orogenic plateau. The final configuration of the Jefferson dome formed during the Carboniferous via normal faulting, possibly related to diapirism and/or ductile thinning and extrusion. We interpret the boundary between the Bronson Hill arc and the Central Maine basin to be a pre-Acadian normal fault on which dip was later reversed by dome-stage tectonism. This implies that the classic mantled gneiss domes of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium formed relatively late, during or after the Neoacadian orogeny, and that this process may have separated the once-contiguous Central Maine and Connecticut Valley basins.
Paleozoic evolution of crustal thickness and elevation in the northern Appalachian orogen, USA
Pre-Carboniferous, episodic accretion-related, orogenesis along the Laurentian margin of the northern Appalachians
Abstract During the Early to Middle Palaeozoic, prior to formation of Pangaea, the Canadian and adjacent New England Appalachians evolved as an accretionary orogen. Episodic orogenesis mainly resulted from accretion of four microcontinents or crustal ribbons: Dashwoods, Ganderia, Avalonia and Meguma. Dashwoods is peri-Laurentian, whereas Ganderia, Avalonia and Meguma have Gondwanan provenance. Accretion led to a progressive eastwards (present co-ordinates) migration of the onset of collision-related deformation, metamorphism and magmatism. Voluminous, syn-collisional felsic granitoid-dominated pulses are explained as products of slab-breakoff rather than contemporaneous slab subduction. The four phases of orogenesis associated with accretion of these microcontinents are known as the Taconic, Salinic, Acadian and Neoacadian orogenies, respectively. The Ordovician Taconic orogeny was a composite event comprising three different phases, due to involvement of three peri-Laurentian oceanic and continental terranes. The Taconic orogeny was terminated with an arc–arc collision due to the docking of the active leading edge of Ganderia, the Popelogan–Victoria arc, to an active Laurentian margin (Red Indian Lake arc) during the Late Ordovician (460–450 Ma). The Salinic orogeny was due to Late Ordovician–Early Silurian (450–423 Ma) closure of the Tetagouche–Exploits backarc basin, which separated the active leading edge of Ganderia from its trailing passive edge, the Gander margin. Salinic closure was initiated following accretion of the active leading edge of Ganderia to Laurentia and stepping back of the west-directed subduction zone behind the accreted Popelogan–Victoria arc. The Salinic orogeny was immediately followed by Late Silurian–Early Devonian accretion of Avalonia (421–400 Ma) and Middle Devonian–Early Carboniferous accretion of Meguma (395–350 Ma), which led to the Acadian and Neoacadian orogenies, respectively. Each accretion took place after stepping-back of the west-dipping subduction zone behind an earlier accreted crustal ribbon, which led to progressive outboard growth of Laurentia. The Acadian orogeny was characterized by a flat-slab setting after the onset of collision, which coincided with rapid southerly palaeolatitudinal motion of Laurentia. Acadian orogenesis preferentially started in the hot and hence, weak backarc region. Subsequently it was characterized by a time-transgressive, hinterland migrating fold-and-thrust belt antithetic to the west-dipping A–subduction zone. The Acadian deformation front appears to have been closely tracked in space by migration of the Acadian magmatic front. Syn-orogenic, Acadian magmatism is interpreted to mainly represent partial melting of subducted fore-arc material and pockets of fluid-fluxed asthenosphere above the flat-slab, in areas where Ganderian's lithosphere was thinned by extension during Silurian subduction of the Acadian oceanic slab. Final Acadian magmatism from 395– c . 375 Ma is tentatively attributed to slab-breakoff. Neoacadian accretion of Meguma was accommodated by wedging of the leading edge of Laurentia, which at this time was represented by Avalonia. The Neoacadian was devoid of any accompanying arc magmatism, probably because it was characterized by a flat-slab setting throughout its history.
