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MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY
Volume 107, Issue 5, Pages 709-725Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-012-0206-x
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- Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS-UEFISCDI [PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0100]
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1032156] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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New U-Pb geochronology is used to refine the provenance and evolution of northwest Gondwana Pan-African terranes preserved in the South Carpathians of Romania. The DrgAYan terrane of Avalonian affinity, from the Danubian domain of the South Carpathians originated in the Panthalassa Ocean and accreted to the Amazonian part of Rodinia not much before 800 Ma, when the FgeA el pound orthogneiss was intruded, at around 807-810 Ma. After this event no other Neoproterozoic magmatic pulse is known in the basement of the DrgAYan terrane. The Ganderian type Lainici-PiuAY terrane from the same domain of the South Carpathians, recorded magmatic pulses at 782 Ma, 739 Ma, 708 Ma, 639 Ma, 600-587 Ma and 574-568 Ma. The East Cadomian SebeAY-Lotru terrane from the Getic domain of the South Carpathians recorded magmatic pulses at 817 Ma, 768 Ma, 685 Ma, 620 Ma, 584 Ma and 550 Ma. Post 630 Ma the northwestern Gondwana margin evolved as an active continental margin at least until 550 Ma, but the pre-630 Ma magmatism could be associated to some island arcs docked with different pre-Gondwanan continental fragments. Independent of the tectonic setting, the post 750 Ma orogens dated in the basement of the peri-Gondwanan terranes are discussed in the frame of the Cadomian orogens, as constituents of the Pan-African orogens in a broader sense. The detrital zircon may also record magmatic pulses from Pan-African orogens other than the Cadomian ones.
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