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Isotope Geochemistry | Tectonics | Geochemistry | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology | Geology | Geochronology | Geodynamics | Exploration geochemistry | Ore Deposit Petrology | Structural geology and tectonics | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Inorganic Geochemistry | Exploration Geochemistry | Chemical Oceanography | Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology | Geology | Geotectonics | Geochemistry | Resource geoscience | Mineralogy and crystallography | Inorganic geochemistry | Structural Geology |
Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Precious (Noble) Metal Ore Exploration | Earth sciences | Copper Ore Exploration | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Coastal and Estuarine Environments | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Zinc Ore Exploration | Iron Ore Exploration | Diamond Exploration |
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada
Date: 07-2017
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 11-2019
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2011
Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada
Date: 07-2017
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-12-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-04-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Mineralogical Society
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: The Russian Academy of Sciences
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2008
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-10-2009
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.RGG.2011.12.010
Abstract: We present for the first time the mineralogical and isotope-geochemical particularities of zircon and baddeleyite from various rocks of the economic ore-bearing Noril’sk-1 intrusion located in the northwestern part of the Siberian platform. The ultramafic-mafic Noril’sk-1 intrusion hosts one of the world’s major economic platinum-group-element (PGE)-Cu-Ni sulphide deposits. A detailed study of crystal morphology and internal structure identify four zircon populations, characterized by different U-Pb (SHRIMP-II) ages. The U-Pb ages of baddeleyite and the defined zircon populations cover a significant time span (from 290 ± 2.8 to 226.7 ± 0.9 Ma). The established U-Pb ages imply that crystallization of baddeleyite and zircon populations corresponds to several stages of protracted evolution of the ore-forming magmatic system (290 ± 2.8, 261.3 ± 1.6, 245.7 ± 1.1, 236.5 ± 1.8, and 226.7 ± 0.9 Ma, respectively) that served as the favorable factor for accumulation of magmas and ores of unique scales and concentrations.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-11-2019
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-10-2005
Publisher: American Journal of Science (AJS)
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.2475/10.2010.06
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-02-2021
DOI: 10.1111/GGR.12373
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2011
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 02-2019
DOI: 10.3390/MIN9020089
Abstract: Gem-quality zircon megacrysts occur in placer deposits in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, and have euhedral to anhedral crystal shapes with dimensions of ~3 cm in length. These zircons have primary inclusions of calcite, olivine, and corundum. Secondary quartz, baddeleyite, hematite, and CO2 fluid inclusions were found in close proximity to cracks and tubular channels. LA-ICP-MS U-Pb ages of analyzed zircon s les yielded two age populations of ca. 1.0 Ma and ca. 6.5 Ma, that were consistent with the ages of alkali basalt eruptions in the Central Highlands at Buon Ma Thuot (5.80–1.67 Ma), Pleiku (4.30–0.80 Ma), and Xuan Loc (0.83–0.44 Ma). The zircon geochemical signatures and primary inclusions suggested a genesis from carbonatite-dominant melts as a result of partial melting of a metasomatized lithospheric mantle source, but not from the host alkali basalt. Chondrite-normalized rare earth element patterns showed a pronounced positive Ce, but negligible Eu anomalies. Detailed hyperspectral Dy3+ photoluminescence images of zircon megacrysts revealed resorption and re-growth processes.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2018
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1130/G24518A.1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2006
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Geochemical Society
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 21-08-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2020
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 15-05-2023
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU23-10702
Abstract: We present multi-disciplinary datasets reporting petrography, major and trace element geochemistry, and U-Pb geochronology for the Mount Garnet Cu-Pb-Zn skarn deposit, NE Queensland, Australia. The deposit is hosted in limestones of the upper Silurian Chillagoe Formation, within the Hodgkinson Province, Mossman Orogen. Its mineralisation has been interpreted to be related to the intrusion of the Kennedy Igneous Association (~250-345 Ma), however, the exact timing is still not determined.Petrographic observations and in suit major and trace element analysis using EPMA and LA-ICP-MS on skarn garnets reveal two generations of garnet formation. Garnets from Gt-I generation are anhedral and massive, dark brown to red in colour. They are mostly Al-rich grossular (Adr6-22Grs61-88) and show no zoning patterns. Garnets from Gt-II generation are euhedral with a yellow-green colour and porous textures. They are Fe-rich andradite (Adr10-99Grs16-77) and display oscillatory zoning. Gt-I grossulars have an enrichment in LREEs and depletion in HREEs with negative Eu anomalies, while Gt-II andradites have the opposite trend and prominent positive Eu anomalies. Both W and Sn are present in Fe-rich garnet ( ppm). 206Pb/238U ages of two types of garnets are ranging from ~220 Ma to 380 Ma, consistent with the zircon U-Pb age range (~295-335 Ma) from ore-related intrusions.Our data allows the exploration of relationships between magmatism, tectonic activities, and the chronological sequence of mineralisation-related processes. A general order of events would include the very early silicification occurring within the host rock and accompanied by potential faulting, followed by the prograde and retrograde metamorphic process, which is represented by garnet, clinopyroxene, considerable vesuvianite, and calcite, along with minor wollastonite at the skarn front. Compositional variations (e.g., Mn concentration) of zoned Gt-II constrain the P-T-X condition of fluids and high Eu/Eu* and Ce/Ce* ratios within both garnets indicate a relatively oxidised skarn system. Negative correlations between Ca and REEs suggest that the incorporation and fractionation of REEs in garnet are collectively controlled by crystal chemistry and the presence of hydrothermal fluids. Further results of garnet geochronology would provide additional constraints on the nature of magmatic sources in the region.
