scholarly journals IDADE MÁXIMA DE SEDIMENTAÇÃO E PROVENIÊNCIA DO COMPLEXO JEQUITINHONHA NA ÁREA-TIPO (ORÓGENO ARAÇUAÍ): PRIMEIROS DADOS U-PB (LA-ICP-MS) DE GRÃOS DETRÍTICOS DE ZIRCÃO

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Gonçalves-Dias ◽  
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares ◽  
Ivo Antônio Dussin ◽  
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim ◽  
Fabrício Andrade Caxito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Rift System ◽  
Sediment Sources ◽  
Chapada Diamantina ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Type Area ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages ◽  
Araçuaí Orogen

O Complexo Jequitinhonha, situado no nordeste de Minas Gerais, é uma das unidades metassedimentares mais extensas do Orógeno Araçuaí. Na área-tipo, situada na região de Jequitinhonha -Almenara, este complexo consiste de paragnaisse peraluminoso (kinzigítico) migmatizado, com intercalações de quartzito, grafita gnaisse e rocha calcissilicática. Os dados isotópicos U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) de 80 grãos detríticos de zircão de uma amostra de quartzito, coletada em corte da BR-367 cerca de 12 km a SW de Almenara, permitem identificar seis principais intervalos de idades, cujas médias das modas sugerem as seguintes fontes de sedimentos: o embasamento São Francisco-Congo (2541 ± 8 Ma e 2044 ± 6 Ma), o sistema Espinhaço-Chapada Diamantina (1819 ± 6 Ma, 1487 ± 5 Ma e 1219 ± 3 Ma) e o sistema de rifteamento Noqui-Zadiniano-Mayumbiano-Salto da Divisa (956 ± 4 Ma). A idade máxima de sedimentação em 898 ± 8 Ma é dada pelo zircão mais novo. Os espectros de idades desta amostra do Complexo Jequitinhonha e de rochas do Grupo Macaúbas são muito similares, indicando correlação entre estas unidades. Contudo, no Complexo Jequitinhonha inexiste evidência de glaciação. Assim, o Complexo Jequitinhonha na área-tipo é interpretado como depósito de margem passiva da bacia precursora do Orógeno Araçuaí, mais novo que a glaciação Macaúbas e, portanto, equivalente às formações Chapada Acauã Superior e Ribeirão da Folha.Palavras-chave: Complexo Jequitinhonha, geocronologia U-Pb, Orógeno AraçuaíABSTRACT: MAXIMUM SEDIMENTATION AGE AND PROVENANCE OF THE JEQUITINHONHA COMPLEX IN THE TYPE-AREA (ARAÇUAÍ OROGEN): FIRST U-PB (LA-ICP-MS) DATA FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS.The Jequitinhonha Complex is one of the most extensive metasedimentary units of the Araçuaí Orogen. In the type-area, located in the Jequitinhonha-Almenara region, this complex includes migmatized peraluminous (kinzigitic) paragneiss with intercalations of quartzite, graphite gneiss and calcsilicate rock. U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) data from 80 detrital zircon grains extracted from a quartzite sample, collected in a BR-367 road cut around 12 km SW from Almenara, yielded six main age intervals, which mode mean values suggest the following sediment sources: the São Francisco-Congo basement (2541 ± 8 Ma and 2044 ± 6 Ma), the Espinhaço-Chapada Diamantina system (1819 ± 6 Ma, 1487 ± 5 Ma and 1219 ± 3 Ma), and the Noqui-Zadinian-Mayumbian-Salto da Divisa rift system (956 ± 4 Ma). The maximum sedimentation age of 898 ± 8 Ma is constrained by the youngest zircon grain. Spectra of detrital zircon ages for this sample of the Jequitinhonha Complex and rocks of the Macaúbas Group are very similar and suggest a correlation between these units. However, this complex shows no evidence of glaciation. Therefore, the Jequitinhonha Complex in its type-area is interpreted as a passive margin deposit of the precursor basin of the Araçuaí Orogen, younger than the Macaúbas glaciation and, thus, equivalent of the Upper Chapada Acauã and Ribeirão da Folha formations.Keywords: Jequitinhonha Complex, U-Pb geochronology, Araçuaí Orogen

