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Petrogenesis and tectonic settings of the Neoarchean A-type granitoid complex from the Carajás Province, Amazonian craton: constraints from geochemistry, SHRIMP U‒Pb zircon geochronology and Hf–Nd isotopes
Computer-assisted regional-residual gravity anomaly separation with regularized first- and second-order derivatives
ABSTRACT The Mesoproterozoic southeastern margin of Laurentia, which consisted primarily of the ca. 1.5–1.35 Ga Granite-Rhyolite Province, was extensively reworked during ca. 1.3–0.9 Ga phases of the Grenville orogenic cycle. Questions remain for much of southeastern Laurentia regarding the transition from the Granite-Rhyolite Province to Grenville orogenic cycle, and for potential collisional interaction with Amazonia, due to Paleozoic sedimentary cover or tectonic reworking. Basement rocks sampled by drill core in the east-central United States include 1.5–1.35 Ga magmatic rocks, some overprinted by late Geon 10 (Ottawan) orogenesis, which are the most outboard evidence of Granite-Rhyolite Province crust. Newly recognized 1.35–1.30 Ga (pre-Elzevirian) granitic orthogneisses within the Mars Hill terrane of southeastern Laurentia (1) expand the along-strike distribution of the earliest crustal age components of the Grenville orogenic cycle in Appalachian basement inliers; (2) contain Geon 19–16 inherited zircons; and (3) were metamorphosed during late Ottawan to Rigolet tectonism. Paragneisses enveloping the Geon 13 orthogneisses are dominated by Geon 19–16 and Geon 13–12 detrital zircons overgrown by Geon 10–9 metamorphic zircon. The zircon age systematics require the paragneiss protoliths to be younger than orthogneiss protoliths and be partly sourced from the latter. Orthogneisses and paragneisses have Pb isotope compositions that overlap those of south-central Appalachian and southwest Amazonia basement, both of which are distinct from Laurentian Pb isotope compositions. The boundary between Amazonian (southern Appalachian) and Laurentian (northern Appalachian) Pb isotope compositions is thus a terrane boundary, with Geon 13 magmatic rocks being the youngest common crustal component. In comparison, the Paraguá block of the southwestern margin of Amazonia consists of a Geon 19–16 basement complex intruded by the batholithic-scale Geon 13 San Ignacio granite suite. The latter also contains inherited Geon 19–16 zircon and has Pb isotope compositions that help define the Amazonian trend. The correspondence of magmatic, inherited, and detrital ages and similarity in Pb isotope compositions are consistent with an origin for the exotic/orphaned Mars Hill terrane as an outboard sliver of the Paraguá block that developed before Grenvillian orogenesis (Geons 12–9). Manifestations of the latter are concentrated around the margins of the Paraguá block in the Sunsás (southwest), Nova Brasilândia (north), and Aguapeí belts (east). The Sunsás belt is a mostly low-grade metasedimentary belt with only minor Geon 10–9 magmatism and no Geon 12 or 11 magmatism, thus distinguishing it from the Mars Hill terrane. The Arequipa-Antofalla terrane, exposed in Andes basement inliers, lies outboard of the Sunsás belt and has Pb isotope and geochronologic characteristics that permit a correlation with the Mars Hill terrane and a paleogeographic position between the Mars Hill terrane and the Sunsás belt. The histories of the Mars Hill terrane, Arequipa-Antofalla terrane, and Paraguá block merge during Geons 10–9 and final collisional orogenesis between southeast Laurentia and southwestern Amazonia.