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 10-2020
DOI: 10.15372/RGG2019132
Abstract: —We present results of geochemical and Sr–Nd isotope studies of rocks and of local dating and determination of the Lu–Hf isotope composition of zircons from late Vendian–early Cambrian and Cambrian–Ordovician intrusive associations (granitoids and gabbroids) of the Kaa-Khem and East Tannu-Ola batholiths in Eastern Tuva. The wide ranges of the eNd values (6.9 to 0.5) of rocks and the εHf values of magmatic and inherited zircons reflect the ersity of the magma sources of late Vendian–early Paleozoic intrusive associations formed at the island arc and accretion–collision stages. Late Vendian (572–562 Ma, Kopto and Buren massifs) and early Cambrian (522–518 Ma, East Tannu-Ola batholith) island arc tholeiitic and calc-alkalic plagiogranitoids resulted from the melting of the Vendian–early Cambrian island arc crust without the contribution of a more ancient crustal material. The subalkalic gabbro–monzodiorite–granosyenite association of the Zubovka massif (510 Ma) formed from a mantle source depleted isotopically but enriched in incompatible elements, with the participation of an island arc crust material this process took place in the early phase of plume activity at the accretion–collision stage. Island arc complexes were the main source of Cambrian–Ordovician accretion–collision calc-alkalic plagiogranitoids (500–450 Ma, Terektyg-Cheder, Karaos, Tapsa, Baisyut, and other massifs). Variations in their composition were due to the melting of thick crust, whose isotopic heterogeneity was caused by the different contributions of a more ancient crustal source. The crust of the Tuva–Mongolian terrane made the main contribution to the formation of the potassic granitoids of the Bren’ massif (450 Ma), marking the completion of accretion–collision processes in this region. The isotope parameters of the Vendian–early Paleozoic granitoids are indicators of the crust formation and evolution in the course of subduction and accretion–collision processes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 04-2015
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-05-2019
DOI: 10.1111/GGR.12265
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 09-04-2008
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 30-09-2013
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 12-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.RGG.2009.11.019
Abstract: Manganoan ilmenite was identified in Juina, Brazil kimberlitic rocks among other megacrysts. It forms oval, elongated, rimless grains comprising 8–30 wt.% of the heavy fraction. Internally the grains are homogeneous. The chemical composition of Mn-ilmenite is almost stoichiometric for ilmenite except for an unusually high manganese content, with MnO = 0.63–2.49 wt.% (up to 11 wt.% in inclusions in diamond) and an elevated vanadium admixture (V2O3 = 0.21–0.43 wt.%). By the composition, Mn-ilmenite megacrysts and inclusions in diamond are almost identical. The concentrations of trace elements in Mn-ilmenite, compared to picroilmenite, are much greater and their variations are very wide. Chondrite-normalized distribution of trace elements in Mn-ilmenite megacrysts is similar to the distribution in Mn-ilmenites included in diamond. This confirms that Mn-ilmenite in kimberlites is genetically related to diamond. The finds of Mn-ilmenite known before in kimberlitic and related rocks are late- or postmagmatic, metasomatic phases. They either form reaction rims on grains of picroilmenite or other ore minerals, or compose laths in groundmass. In contrast to those finds, Mn-ilmenite megacrysts in Juina kimberlites are a primary mineral phase with a homogeneous internal structure obtained under stable conditions of growth within lower mantle and/or transition zone. In addition to pyrope garnet, chromian spinel, picroilmenite, chrome-diopside, and magnesian olivine, manganoan ilmenite may be considered as another kimberlite/diamond indicator mineral.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-02-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2006
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 02-11-2021
Abstract: Sentinel node biopsy is a surgical technique to explore lymph nodes for surgical staging of endometrial cancer, which has replaced full retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. However, the effectiveness of sentinel node biopsy, its value to patients, and potential harms compared with no-node dissection have never been shown in a randomized trial. Stage 1 will test recovery from surgery. Stage 2 will compare disease-free survival at 4.5 years between patients randomized to sentinel node biopsy versus no retroperitoneal node dissection. The primary hypothesis for stage 1 is that treatment with sentinel node biopsy will not cause detriment to patient outcomes (lymphedema, morbidity, loss of quality of life) and will not increase treatment-related morbidity or health services costs compared with patients treated without a retroperitoneal node dissection at 12 months after surgery. The primary hypothesis for stage 2 is that disease-free survival at 4.5 years after surgery in patients without retroperitoneal node dissection is not inferior to those receiving sentinel node biopsy. This phase III, open-label, two-arm, multistage, randomized non-inferiority trial (ENDO-3) will determine the value of sentinel node biopsy for surgical management of endometrial cancer. Patients with endometrial cancer are randomized to receive: (1) laparoscopic/robotic hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with sentinel node biopsy or (2) laparoscopic/robotic hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy without retroperitoneal node dissection. In stage 1, 444 patients will be enrolled to demonstrate feasibility and quality of life. If this is demonstrated, we will enroll another 316 patients in stage 2. Inclusion criteria include women aged 18 years or older with histologically confirmed endometrial cancer clinical stage 1, who meet the criteria for laparoscopic or robotic total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Patients with uterine mesenchymal tumors are excluded. The endpoint for stage 1 is surgical recovery, with the proportion of patients returning to usual daily activities at 3 months post-surgery as measured with the EQ-5D. Stage 2 is disease-free survival at 4.5 years. 760 participants (both stages). Stage 1 commenced in January 2021 and is planned to be completed in December 2024 when 444 participants have completed 12 months' follow-up. Stage 2 will enroll a further 316 participants for a total of 760 patients. NCT04073706 .
