Metallogenic relationships to tectonic evolution - the Lachlan Orogen, Australia |
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| Authors: | Frank P Bierlein David R Gray David A Foster |
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| Institution: | a VIEPS, School of Geosciences, Monash University, P.O. Box 28E, Melbourne, Vic. 3800, Australia
b Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, P.O. Box 112120, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA |
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| Abstract: | Placing ore formation within the overall tectonic framework of an evolving orogenic system provides important constraints for the development of plate tectonic models. Distinct metallogenic associations across the Palaeozoic Lachlan Orogen in SE Australia are interpreted to be the manifestation of interactions between several microplates and three accretionary complexes in an oceanic back-arc setting. In the Ordovician, significant orogenic gold deposits formed within a developing accretionary wedge along the Pacific margin of Gondwana. At the same time, major porphyry Cu-Au systems formed in an oceanic island arc outboard of an evolved magmatic arc that, in turn, gave rise to granite-related Sn-W deposits in the Early Silurian. During the ongoing evolution of the orogen in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian, sediment-hosted Cu-Au and Pb-Zn deposits formed in short-lived intra-arc basins, whereas a developing fore-arc system provided the conditions for the formation of several volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits. Inversion of these basins and accretion to the Australian continental margin triggered another pulse of orogenic gold mineralisation during the final consolidation of the orogenic belt in the Middle to Late Devonian. |
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| Keywords: | metallogeny Tasman Orogenic Zone plate tectonics mineral deposits genesis plate boundaries |
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