Magnetic Petrology of Crust- and Mantle-Derived Mesoarchean Ourilândia Granitoids, Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil
ABSTRACT West Avalonia is a composite terrane that rifted from the supercontinent Gondwana in the Ordovician and accreted to Laurentia during the latest Silurian to Devonian Acadian orogeny. The nature and extent of West Avalonia are well constrained in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland, Canada, by U-Pb detrital zircon data and/or isotope geochemistry of (meta)sedimentary and igneous rocks. The southeastern New England Avalon terrane in eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island has generally been interpreted as an along-strike continuance of West Avalonia in Canada, but the ages and origins of metasedimentary units along the western boundary of the Avalon terrane in Massachusetts and Connecticut remain poorly constrained. In this study, new detrital zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf laser-ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) data from three samples of metasedimentary units along the western boundary of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane in Connecticut and Massachusetts were compared with existing data to test whether these metasedimentary units can be correlated along strike. The data were also compared with existing detrital zircon U-Pb and εHf data in New England and Canada in order to constrain the extent and provenance of West Avalonia. The maximum depositional age of two of the three detrital zircon samples analyzed in this study, based on the youngest single grain in each sample (600 ± 28 Ma, n = 1; 617 ± 28 Ma, n = 1) and consistency with existing analyses elsewhere in the southeastern New England Avalon terrane, is Ediacaran, while that of the third sample is Tonian (959 ± 40 Ma, n = 4). Detrital zircon analyses of all three samples from this study showed similar substantial Mesoproterozoic and lesser Paleoproterozoic and Archean populations. Other existing detrital zircon U-Pb data from quartzites in the southeastern New England Avalon terrane show similar Tonian populations with or without Ediacaran grains or populations. Most published detrital zircon U-Pb data from (meta)sedimentary rocks in West Avalonia in Canada yielded Ediacaran youngest detrital zircon age populations, except for a quartzite unit within the Gamble Brook Formation in the Cobequid Highlands of Nova Scotia, which showed a Tonian maximum depositional age, and otherwise a nearly identical detrital zircon signature with rocks from the southeastern New England Avalon terrane. All samples compiled from the southeastern New England Avalon terrane and West Avalonia in Canada show main age populations between ca. 2.0 Ga and ca. 1.0 Ga, with major peaks at ca. 1.95, ca. 1.50, ca. 1.20, and ca. 1.00 Ga, and minor ca. 3.1–3.0 Ga and ca. 2.8–2.6 Ga populations. The εHf ( t ) values from the three samples yielded similar results to those from West Avalonia in Canada, suggesting that both regions were derived from the same cratonic sources. The εHf ( t ) values of all West Avalonian samples overlap with both Amazonia and Baltica, suggesting that there is a mixed signature between cratonic sources, possibly as a result of previous collision and transfer of basement fragments between these cratons during the formation of supercontinent Rodinia, or during subsequent arc collisions.
ABSTRACT The Avalon terrane of southeastern New England is a composite terrane in which various crustal blocks may have different origins and/or tectonic histories. The northern part (west and north of Boston, Massachusetts) correlates well with Avalonian terranes in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, Canada, based on rock types and ages, U-Pb detrital zircon signatures of metasedimentary rocks, and Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry data. In the south, fewer data exist, in part because of poorer rock exposure, and the origins and histories of the rocks are less well constrained. We conducted U-Pb laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry analysis on zircon from seven metasedimentary rock samples from multiple previously interpreted subterranes in order to constrain their origins. Two samples of Neoproterozoic Plainfield Formation quartzite from the previously interpreted Hope Valley subterrane in the southwestern part of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane and two from the Neoproterozoic Blackstone Group quartzite from the adjacent Esmond-Dedham subterrane to the east have Tonian youngest detrital zircon age populations. One sample of Cambrian North Attleboro Formation quartzite of the Esmond-Dedham subterrane yielded an Ediacaran youngest detrital zircon age population. Detrital zircon populations of all five samples include abundant Mesoproterozoic zircon and smaller Paleoproterozoic and Archean populations, and are similar to those of the northern part of the southeastern New England Avalon terrane and the Avalonian terranes in Canada. These are interpreted as having a Baltican/Amazonian affinity based primarily on published U-Pb and Lu-Hf detrital zircon data. Based on U-Pb detrital zircon data, there is no significant difference between the Hope Valley and Esmond-Dedham subterranes. Detrital zircon of two samples of the Price Neck and Newport Neck formations of the Neoproterozoic Newport Group in southern Rhode Island is characterized by large ca. 647–643 and ca. 745–733 Ma age populations and minor zircon up to ca. 3.1 Ga. This signature is most consistent with a northwest African affinity. The Newport Group may thus represent a subterrane, terrane, or other crustal block with a different origin and history than the southeastern New England Avalon terrane to the northwest. The boundary of this Newport Block may be restricted to the boundaries of the Newport Group, or it may extend as far north as Weymouth, Massachusetts, as far northwest as (but not including) the North Attleboro Formation quartzite and associated rocks in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, and as far west as Warwick, Rhode Island, where eastern exposures of the Blackstone Group quartzite exist. The Newport Block may have amalgamated with the Amazonian/Baltican part of the Avalon terrane prior to mid-Paleozoic amalgamation with Laurentia, or it may have arrived as a separate terrane after accretion of the Avalon terrane. Alternatively, it may have arrived during the formation of Pangea and been stranded after the breakup of Pangea, as has been proposed previously for rocks of the Georges Bank in offshore Massachusetts. If the latter is correct, then the boundary between the Newport Block and the southeastern New England Avalon terrane is the Pangean suture zone.
