U-Pb detrital zircon ages of Cambrian−Ordovician sandstones from the Taebaeksan Basin, Korea: Provenance variability in platform shelf sequences and paleogeographic implications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moonsup Cho ◽  
Wonseok Cheong ◽  
W.G. Ernst ◽  
Yoonsup Kim ◽  
Keewook Yi
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Isotopic Signature ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Taebaeksan Basin ◽  
Double Peaks ◽  
The North ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

The early Paleozoic paleogeography of East Gondwanan terranes, including the North China Craton (NCC), is contentious, primarily reflecting the paucity of integrated geochronological, biogeographic, and tectonic data sets. Our new sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe data from 14 sandstones of the Taebaeksan Basin, Korea, indicate that its platform shelf sequences, typified by trilobite faunal assemblages diagnostic of the NCC, record the vestige of coeval arc magmatism. Detrital zircons analyzed from the sandstones yielded Eoarchean to Early Ordovician ages, which define three distinct types of distribution patterns characterized by: (1) double peaks at ca. 1.85 Ga and 2.50 Ga diagnostic of basement rocks in the NCC; (2) minor peaks at ca. 1.75, 1.6, and 1.2−1.1 Ga in addition to double peaks; and finally (3) a scattered array of late Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic zircons lacking double peaks. The marked contrasts among the three types reflect significant changes in provenance, most likely linked to variations in paleo-water depths during the “Sauk” transgression. Longshore- or onshore-directed currents, associated with an increase in water depth, apparently brought outboard oceanic detritus and benthic trilobites into the relatively flat outer shelf of the Taebaeksan Basin. As a result, fine-grained sandstones received a large amount of detritus from distal sources, yielding mixed signatures in zircon age patterns and trilobite assemblages. Excluding the basal sandstone-conglomerate unit, five siliciclastic formations contain syndepositional zircon populations, and their weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages decrease upsection from 512 ± 5 Ma to 483 ± 2 Ma, indicating a sedimentary influx from contemporaneous volcanic activity. In conjunction with arc-related bulk-rock geochemistry and juvenile Nd isotopic signature, early Paleozoic detrital zircons likely represent the first-cycle detritus supplied for ∼30 m.y. from the proto-Japan arc that initially formed at ca. 520 Ma. Together with the occurrence of ca. 700−500 Ma detrital Pacific Gondwana zircons in fine-grained sandstones, Paleozoic arc-sourced detritus suggests that the Korean Peninsula was paleogeographically linked to an ancient convergent margin, perhaps extending from the Terra Australis orogen.

Detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic to Permian miogeoclinal strata in British Columbia and Alberta

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 1380-1401 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E Gehrels ◽  
Gerald M Ross
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Isotopic Signature ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Detrital Zircon Geochronology ◽  
Salmon River ◽  
Western Canada Sedimentary Basin ◽  
Cordilleran Margin ◽  
Peace River Arch ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

U-Pb ages have been determined on 250 detrital zircon grains from Neoproterozoic through Permian miogeoclinal strata in British Columbia and Alberta. Most of the grains in these strata are >1.75 Ga and are interpreted to have been derived from nearby basement provinces (although most grains were probably cycled though one or more sedimentary units prior to final deposition). Important exceptions are Ordovician sandstones that contain grains derived from the Peace River arch, and upper Paleozoic strata with detrital zircons derived from the Franklinian orogen, Salmon River arch (northwestern U.S.A.), and (or) Grenville orogen. These provenance changes resulted in average detrital zircon ages that become progressively younger with time, and may also be reflected by previously reported shifts in the Nd isotopic signature of miogeoclinal strata. In addition to the grains that have identifiable sources, grains of ~1030, ~1053, 1750-1774, and 2344-2464 Ma are common in our samples, but igneous rocks of these ages have not been recognized in the western Canadian Shield. We speculate that unrecognized plutons of these ages may be present beneath strata of the western Canada sedimentary basin. Collectively, our data provide a record of the ages of detrital zircons that accumulated along the Canadian Cordilleran margin during much of Paleozoic time. Comparisons between this reference and the ages of detrital zircons in strata of potentially displaced outboard terranes may help reconstruct the paleogeography and accretionary history of the Cordilleran orogen.

