Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the north Alpine drainage system: new constraints from detrital thermochronology of foreland deposits

Reiter, Wolfgang; Elfert, Simon; Glotzbach, Christoph; Spiegel, Cornelia

doi:10.1007/s00531-014-1114-6

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“…Polyansky, 2002;Petit & Déverchère 2006;Mats, 2012;Buslov 2012). The Rhine graben has a similarly complex depositional history associated with transtension related to the Alpine Orogeny and was sourced from basement uplifts adjacent to the rift and more distally from the developing orogen (Şengör, 1978;Sissingh, 1998;Hagedorn & Boenigk 2008;Reiter et al, 2013Reiter et al, , 2015. The structural history, extensive distribution, and provenance of 1140-1100 Ma siliciclastic sequences in southwest Laurentia are therefore similar to analogue "Impactogens" associated with geologically recent continent-continent collisions.…”

Section: -1100 Ma Distal Foreland Basin Sedimentationmentioning

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The syn-orogenic sedimentary record of the Grenville Orogeny in southwest Laurentia

Mulder

Karlstrom

Fletcher

et al. 2017

Precambrian Research

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Late Mesoproterozoic sedimentary sequences in southwest Laurentia range in age from 1340 to 1035 Ma and record regionally extensive intracratonic sedimentation before and during the Grenville Orogeny in southern Laurentia. This paper examines the specific links between intracratonic sedimentation and orogenesis and develops a new tectonic model for basin formation throughout southwest Laurentia during the Late Mesoproterozoic. New detrital zircon, muscovite, and biotite ages refine the provenance, depositional age, and regional correlations of Late Mesoproterozoic strata throughout southwest Laurentia. These data provide a new view of the Grenville orogen in southern Laurentia as it evolved from a continental margin arc to a continent-continent collision based on the record of inboard sedimentation. Deposition of all Late Mesoproterozoic sequences in southwest Laurentia was facilitated by far-traveled, continental-scale rivers that flowed north off the developing Grenville orogen. Sediment accumulation took place during four discrete basin forming events that can be directly linked to changes in the style of convergence and collision along the southern margin of Laurentia. The oldest basin system (lower Apache and Pahrump Groups) records distal back arc basin sedimentation at 1340-1320 Ma, synchronous with widespread magmatism along the southern margin of Laurentia. Unconformably overlying shallow marine carbonate-bearing sequences (lower Unkar Group and correlatives) were deposited between 1255 and 1230 Ma in a regionally extensive retroarc basin with clastic sediment sourced in part from an active continental arc along the southern margin of Laurentia. Shallow marine and terrestrial siliciclastic sequences (upper Unkar Group and correlatives) were deposited at 1140-1100 Ma and were sourced from unroofing thrust nappes in the orogen to the south in an extensive foreland basin system during continent-continent collision. Finally, coarse-grained siliciclastic deposits of the 1060-1035 Ma Hazel Formation represent a proximal foreland basin recording the final stages of the Grenville Orogeny in southern Laurentia.

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Section: -1100 Ma Distal Foreland Basin Sedimentationmentioning

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The syn-orogenic sedimentary record of the Grenville Orogeny in southwest Laurentia

Mulder

Karlstrom

Fletcher

et al. 2017

Precambrian Research

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“…; Reiter et al . ). By contrast, the presence of Palaeo‐Proterozoic (UPb3; Trans‐Scandinavian Igneous Belt, 1.9–1.7 Ga; Zeh et al .…”

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“…The increased frequency of the Varisican agepeak population (UPb1) and of the typically Alpine agepeak population (FT1) from apatite of Unit A compared to the pre-Elsterian deposits further supports this interpretation. The younger age of the clustered Miocene agepeakpopulation(FT1)comparedtothatofthepre-Elsterian unit might reflect an increasing denudation of the Alpine area during the Quaternary and the enlargement of the drainage system of the Rhine to include the Alpine inner domain (Vernon et al 2008;Reiter et al 2014). By contrast, the presence of Palaeo-Proterozoic (UPb3; Trans-Scandinavian Igneous Belt, 1.9-1.7 Ga; Zeh et al 2001;Andersson et al 2004;Krippner & Bahlburg 2013; and references therein) and Neo-Proterozoic (UPb2; Sveconorwegian orogen, 1.0 Ga; Zeh et al 2001;Andersson et al 2004;Krippner & Bahlburg 2013; and references therein) age-peak populations, together with the pre-Cambrian age-peak population (FT3), indicates a sedimentary provenance in Scandinavia and eastern Europe ( Fig.…”