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.1130/G36245.1
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-05-2019
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-08-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-05-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.5382/ECONGEO.4743
Abstract: The ultramafic-mafic Talnakh intrusion in the Norilsk province (Russia) hosts one of the world’s major platinum group element (PGE)-Cu-Ni sulfide deposits. This study employed a multitechnique approach, including in situ Hf-O isotope analyses of zircon combined with whole-rock Nd isotope data, in order to gain new insights into genesis of the Talnakh economic intrusion. Zircons from gabbrodiorite, gabbroic rocks of the layered series, and ultramafic rocks have similar mantle-like mean δ18O values (5.39 ± 0.49‰, n = 27 5.64 ± 0.48‰, n = 34 and 5.28 ± 0.34‰, n = 7, respectively), consistent with a mantle-derived origin for the primary magma(s) parental to the Talnakh intrusion. In contrast, a sulfide-bearing taxitic-textured troctolite from the basal part of intrusion has high δ18O (mean of 6.50‰, n = 3), indicating the possible involvement of a crustal component during the formation of sulfide-bearing taxitic-textured rocks. The Hf isotope compositions of zircon from different rocks of the Talnakh intrusion show significant variations, with ɛHf(t) values ranging from –3.2 to 9.8 for gabbrodiorite, from –4.3 to 11.6 for unmineralized layered-sequence gabbroic rocks, from 2.3 to 12 for mineralized ultramafic rocks, and from –3.5 to 8.8 for mineralized taxitic-textured rocks at the base of the intrusion. The significant range in the initial 176Hf/177Hf values is ascribed to interaction of distinct magma sources during formation of the Talnakh intrusion. These include (1) a juvenile source equivalent to the depleted mantle, (2) a subcontinental lithospheric source, and (3) a minor crustal component. Initial whole-rock Nd isotope compositions of the mineralized taxitic-textured rocks from the base of the intrusion (mean ɛNd(t) = –1.5 ± 1.8) differ from the other rocks, which have relatively restricted ranges in initial ɛNd (mean ɛNd = 0.9 ± 0.2). The major set of ɛNd values around 1.0 at Talnakh is attributed to limited crustal contamination, presumably in deep magma chambers, whereas the smaller set of negative ɛNd values in taxitic-textured rocks is consistent with greater involvement of a crustal component and reflects an interaction with the wall rocks during emplacement.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-08-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2021
DOI: 10.1002/GJ.4301
Abstract: The Indo‐Myanmar Range is thought to represent a relict eastward‐dipping subduction zone that runs from the eastern edge of the Himalayan Range. In the Indo‐Myanmar Ophiolite (IMO) Belt rodingite is present as discontinuous lenses, dikes, and small‐ to medium‐sized blocks in the serpentinized zones of ultramafic rocks. Petrological and geochronological studies of rodingite from the IMO Belt have been carried out to characterize and elucidate the timing and genesis of the rodingite. Petrography and mineral chemistry indicate that rodingites are composed of grossular garnet, vesuvianite, diopside, tremolite, actinolite, chlorite, albite, prehnite, apatite, and sphene (titanite). The investigated rodingite s les show variability in mineralogical assemblage and geochemical composition. Two mineral assemblages have been identified: (a) grossular, diopside, vesuvianite, apatite, and titanite, observed in veins and dikes (b) chlorite, epidote, prehnite, diopside, apatite, anatase, and sphene, observed in the s les exposed as blocks. Rodingites are classified into different categories based on their occurrence, and mineralogical and chemical composition. Subtype 1B rodingite is enriched in Al 2 O 3 and incompatible trace elements, most likely formed during seawater infiltration as it contains minerals typically formed during ocean floor alteration. Subtypes 1A and Type 2 rodingite are highly enriched in CaO, Fe 2 O 3 T , MgO, and compatible trace elements. The formation of these types of rodingites probably followed serpentinization of the oceanic lithosphere as they contain minerals characteristic of high‐Ca, low‐Si fluid infiltration. These variations might have resulted due to infiltration of a metasomatic fluid that interacted with two different protoliths or infiltration of different fluids that may have interacted (at different times) with the same protolith. Complex variations in mineral assemblages and chemical compositions of Subtype 1 and Type 2 rodingites are the result of compositional variations in their protoliths and the degree of rodingitization. Our data indicate that the T of formation for the investigated rodingites varied from ~435 to ~200°C, corresponding to greenschist facies. The T estimates deduced from the mineralogy of rodingites are consistent with the ambient T during cooling of an oceanic lithospheric slab. Development of a low‐ to medium‐ T oceanic environment may be a result of exothermic reactions concurrent to serpentinization. The rodingitization in the study area most likely happened within a rift‐produced oceanic setting during a late period of cooling between 114 and 137 Ma as evidenced by zircon geochronological data.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Publisher: American Journal of Science (AJS)
Date: 02-2009
DOI: 10.2475/02.2009.03
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-03-2013
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 08-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.RGG.2012.06.004
Abstract: A c tonite dike swarm (Agardag alkali-basalt complex) in the western part of the Sangilen Upland abounds in mantle xenoliths. Mineralogical, petrographic, and petrochemical studies show that the dikes are composed of l rophyres of two groups, basic and ultrabasic. Ar/Ar dating of hibole and phlogopite megacrysts gives an intrusion age for the dikes of 443.0 ± 1.3 Ma. 206Pb/238U dating of zircon from a glomeroporphyritic intergrowth in c tonite from one of the dikes yielded a core age of 489.0 ± 5.4 Ma. This corresponds to the time of formation of the Chzhargalanta granite–leucogranite complex (489.4 ± 2.6 Ma). The 206Pb/238U age of the zircon rim is 444.0 ± 7.5 Ma. The ages obtained by Ar/Ar dating of hibole and biotite megacrysts and by U/Pb dating of the magmatic rim of zircon crystal from the c tonite coincide within the dating error, which indicates that the c tonite dikes formed in the Late Ordovician. These dikes are the oldest-known ex le of mantle-derived xenoliths in mafic volcanic rocks from an off-craton setting. These are s les of the Upper Ordovician lithospheric mantle.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2016