ABSTRACT Ion microprobe U-Pb zircon rim ages from 39 samples from across the accreted terranes of the central Blue Ridge, eastward across the Inner Piedmont, delimit the timing and spatial extent of superposed metamorphism in the southern Appalachian orogen. Metamorphic zircon rims are 10–40 µm wide, mostly unzoned, and dark gray to black or bright white in cathodoluminescence, and truncate and/or embay interior oscillatory zoning. Black unzoned and rounded or ovoid-shaped metamorphic zircon morphologies also occur. Th/U values range from 0.01 to 1.4, with the majority of ratios less than 0.1. Results of 206 Pb/ 238 U ages, ±2% discordant, range from 481 to 305 Ma. Clustering within these data reveals that the Blue Ridge and Inner Piedmont terranes were affected by three tectonothermal events: (1) 462–448 Ma (Taconic); (2) 395–340 Ma (Acadian and Neoacadian); and (3) 335–322 Ma, related to the early phase of the Alleghanian orogeny. By combining zircon rim ages with metamorphic isograds and other published isotopic ages, we identify the thermal architecture of the southern Appalachian orogen: juxtaposed and superposed metamorphic domains have younger ages to the east related to the marginward addition of terranes, and these domains can serve as a proxy to delimit terrane accretion. Most 462–448 Ma ages occur in the western and central Blue Ridge and define a continuous progression from greenschist to granulite facies that identifies the intact Taconic core. The extent of 462–448 Ma metamorphism indicates that the central Blue Ridge and Tugaloo terranes were accreted to the western Blue Ridge during the Taconic orogeny. Zircon rim ages in the Inner Piedmont span almost 100 m.y., with peaks at 395–385, 376–340, and 335–322 Ma, and delimit the Acadian-Neoacadian and Alleghanian metamorphic core. The timing and distribution of metamorphism in the Inner Piedmont are consistent with the Devonian to Mississippian oblique collision of the Carolina superterrane, followed by an early phase of Alleghanian metamorphism at 335–322 Ma (temperature >500 °C). The eastern Blue Ridge contains evidence of three possible tectonothermal events: ~460 Ma, 376–340 Ma, and ~335 Ma. All of the crystalline terranes of the Blue Ridge–Piedmont megathrust sheet were affected by Alleghanian metamorphism and deformation.
Abstract In latest Devonian time, the collision between Avalonia, the New York promontory and Carolina terrane under the impact of Gondwana, generated an orogeny that began in New England and migrated southward in time. Once thought to be the fourth tectophase of the Acadian orogeny, this event is now called the Neoacadian orogeny. Active deformational loading during the event initially produced the Sunbury black-shale basin, whereas subsequent relaxational phases produced the Borden-Grainger-Price-Pocono and Pennington–Mauch Chunk clastic wedges, which largely reflect the dextral transpressional docking of the Carolina terrane against the Virginia promontory and points southward. The Sunbury black-shale basin and the infilling clastic wedges are among the thickest and most extensive in the Appalachian foreland basin. This trip will demonstrate differences in basinal black-shale and deltaic infilling of the foreland basin, both in more active, proximal and in more distal, sediment-starved parts of the basin. In particular, we will examine relationships between sedimentation and tectonism in the Early-Middle Mississippian Sunbury/Borden/Grainger/Fort Payne delta/basin system in the western Appalachian Basin during the Neoacadian Orogeny. We will emphasize the interrelated aspects of delta sedimentation, basin starvation, and mud-mound genesis on and near the ancient Borden-Grainger delta front. Temporal constraints are provided by the underlying Devonian-Mississippian black shales and by the widespread Floyds Knob Bed/zone, a dated glauconite/phosphorite interval that occurs across the distal delta/basin complex.
