Tectonic implications of new single zircon Pb-Pb evaporation data in the Lossogonoi and Longido ruby-districts,Mozambican metamorphic Belt of north-eastern Tanzania |
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| Authors: | Elisabeth Le Goff Yves Deschamps Catherine Guerrot |
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| Institution: | 1. Service des ressources minérales, BP 36009, 3, avenue Claude-Guillemin, 45060 Orléans cedex 2, France;2. Areva NC, tour Areva, 1, place Jean-Millier, 92084 La Défense, France;3. Service métrologie, monitoring, analyse, BP 36009, 3, avenue Claude-Guillemin, 45060 Orléans cedex 2, France |
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| Abstract: | Three single zircon Pb-Pb evaporation dating studies were performed on felsic orthogneisses and migmatites from the Longido and Lossogonoi ruby districts, Mozambique Belt of north-eastern Tanzania, in order to better constrain the geological setting of gemstone mineralizations. Igneous emplacement ages of protoliths ranging between 2636 and 2448 Ma document for the first time the presence of a Neoarchean to Lower Paleoproterozoic (Siderian) basement reworked in the Late Neoproterozoic Mozambique Belt of north-eastern Tanzania. This ancient crust of unknown dimension is well documented farther south, but also in south-eastern Kenya. A shearing event under high-grade amphibolite facies conditions, postdating the Pan-African metamorphic peak at 640 Ma and following nappes emplacement is demonstrated at ca. 610 Ma from metamorphic zircons of Lossogonoi district. In Lossogonoi district, ruby crystallizes during this last stage of deformation. |
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| Keywords: | Mozambique Belt Tanzania Ruby Longido Lossogonoi Single zircon Pb-Pb evaporation method |
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