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Malcolm T. McCulloch William Compston Dereck Froude 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(1-2):149-153
Sm‐Nd and Rb‐Sr isotopic data for Archaean gneisses from three localities within the eastern Yilgarn Block of Western Australia indicate that the gneisses define a precise Rb‐Sr whole rock isochron age of 2780 ± 60 Ma and an initial 87Sr/86Sr of 0.7007 ± 5. The Sm‐Nd isotopic data do not correspond to a single linear array, but form two coherent groups that are consistent with a c. 2800 Ma age of crust formation, with variable initial Nd. These results indicate that the gneiss protoliths existed as continental crust for a maximum period of only c. 100 Ma, and probably for a much shorter time, prior to the formation of the 2790 ±30 Ma greenstones. 相似文献
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The Proterozoic Soldiers Cap Group, a product of two major magmatic rift phases separated by clastic sediment deposition, hosts mineralised (e.g. Pegmont Broken Hill‐type deposit) and barren iron oxide‐rich units at three main stratigraphic levels. Evaluation of detailed geological and geochemical features was carried out for one lens of an apatite‐garnet‐rich, laterally extensive (1.9 km) example, the Weatherly Creek iron‐formation, and it was placed in the context of reconnaissance studies of other similar units in the area. Chemical similarities with iron‐formations associated with Broken Hill‐type Pb–Zn deposit iron‐formations are demonstrated here. Concordant contact relationships, mineralogy, geochemical patterns and pre‐deformational alteration all indicate that the Soldiers Cap Group iron‐formations are mainly hydrothermal chemical sediments. Chondrite normalised REE patterns display positive Eu and negative Ce anomalisms, are consistent with components of both high‐temperature, reduced, hydrothermal fluid (≥250°C) and cool oxidised seawater. Major element data suggest a largely mafic provenance for montmorillonitic clays and other detritus during chemical sedimentation, consistent with westward erosion of Cover Sequence 2 volcanic rocks, rather than local mafic sources. Ni enrichment is most consistent with hydrogenous uptake by Mn‐oxides or carbonates. Temperatures inferred from REE data indicate that although they are not strongly enriched, base metals such as Pb and Zn are likely to have been transported and deposited prior to or following iron‐formation deposition. Most chemical sedimentation pre‐dated emplacement of the major mafic igneous sill complexes present in the upper part of the basin. Heating of deep basinal brines in a regional‐scale aquifer by deep‐seated mafic magma chambers is inferred to have driven development of hydrothermal fluids. Three major episodes of extension exhausted this aquifer, but were succeeded by a final climactic extensional phase, which produced widespread voluminous mafic volcanism. The lateral extent of the iron‐formations requires a depositional setting such as a sea‐floor metalliferous sediment blanket or series of brine pools, with iron‐formation deposition likely confined to much smaller fault‐fed areas surrounded by Fe–Mn–P–anomalous sediments. These relationships indicate that in such settings, major sulfide deposits and their associated chemical sediment marker horizons need not overlie major igneous sequences. Rather, the timing of expulsion of hydrothermal fluid reflects the interplay between deep‐seated heating, extension and magmatism. 相似文献
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R. W. Page 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(3-4):141-164
A detailed Rb‐Sr total‐rock and mineral and U‐Pb zircon study has been made on suites of Proterozoic silicic volcanic rocks and granitic intrusions, from near Mt Isa, northwest Queensland. Stratigraphically consistent U‐Pb zircon ages within the basement igneous succession show that the oldest recognized crustal development was the outpouring of acid volcanics (Leichhardt Metamorphics) 1865 ± 3 m.y. ago, which are intruded by coeval, epizonal granites and granodiorites (Kalkadoon Granite) whose pooled U‐Pb age is 1862 +27 ‐21 m.y. A younger rhyolitic suite (Argylla Formation) within the basement succession has an age of 1777 ± 7 m.y., and a third acid volcanic unit (Carters Bore Rhyolite), much higher again in the sequence, crystallized 1678 ± 1 m.y. ago. All of these rocks are altered in various degrees by low‐grade metamorphic events, and in at least one area, these events were accompanied by, and can be partly related to, emplacement of a syntectonic, foliated granitic batholith (Wonga Granite) between 1670 and 1625 m.y. ago. Rocks that significantly predate this earliest recognized metamorphism, have had their primary Rb‐Sr total‐rock systematics profoundly disturbed, as evidenced by 10 to 15% lowering of most Rb‐Sr isochron ages, and a general grouping of many of the lowered ages (some of which are in conflict with unequivocal geological relationships) within the 1600–1700 m.y. interval. Such isochrons possess anomalously high initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios, and some have a slightly curved array of isotopic data points. Disturbance of the Rb‐Sr total‐rock ages is attributed primarily to mild hydrothermal leaching, which resulted in the loss of Sr (relatively enriched in 87Sr in the Sr‐poor (high Rb/Sr) rocks as compared with the Sr‐rich rocks). 相似文献
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P.H. Walker 《Earth》1978,14(2):186-187
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Sedimentological, geochemical and tectonic studies have been carried out on the Glyde Sub‐basin, a fault‐bounded depocentre adjacent to the margin of the Batten Trough, 80 km south of the HYC Pb‐Zn‐Ag ore deposit, in the mid‐Proterozoic McArthur Basin. Although it is unmineralized, the basin is, in some aspects, morphologically similar to the HYC Sub‐basin and provides an insight into processes which occurred coevally along strike from a giant shale‐hosted base‐metal deposit. The geometry of the sub‐basin supports an origin in a releasing bend of the Emu Fault during oblique right‐lateral extension of the Emu Fault Zone, resulting in the deposition of a very thick sequence of below wave‐base Barney Creek Formation carbonaceous siltstone. Prior to sub‐basin development the area was covered by hypersaline carbonate tidal flats of the Coxco Dolomite Member of the Teena Dolomite. Internal syn‐sedimentary normal faulting fractured the sub‐basin into seven major blocks, establishing a basic geometry of northern and southern depressions, into which the W‐Fold and HYC Pyritic Shale Members were successively deposited, separated by a non‐depositional horst. During the subsequent deposition of undivided Barney Creek Formation the horst was submerged and greater water circulation was established. The horst continued to be an east‐west barrier to clastic and volcaniclastic gravity flows, evidenced by the confinement to the northern depocentre of prograding easterly‐derived carbonate‐dominated turbidites. Rhyolitic volcanism in the Glyde Sub‐basin commenced in the W‐Fold Shale Member, and became common in the overlying Barney Creek Formation. The measurable volcanic component increases from 4.4 to 17.5% of the total sediment package southwards over 18 km, implying a southern rhyolitic source within 6–30 km. A geochemical comparison of these relatively unaltered tuffs with those intercalated in the HYC ore sequence identified a comagmatic relationship on the basis of immobile element contents, supporting a common volcanic source. This conclusion was only possible after a preliminary study found Ti, Zr, Y and Nb to be relatively immobile in the severely potassium‐altered tuff of the HYC hydrothermal ore environment. Low‐grade (as distinct from high temperature hydrothermal) potassium‐alteration of felsic tuff throughout the McArthur Basin may have resulted from diagenetic interaction with very evolved lacustrine saline brines, whereas brines in the diagenetic environment of the Glyde Sub‐basin, in which unaltered or sodically‐altered tuff predominates, were comparatively less evolved. 相似文献