Late Paleozoic tectonism of the Bogda region in  Chinese North Tianshan: Insights from sedimentary provenance analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Wang ◽  
Guochun Zhao ◽  
Yigui Han ◽  
Jinlong Yao
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
Provenance Analysis ◽  
The North ◽  
Tectonic Transition ◽  
Isotopic Analyses ◽  
Zircon Morphology ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages ◽  
T Values

<p>The Chinese North Tianshan (CNTS) extends E-W along the southern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt and has undergone complicated accretion-collision processes in the Paleozoic. This study attempts to clarify the late Paleozoic tectonism in the region by investigating the provenance of the Late Paleozoic sedimentary successions from the Bogda Mountain in the eastern CNTS by U-Pb dating and Lu-Hf isotopic analyses of detrital zircons. Detrital zircon U-Pb ages (N=519) from seven samples range from 261 ± 4 Ma to 2827 ± 32 Ma, with the most prominent age peak at 313 Ma. There are Precambrian detrital zircon ages (~7%) ranged from 694 to 1024 Ma. The youngest age components in each sample yielded weighted mean ages ranging from 272 ± 9 Ma to 288 ± 5 Ma, representing the maximum depositional ages. These and literature data indicate that some previously-assumed “Carboniferous” strata in the Bogda area were deposited in the Early Permian, including the Qijiaojing, Julideneng, Shaleisaierke, Yangbulake, Shamaershayi, Liushugou, Qijiagou, and Aoertu formations. The low maturity of the sandstones, zircon morphology and provenance analyses indicate a proximal sedimentation probably sourced from the East ­Junggar Arc and the Harlik-Dananhu Arc in the CNTS. The minor Precambrian detrital zircons are interpreted as recycled materials from the older strata in the Harlik-Dananhu Arc. Zircon ɛ<sub>Hf</sub>(t) values have increased since ~408 Ma, probably reflecting a tectonic transition from regional compression to extension. This event might correspond to the opening of the Bogda intra-arc/back arc rift basin, possibly resulting from a slab rollback during the northward subduction of the North Tianshan Ocean. A decrease of zircon ɛ<sub>Hf</sub>(t) values at ~300 Ma was likely caused by the cessation of oceanic subduction and subsequent collision, which implies that the North Tianshan Ocean closed at the end of the Late Carboniferous. This research was financially supported by the Youth Program of Shaanxi Natural Science Foundation (2020JQ-589), the NSFC Projects (41730213, 42072264, 41902229, 41972237) and Hong Kong RGC GRF (17307918).</p>

Extensive, Gas-charged Quaternary Sand Accumulations of the Northern North Sea and North Sea Fan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bellwald ◽  
Sverre Planke ◽  
Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta ◽  
Stefan Buenz ◽  
Christine Batchelor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
3D Seismic ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern North Sea ◽  
Well Data ◽  
Sea Fan ◽  
3D Seismic Data

