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Sedimentary provenance of the Upper Devonian Old Red Sandstone of southern Ireland: an integrated multi-proxy detrital geochronology study
Abstract The Variscan Orogen was formed during the closure of the Rheic Ocean and the final collision between the North American and West African cratons in the Late Paleozoic. This collision led to the multistage building of the Mauritanide Belt to the east of the Variscan suture and to the building of the well-known Appalachian Belt to the west. Both led to opposite vergences in this part of the Variscan belt. The earliest records of the main collision episode begin at ∼360 Ma and end about 250 myr ago, while a late extensional phase lasted until ∼190 Ma. Three distinct stages are recognized in West Africa. The first stage ( c. 350–300 Ma) records the indentation of the Reguibat Shield into the central Appalachian margin of Laurentia. This indentation led to thrusting of the Souttoufide and Akjoujt ‘nappes’ onto the Reguibat Shield, to southward motion of the Senegalese block (SB), and to strike-slip motion in the Appalachians. The motion of the SB to the south is coeval with: (1) folding of the northern part of the Bové Basin, (2) north–south sinistral strike-slip motions in the central Mauritanides, and (3) the end of sedimentation in the Bové and Taoudeni Basins by the Late Devonian. The second stage ( c. 300–250 Ma) involves the eastward motion of the Western Thrust Block (WTB) against the SB and, likely, some of the westward thrusts in the Appalachians. This second ‘Variscan’ event includes: (1) closure of parts of the lower Diourbel Carboniferous basin, which is now concealed beneath the Senegalo-Mauritanian Basin, (2) thrusting to the east of the Simenti Group over the Koulountou Group in the Bassaride Belt, (3) thrusting to the east of the Wa-Wa Group, (4) thrusting of the Mauritanide Belt onto the Taoudeni Basin in the central Mauritanide Belt, and finally (5) thrusting of the Agualilet Group over the Akjoujt nappes and eastward motion of the western units over the Dhloat Ensour (Late Ordovician to early Devonian) autochthonous unit in the Souttoufides. West of the supposed ‘Variscan’ suture, Appalachian thrusting affected parts of Appalachian Belt. The third stage ( c. 250 to 190 Ma) began with the opening of Triassic rift basins in the Senegalo-Mauritanian basin and also in the north of Florida. As numerous previous correlations across the Variscan system do not include the West African part, our sythesis is intended to enhance these correlations.
Abstract The North German Basin is part of a Central European-wide sedimentary recycling system that has existed since at least the Neoproterozoic. Understanding the evolution of such a system is crucial for further studies, as the North German Basin inherits vast natural gas resources and may act as an intermediate sink for younger strata. This study presents new detrital zircon morphology, trace element and U–Pb age data obtained from Upper Rotliegend II strata (Upper Permian). Detrital zircon dating revealed Cambrian, Carboniferous and Permian main age clusters. There are also several minor Paleo-, Meso- and Neoproterozoic age clusters. Zircon grain morphologies show completely unrounded to completely rounded grains throughout each age range. The heterogeneity of the data is key to deciphering the sedimentary history of the Central German Basin, as the basin fill is most likely a mixture of (repeatedly) recycled material and also directly derived from bedrock sources. These results are supported by trace element data, which show a wide range of values indicating different magma sources. This study further explores the dispersal patterns of detrital zircon over time and demonstrates their complexity.
Abstract U–Pb ages of detrital ( n = 2391) and magmatic ( n = 170) zircon grains from the Harz Mountains were obtained by LA-ICP-MS for provenance studies and absolute age dating. Results point to a complete closure of the Rheic Ocean at c. 419 Ma. A narrow Rhenish Seaway then re-opened in Emsian to mid-Devonian time ( c. 390–400 Ma). Devonian sedimentary rocks of the Harz Mountains were deposited on the northwestern (Rheno-Hercynian) and on the southeastern (Saxo-Thuringian) margins of the Rhenish Seaway. A new U–Pb zircon age from a plagiogranite (329 ± 2 Ma) within a harzburgite makes the existence of oceanic lithosphere in the Rhenish Seaway probable. The Rhenish Seaway was completely closed by Serpukhovian time ( c. 328 Ma). Existence of a terrane in the seaway is not supported by the new data. Provenance studies and spatial arrangement allow reconstruction of the thin- to thick-skinned obduction style of the Harz Mountains onto the southeastern margin of East Avalonia (Rheno-Hercynian Zone) during the Variscan orogeny. Detrital zircon populations define Rheno-Hercynian and Saxo-Thuringian nappes. Intrusion of the granitoid plutons of the Harz Mountains occurred in a time window of c. 300 to 295 Myr and constrained the termination of Variscan deformation.