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 02-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2001
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 23-06-2014
Abstract: Komatiites are rare, ultra-high-temperature (∼1,600 °C) lavas that were erupted in large volumes 3.5–1.5 bya but only very rarely since. They are the signature rock type of a hotter early Earth. However, the hottest, most extensive komatiites have a very restricted distribution in particular linear belts within preserved Archean crust. This study used a combination of different radiogenic isotopes to map the boundaries of Archean microcontinents in space and time, identifying the microplates that form the building blocks of Precambrian cratons. Isotopic mapping demonstrates that the major komatiite belts are located along these crustal boundaries. Subsequently, the evolution of the early continents controlled the location and extent of major volcanic events, crustal heat flow, and major ore deposit provinces.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 08-2010
DOI: 10.1130/G31219.1
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Date: 11-2016
Abstract: Non-collisional, convergent margin orogens are generally called accretionary orogens, although there may not have been horizontal accretion across the plate boundary. We revive the term non-collisional orogen and use a Gondwanaland perspective to discuss different types. On the northern margin of the Australian Plate, the New Guinea non-collisional, accretionary orogen was formed by large-scale terrane accretion across an advancing plate margin. On the eastern margin, the Southwest Pacific Orogen is a non-collisional and non-accretionary orogen, involving virtually no horizontal transfer of material across its eastward-retreating plate boundary. In the Tasmanides, the Lachlan Orogen, commonly described as an accretionary orogen, is another non-collisional, non-accretionary orogen developed behind the plate margin after major Cambrian rollback, with resultant backarc basins filled mainly by quartz-rich turbidites subsequently recycled. The outboard New England Orogen is a non-collisional but accretionary orogen, marked by the frontal accretion of continental margin arc detritus, subsequently recycled into younger arcs. The Permian to Cretaceous Rangitata Orogen of New Zealand is an ?oblique non-collisional, accretionary orogen in which Permian–Triassic sediments of the accretionary wedge have no link with inboard (near) arc terranes. Late Jurassic to Cretaceous parts were sourced by a combination of first cycle volcanogenic detritus passing through the forearc basin together with recycling of the exhumed parts of the wedge. All non-collisional orogens involve continental growth, but only the New England Orogen and to a lesser extent the New Guinea Orogen involve significant crustal growth.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 11-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
Date: 30-05-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
Date: 04-2021
DOI: 10.2138/AM-2021-7714
Abstract: An intensive study of the geochemical characteristics (including the volatile elements Cl and S) of apatite associated with porphyry deposits was undertaken to address the debate about the crust- or mantle-derivation of their copper and gold and to better understand the controls on the transport of metals in magmatic fluids in post-subduction settings. New geochemical data on apatite reveal parameters to discriminate mineralized porphyry systems across Iran and western China (Tibet and Yunnan), from coeval barren localities across this post-subduction metallogenic belt. Apatites in fertile porphyries have higher Cl and S concentrations (reflecting water-rich crystallization conditions) than those from coeval barren ones. Our new isotopic data also indicate these volatiles are likely derived from pre-enriched sub-continental lithospheric mantle, metasomatized by previous oceanic subduction. This study demonstrates that refertilization of suprasubduction lithospheric mantle during previous collision events is a prerequisite for forming post-subduction fertile porphyries, providing an evidence-based alternative to current ore-enrichment models.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 23-03-2020
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU2020-3519
Abstract: & & Silicic magmatism in the Central Andes forms rhyolitic to dacitic volcanic deposits that range from large-volume ignimbrites (& km3) to small local dome eruptions. The mass proportion between mantle-derived magmatic contributions to crustal melting was previously estimated to range from 20 to 70 % based on Sr-O isotope data obtained on separated feldspar and quartz contained as crystal cargo. New O-Hf isotope data from in-situ ion-probe and laser ablation measurements of U-Pb-dated zircons further constrain type, proportion, and processes of crustal input into silicic magmas. Variations in time and space of these geochemical parameters are documented here using representative s les that cover the entire Central Andes over 20 Ma and 800 km distance. Systematic covariations in isotope tracers relate to increasing crustal thickening through time during Andean orogenesis. Collectively, Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-O isotopic signatures vary in space and time and temporally reflect increasing crustal input during ignimbrite flare-ups as the crust becomes thermally matures. Spatial variations derive from different crustal domains in the Central Andes and reflect the different age and composition of crustal components.& & & & Remarkably, inherited zircon representing basement involved in crustal assimilation& is exceedingly rare over the entire province. This most probably reflects high temperatures that exceed zircon saturation temperatures of crustal melts in ignimbrite-forming magmas. This observation distinguishes silicic ignimbrite-forming magmatism from typical granitoid-forming magmatism in orogenic settings where abundant older zircons inherited from the crust are commonly found.& &
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2014
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 02-2015
DOI: 10.1130/G36231.1
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 09-2016
DOI: 10.1086/687552
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-05-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 20-07-2021
DOI: 10.1130/B36074.1