scholarly journals BACIA PRECURSORA VERSUS BACIAS OROGÊNICAS: EXEMPLOS DO GRUPO ANDRELÂNDIA COM BASE EM DATAÇÕES U-PB (LA-ICP-MS) EM ZIRCÃO E ANÁLISES LITOQUÍMICAS

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Belém ◽  
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares ◽  
Carlos Maurício Noce ◽  
Luiz Carlos Da Silva ◽  
Richard Armstrong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Passive Margin ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Boundary Zone ◽  
Sediment Sources ◽  
The West ◽  
Stratigraphic Unit ◽  
Type Area ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Depositional Age ◽  
Analysis Point

Resultados de datações U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) sobre zircões e análises litoquímicas de amostras de paragnaisse e xisto do Grupo Andrelândia, coletadas desde sua área-tipo até a região de alto grau metamórfico do sistema orogênico Araçuaí-Ribeira, evidenciam que esta extensa unidade estratigráfica inclui representantes de bacia precursora de margem continental passiva, representada pelo Grupo Andrelândia Inferior (paragnaisse de Madre de Deus, Seqüência Carrancas), com idade máxima em ca. 950 Ma e fontes sedimentares diversificadas, datadas do Toniano ao Neoarqueano; e de bacias orogênicas, representadas pela Unidade Santo Antônio do Grupo Andrelândia Superior e paragnaisses de alto grau metamórfico da região de Ubá-Carangola, com idade máxima em torno de 640 Ma e extrema concentração de áreas-fontes neoproterozóicas. As análises litoquímicas apontam para larga predominância de fontes sedimentares situadas em arcos magmáticos, mas a amostra que melhor indica a bacia precursora (o paragnaisse de Madre de Deus, Seqüência Carrancas) tem assinatura similar a depósitos de margem continental passiva. Amostras de paragnaisse migmatítico revelam a idade de ca. 565 Ma para o clímax metamórfico-anatético na zona de fronteira Araçuaí-Ribeira. Destaca-se que o Grupo Andrelândia Superior, na forma como é representado em mapas atuais, incluiria pelo menos duas bacias orogênicas, i.e., uma, na Faixa Brasília e, outra, no sistema Araçuaí-Ribeira.Palavras-chave: geocronologia U-Pb, litoquímica, Grupo Andrelândia ABSTRACT: PRECURSOR BASIN VERSUS OROGENIC BASINS: EXAMPLES FROM THE ANDRELÂNDIA GROUP BASED ON ZIRCON U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) AND LITHOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS. Results from zircon U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) and lithochemical analysis on samples from the Andrelândia Group, collected from its type-area to the high grade core of the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system, suggest that this extensive stratigraphic unit includes a precursor passive margin basin, represented by the Lower Andrelândia Group (Madre de Deus paragneiss, Carrancas sequence), with maximum depositional age around 950 Ma and diversified sediment sources dated from the Tonian to Neoarchean; and orogenic basin(s), represented by the Santo Antônio unit of the Upper Andrelândia Group and high grade paragneisses of the Ubá-Carangola region, with a maximum depositional age around 640 Ma and provenance extremely restricted to Neoproterozoic sources. Lithochemical analysis point to a large predominance of sediment sources located in magmatic arcs, but the sample representing the precursor basin shows signature similar to passive margin deposits. High grade paragneisses reveal the age of ca. 565 Ma to the metamorphic-anatectic climax in the Araçuaí-Ribeira boundary zone. It is important to notice that the Upper Andrelândia Group, as represented in current maps, includes at least two orogenic basins, i.e., the older, to the west, in the Brasília belt, and the younger, to the east, in the Araçuaí-Ribeira system.Keywords: U-Pb geochronology, lithochemistry, Andrelândia Group.

