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GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
Volume 51, Issue 1, Pages 77-91Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/gj.2609
Keywords
K-Ar dating; sandstones; authigenic minerals; Sanfranciscana Basin; Brazil
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- Brazil National Council for Scientific and Technological Research, CNPq [150016/2011-5]
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K-Ar dating was applied on authigenic potassic minerals which are abundant in sandstones from the south of the Sanfranciscana Basin, Western Minas Gerais State, central Brazil. The Quintinos Member fluvial sandstones (Tres Barras Formation, Areado Group) contain significant amounts of authigenic K-feldspar as microcrystals of adularia and sanidine habits. The ages of these microcrystals cluster into three groups: 106.1 +/- 2.2, 89.9 +/- 1.9 and 88.8 +/- 1.8Ma (from Albian to Coniacian). The older age of 106.1 +/- 2.2Ma was obtained from the coarse fraction analysed (10-20 mu m) that can contain a mixture of detrital potassic minerals (K-feldspar, muscovite, biotite and illite) and different authigenesis of K-feldspar (overgrowths and microcrystals). Thus, only the younger ages were interpreted as precipitation of K-feldspar microcrystals during the Late Cretaceous into the Quintinos Member sandstones. Moreover, these ages can document the formation of microcrystals within a few million years after deposition of the sandstones. The ages of authigenic illite from the Capacete Formation epiclastic sandstones (Mata da Corda Group) range from 88.5 +/- 1.9 to 71.5 +/- 1.9Ma (Coniacian-Campanian). These results suggest the timing of the illitization event in these sandstones as well as a synchrony with K-feldspar authigenesis in the Quintinos Member sandstones. These results are well constrained and are in agreement with stratigraphic, biostratigraphic and radiometric ages previously reported for the Sanfranciscana Basin. Copyright (C) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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