Abstract: Knowledge of the subduction to postcollision tectonic transition in response to oceanic closure is crucial for tracking the final stage of orogenic evolution. Here, we report new geochronology, geochemistry, and isotopic data for Carboniferous magmatism in East Junggar (NW China), southwestern Central Asian orogenic belt, which may record such processes following the closure of the Kalamaili Ocean (a branch of the Paleo-Asian Ocean). The early Carboniferous calc-alkaline volcanic rocks (dominated by basalt and basaltic andesite) yielded zircon U-Pb ages of ca. 340–330 Ma and are characterized by arc-like trace-element patterns showing enrichment of light rare earth elements (LREEs) and large ion lithophile elements (LILEs e.g., Pb) but depletion of high field strength elements (HFSEs e.g., Nb, Ta, and Ti). Combined with their variable Ba/Nb (9.80–454) and low Nb/La (0.21–0.54) and Sm/Yb (1.77–3.08) ratios as well as depleted mantle–like Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf (whole-rock 87Sr/86Sri = 0.7037–0.7040 εNd[t] = +3.5 to +5.9 206Pb/204Pbi = 17.728–17.996 zircon εHf[t] = +11.8 to +18.8) isotopic values, we suggest that they were produced by melting of a lithospheric mantle wedge fluxed by slab-derived fluids under spinel-facies conditions. With whole-rock 40Ar/39Ar dating of ca. 320 Ma, the late Carboniferous mafic dikes have geochemical features and Sr-Nd-Pb (87Sr/86Sri = 0.7039–0.7041 εNd[t] = +6.6 to +6.8 206Pb/204Pbi = 17.905–17.933) isotopic compositions similar to those of the early Carboniferous volcanics, but they show less pronounced Pb anomalies and negative Nb and Ta anomalies. They are interpreted to have formed by partial melting of a spinel-bearing lithospheric mantle metasomatized by limited influx of subduction-related fluids. The late Carboniferous felsic volcanic rocks (dacite and rhyolite) yielded zircon U-Pb ages of ca. 305 Ma and are geochemically equivalent to those of A2-type granites in East Junggar. They have juvenile isotopic compositions (εNd[t] = +4.5 to +6.8 εHf[t] = +13.3 to +18.7) and relatively young Nd and Hf model ages that roughly coincide with the ages of the ophiolites in the area, suggesting that they could have originated from melting of a juvenile basaltic lower crust. Whole-rock geochemistry, assimilation–fractional crystallization (AFC), and isotopic mixing modeling argue for insignificant crustal contamination for the Carboniferous magmatism. We suggest that the early Carboniferous lavas erupted in an island-arc setting related to the northward subduction of the Kalamaili oceanic crust, whereas the late Carboniferous magmatism formed in a postcollisional extensional regime in response to slab breakoff or lithospheric delamination. Combined with regional geological information, we propose that a rapid tectonic transition from oceanic subduction to postcollisional extension may have occurred in East Junggar during the Carboniferous, marking the final closure of the Kalamaili Ocean, which most likely took place ca. 330–320 Ma. This study provides overall geochronological and petrogeochemical evidence to better constrain the amalgamation of the southwestern Central Asian orogenic belt and may be of great importance for understanding the final stage of orogenic evolution elsewhere.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-10-2022
DOI: 10.1093/PETROLOGY/EGAC102
Abstract: We present new U–Pb ages and Hf and O isotope data for zircon from I-, S- and A-type granites from both the western and eastern edges of the Delamerian Orogen in southeastern Australia. The I-type Tanunda Creek Gneiss contains zircon populations of 507 ± 4 and 492 ± 6 Ma inferred to reflect igneous and metamorphic ages, respectively. The I-type Palmer Granite yielded an age of 509 ± 3 Ma, and the Port Elliot S-type Granite has a magmatic age of 508 ± 7 Ma. Inherited zircon in these granites range from 1092 to 3343 Ma, probably derived from assimilation of Adelaide Group sediments. The Murray Bridge A-type Granite is 490 ± 2 Ma in age and lacks inherited zircon. In the Glenelg River Complex, an S-type migmatite from near Harrow contains a complex zircon population. It is most likely ~500 Ma in age and has inherited zircon of 550–700, 1000–1100 and 2437 Ma, hence matching those from the Kanmantoo Group. From this and detrital zircon ages, we infer that only the Kanmantoo Group extends across the Murray Basin into the Glenelg River Complex. The Wando Tonalite and Loftus Creek I-type granites yielded ages of 501 ± 2 and 486 ± 3 Ma, respectively. Zircon from the Dergholm Granite has suffered Pb loss, and the best age estimate for this granite is 488 ± 5 Ma. Combining all the granite data together, εHft and δ18O in the magmatic zircon range from 5.6 to −10.3 and from 5.8 to 8.1, respectively, and are well correlated. The zircon indicates the same temporal and compositional evolution of granitic petrogenesis across ~300 km of strike, reaffirming the notion that these terranes form part of the same orogen. Westward-directed subduction caused orogenic thickening, heating and increasing amounts of crustal contribution. This was followed by convective thinning of the thickened mantle lithosphere and a return to more primitive magmas lacking significant crustal contributions. It contrasts significantly with inferred granite petrogenesis and tectonic style in the younger Lachlan and New England Fold Belts further east that were not built upon extended cratonic lithosphere.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2005
Publisher: Environmental Health Perspectives
Date: 10-2010
DOI: 10.1289/EHP.1002186
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 08-2017
DOI: 10.1002/2016TC004408
Publisher: Mineralogical Society
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-07-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 21-11-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2006
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 18-07-2019
DOI: 10.1130/G38000.1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.2113/RGG20204252