scholarly journals ORÓGENO ARAÇUAÍ: SÍNTESE DO CONHECIMENTO 30 ANOS APÓS ALMEIDA 1977

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares ◽  
Carlos Maurício Noce ◽  
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim ◽  
Luiz Carlos da Silva ◽  
Marly Babinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oceanic Crust ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Oceanic Lithosphere ◽  
Continental Rift ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Calc Alkaline ◽  
Magmatic Arc ◽  
Araçuaí Orogen

The Araçuaí Fold Belt was defined as the southeastern limit of the São Francisco Craton in the classicalpaper published by Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida in 1977. This keystone of the Brazilian geologicliterature catalyzed important discoveries, such as of Neoproterozoic ophiolites and a calc-alkaline magmaticarc, related to the Araçuaí Belt and paleotectonic correlations with its counterpart located in Africa (the WestCongo Belt), that provided solid basis to define the Araçuaí-West-Congo Orogen by the end of the 1990thdecade. After the opening of the Atlantic Ocean in Cretaceous times, two thirds of the Araçuaí-West-CongoOrogen remained in the Brazil side, including records of the continental rift and passive margin phases ofthe precursor basin, all ophiolite slivers and the whole orogenic magmatism formed from the pre-collisionalto post-collisional stages. Thus, the name Araçuaí Orogen has been applied to the Neoproterozoic-Cambrianorogenic region that extends from the southeastern edge of the São Francisco Craton to the Atlantic coastlineand is roughly limited between the 15º and 21º S parallels. After 30 years of systematic geological mappingtogether with geochemical and geochronological studies published by many authors, all evolutionary stagesof the Araçuaí Orogen can be reasonably interpreted. Despite the regional metamorfism and deformation, thefollowing descriptions generally refer to protoliths. All mentioned ages were obtained by U-Pb method onzircon. The Macaúbas Group records rift, passive margin and oceanic environments of the precursor basinof the Araçuaí Orogen. From the base to the top and from proximal to distal units, this group comprises thepre-glacial Duas Barras and Rio Peixe Bravo formations, and the glaciogenic Serra do Catuni, Nova Auroraand Lower Chapada Acauã formations, related to continental rift and transitional stages, and the diamictitefreeUpper Chapada Acauã and Ribeirão da Folha formations, representing passive margin and oceanicenvironments. Dates of detrital zircon grains from Duas Barras sandstones and Serra do Catuni diamictitessuggest a maximum sedimentation age around 900 Ma for the lower Macaúbas Group, in agreement withages yielded by the Pedro Lessa mafic dikes (906 ± 2 Ma) and anorogenic granites of Salto da Divisa (875 ±9 Ma). The thick diamictite-bearing marine successions with sand-rich turbidites, diamictitic iron formation,mafic volcanic rocks and pelites (Nova Aurora and Lower Chapada Acauã formations) were depositedfrom the rift to transitional stages. The Upper Chapada Acauã Formation consists of a sand-pelite shelfsuccession, deposited after ca. 864 Ma ago in the proximal passive margin. The Ribeirão da Folha Formationmainly consists of sand-pelite turbidites, pelagic pelites, sulfide-bearing cherts and banded iron formations,representing distal passive margin to oceanic sedimentation. Gabbro and dolerite with plagiogranite veinsdated at ca. 660 Ma, and ultramafic rocks form tectonic slices of oceanic lithosphere thrust onto packagesof the Ribeirão da Folha Formation. The pre-collisional, calc-alkaline, continental magmatic arc (G1 Suite,630-585 Ma) consists of tonalites and granodiorites, with minor diorite and gabbro. A volcano-sedimentarysuccession of this magmatic arc includes pyroclastic and volcaniclastic rocks of dacitic composition datedat ca. 585 Ma, ascribed to the Palmital do Sul and Tumiritinga formations (Rio Doce Group), depositedfrom intra-arc to fore-arc settings. Detrital zircon geochronology suggests that the São Tomé wackes (RioDoce Group) represent intra-arc to back-arc sedimentation after ca. 594 Ma ago. The Salinas Formation, aconglomerate-wacke-pelite association located to northwest of the magmatic arc, represents synorogenicsedimentation younger than ca. 588 Ma. A huge zone of syn-collisional S-type granites (G2 Suite, 582-560Ma) occurs to the east and north of the pre-collisional magmatic arc, northward of latitude 20º S. Partialmelting of G2 granites originated peraluminous leucogranites (G3 Suite) from the late- to post-collisionalstages. A set of late structures, and the post-collisional intrusions of the S-type G4 Suite (535-500 Ma) andI-type G5 Suite (520-490 Ma) are related to the gravitational collapse of the orogen. The location of themagmatic arc, roughly parallel to the zone with ophiolite slivers, from the 17º30’ S latitude southwardssuggests that oceanic crust only developed along the southern segment of the precursor basin of the Araçuaí-West-Congo Orogen. This basin was carved, like a large gulf partially floored by oceanic crust, into the SãoFrancisco-Congo Paleocontinent, but paleogeographic reconstructions show that the Bahia-Gabon cratonicbridge (located to the north of the Araçuaí Orogen) subsisted since at least 1 Ga until the Atlantic opening.This uncommon geotectonic scenario inspired the concept of confined orogen, quoted as a new type ofcollisional orogen in the international literature, and the appealing nutcracker tectonic model to explain theAraçuaí-West-Congo Orogen evolution. 

