Comparison between detrital zircon populations from the Ordovician rocks of the Pyrenees and from other Perigondwanan terrains: paleogeographic implications
The first LA-ICP-MS U-Pb detrital zircon ages from quartzites located in the Ordovician rocks from the Central Pyrenees (the Rabassa Dome, Andorra) were investigated. The four studied samples present very similar U-Pb age patterns. The main age populations correspond to Neoproterozoic (Ediacarian–Cr...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositório: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/23768 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23768 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | 551.733 Detrital zircon Ordovician rocks Pyrenees North Gondwana margin Circones detríticos Rocas Ordovícicas Pirineos Margen norte de Gondwana Geología estratigráfica 2506.19 Estratigrafía |
| Resumo: | The first LA-ICP-MS U-Pb detrital zircon ages from quartzites located in the Ordovician rocks from the Central Pyrenees (the Rabassa Dome, Andorra) were investigated. The four studied samples present very similar U-Pb age patterns. The main age populations correspond to Neoproterozoic (Ediacarian–Cryogenian, ca. 550–750 Ma), Grenvillian (Tonian–Stenian, ca. 850–1100 Ma), Paleoproterozoic (Orosirian, ca. 1900–2100 Ma) and Neoarchean (ca. 2500–2650 Ma). The results presented here enable us to discuss the lower Paleozoic paleoposition of the Pyrenean basement rocks. We have compared our samples with that from other Perigondwanan terrains such as Sardinia, Sicily and the Iberian Massif. The similarity with the Sardinian age distribution suggests that these two terranes could share the same source area and that they were paleogeographically close in Ordovician times in front of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Comparisons with previous proposed reconstructions allow us to obtain a more complete view of the paleogeography of the Northern Gondwana margin during the Cambro-Ordovician. |
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