Abstract: –We present data on the geochemical and Sr–Nd isotope compositions of rocks and on the Lu–Hf isotope composition of magmatic and xenogenic zircons from granitoids and gabbroids of the late Neoproterozoic island arc structure of the Lake Zone. Plagiogranitoids, gabbroids, and quartz diorites (559–542 Ma) formed at the late Neoproterozoic subduction stage of magmatism, and two-feldspathic granites (~483 Ma) mark Cambrian–Ordovician accretion–collision processes. We have established that the volcanic rocks of the late Neoproterozoic island arc and/or its oceanic base, which formed from the depleted mantle, were the mafic source of plagiogranitoids. This is proved by the overlapping positive εNd values of plagiogranitoids and the host volcanic rocks and by the commensurate εHf values of magmatic zircons from the plagiogranitoids and depleted mantle. The lower εNd values of gabbro and quartz diorites from the Tavan Hayrhan and Shuthuyn plutons, the lower εHf values of zircons from these rocks, and the high (87Sr/86Sr)0 ratios and K2O, Rb, and Th contents point to the generation of these rocks from a less depleted mantle source, namely, mantle wedge peridotites. The isotope composition of the latter changed at the previous subduction stage under the impact of fluids and with the contribution of subducted sediments. The least radiogenic Hf isotope composition of magmatic and xenogenic zircons from Ordovician accretion–collisional two-feldspathic granites of the Ih Zamiin pluton suggests their formation through the melting of the late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian island arc crust with the contribution of more differentiated crustal sources enriched in Th, Nb, and LREE and characterized by low εNd values. The age of xenogenic zircons (≤716 Ma) in the studied granitoids and gabbroids and their similarity in Hf isotope composition to magmatic zircons from the same rocks confirm the formation of the late Neoproterozoic island arc of the Lake Zone in an intraoceanic setting far from ancient continental sources similar to the Dzavhan microcontinent.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 20-07-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756820000667
Abstract: Six acidic dykes were discovered surrounding the Laiziling pluton, Xianghualing area, in the western Cathaysia Block, South China. A number of captured zircons are found in two of these acidic dykes. By detailed U–Pb dating, Lu–Hf isotopes and trace-element analysis, we find that these zircons have ages clustered at c. 2.5 Ga. Two acidic dyke s les yielded upper intersection point 206 U/ 238 Pb ages of 2505 ± 42 Ma and 2533 ± 22 Ma, and weighted mean 207 Pb/ 206 Pb ages of 2500 ± 30 Ma and 2535 ± 16 Ma. The majority of these zircons have high (Sm/La) N , Th/U and low Ce/Ce* ratios, indicating a magmatic origin, but some grains were altered by later hydrothermal fluid. Additionally, the magmatic zircons have high Y, U, heavy rare earth element, Nb and Ta contents, indicating that their host rocks were mainly mafic rocks or trondhjemite–tonalite–granodiorite rock series. Equally, their moderate Y, Yb, Th, Gd and Er contents also indicate that a mafic source formed in a continental volcanic-arc environment. These zircons have positive ϵ Hf ( t ) values (2.5–6.9) close to zircons from the depleted mantle, with T DM (2565–2741 Ma) and T DM2 (2608–2864 Ma) ages close to their formation ages, indicating that these zircons originated directly from depleted mantle magma, or juvenile crust derived from the depleted mantle in a very short period. We therefore infer that the Cathaysia Block experienced a crustal growth event at c. 2.5 Ga.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-04-2011
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1127
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 10-2011
DOI: 10.1130/G32184.1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2004
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2001
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 26-01-2011
DOI: 10.1130/B30344.1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 23-04-2021
DOI: 10.1017/S001675682100025X
Abstract: The Sargur Group has been considered to be the oldest group ( .0 Ga) in the Archaean sequence of the Dharwar Craton in south India, whereas the rocks of the Dharwar Supergroup are younger (between 3.0 and 2.55 Ga). The supracrustal units of the Sargur Group were deposited during the Archaean period. The Banavara quartzite forms part of the supracrustal Sargur Group and contains significant amounts of chromian spinel (Cr-spinel). Here, U–Pb and Hf isotopes of detrital zircons are integrated with compositional data and X-ray refinement parameters for Cr-spinels to decipher the provenance of the metasediments. Zircons show an age spectrum from 3.15 to 2.50 Ga, and juvenile Hf isotopic compositions (ϵHf = +0.8 to +6.4) with model ages between 3.3 and 3.0 Ga. Major- and trace-element contents of the Cr-spinels do not resemble those in the Sargur ultramafic rocks, but resemble well-characterized Archaean anorthosite-hosted chromites. Cr-spinel trace-element signatures indicate that they have undergone secondary alteration or metamorphism. X-ray refinement parameters for the Cr-spinels also resemble the anorthosite-hosted chromites. We conclude that the detrital minerals were probably derived from gneissic and anorthositic rocks of the Western Dharwar Craton, and that the Sargur Group sequences have experienced a younger (2.5 Ga) metamorphic overprint.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-04-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2009
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 02-2020
DOI: 10.15372/RGG2019087
Abstract: —We present results of geochemical and isotope (Rb–Sr, Sm–Nd, and Lu–Hf) studies of the early Paleozoic plagiogranitoid associations in the south of the Lake Zone in Western Mongolia, which formed at the island-arc and accretion–collision stages of the regional evolution. According to the petrogeochemical composition, the early Paleozoic plagiogranitoid associations of the island-arc (Tugrug, Hatan-Hunga, Udzur-Hunga, and Bayasgalant plutons, 531–517 Ma) and accretion–collision (Tugrug, Mandalt, and Dut Uul plutons, 504–481 Ma) stages are high- and low-alumina rocks. The recognized types of plagiogranitoids, with regard to their trace-element composition, indicate that their parental melts were generated from MORB-type metabasites at ≥10–12 kbar, in equilibrium with garnet-containing restite, and at ≤8 kbar, in equilibrium with plagioclase-containing restite. The Sr–Nd isotope data on the rocks and the Lu–Hf isotope parameters of their magmatic zircons show two groups of plagiogranitoids, with different sources of melts. The first group includes plagiogranitoid associations of most plutons (Tugrug, Udzur-Hunga, Hatan-Hunga, Bayasgalant, and Dut Uul) with isotope parameters (εNd = 8.5–4.6, (87Sr/86Sr)0 = 0.7034–0.7036, and εHf = 14.7–11.9) indicating the juvenile nature of their sources. The second group includes plagiogranitoids of the Mandalt pluton their isotope parameters (εNd = 1.4–0.2, (87Sr/86Sr)0 = 0.7053, and εHf = 7.2–5.4) indicate that the parental melts were generated mostly from enriched-mantle metabasites. The Hf isotope data on inherited and xenogenic zircons (664–519 Ma) from the early Paleozoic plagiogranitoid associations of the southern Lake Zone permit us to separate these rocks into three groups according to their εHf values (14.5–12.8, 2.9, and 10.6–6.7). The Hf isotope parameters of magmatic and inherited zircons, with regard to their age, indicate that the source of the parental melts lacked rocks with a long crustal history, such as the early Precambrian associations of the Dzavhan microcontinent.
