Evolution and provenance of Neoproterozoic basement and Lower Paleozoic siliciclastic cover of the Menderes Massif (western Taurides): Coupled U–Pb–Hf zircon isotope geochemistry

Late Neoproterozoic granulite facies metamorphism in the Menderes Massif, Western Anatolia/Turkey: implication for the assembly of Gondwana

“…The age of granulite-facies metamorphism conflicts with inferred primary deposition age of the metaclastic sequence of the basement (Zlatkin et al, 2013;570 and 550 Ma). The metaclastics generally occur as big-sized xenolites in the huge orthogneiss intrusions, especially in southern submassif .…”

“…that weighted average ages of the youngest zircon population are 568 ± 4 Ma from the upper part of paragneiss unit (including ''purple paragneiss'' of Dora et al, 2001 andZlatkin et al, 2013) and 571 ± 7 Ma from the top of overlying schist unit (core schist of Şengün, Candan, Dora, &Koralay, 2006 andZlatkin et al, 2013). Thus, the deposition age of metasediments (core schists) between 570 and 550 Ma was suggested by the authors.…”

“…Based on the age relations between youngest detrital zircon age, 610 Ma (Koralay Dora, Candan, Chen, and Satır, 2003) and 600 Ma (Koralay et al, 2012) using Pb/Pb evaporation, and the intrusion ages of the plutonic rocks, the deposition age for paragneiss between 590 and 550 Ma (Koralay et al, 2002) and 600 and 590 Ma (Koralay et al, 2012) were suggested. In addition, Zlatkin, Avigad, and Gerdes (2013) reported Figure 4. Geological map of the Tire area (modified after Candan, 1995;Çetinkaplan, 1995) with the location of isotopically dated samples.…”

Pre-Alpine evolution of a segment of the North-Gondwanan margin: Geochronological and geochemical evidence from the central Serbo-Macedonian Massif

“…10a and Appendix 7). Although similar DM model ages were determined for the Neoproterozoic granites of the Menderes Massif (Zlatkin et al, 2013), their parent-magma is suggested to represent a mixture of sources with different isotopic compositions.…”

“…Dixon, 1981;Avigad et al, 2003;Be'eri-Shlevin et al, 2012), and from Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic siliciclastic sediments of southern Libya (Meinhold et al, 2011). Minor presence of this population throughout the Cadomian domain (Linnemann et al, 2007;Pereira et al, 2012a;Linnemann et al, 2014), including Minoan terranes (Zulauf et al, 2007;Zlatkin et al, 2013), was traditionally attributed to distant dispersion by large river systems (Zeh et al, 2001), and recently to a super-fan system shedding detritus with ca, 1.0 Ga-old zircons from the Transgondwanan supermountain towards the Gondwana margin (Meinhold et al, 2013). Minor quantities of 1.6-2 and 2.1-2.5 Ga zircon ages determined in this study (Fig.…”