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GEOLOGY
卷 49, 期 10, 页码 1235-1239出版社
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G49037.1
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [ICER-1440312, EAR-1150082]
- UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- NERC Doctoral training partnership (DTP) studentship [NE/L002507/1]
- NERC [NE/T012633/1, NE/T00696X/1]
The study found that there is little or no decrease in igneous rock area with increasing rock age. Igneous rock area in North America exhibits four distinct Precambrian peaks and increases only modestly toward the recent. Peaks in Precambrian detrital zircon age frequency distributions align broadly with peaks in igneous rock area.
Rock quantity and age are fundamental features of Earth's crust that pertain to many problems in geoscience. Here we combine new estimates of igneous rock area in continental crust from the Macrostrat database (https://macrostrat.org/) with a compilation of detrital zircon ages in order to investigate rock cycling and crustal growth. We find that there is little or no decrease in igneous rock area with increasing rock age. Instead, igneous rock area in North America exhibits four distinct Precambrian peaks, remains low through the Neoproterozoic, and then increases only modestly toward the recent. Peaks in Precambrian detrital zircon age frequency distributions align broadly with peaks in igneous rock area, regardless of grain depositional age. However, detrital zircon ages do underrepresent a Neoarchean peak in igneous rock area; young grains and ca. 1.1 Ga grains are also overrepresented relative to igneous area. Together, these results suggest that detrital zircon age distributions contain signatures of continental denudation and sedimentary cycling that are decoupled from the cycling of igneous source rocks. Models of continental crustal evolution that incorporate significant early increase in volume and increased sedimentation in the Phanerozoic are well supported by these data.
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