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 11-2019
DOI: 10.15372/RGG2019086
Abstract: —We consider the geologic structure, composition, and age of early Paleozoic intrusive rock associations of the Tugrug, Udzur-Hunga, Hatan-Hunga, Mandalt, Bayasgalant, and Dut Uul plutons. The plutons are located among late Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian volcanic and volcanosedimentary strata in the southern part of the island-arc system of the Lake Zone in Western Mongolia. We have recognized plagiogranitoid and gabbroid associations of different petrochemical compositions, ages, and geodynamic settings of formation in these plutons. The results of geochronological studies show that the plagiogranitoid associations in the south of the Lake Zone formed in the period from 531 to 481 Ma. Two major stages of intrusive magmatism in the zone have been established in this time interval: island-arc, 531–517 Ma, and accretion–collision, 504–481 Ma. The plagiogranitoid associations that formed at the island-arc stage are the most widespread, whereas those formed at the accretion–collision stage are much scarcer. The intrusive plutons of all ages are composed predominantly of granitoid associations of the tonalite–trondhjemite series, which are calc-alkalic rocks. Study of xenogenic and inherited zircons from plagiogranitoid associations formed at the island-arc and accretion–collision stages of the regional evolution has shown their age range 664–520 Ma. Four age groups of inherited zircon have been recognized (~664, 570–560, 545–531, and 530–520 Ma), which generally correspond to the stages of island-arc (volcanic and intrusive) and ophiolite magmatism and, most likely, reflect the additional magma-generating sources of parental plagiogranitic melts.
Publisher: Saint Petersburg State University
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 15-04-2015
DOI: 10.1130/B31232.1
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-10-2021
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2008
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 05-2015
DOI: 10.1002/2015TC003845
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2005
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-12-2013
DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS3921
Abstract: Kimberlites are a volumetrically minor component of the Earth's volcanic record, but are very important as the major commercial source of diamonds and as the deepest s les of the Earth's mantle. They were predominantly emplaced from ≈2,100 Ma to ≈10 ka ago, into ancient, stable regions of continental crust (cratons), but are also known from continental rifts and mobile belts. Kimberlites have been reported from almost all major cratons on all continents except for Antarctica. Here we report the first bona fide Antarctic kimberlite occurrence, from the northern Prince Charles Mountains, emplaced during the reactivation of the Lambert Graben associated with rifting of India from Australia-Antarctica. The s les are texturally, mineralogically and geochemically typical of Group I kimberlites from more classical localities. Their ≈120 Ma ages overlap with those of many kimberlites from other world-wide localities, extending a vast Cretaceous, Gondwanan kimberlite province, for the first time, into Antarctica.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2006
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-11-2005
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada
Date: 09-2017
Publisher: Society of Economic Geologists
Date: 22-07-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2007
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 05-2013
DOI: 10.1130/G34003.1
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-01-2020
DOI: 10.3390/MIN10010083
Abstract: We present a new methodology for laser-induced steady-state photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy of Dy3+ that aims at a direct quantification of the amorphous fraction fa present in zircon (ZrSiO4), which undergoes a transition from a crystalline to a metamict state due to cumulative self-irradiation damage caused by the radioactive decay of substituted U and Th. Using state-of-the-art confocal spectrometers attached to optical microscopes, measurements may be performed non-destructively on the micrometre length-scale with the option to visualize radiation-damage patterns as revealed by hyperspectral PL maps. Zircon from the Ratnapura district (Sri Lanka, ~520 Ma), was used as reference material to substantiate the applicability of the proposed method. The accumulation of radiation damage in this material was investigated in detail and obtained fa values correlate with calculated α-doses in accordance to the direct impact model reported variously in the literature. The impact of chemically-induced, heterogeneous broadening of Raman and Dy3+ emission spectral bands is discussed on two ex les from Mt. Malosa district, Malawi. A mean weighted U-Pb isotope age of 111 ± 1 Ma (pegmatitic-type) and a discordia age of 112 ± 1.6 Ma (hydrothermal-type) as obtained by LA-ICP-MS confirm their close genetic and temporal relationship. Studied zircon ex les demonstrate that the amount of radiation damage present may have a substantial effect on the precision of LA-ICP-MS ages, but cannot be considered an exclusive cause for bias of obtained isotope ages.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2012
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 27-12-2019
DOI: 10.1130/L1030.1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2004
Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry
Date: 11-09-2014
DOI: 10.1039/9781782625025-00049
Abstract: Wider use of radiogenic isotopes in geosciences has been enabled by developments in massspectrometry at the beginning of the 21st century. Nowadays, radiogenic isotope geochemistry forms an integrated part of geosciences in a range of applications, starting from formation of planetary systems, genesis, and the evolution of Earth's lithosphere and associated mineral and oil deposits, as well as environmental tracers. Two primary types of information are available from radiogenic isotopes studies: age determination and isotopic source tracing. In this chapter, the range of isotope systematics currently used in geosciences and their applications are reviewed, together with progress in analytical technologies. The chapter brings together internationally recognised researchers whohave been at the forefront of analytical technologies in the field of geochemistry of radiogenic isotopes.
Publisher: The Russian Academy of Sciences
Date: 10-09-2019
DOI: 10.31857/S0869-56524876653-658
Abstract: New U-Pb (SIMS and LA-ICP-MS) geochronological data for rocks of Egdygkych complex of hypabyssal intrusions, Nichan and Vukney plutons, and felsic volcanic rocks and tuffs from host strata of Oloy volcanic belt of Alasey-Oloy fold system are obtained. Concordant ages of Egdygkych complex rocks correspond to Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian), those for host strata, to the end of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) - beginning of Early Cretaceous (Berriasian). New U-Pb geochronological data allow confidently to distinguish uniform volcanic-plutonic assemblage of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) - Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian) age of Oloy volcanic belt. Obtained data more definitely determine age limits of Au-Mo-Cu mineralization, associated with contacts between rocks of Egdydkych complex and host volcanic-sedimentary rocks or contacts of separated intrusive phases.