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Tunnel valley deposits from the southern North Sea – material provenance and depositional processes

Benvenuti

Šegvić

Moscariello

2017

Boreas

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This study offers new insights into the origin and depositional history of the mixture of sediments infilling one of the largest offshore, northward‐orientated, clinoform‐structured, tunnel valleys (TVs) of Elsterian age in the southern North Sea (SNS). Specifically, the study sheds light on the provenance of TV deposits based on K‐Ar dating of illite, QEMSCAN® heavy mineral assemblage study, and U‐Pb and fission track dating on single grains of apatite. Early Pleistocene substrate and the TV infill demonstrate provenance from the Scandinavian and Baltic realms as well as from Renish central Europe and the Alps. Prior to Elsterian glaciation fluvial transport to the SNS increasingly switched from Baltic sources to a more central European influence. However, based on similar provenance of both the substrate and TV infill, the episode of subglacial tunnel valley formation interrupted this central European influence. Glacial erosional processes associated with the expansion of the Elsterian ice sheet to the SNS reworked a large amount of sediment from the Early Pleistocene deposits of the SNS. The sediment was eventually deposited as the tunnel valley infill. Taking into account a high uncertainty related to the facies of TV sedimentary infill, which thus far has been inferred from seismic reflection surveys only, this study offers the first comprehensive set of data on the composition and provenance of the offshore Elsterian TV sediment.

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“…Sediments post-dating Alpine metamorphism with sources located in the External massifs that experienced greenschist metamorphic conditions will likely contain detrital grossular-spessartine-rich garnets. The compositional difference to the generally almandine-rich garnets from Penninic and Austroalpine sources might be of valuable help for provenance analysis in the younger Alpine history, for example in the reconstruction of glacial extents (Gasser and Nabholz, 1969) or Pleistocene fluvial drainage patterns (Tebbens et al, 1995;Hagedorn and Boenigk, 2008;Hoselmann, 2008;Reiter et al, 2015).…”

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“…Ever since the first collisional stage in late Cretaceous times (Lihou and Allen, 1996), the Alps have been one of the most important sediment sources in central and southern Europe (e.g., Kuhlemann et al, 2002). Alpine sediments have been either incorporated into the orogenesis from Cretaceous to Oligocene times (flysch), deposited in the foreland basins between the Oligocene and the Miocene (Molasse) or have been transported out of the orogen by fluvial and glacial processes since Miocene times (Allen et al, 1985;Graf, 1993;Schlunegger et al, 1993;Winkler, 1996;Hagedorn and Boenigk, 2008;Garzanti et al, 2011;Reiter et al, 2015).…”

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The potential of detrital garnet as a provenance proxy in the Central Swiss Alps

Stütenbecker¹,

Berger²,

Schlunegger³

2017

Sedimentary Geology

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Detrital garnet is a promising candidate to reliably fingerprint sediment sources in the Alps, which has so far been complicated by the wide range and similarity of some of the lithologies. Garnet is present in most Alpine sediments, is easy to identify, is fairly stable and, most importantly, reflects the type and the metamorphic grade of its source rock in its chemical composition. This study aims to establish fingerprints based on detrital garnet composition for the most important tectonic units of the Central Alps, including European, Penninic and Adriatic basement rocks and their respective metasedimentary covers. Sediments collected from modern rivers, which drain representative portions of the individual tectonic units, contain a natural mixture of the various garnet

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Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the north Alpine drainage system: new constraints from detrital thermochronology of foreland deposits

Cited by 10 publications

References 62 publications

The syn-orogenic sedimentary record of the Grenville Orogeny in southwest Laurentia

The syn-orogenic sedimentary record of the Grenville Orogeny in southwest Laurentia

Tunnel valley deposits from the southern North Sea – material provenance and depositional processes

The potential of detrital garnet as a provenance proxy in the Central Swiss Alps

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