<p>Sediments deposited by marine-based ice sheets are dominantly fine-grained glacial muds, which are commonly known for their sealing properties for migrating fluids. However, the Peon and Aviat hydrocarbon discoveries in the North Sea show that coarse-grained glacial sands can occur over large areas in formerly glaciated continental shelves. In this study, we use conventional and high-resolution 2D and 3D seismic data combined with well information to present new models for large-scale fluid accumulations within the shallow subsurface of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The data include 48,000 km<sup>2</sup> of high-quality 3D seismic data and 150 km<sup>2</sup> of high-resolution P-Cable 3D seismic data, with a vertical resolution of 2 m and a horizontal resolution of 6 to 10 m in these data sets. We conducted horizon picking, gridding and attribute extractions as well as seismic geomorphological interpretation, and integrated the results obtained from the seismic interpretation with existing well data.</p><p>The thicknesses of the Quaternary deposits vary from hundreds of meters of subglacial till in the Northern North Sea to several kilometers of glacigenic sediments in the North Sea Fan. Gas-charged, sandy accumulations are characterized by phase-reserved reflections with anomalously high amplitudes in the seismic data as well as density and velocity decreases in the well data. Extensive (>10 km<sup>2</sup>) Quaternary sand accumulations within this package include (i) glacial sands in an ice-marginal outwash fan, sealed by stiff glacial tills deposited by repeated glaciations (the Peon discovery in the Northern North Sea), (ii) sandy channel-levee systems sealed by fine-grained mud within sequences of glacigenic debris flows, formed during shelf-edge glaciations, (iii) fine-grained glacimarine sands of contouritic origin sealed by gas hydrates, and (iv) remobilized oozes above large evacuation craters and sealed by megaslides and glacial muds. The development of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet resulted in a rich variety of depositional environments with frequently changing types and patterns of glacial sedimentation. Extensive new 3D seismic data sets are crucial to correctly interpret glacial processes and to analyze the grain sizes of the related deposits. Furthermore, these data sets allow the identification of localized extensive fluid accumulations within the Quaternary succession and distinguish stratigraphic levels favorable for fluid accumulations from layers acting as fluid barriers.</p>

A Tarim-North India connection in northern Gondwana: Constraints from provenance of early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Altyn Tagh orogen, southeastern Tarim

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Liu ◽  
Toshiaki Tsunogae ◽  
Guochun Zhao ◽  
Yigui Han ◽  
Jinlong Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
The North ◽  
Altyn Tagh ◽  
Tarim Craton ◽  
Tethys Ocean ◽  
Final Closure

<p>Amalgamation of northern Gondwana involves a wealth of present-day East Asian blocks (e.g., South China, North China, Alxa, Tarim, Indochina, Qiangtang, Sibumasu, Lhasa, etc.) due to consumption and closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean. Locating the Tarim craton during assembly of northern Gondwana remains enigmatic, with different models separating Tarim from Gondwana by a paleoceanic domain throughout the Paleozoic, advocating a long-term Tarim-Australia linkage in the Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic, or suggesting a Tarim-Arabia connection in the early Paleozoic.</p><p>This study carried out field-based zircon U-Pb dating and Hf isotopic analyses for early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Altyn Tagh orogen, southeastern Tarim. New dating results revealed that the early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks were deposited from ca. 494 to 449 Ma. Provenance tracing indicates the ca. 494-477 Ma sedimentary rocks were primarily sourced from the local Altyn Tagh orogen to the south of the North Altyn Ocean (one branch of the Proto-Tethys Ocean between southeastern Tarim and northern Gondwana). In contrast, the ca. 465-449 Ma sedimentary rocks have remarkably increasing ca. 840-780 Ma, 2.0-1.7 Ga, and 2.7-2.4 Ga detrital zircons, indicating an augmented supply of detritus from the Tarim craton to the north of the North Altyn Ocean. Such a significant provenance shift between ca. 477 and 465 Ma marks the timing of the final closure of the North Altyn Ocean. Combined with the timing of the final closure of other branches of the Proto-Tethys Ocean, the entire Proto-Tethys Ocean might have been progressively closed at ca. 500-420 Ma, resulting in the connection of most East Asian blocks with northern Gondwana. Based on detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic comparison, Tarim most likely shared a North Indian affinity with many East Asian blocks (such as North Qilian, North Qinling, South China, Indochina, South Qiangtang, etc.). This new finding argues against an Australian or Arabian affinity for the Tarim craton.</p><p>This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects (grants 41730213, 42072264, 41902229, 41972237, and 41888101), Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (grant 17307918), and Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to Prof. Toshiaki Tsunogae (No. 18H01300) and to Dr. Qian Liu (No. 19F19020). JSPS fellowship is also much appreciated.</p>

Proterozoic microcontinents in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan): relationship with Gondwana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey K. Khudoley ◽  
Dmitriy V. Alexeiev ◽  
S. Andrew DuFrane
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Significant Similarity ◽  
Widespread Occurrence ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Rfbr Grant ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