Detrital zircon geochronology of Ediacaran to Cambrian deep-water strata of the Franklinian basin, northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut: implications for regional stratigraphic correlations

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 1007-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke P. Beranek ◽  
Victoria Pease ◽  
Robert A. Scott ◽  
Tonny B. Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Sediment Provenance ◽  
Provenance Analysis ◽  
Detrital Zircon Geochronology ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

Enigmatic successions of deep-water strata referred to as the Nesmith beds and Grant Land Formation comprise the exposed base of the Franklinian passive margin sequence in northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. To test stratigraphic correlations with Ediacaran to Cambrian shallow-water strata of the Franklinian platform that are inferred by regional basin models, >500 detrital zircons from the Nesmith beds and Grant Land Formation were analyzed for sediment provenance analysis using laser ablation (LA–ICP–MS) and ion-microprobe (SIMS) methods. Samples of the Nesmith beds and Grant Land Formation are characterized by 1000–1300, 1600–2000, and 2500–2800 Ma detrital zircon age distributions and indicate provenance from rock assemblages of the Laurentian craton. In combination with regional stratigraphic constraints, these data support an Ediacaran to Cambrian paleodrainage model that features the Nesmith beds and Grant Land Formation as the offshore marine parts of a north- to northeast-directed depositional network. Proposed stratigraphic correlations between the Nesmith beds and Ediacaran platformal units of northern Greenland are consistent with the new detrital zircon results. Cambrian stratigraphic correlations within northern Ellesmere Island are permissive, but require further investigation because the Grant Land Formation provenance signatures agree with a third-order sedimentary system that has been homogenized by longshore current or gravity-flow processes, whereas coeval shallow-water strata yield a restricted range of detrital zircon ages and imply sources from local drainage areas or underlying rock units. The detrital zircon signatures of the Franklinian passive margin resemble those for the Cordilleran and Appalachian passive margins of Laurentia, which demonstrates the widespread recycling of North American rock assemblages after late Neoproterozoic continental rifting and breakup of supercontinent Rodinia.