Tectonism and metamorphism along a southern Appalachian transect across the Blue Ridge and Piedmont, USA
ABSTRACT The Appalachian Mountains expose one of the most-studied orogenic belts in the world. However, metamorphic pressure-temperature-time ( P-T-t ) paths for reconstructing the tectonic history are largely lacking for the southernmost end of the orogen. In this contribution, we describe select field locations in a rough transect across the orogen from Ducktown, Tennessee, to Goldville, Alabama. Metamorphic rocks from nine locations are described and analyzed in order to construct quantitative P-T-t paths, utilizing isochemical phase diagram sections and garnet Sm-Nd ages. P-T-t paths and garnet Sm-Nd ages for migmatitic garnet sillimanite schist document high-grade 460–411 Ma metamorphism extending south from Winding Stair Gap to Standing Indian in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina. In the Alabama Blue Ridge, Wedowee Group rocks were metamorphosed at biotite to staurolite zone, with only local areas of higher-temperature metamorphism. The Wedowee Group is flanked by higher-grade rocks of the Ashland Supergroup and Emuckfaw Group to the northwest and southeast, respectively. Garnet ages between ca. 357 and 319 Ma indicate that garnet growth was Neoacadian to early Alleghanian in the Blue Ridge of Alabama. The P-T-t paths for these rocks are compatible with crustal thickening during garnet growth.
Oriented multiphase needles in garnet from ultrahigh-temperature granulites, Connecticut, U.S.A.
A number of Grenvillian basement massifs occur in the southern Appalachian Blue Ridge. The largest are contained in the Blue Ridge anticlinorium, which extends northward from its widest point in western North Carolina to Maryland. The Tallulah Falls dome, Toxaway dome, and Trimont Ridge area contain small internal basement massifs in the eastern and central Blue Ridge of the Carolinas and northeastern Georgia. All are associated with Paleozoic antiformal culminations, but each contains different basement units and contrasting Paleozoic structure. The Tallulah Falls dome is a broad foliation antiform wherein basement rocks (coarse augen 1158 ± 19 Ma Wiley Gneiss [ion microprobe, 207 Pb/ 206 Pb], medium-grained 1156 ± 23 Ma [ 207 Pb/ 206 Pb] and 1126 ± 23 Ma [ 207 Pb/ 206 Pb] Sutton Creek Gneiss, and medium-grained to megacrystic 1129 ± 23 Ma Wolf Creek Gneiss [sensitive high resolution ion microprobe, SHRIMP, 207 Pb/ 206 Pb]) form a ring and spiral pattern on the west, south, and southeast sides of the dome. Basement rocks are preserved in the hinges of isoclinal anticlines whose axial surfaces dip off the flanks of the dome. The Wiley Gneiss was intruded by Sutton Creek Gneiss. The Toxaway dome consists predominantly of coarse, banded 1151 ± 17 Ma and coarse augen 1149 ± 32 Ma (SHRIMP 206 Pb/ 238 U) Toxaway Gneiss folded into a northwest-vergent, gently southwest- and northeast-plunging antiform that contains a boomerang structure of Tallulah Falls Formation metasedimentary rocks in the core near the southwest end. The coarse augen gneiss phase constitutes a larger proportion of the Toxaway Gneiss toward the northeast. Field evidence indicates that the augen phase intruded the banded Toxaway lithology; U/Pb isotopic ages of these lithologies, however, are statistically indistinguishable. The Trimont Ridge massif occurs in an east-west–trending antiform west of Franklin, North Carolina, and consists of felsic gneiss that yielded a 1103 ± 69 Ma SHRIMP 207 Pb/ 206 Pb age. An ε Nd -depleted mantle model age of 1.5–1.6 Ga permits derivation of all of these basement rocks (including most from the western Blue Ridge) from eastern granite-rhyolite province crust, except the Mars Hill terrane rocks, which yield 1.8–2.2-Ga model ages. The small Grenvillian internal massifs were probably rifted from Laurentia during the Neoproterozoic, and became islands in the Iapetus ocean that were later swept onto the eastern margin of Laurentia during Ordovician subduction and arc accretion. These massifs were additionally penetratively deformed and metamorphosed during the Taconian and Neoacadian orogenies.