Secular variations of the upper crust composition: Implication of geochemical data on the Upper Precambrian shales from the Southern Urals western flank and Uchur-Maya region |
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| Authors: | A V Maslov V N Podkovyrov Yu L Ronkin M T Krupenin E Z Gareev V M Gorozhanin |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Uralian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia;(2) Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia;(3) Presidium of the Uralian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia;(4) Institute of Geology, Uralian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia |
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| Abstract: | In the mid-1980s, it was concluded based on geochemical study that Th, Sc, La concentrations and ratios Th/Sc, La/Sc and Eu/Eu* did not wary significantly in the post-Archean time. It was impossible to judge about compositional variations of upper crust during the Riphean and Vendian, because data of that time characterized a limited number of samples from the post-Archean basins of Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctic. Considered in this work are variations of Eu/Eu*, LREE/HREE, Th/Sc, and La/Sc ratios in Upper Precambrian fine-grained siliciclastic rock of the Southern Urals western flank (Bashkirian meganticlinorium) and Uchur-Maya region (Uchur-Maya plate and Yudoma-Maya belt). As is established, only the Eu anomaly in the studied siliciclastic rocks is practically identical to this parameter of the average post-Archean shale. Three other parameters plot on the Riphean-Vendian variation curves with positive and negative excursions of diverse magnitude, which do not coincide always in time. It is assumed that these excursions likely mark stages of local geodynamic activity, destruction of pre-Riphean cratons, and progressing recycling of sedimentary material during the Riphean. |
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| Keywords: | Late Precambrian Bashkirian meganticlinorium Uchur-Maya plate Yudoma-Maya belt isotopic geochemistry peculiarities of fine-grained siliciclastic sediments |
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