Age constraints on the evolution of the Austroalpine basement to the south of the Tauern Window |
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| Authors: | Siegfried Siegesmund Till Heinrichs Rolf L Romer Daniel Doman |
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| Institution: | 1.G?ttinger Zentrum Geowissenschaften,G?ttingen,Germany;2.GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg,Potsdam,Germany |
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| Abstract: | The Austroalpine basement to the south of the Tauern Window once was part of the northern margin of Gondwana. It includes
the “Altkristallin” and the phyllitic Thurntaler Complex. In the Altkristallin (AMU, MPU), suites of arc-related metamafic
sequences occur together with calc-alkaline metagranite. SHRIMP U–Pb dating of zircon from calc-alkaline metagranite associated
with an eclogitic amphibolite give an age of 470 ± 3 Ma interpreted as the age of protolith emplacement. In the Thurntaler
Complex, metaporphyroids occur together with tholeiitic as well as alkaline within-plate basalt-type metabasite. The metaryholites
of this association give a crystallization SHRIMP age of 477 ± 4 Ma, which suggests contemporaneity of arc-related and extensional
settings in the Austroalpine basement units. The age data demonstrate widespread magmatic activity associated with the Early-Ordovician
amalgamation at the end of the 550–470 Ma subduction–accretion–collision cycle. The Pb–Pb and U–Pb systematics of step-wise
leached staurolite and kyanite from the peak-metamorphic assemblage of the Altkristallin indicate that (1) step-wise leaching
of staurolite and kyanite yields the age of inclusions rather than the host; (2) zircon inclusions in staurolite suggest an
Ordovician or older age for the precursor of the staurolite-schists; (3) the weighted average of the 206Pb/238U data of the various leaching steps yields a Variscan age for the inclusions (ilmenite, biotite, and andesine). Since these
inclusions are part of the metamorphic mineral assemblage, this age provides a minimum estimate for staurolite growth, i.e.,
metamorphism. Thus, the Pb–Pb and U–Pb systematics of staurolite provide evidence for a Variscan metamorphism of the Austroalpine
basement, e.g., MPU, AMU and Thurntaler Complex, to the south of the Tauern Window. |
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| Keywords: | Austroalpine basement Ordovician arc magmatism Variscan metamorphism Shrimp dating Staurolite Pb– Pb step-wise leaching |
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