Publisher: The Russian Academy of Sciences
Date: 2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-07-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2002
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-03-2021
DOI: 10.3390/MIN11030329
Abstract: This study presents new compositional and S-Os isotope data for primary Ru-Os sulfides within a platinum-group mineral (PGM) assemblage from placer deposits associated with the Verkh-Neivinsk massif, which is part of the mantle ophiolite association of Middle Urals (Russia). The primary nature of Ru-Os sulfides represented by laurite (RuS2)–erlichmanite (OsS2) series is supported by occurrence of euhedral inclusions of high-Mg olivine (Fo92–94) that fall within the compositional range of mantle (primitive) olivine (Fo 88–93). The sulfur isotope signatures of Ru-Os sulfides reveal a range of δ34S values from 0.3 to 3.3‰, with a mean of 2.05‰ and a standard deviation of 0.86‰ (n = 18), implying that the sulfur derived from a subchondritic source. A range of sub-chondritic initial 187Os/188Os values defined for Ru-Os sulfides (0.1173–0.1278) are clearly indicative of derivation from a sub-chondritic source. Re-depletion (TRD) ages of the Verkh-Neivinsk Ru-Os sulfides are consistent with prolonged melt-extraction processes and likely multi-stage evolution of highly siderophile elements (HSE) within the upper mantle. A single radiogenic 187Os/188Os value of 0.13459 ± 0.00002 determined in the erlichmanite is indicative of a supra-chondritic source of HSE. This feature can be interpreted as evidence of a radiogenic crustal component associated with a subduction event or as an indication of an enriched mantle source. The mineralogical and Os-isotope data point to a high-temperature origin of the studied PGM and two contrasting sources for HSE in Ru-Os sulfides of the Verkh-Neivinsk massif.
Publisher: Institute of Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Date: 24-03-2018
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-04-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2009
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.17072/CHIRVINSKY.2021.95
Abstract: The chromitites mineral composition from the Central ore body of the Main Saranovskoye deposit has been studied. Development of chromite grains in silicate interstices constancy of its composition, idiomorphism increased chromium content of small and periphery of large chromite grains absence of corrosion, substitution with chrome magnetite or chlorite xenomorphic high chromium chromite association with chromium-containing minerals and minerals of hydrothermal origin joint growth of chromite with uvarovite predominance of minerals with Na and H2O in inclusions in chromite inclusions of idiomorphic grains and chlorite laths, massicot crystals the inclusion of laurite with a crystallographically faceted inclusion of chalcocite, chromite in the diabase skarn indicates that chromite was not a source of chromium for other minerals, but was formed together with hydrothermal minerals in the course of a single process. This is also evidenced by the composition of apatite: a high Y content and a negative Eu anomaly.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Publisher: GeoScienceWorld
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.RGG.2015.09.021
Abstract: We present results of investigation of the trace-element (REE, HFSE) and Hf isotope compositions and U–Pb age of single zircons crystallized from alkaline-carbonatite magmas of the Ilmeny–Vishnevogorsky complex (IVC) (Urals, Russia). It has been established that the geochemical characteristics of the early zircon (U–Pb age of 430–410 Ma) from alkaline rocks and carbonatites of this complex are determined mainly by the magmatic evolution of parental fluid-saturated alkaline-carbonatite melts and are highly associated with the cocrystallization of zircon and uranium-containing rare-metal minerals (gatchettolite and pyrochlore) at the final stages of the magmatic-system activity. The early zircons have a moderately depleted Hf isotope composition (εHf from +11.3 to +4.7), confirming the mantle nature of the magma source and indicating the participation of DM-like and enriched-source (probably, lower-crust component) substances in the magma generation. The considerable variations in the initial Hf isotope composition of the early zircons testify to the multistage zircon crystallization involving new portions of melts with different isotope compositions controlled by mixing of substances at their source. Late IVC zircons (250–350 Ma) have strongly disturbed “rejuvenated” isotope systems and a geochemical composition different from that of the magmatic zircons. They formed apparently at the metamorphic stage of the IVC evolution without a significant input of additional material.
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-02-2011
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-11-2022
DOI: 10.3390/MIN12111463
Abstract: In order to provide further insights into the origin of Ru-Os-Ir alloys, this study presents new highly siderophile element (HSE: Re, Os, Ir, Ru, Pt, and Pd) abundance and 187Re-187Os and 190Pt-186Os isotope data for detrital grains of native Ru-Os-Ir alloys in placer deposits of the Kunar and Unga Rivers, which display a close spatial association with the Kunar dunite–harzburgite complex in the northern part of the Taimyr Peninsula in the Polar Siberia. The study utilized electron microprobe analysis, negative thermal ionization mass-spectrometry (N-TIMS) and laser ablation multiple-collector inductively coupled plasma mass-spectrometry (LA MC-ICP-MS). The primary nature of the Ru-Os-Ir alloys is supported by the occurrence of euhedral inclusions of high-Mg olivine (Fo92–93) that fall within the compositional range of mantle olivine. The LA MC-ICP-MS data show similar average initial 187Os/188Os and γ187Os(740 Ma) values for PGM assemblages from the Kunar and Unga deposits of 0.1218 ± 0.0010, −0.18 ± 0.85, and 0.1222 ± 0.0025, +0.10 ± 2.1, respectively. These values are identical, within their respective uncertainties, to the initial 187Os/188Os value of the Ru-Os-Ir alloy grain measured by N-TIMS (0.1218463 ± 0.0000015, γ187Os(740 Ma) = −0.1500 ± 0.0012). The combined 187Re-187Os isotopic data for all studied grains (γ187Os(740 Ma) = −0.02 ± 1.6) indicate evolution of the Kunar and Unga mantle sources with a long-term chondritic 187Re/188Os ratio of 0.401 ± 0.030. In contrast to the 187Os/188Os data, the initial 186Os/188Os value of 0.1198409 ± 0.0000012 (µ186Os(740 Ma) = +34 ± 10) obtained for the same Ru-Os-Ir alloy grain by N-TIMS is suprachondritic and implies evolution of the Kunar and Unga mantle source(s) with a long-term suprachondritic 190Pt/188Os ratio of 0.00247 ± 0.00021. This value is ~40% higher than the average chondritic 190Pt/188Os ratio of 0.00180 and indicates long-term enrichment of the Kunar source in Pt over Os. Establishing the source of this enrichment requires further investigation.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
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