Inherited or not inherited: Complexities in dating the atypical ‘cold’ Chopok granite (Nízke Tatry Mountains,Slovakia) |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China;2. College of Geoscience, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China;3. Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources of the Ministry of Education, School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China;4. Energy & Geoscience Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA;5. Unconventional Petroleum Research Institute, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China;6. Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;7. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;8. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 50005, Australia;9. Earth Dynamics Research Group, TIGeR (The Institute of Geoscience Research), Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth, Australia;10. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA;11. Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83843, USA;1. Czech Geological Survey, 11821 Praha 1, Czech Republic;2. Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, UMR 7516, 67084 Strasbourg, France;3. Institute of Geophysics ASCR, v.v.i., Bo?ní II/1401, Prague 4 14131, Czech Republic;4. Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA |
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| Abstract: | Zircon U-Pb SIMS dating combined with in-context (in thin section) monazite and xenotime U + Th-total Pb dating was used to clarify the Palaeozoic evolution of the ‘cold’ Chopok granite (Nízke Tatry Mountains, Slovakia). Four distinct zircon, monazite and xenotime age domains testify to a prolonged evolution from igneous formation to multi-stage metasomatism and hydrothermal overprinting. The geological interpretation of age patterns from ‘cold’ granites, expected to have low zircon saturation temperatures (<800 °C) and relatively high amounts of zircon inheritance, requires special care, especially for what concerns proper attribution of zircon inheritance and igneous growth ages. These issues can be resolved using zircon saturation temperatures (TZrn) as proxy for the amount of zircon inheritance in combination with the temperature differences between TZrn and the granite solidus. In this respect, the Chopok granite is an atypical ‘cold’ granite. Due to TZrn being substantially lower (ca. 80 °C ± 50 °C) than the granite solidus temperature, practically no zircon inheritance was found. The zircon age data indicates that the Chopok granite is a product of an Early Ordovician (475.8 ± 3.3 Ma) magmatic event, corresponding with the widespread Early Palaeozoic magmatism recorded throughout the European Variscan belt. This is further corroborated by phosphate mineral ages. The post-magmatic activity recorded in the U-Pb systematics of zircon and phosphates overgrowths can be related to the different phases of the evolution of the Variscan orogen: Early Carboniferous (ca. 352 Ma) metasomatism documents the main Variscan orogenic event, whereas the Permo-Triassic age (ca. 255 Ma) reflects thermo-tectonic activity associated with large-scale crustal extension, contemporaneous with the initial continental leading to the break-up of Pangea. |
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