Ordovician of the Bohemian Massif
Abstract The lower Paleozoic succession of central Europe exposed in the Bohemian Massif is a classic area of geology with a long-standing tradition of research dating back to the eighteenth century. The Ordovician rocks form parts of sections in several units that sit on the Cadomian basement. These sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary fills of partial depressions in the basement are relics of the system of rift basins in the Gondwanan margin reflecting the rifting of the Rheic Ocean. The Ordovician sections are related to the subsidence period during the extensional regime accompanied by volcanism. They are underlain by Neoproterozoic or Cambrian rocks and continue up usually without breaks. After closure of the Rheic Ocean owing to the Gondwana–Laurussia collision, the Ordovician successions were incorporated into the Variscan Orogen belt and preserved in denudation relics such as the Bohemian Massif and its units. Ordovician strata with Gondwanan shelf affinities can be traced along the Variscans from Spain to central Europe, and are reflected in the regional stratigraphic scale based mainly on the succession in the Prague Basin. The Ordovician fill of this accumulation centre, together with relics of another preserved in the Schwarzburg Anticline, represents the main exposures in the Bohemian Massif. The individual features of the Ordovician successions, such as facies developments, fossil associations and volcanism, make them model areas both for understanding the palaeogeographic and geotectonic evolution of the peri-Gondwanan margin and a stratigraphic standard for a cool-water regime.
Multiproxy sediment provenance analysis of two megafans in the Owambo Basin, northern Namibia
Paleozoic sedimentation and Caledonian terrane architecture in NW Svalbard: indications from U–Pb geochronology and structural analysis
An Upper Ediacaran Glacial Period in Cadomia: the Granville tillite (Armorican Massif) – sedimentology, geochronology and provenance
Reply to discussion on ‘From Pan-African transpression to Cadomian transtension at the West African margin: new U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro Inlier (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)’ by Errami et al . ( SP 503, 209–233)
The provenance of Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous sediments in the Irish and Celtic Sea Basins: tectonic and environmental controls on sediment sourcing
Abstract New U–Pb zircon ages from the Eastern Saghro massif in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco demonstrate a link between Pan-African transpressive collision at c. 600 Ma and transtension caused by the onset of Cadomian subduction and arc development from c. 570 Ma onwards. We present new U–Pb laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry ages of detrital and magmatic zircon from the Saghro, M'Gouna, and Ouarzazate Groups. The siliciclastic deposits of the Saghro Group were deposited in a back-arc setting developed on stretched continental crust of the West African margin. Collision with the Atlas–Meseta domain led to the closure of the back-arc basin before 600 Ma. Time of exhumation and surface exposure of the newly formed Pan-African basement is bracketed to c. 30 Ma owing to the maximum depositional age of 571 ± 4 Ma of the overlying M'Gouna Group. The U–Pb age of 567 ± 4 Ma for the lowermost ignimbrite of the Ouarzazate Group limits the time for the deposition of the M'Gouna Group to less than 4 Ma. The Pan-African orogeny was finished at c. 600 Ma whereas the onset of transtension related to Cadomian back-arc formation was very much younger from c. 570 Ma onwards.
