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JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY
Volume 116, Issue 3, Pages 303-312Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/587727
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New isotopic data from O'Brien Peak, Antarctica, provide constraints on the timing of deformation within the Ross Orogen in the Queen Maud Mountains. U-Pb data, in conjunction with structural data from a mylonitic granite, indicate that sinistral, orogen-parallel ductile shearing occurred after similar to 489 Ma, the granite's crystallization age, and before 478 +/- 3 Ma to 473 +/- 3 Ma, the 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages of undeformed and synkinematic white mica, respectively. These data provide evidence for the youngest sinistral shearing event within the Ross Orogen to date and indicate that left-oblique subduction possibly continued into the Early Ordovician along Gondwana's paleo-Pacific margin.
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