ABSTRACT Avalonia and Ganderia are composite microcontinental fragments in the northern Appalachian orogen likely derived from Gondwanan sources. Avalonia includes numerous Neoproterozoic magmatic arc sequences that represent protracted and episodic subduction-related magmatism before deposition of an Ediacaran–Ordovician cover sequence of mainly siliciclastic rocks. We characterized the nature of the basement on which these arcs were constructed using zircon grains from arc-related magmatic rocks in Atlantic Canada that were analyzed for their Lu-Hf isotope composition. The majority of zircon grains from Avalonia are characterized by initial 176 Hf/ 177 Hf values that are more radiogenic than chondritic uniform reservoir, and calculated crust formation Hf T DM (i.e., depleted mantle) model ages range from 1.2 to 0.8 Ga. These data contrast with those from Ganderia, which show typically positive initial εHf values and Hf T DM model ages that imply magmatism was derived by melting of crustal sources with diverse ages ranging from ca. 1.8 to 1.0 Ga. The positive distribution of initial εHf values along with the pattern of Hf T DM model ages provide a clear record of two distinct subduction systems. Cryogenian–Ediacaran magmatism is interpreted to have resulted from reworking of an evolved Mesoproterozoic crustal component in a long-lived, subduction-dominated accretionary margin along the margin of northern Amazonia. A change in Hf isotope trajectory during the Ediacaran implies a greater contribution of isotopically evolved material consistent with an arc-arc–style collision of Ganderia with Avalonia. The shallow-sloping Hf isotopic pattern for Paleozoic Ganderian magmatism remains continuous for ~200 m.y., consistent with tectonic models of subduction in the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans and episodic accretion of juvenile crustal terranes to Laurentia.
Early Neoproterozoic Gold Deposits of the Alto Guaporé Province, Southwestern Amazon Craton, Western Brazil
On the destructive tendencies of cratons
Rio Apa Block: A Juvenile Crustal Fragment in the Southwest Amazonian Craton and Its Implications for Columbia Supercontinent Reconstitution
Subspace method for solving large-scale equivalent layer and density mapping problems
Serra Sul diamictite of the Carajás Basin (Brazil): A Paleoproterozoic glaciation on the Amazonian craton
Geochemical mapping and estimation of background concentrations in soils of Carajás mineral province, eastern Amazonian Craton, Brazil
Multistage Evolution of the Neoarchean (ca. 2.7 Ga) Igarapé Cinzento (GT-46) Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposit, Cinzento Shear Zone, Carajás Province, Brazil
Lateral variation of crustal properties from aerogeophysical data in northern Brazil
Tonalite–trondhjemite and Leucogranodiorite–granite Suites from the Rio Maria Domain, CarajÁs Province, Brazil: Implications For Discrimination and Origin of the Archean Na-granitoids
Abstract We established provenance of Cenozoic sequences sampled in wells in the southern and southwestern Gulf of Mexico by heavy mineral analysis and LAICPMS detrital zircon U-Pb ages. The age spectra are dominated by Cenozoic ages. Other populations are of Cretaceous, Late Permian-Early Triassic, and Neo-Mesoproterozoic ages. Minor Jurassic, Devonian, and Ordovician ages are included. Paleoproterozoic-Archean ages are related to the Amazonian craton. Meso-Neoproterozoic ages (1 Ga) are ubiquitous in Mexico (Oaxaquia terrane) and are related to the Grenville orogen. Neoproterozoic ages (750-550 Ma) were possibly derived from sedimentary rocks on the Panafrican orogen. Cambrian-Ordovician ages (490-450 Ma) might relate to plutons of the Esperanza suite of the Acatlán complex. Carboniferous and Permian ages (350-290 Ma) were possibly derived from the western Gondwanan arc. Permian and Triassic ages (290-250 Ma) may represent the east Mexican arc. Late Triassic and Jurassic ages (210-170 Ma) suggest a derivation from the Nazas arc in north-central Mexico. Late Jurassic ages (160 Ma) may represent the Jurassic magmatism associated with an extensional regime. Cretaceous ages (145 Ma) might be derived from Early Cretaceous arc of Mexico. Cretaceous ages (135-90 Ma) were possibly derived from the Alisitos-Peninsular Ranges arc. Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeogene ages (90-55 Ma) suggest relations with Laramide magmatism and the Late Cretaceous volcanic province in southern Mexico. Paleogene-Neogene zircons (50 Ma and younger) are likely related to Cenozoic volcanic arcs in Mexico such as the Sierra Madre Occidental. Three earlier recognised ignimbrite flare-ups in the Eocene-Oligocene, early Oligocene, and early Miocene, match our detrital zircon populations. Furthermore, Miocene units contain kyanite-sillimanite possibly related to medium- to highgrade rocks such as the Acatlán complex or the Guatemalan Chuacús complex. We discuss the provenance based on geochemistry of the heavy minerals.