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GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
Volume 143, Issue 6, Pages 887-903Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806002512
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Seiland; age; magmatism; zircon; Caledonides
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The Seiland Igneous Province (SIP) of northern Norway comprises a suite of mainly gabbroic plutons, with subordinate ultramafic, syenitic and felsic intrusions. Several intrusions from the Seiland Igneous Province have been dated by ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon and monazite analyses. The Hasvik Gabbro on the island of Soroy, previously assigned an age of 700 +/- 33 Ma by Sm-Nd, yields a U-Pb zircon age of 562 +/- 6 Ma, within error of the Storelv Gabbro (569 +/- 5 Ma) and a diorite associated with the Breivikbotn Gabbro (571 +/- 4 Ma). Various intrusions on the Oksfjord peninsula give nearly identical ages of 565 +/- 9 Ma (gabbro), 566 +/- 4 Ma (monzonite), 565 +/- 5 Ma (monzodiorite), 570 +/- 9 Ma (norite), and 566 +/- 1 Ma (orthopyroxenite). These ages overlap with those from Soroy, and define a single and short-lived period of gabbroic (to fielsic) magmatism for the region between 570 and 560 Ma, pre-dating a subordinate episode of alkalic magmatism at 530-520 Ma. The U-Pb ages contradict the previous geochronological interpretation for the Finnmark area, which implied a period of 250 m.y. for the emplacement of the SIP intrusions. The new age data also clearly distinguish the Seiland intrusions, emplaced into the Soroy Group metasediments of the Kalak Nappe Complex, from several older granitic intrusions (c. 850 to 600 Ma) that cut the Soroy Group farther east and south. The coincident ages of the different Seiland intrusive bodies also contradict the previous structural model for the area, which posits that the different gabbro bodies were emplaced at intervals, with compressional deformation affecting the gabbros between periods of intrusion. The short time span between the main plutonic phases strongly suggests that the mechanism for the emplacement of mafic magma operated in a single, probably extensional, tectonic regime. The mafic intrusions were later deformed and metamorphosed to at least amphibolite facies, most likely by the Scandian (420 Ma) phase of the Caledonian Orogeny.
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