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Clay mineralogical,geochemical and isotopic tracing of the evolution of the Woodleigh impact structure,Southern Carnarvon Basin,Western Australia
Authors:Email author" target="_blank">I?Tongu? UysalEmail author  Arthur?J?Mory  Suzanne?D?Golding  Robert?Bolhar  Kenneth?D?Collerson
Institution:(1) Earth Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, QLD, Australia;(2) Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain St., East Perth, WA, 6004, Australia;(3) Advanced Centre for Queensland University Research Excellence (ACQUIRE), University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, QLD, Australia
Abstract:Chaotically structured diamictite from the inner ring syncline surrounding the central uplift of the Woodleigh impact structure contains shocked metamorphic and impact melt-rock fragments, largely derived from Ordovician and Devonian target sandstones. Coarse illite fractions (<2 mgrm) from the sandstones containing no K-feldspar yield K–Ar ages of around 400 Ma, whereas the K–Ar ages of authigenic clays of >0.2 mgrm fractions from the diamictite without smectite and K-feldspar cluster around 360 Ma, consistent with Rb–Sr data. Crystallisation of newly formed illite in the impact melt rock clasts and recrystallisation of earlier formed illite in the sandstone clasts preserved in the diamictite, are attributed to impact-induced hydrothermal processes in the Late Devonian. The illitic clays from the diamictite and from the sandstones have very similar trace element compositions, with significantly enriched incompatible lithophile elements, which increase in concentrations correlatively with those of the compatible ferromagnesian elements. The unusual trace element associations in the clays may be due to the involvement of hot gravity-driven basinal fluids that interacted with rocks of the Precambrian craton to the east of the study area, or with such material transported and reworked in the studied sedimentary succession.
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