<p>Proterozoic microcontinents are widespread in the western part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, but their origin remains poorly constrained. The U-Pb dating of detrital zircons in Proterozoic rocks of the southern Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz North Tianshan elucidate depositional ages and evolution of the Precambrian basins and characterize possible links of Precambrian microcontinents in these regions with Gondwana and other cratons.</p><p>Distributions of U-Pb detrital zircon ages in 13 samples from ca 5 km thick flysch-like succession of the Talas and Malyi Karatau ranges (Ishim-Middle-Tianshan microcontinent) show significant similarity. They are characterized by a widespread occurrence of Neoproterozoic grains with peaks at ca 820-800 and 910–860 Ma, almost complete absence of Mesoproterozoic grains and distinct peaks at ca 2040–1990 and 2500–2465 Ma for Paleoproterozoic grains. Archean grains occur in small amount. Close similarity is supported by K-S test indicating that samples have the same or similar provenance, also implying rapid accumulation and similar depositional ages. Main peaks resemble those in the Tarim Craton, suggesting Tarim as likely provenance and pointing to the Gondwana affinity of the Ishim-Middle-Tianshan microcontinent.</p><p>In contrast, detrital zircon populations in 3 samples from the Neoproterozoic quartzites of the North Tianshan microcontinent are dominated by Mesoproterozoic grains ranging in age from ca 1500 to 1000 Ma and contain few Paleoproterozoic grains ca 1800-1650 Ma. Distributions of U-Pb zircon ages in all 3 samples are very similar and resemble those in the early Neoproterozoic quartzites from the Kokchetav area of northern Kazakhstan, recently reported by Kovach et al. (2017). Age peaks in these samples are very different from the ages of magmatic pulses in Gondwana and point that the North Tianshan microcontinent did not have connection with Gondwana.</p><p>The Ishim-Middle-Tianshan microcontinent was rifted out from the Gondwana in late Neoproterozoic and travelled to the north. Origin and travel paths of the North Tianshan microcontinent remain poorly constrained. Widespread occurrence of Mesoproterozoic zircons implies possible links with Baltica, North America or east Siberia, but more detailed study is required to define exact provenance. These two microcontinents welded together in the middle to late Ordovician during amalgamation of the Kazakhstan paleocontinent and were jointly incorporated in Eurasia during the late Paleozoic collisions of the Kazakhstan continent with Siberia, Baltica and Tarim.</p><p>The study was supported by RFBR grant 20-05-00252</p>

scholarly journals Provenance and tectonic implications of the Yanshi bauxite area in Western Henan, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 261 ◽  
pp. 03058
Author(s):  
Fengyu Sun ◽  
Gaoshe Cao ◽  
Qikai Zhou
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
North China Block ◽  
Qinling Orogenic Belt ◽  
The North ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Study Support ◽  
North Qinling

The bauxite layer in Western Henan supplies a large number of bauxite ores and is useful for studying tectonic movement. In this paper, the bauxite samples were selected to carry out LA-ICP-MS detrital zircons U-Pb dating and Hf isotope testing. The results indicated that the detrital zircons with the Early Paleozoic ages were mainly derived from the North Qinling Orogenic Belt. The detrital zircons of the Precambrian age may be derived mainly from the basement of the North China Block and the North Qinling Orogenic Belt. The results of this study support the opinion that the North Qinling Orogenic Belt has been uplifted at ~310 Ma, and the surface of the southern craton has an overall north-dipping topography at this time.

Chilliwack composite terrane in northwest Washington: Neoproterozoic–Silurian passive margin basement, Ordovician–Silurian arc inception

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 1347-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Brown ◽  
G. E. Gehrels ◽  
V. A. Valencia
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Late Ordovician ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Passive Margin ◽  
Early Paleozoic ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

