期刊
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
卷 156, 期 7, 页码 1217-1232出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756818000407
关键词
provenance; zircon; tectonics; Appalachian-Caledonide Orogen
资金
- NSERC [RGPIN-2015-04425]
- NSERC CERC
- NERC [bgs05017] Funding Source: UKRI
The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland include terranes attributed to both Laurentian and Gondwanan sources, separated along the Solway line. Gondwanan elements to the south have been variably assigned to the domains Ganderia and East Avalonia. The Midland Platform forms the core of East Avalonia but its provenance is poorly known. Laser ablation split-stream analysis yields information about detrital zircon provenance by providing simultaneous U-Pb and Lu-Hf data from the same ablated volume. A sample of Red Callavia Sandstone from uppermost Cambrian Stage 3 of the Midland Platform yields a U-Pb age spectrum dominated by Neoproterozoic and Palaeoproterozoic sources, resembling those in the Welsh Basin, the Meguma Terrane of Nova Scotia and NW Africa. Initial epsilon Hf values suggest that the Neoproterozoic zircon component was derived mainly from crustal sources < 2 Ga, and imply that the more evolved Palaeoproterozoic grains were transported into the basin from an older source terrane, probably the Eburnean Orogen of West Africa. A sample from Cambrian Stage 4 in the Bray Group of the Leinster-Lakesman Terrane shows, in contrast, a distribution of both U-Pb ages and epsilon Hf values closely similar to those of the Gander Terrane in Newfoundland and other terranes attributed to Ganderia, interpreted to be derived from the margin of Amazonia. East Avalonia is clearly distinct from Ganderia, but shows evidence for older crustal components not present in West Avalonia of Newfoundland. These three components of the Appalachian-Caledonide Orogen came from distinct sources on the margin of Cambrian Gondwana.
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