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JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 164, Issue -, Pages 747-750Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBL HOUSE
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-025
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The timing of peak Grampian metamorphism is well constrained from the detrital record of the adjacent fore-arc basin fill and geochronology of synorogenic intrusive rocks, but the onset of collision is less certain. Proximal Silurian conglomerates contain plagiogranite boulders unequivocally derived from the Lough Nafooey arc, two of which yield U-Pb secondary ionization mass spectrometry zircon ages of 489.9 +/- 3.1 Ma and 487.8 +/- 2.3 Ma. Nd isotopic evidence (epsilon(Nd(490)) c. 0) demonstrates that the plagiogranites assimilated significant amounts of old continental crust. This provides an absolute age constraint on a previously poorly constrained and inferred event, demonstrating that the arc had encountered subducting Laurentian margin sediments by 490 Ma.
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