U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes of the Archean orthogneiss complex on eastern Hall Peninsula, southern Baffin Island, Nunavut: Identification of exotic Paleo- to Mesoarchean crust beneath eastern Hall Peninsula

From, Richard; Camacho, Alfredo; Pearson, D. Graham; Luo, Yi

doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.12.024

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“…Where thin internal zones were ablated, or in some cases where zircon grains were polished to less than optimal thickness, the time-slices were short. The average beam integration time for grains with reported εHf in sample ML120A was 19.3 s. For the finer-grained sample SL097, the average integration was 15.7 s. (In thicker grains, higher precisions can be achieved using longer ablation times as shown, for example, by From et al 2018. ) We have used a number of different plotting methods to illustrate the data and compare them with previous work in the Appalachian-Caledonide Orogen.…”

Section: B Zircon U-pb-hf Coupled Isotopic Analysesmentioning

confidence: 91%

Detrital zircon characterization of early Cambrian sandstones from East Avalonia and SE Ireland: implications for terrane affinities in the peri-Gondwanan Caledonides

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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 εHf 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 εHf 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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Section: B Zircon U-pb-hf Coupled Isotopic Analysesmentioning

confidence: 91%