The Chilliwack composite terrane in northwest Washington is part of an assemblage of mid-Paleozoic arc terranes extending from California to Alaska. Some terranes bear evidence of exotic origin, whereas others apparently formed proximal to western Laurentia, posing a complex problem in unraveling the Paleozoic accretionary history of the Cordillera. In our proposed broader definition, the Chilliwack composite terrane includes the volcanic and sedimentary East Sound and Chilliwack groups, and the plutonic and metamorphic Turtleback and Yellow Aster complexes. New zircon ages indicate that the plutonic and volcanic rocks are mutually related as parts of the same arc complex and that its inception was as old as Late Ordovician to Silurian, older than most other parts of the mid-Paleozoic terrane assemblage. Basement to the arc complex is a passive margin assemblage of metamorphosed quartzose sandstone and calc-silicate rock of the Yellow Aster Complex, bracketed in age by ca. 1000 Ma detrital zircons and 418 Ma intrusive rocks. This association of paragneiss basement and overlying and (or) intruding arc resembles that of older parts of the extensive Yukon–Tanana terrane in the northern Cordillera. Detrital zircon ages support a western Laurentian pericratonic origin for the paragneiss basement and the overlying arc. However, an early to mid-Paleozoic connection of this assemblage to the exotic outboard Alexander terrane is also indicated, based on (1) Mesoproterozoic and early Paleozoic detrital zircons in Devonian sedimentary rocks of the arc, and also in certain other pericratonic Devonian terranes and strata of the miogeocline; (2) Late Ordovician – Silurian igneous ages; and (3) an earliest Devonian or older metamorphic age of the basement paragneiss.

scholarly journals Mid-Cenozoic SHRIMP U-Pb detrital zircon ages from metasedimentary rocks in the North Patagonian Andes of Aysén, Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Paulo Quezada ◽  
Francisco Hervé ◽  
Mauricio Calderón ◽  
Mark Fanning ◽  
Robert Pankhurst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Metamorphic Basement ◽  
Facies Variation ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages ◽  
Patagonian Andes

Previously undated low-grade metamorphic rocks from the Puerto Cisnes-Queulat area (44°30’ S) contain detrital zircons of mid-Oligocene age (ca. 28 Ma). Their outcrops represent the easternmost occurrence of the late Oligocene to early Miocene marine volcano-sedimentary Traiguén Formation; previous correlation with the Paleozoic metamorphic basement of this sector of the North Patagonian Andes is thus refuted. A similar age and provenance were obtained for a paraconglomerate bed of the La Junta Formation ca. 80 km to the north, which is thought to represent a high-energy lateral facies variation of the Traiguén Formation. Miocene plutonic rocks of the North Patagonian Batholith intruded these metasedimentary rocks, generating a contact metamorphic aureole that reaches biotite grade and overprints a previous metamorphic fabric probably formed during closure of the Traiguén Basin. Similar young ages for metamorphic rocks located immediately west of the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone 300 km north, near Ayacara, suggest a regional pattern of earliest Neogene metamorphism and rapid exhumation in this segment of the Patagonian Andes.

scholarly journals Tectonic Setting of the Eastern Margin of the Sino-Korean Block in the Pennsylvanian: Constraints from Detrital Zircon Ages

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Mun Gi Kim ◽  
Yong Il Lee ◽  
Taejin Choi
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Active Continental Margin ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Central China ◽  
Margin Setting ◽  
The North ◽  
Upper Paleozoic ◽  
Yeongnam Massif ◽  
Detrital Zircon Ages

To test the previous hypothesis that upper Paleozoic sediments in the eastern Sino-Korean Block were mostly derived from the paleo-orogen located to the east, we compared published and new U–Pb age data of detrital zircons from Pennsylvanian strata distributed in the Sino-Korean Block (SKB). The age distributions of detrital zircons from different localities of Pennsylvanian strata in North China reflect varying contributions from the Inner Mongolia Paleo-uplift in the north and the Central China Orogenic Belt in the south. The supply of detritus from the northern source to distant areas, however, appears to have been limited during the Pennsylvanian times. The age distributions of detrital zircons from Korean Pennsylvanian strata located in the east of the SKB are characterized by a dense cluster of 1.84–1.90 Ga and differ from those of North China. The Korean age characteristic is best explained by strong influences of the detritus derived from the Paleoproterozoic Yeongnam Massif in southeastern Korea. Along with the significant number of zircons that record syn- to near-depositional magmatic activities, this observation supports the hypothesis of the existence of an active continental margin setting in the east of the SKB.

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