期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 525, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115763
关键词
absolute arrival-times; P-wave tomography; Precambrian North America; Grenville orogeny; cratonic modification; metasomatism
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L002515/1, NE/R010862/1]
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2013-332]
- European Commission [321871]
- Research Council of Norway FRINATEK programme through SWaMMIS project [231354]
- Royal Society International Exchanges grant [IE160131]
- NERC [NE/R010862/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Cratons, the ancient cores of the continents, have survived thermal and mechanical erosion over multiple Wilson cycles, but the ability of their margins to withstand modification during continental convergence is debated. The Proterozoic Grenville orogeny operated for >= 300 Myr along the eastern edge of the proto-North American continent Laurentia, whose age varied north-to-south from similar to 1.5-0.25 Gyr at the time of collision. The preserved Grenville Province, west of the Appalachian terranes, has remained largely tectonically quiescent since its formation. Thick, cool, mantle lithosphere that underlies these Proterozoic regions is typically identified by elevated seismic velocities but lithospheric modification by fluid/melt-derived metasomatic enrichment above a subduction zone, can lead to a reduction in V-P with little effect on V-S and density. Absolute P-wavespeed constraints are therefore a vital complement to existing S-wave tomographic models of North America to investigate craton edge modification mechanisms in the Grenville orogen. New P-wave tomographic imaging of the North American continent, which benefits from recent developments in arrival-time processing of regional network deployments from the Canadian shield, reveals along strike wavespeed variation in the Grenville orogen. In the north, high seismic wavespeeds (to depths of 250 km) extend eastwards, from the Archean core of North America to beneath the Canadian Grenville Province. In contrast, below the southern U.S., high lithospheric wavespeeds are restricted to west of the Grenville Province, in particular at depths less than 150 km. We argue that subduction-derived metasomatism beneath eastern Laurentia modified the southern Grenville, prior to thermal stabilization and perhaps mantle keel formation. Beneath the northern Grenville, the thick, depleted Laurentian lithosphere resisted extensive metasomatism. Along strike age differences in Grenvillian terranes and their resulting metasomatic modification histories suggests that at least 250 Myr is required for Proterozoic lithosphere to gain resistance to modification. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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