The mid-Cretaceous transition from basement to cover within sedimentary rocks in eastern New Zealand: evidence from detrital zircon age patterns

2012 ◽  
Vol 150 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER J. ADAMS ◽  
NICK MORTIMER ◽  
HAMISH J. CAMPBELL ◽  
WILLIAM L. GRIFFIN
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Accretionary Wedge ◽  
Sediment Sources ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Western Province ◽  
Age Patterns

AbstractDetrital zircon U-Pb ages for 30 Late Jurassic and Cretaceous sandstones from the Eastern Province of eastern New Zealand, combined with previously-published geochronological and palaeontological data, constrain the time of deposition in the Pahau and Waioeka terranes of the Cretaceous accretionary margin of Zealandia, and their adjacent cover strata. The zircon age patterns also constrain possible sediment source areas and mid-Cretaceous geodynamic models of the transition from basement accretionary wedge to passive-margin cover successions. Pahau Terrane deposition was mainly Barremian to Aptian but continued locally through to late Albian time, with major source areas in the adjacent Kaweka and Waipapa terranes and minor inputs from the inboard Median Batholith. Waioeka Terrane deposition was mainly Albian, with distinctive and exclusive sediment sources, principally from the Median Batholith but with minor inputs from the Western Province. Alternative tectonic models to deliver such exclusive Median Batholith and Western Province-derived sediment to the mid-Cretaceous Zealandia continental margin are: (1) the creation of a rift depression across Zealandia or (2) sinistral displacement of South Zealandia with respect to North Zealandia, to expose Western Province rocks directly at the Zealandia margin. Detrital zircon age patterns of Cretaceous cover successions of the Eastern Province of eastern New Zealand demonstrate purely local sources in the adjacent Kaweka and Waipapa terranes. Cretaceous zircon components show a decline in successions of late Early Cretaceous age and disappear by late Late Cretaceous time, suggesting the abandonment or loss of access to both the Median Batholith and Western Province as sediment sources.

Detrital zircon sources in the Ordovician metasedimentary rocks of the Moroccan Meseta: Inferences for northern Gondwanan passive-margin paleogeography

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Accotto ◽  
David Martínez Poyatos ◽  
Antonio Azor ◽  
Cristina Talavera ◽  
Noreen Joyce Evans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
West African ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Variscan Orogeny ◽  
The West ◽  
West African Craton ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Population Peak ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

ABSTRACT Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology has been widely used to constrain the pre-Carboniferous geography of the European and, to a lesser extent, the Moroccan Variscides. The latter have been generally considered as part of a long-lasting passive margin that characterized northern Gondwana from Ordovician to Devonian time, and was subsequently involved in the late Paleozoic Variscan orogeny. We report detrital zircon ages for three Early to Late Ordovician samples from the Beni Mellala inlier in the northeastern part of the Western Moroccan Meseta in order to discuss the temporal evolution of the sources of sediments in this region. The detrital zircon spectra of these samples, characterized by two main populations with mean ages of 630–610 Ma and 2170–2060 Ma, are typical of Cambrian–Devonian rocks from the Moroccan Variscides and confirm their link to the West African craton. A minor Stenian–Tonian population (peak at ca. 970 Ma) suggests the influence of a distant and intermittent NE African source (Sahara metacraton), which was probably interrupted after Ordovician time. Our data support previous interpretations of the Moroccan Meseta (and the entire northern Moroccan Variscides) as part of the northern Gondwana passive margin. The main sources of these sediments would have been the West African craton in the western regions of the passive margin (Moroc- can Meseta and central European Paleozoic massifs), and the Arabian-Nubian Shield and/or Sahara metacraton in the eastern areas (Libya, Egypt, Jordan, central and NW Iberian zones during Paleozoic time), where the 1.0 Ga detrital zircon population is persistent throughout the Ordovician–Devonian time span.

New constraints from detrital zircon ages on prolonged, multiphase transition from the Cadomian accretionary orogen to a passive margin of Gondwana

2018 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslava Hajná ◽  
Jiří Žák ◽  
Wolfgang Dörr ◽  
Václav Kachlík ◽  
Jiří Sláma
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages
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