Erratum for ‘The provenance of the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland; the earliest record of Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan sediment mixing in Ireland,’ Journal of the Geological Society, London, 175, 411–424
U–Pb (zircon) ages and provenance of the White Rock Formation of the Rockville Notch Group, Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: evidence for the “Sardian gap” and West African origin
The provenance of the Devonian Old Red Sandstone of the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland; the earliest record of Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan sediment mixing in Ireland
Abstract Redbeds of the Aubures Formation constitute the uppermost stratigraphic unit in the Mesoproterozoic Sinclair succession of southern Namibia. Aubures palaeomagnetic remanence vectors, held almost exclusively by hematite, document at least one geomagnetic polarity reversal in the stratigraphy, a positive intraformational conglomerate test indicating primary magnetization and greatest concentration of characteristic directions at 50–60% untilting, indicating that deformation was coincident with sedimentation. The new Aubures palaeomagnetic pole, at 56.4°N and 018.0°E with A 95 =11.3°, is located on the apparent polar wander path of the Kalahari craton, between poles of the 1110 Ma Umkondo igneous event and the c. 1090 Ma Kalkpunt redbeds of the Koras Group near Upington, South Africa. This distinctive concordance suggests that Aubures sediments have an age of approximately 1100 Ma, that the Sinclair region was probably part of Kalahari at that time and that the Aubures and Kalkpunt redbeds are broadly correlative. New laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry detrital zircon results from the Aubures Formation, including a youngest age component (1108±9 Ma) that is coincident with the Kalahari-wide Umkondo large igneous province, conform to this interpretation. Palaeomagnetism and geochronology of the Sinclair succession can provide kinematic constraints on the tectonic evolution of Kalahari as it approached other cratons in the growing Rodinia supercontinent.
Detrital zircon and tectonostratigraphy of the Parautochthon under the Morais Complex (NE Portugal): implications for the Variscan accretionary history of the Iberian Massif
A thermochronometric view into an ancient landscape: Tectonic setting, development, and inversion of the Paleozoic eastern Paganzo basin, Argentina
Abstract Within the Appalachian–Variscan orogen of North America and southern Europe lie a collection of terranes that were distributed along the northern margin of West Gondwana in the late Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic. These peri-Gondwanan terranes are characterized by voluminous late Neoproterozoic ( c . 640–570 Ma) arc magmatism and cogenetic basins, and their tectonothermal histories provide fundamental constraints on the palaeogeography of this margin and on palaeocontinental reconstructions for this important period in Earth history. Field and geochemical studies indicate that arc magmatism generally terminated diachronously with the formation of a transform margin, leading by the Early–Middle Cambrian to the development of a shallow-marine platform–passive margin characterized by Gondwanan fauna. However, important differences exist between these terranes that constrain their relative palaeogeography in the late Neoproterozoic and permit changes in the geometry of the margin from the late Neoproterozoic to the Early Cambrian to be reconstructed. On the basis of basement isotopic composition, the terranes can be subdivided into: (1) Avalonian-type (e.g. West Avalonia, East Avalonia, Meguma, Carolinia, Moravia–Silesia), which developed on juvenile, c . 1.3–1.0 Ga crust originating within the Panthalassa-like Mirovoi Ocean surrounding Rodinia, and which were accreted to the northern Gondwanan margin by c . 650 Ma; (2) Cadomian-type (e.g. North Armorican Massif, Ossa–Morena, Saxo-Thuringia, Moldanubia), which formed along the West African margin by recycling ancient ( c . 2.0–2.2 Ga) West African crust; (3) Ganderian-type (e.g. Ganderia, Florida, the Maya terrane and possible the NW Iberian domain and South Armorican Massif), which formed along the Amazonian margin of Gondwana by recycling Avalonian and older Amazonian basement; and (4) cratonic terranes (e.g. Oaxaquia and the Chortis block), which represent displaced Amazonian portions of cratonic Gondwana. These contrasts imply the existence of fundamental sutures between these terranes prior to c . 650 Ma. Derivation of the Cadomian-type terranes from the West African craton is further supported by detrital zircon data from their Neoproterozoic–Ediacaran clastic rocks, which contrast with such data from the Avalonian- and Ganderian-type terranes that suggest derivation from the Amazonian craton. Differences in Neoproterozoic and Ediacaran palaeogeography are also matched in some terranes by contrasts in Cambrian faunal and sedimentary provenance data. Platformal assemblages in certain Avalonian-type terranes (e.g. West Avalonia and East Avalonia) have cool-water, high-latitude fauna and detrital zircon signatures consistent with proximity to the Amazonian craton. Conversely, platformal assemblages in certain Cadomian-type terranes (e.g. North Armorican Massif, Ossa–Morena) show a transition from tropical to temperate waters and detrital zircon signatures that suggest continuing proximity to the West African craton. Other terranes (e.g. NW Iberian domain, Meguma) show Avalonian-type basement and/or detrital zircon signatures in the Neoproterozoic, but develop Cadomian-type signatures in the Cambrian. This change suggests tectonic slivering and lateral transport of terranes along the northern margin of West Gondwana consistent with the transform termination of arc magmatism. In the early Palaeozoic, several peri-Gondwanan terranes (e.g. Avalonia, Carolinia, Ganderia, Meguma) separated from West Gondwana, either separately or together, and had accreted to Laurentia by the Silurian–Devonian. Others (e.g. Cadomian-type terranes, Florida, Maya terrane, Oaxaquia, Chortis block) remained attached to Gondwana and were transferred to Laurussia only with the closure of the Rheic Ocean in the late Palaeozoic.
