期刊
GONDWANA RESEARCH
卷 35, 期 -, 页码 79-96出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.04.001
关键词
Ross orogen; Detrital zircon; Terrane; Metamorphism; Antarctica
资金
- Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy ScopeM of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ
- Faculty Development Program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
- Edward M. Penson Endowed Professorship
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1338583] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [1141906] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We present new U-Pb isotopic age data for detrital zircons from 16 deformed sandstones of the Ross Supergroup in north Victoria Land, Antarctica. Zircon U/Th ratios primarily point to dominantly igneous parent rocks with subordinate contributions from metamorphic sources. Comparative analysis of detrital zircon age populations indicates that inboard stratigraphic successions (Wilson Terrane) and those located outboard of the East Antarctic craton (the Bowers and Robertson Bay terranes) have similar similar to 1200-950 Ma (Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic) and similar to 700-490 Ma (late Neoproterozoic-Cambrian, Furongian) age populations. The affinity of the age populations of the sandstones to each other, as well as Gondwana sources and Pacific-Gondwana marginal stratigraphic belts, challenges the notion that the outboard successions form exotic terranes that docked with Gondwana during the Ross orogeny and instead places the terranes in proximity to each other and within the peri-Gondwana realm during the late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian. The cumulative zircon age suite from north Victoria Land yields a polymodal age spectra with a younger, primary 700-480 Ma age population that peaks at similar to 580 Ma. Cumulative analysis of zircons with elevated U/Th ratios (>20) indicating metamorphic heritage yield similar to 657-532 Ma age probability peaks, which overlap with the younger dominantly igneous zircon population. The data are interpreted to give important new evidence that is consistent with ongoing convergent arc magmatism by similar to 626 Ma, which provided the dominant zircon-rich igneous rocks and subordinate metamorphic rocks. Maximum depositional ages as young as similar to 493-481 Ma yielded by deformed sequences in the outboard Bowers and Robertson Bay terrane samples provide new support for late Cambrian to Ordovician deformation in outboard sectors of the orogen, consistent with tectonic models that call for cyclic phases of contraction along the north Victoria Land sector of the Ross-Delamerian orogen. (C) 2016 International Association for Gondwana Research. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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