Precambrian
Abstract Around 88% of the history of the Earth occurred during the Precambrian period, which can be subdivided into the Archaean and the Proterozoic eons (Figs. 2.1 & 2.2 ). The Archaean eon (Greek archaia — ancient ones; 4.56-2.5 Ga) comprises the Eo-Palaeo-, Meso-and Neoarchaean eras. For the early Archaean the term Hadean is also used (Greek hades — unseen or hell; 4.56-3.8 Ga) (Fig. 2.1). The Proterozoic eon (Greek proteros — first, zoon — creature; 2.5-0.542 Ga) is composed of the Palaeo-, Meso-and Neoproterozoic eras (Fig. 2.2). The latter eras can be subdivided into different periods defined by the International Commission on Stratigraphy on the basis of geochronological data and characteristic features such as particular geotectonic settings and events ( Gradstein et al. 2004 ). Palaeoproterozoic periods include the Siderian (Greek sideros — iron; 2.5-2.3 Ga), the Rhyacian (Greek rhyax — steam of lava; 2.3-2.05 Ga), the Orosirian (Greek orosira — mountain range; 2.05-1.8 Ga) and the Statherian (Greek statheros — stable; 1.8-1.6 Ga). The Calymmian (Greek calymma — cover; 1.6-1.4 Ga), Ectasian (Greek ectasis — extension; 1.4-1.2 Ga), and Stenian (Greek stenos — narrow; 1.2-1.0 Ga) are the Mesoproterozoic periods, while the Neoproterozoic is subdivided into the Tonian (Greek tonas — stretch; 1.0-0.85 Ga), Cryogenian (Greek cryos — ice, genesis — birth; 0.85-0.635 Ga), and finally Ediacaran (0.635-0.542 Ma). This latter is named after the Ediacara Hills (Flinders Ranges, Australia) and characteristically contains the Ediacara biota which represents the dawn of evolved life-forms. The Ediacaran period
Cadomian tectonics
Abstract The Cadomian Orogeny comprises a series of complex sedimentary, magmatic and tectonometamorphic events that spanned the period from the mid-Neoproterozoic ( c . 750 Ma) to the earliest Cambrian ( c . 540-530 Ma) along the periphery of the super-continent Gondwana (peri-Gondwana, Fig. 3.1 ). Modern data demonstrate broad continuity between Cadomian events and the later opening of the Rheic Ocean during Cambrian-Ordovician times ( Linnemann et al. 2007 ). Due to very similar contemporaneous orogenic processes in the Avalonian microcontinent, the collective terms ‘Avalonian-Cadomian’ Orogeny and ‘Avalonian-Cadomian’ Active Margin have often been used in the modern literature (e.g. Nance & Murphy 1994 ; Fig. 3.1 ). Rock units formed during the Cadomian Orogeny are commonly referred to collectively as ‘Cadomian Basement’. Peri-Gondwanan terranes, microcontinents and crustal units in Central, Western, Southern and Eastern Europe, in the Appalachians (eastern USA and Atlantic Canada), and in North Africa were affected by the Cadomian Orogeny. This orogenic event is also apparently present in Baltica because of the 'Cadomian affinity' of late Precambrian orogenic events in the Urals and in the Timanides on the margin of Baltica ( Roberts & Siedlecka 2002 ). The Cadomian Orogeny sensu stricto was first defined in the North Armorican Massif in France on the basis of the unconformity that separates deformed Precambrian rock units from their Early Palaeozoic (Cambro-Ordovician) overstep sequence (see below). This unconformity is commonly referred to as the ‘Cadomian unconformity’ (Fig. 3.2 ). However, it cannot be precluded that the youngest metasedimentary rocks affected by