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2011-08-27

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2011-08-27

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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2011-08-27

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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2011-08-27

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1525-1314

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

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The Arthur River Complex is a suite of gabbroic to dioritic orthogneisses in northern Fiordland, New Zealand. The Arthur River Complex separates rocks of the Median Tectonic Zone, a Mesozoic island arc complex, from Palaeozoic rocks of the palaeo-Pacific Gondwana margin, and is itself intruded by the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss. New SHRIMP U/Pb single zircon data are presented for magmatic, metamorphic and deformation events in the Arthur River Complex and adjacent rocks from northern Fiordland. The Arthur River Complex orthogneisses and dykes are dominated by magmatic zircon dated at 136–129 Ma. A dioritic orthogneiss that occurs along the eastern margin of the Complex is dated at 154.4 ± 3.6 Ma and predates adjacent plutons of the Median Tectonic Zone. Rims on zircon cores from this sample record a thermal event at c. 120 Ma, attributed to the emplacement of the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss. Migmatitic Palaeozoic orthogneiss from the Arthur River Complex (346 ± 6 Ma) is interpreted as deformed wall rock. Very fine rims (5–20 µm) also indicate a metamorphic age of c. 120–110 Ma. A post-tectonic pegmatite (81.8 ± 1.8 Ma) may be related to phases of crustal extension associated with the opening of the Tasman Sea. The Arthur River Complex is interpreted as a batholith, emplaced at mid-crustal levels and then buried to deep crustal levels due to convergence of the Median Tectonic Zone arc and the continental margin.

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1525-1314

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

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The western Fiordland Orthogneiss (WFO) is an extensive composite metagabbroic to dioritic arc batholith that was emplaced at c. 20–25 km crustal depth into Palaeozoic and Mesozoic gneiss during collision and accretion of the arc with the Mesozoic Pacific Gondwana margin. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe U–Pb zircon data from central and northern Fiordland indicate that WFO plutons were emplaced throughout the early Cretaceous (123.6 ± 3.0, 121.8 ± 1.7, 120.0 ± 2.6 and 115.6 ± 2.4 Ma). Emplacement of the WFO synchronous with regional deformation and collisional-style orogenesis is illustrated by (i) coeval ages of a post-D1 dyke (123.6 ± 3.0 Ma) and its host pluton (121.8 ± 1.7 Ma) at Mt Daniel and (ii) coeval ages of pluton emplacement and metamorphism/deformation of proximal paragneiss in George and Doubtful Sounds. The coincidence emplacement and metamorphic ages indicate that the WFO was regionally significant as a heat source for amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphism. The age spectra of detrital zircon populations were characterized for four paragneiss samples. A paragneiss from Doubtful Sound shows a similar age spectrum to other central Fiordland and Westland paragneiss and SE Australian Ordovician sedimentary rocks, with age peaks at 600–500 and 1100–900 Ma, a smaller peak at c. 1400 Ma, and a minor Archean component. Similarly, one sample of the George Sound paragneiss has a significant Palaeozoic to Archean age spectrum, however zircon populations from the George Sound paragneiss are dominated by Permo-Triassic components and thus are markedly different from any of those previously studied in Fiordland.

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1476-4687

Nature Archives 1869 - 2009

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[Auszug] Granulites in Fiordland (Fig. 1) were derived from Early Cretaceous plutonic protoliths of intermediate to basic composition and include both garnet and two-pyroxene varieties. They make up the regionally extensive Western Fiord-land Orthogneiss (WFO) and have ...

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[Auszug] SCH„RER and All¨gre1, using isotope dilution analysis of single grains and fragments of zircon, recently failed to substantiate a report by Froude et al.2, based on the ion microprobe SHRIMP3, of zircons older than 4,100 Myr from Mt Narryer, Western Australia. In their discussion, Sch¤rer and ...

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[Auszug] Fresh olivine phenocrysts with glass inclusion come from two separate komatiite units, Tony's flow1 and B4 (refs 4, 5), in the Reliance formation, Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe. Most of the inclusions are spherical to ovoid in shape and -10 urn across6, although a few are up to 30 urn ...

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[Auszug] Fig. 1 Simplified geological map of the Mt Narryer region showing:o·, Location of dated gneisses with Sm-Nd model ages1 in Myr. +, Location of quartzite samples (+A, GSWA sample site 71932; +B, GSWA sample sites 71921 and 71924). The quartzites in which the zircons occur are part of a thick ...

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[Auszug] Enrichments of 26Mg from 26Al decay are best observed in mineral phases having high Al/Mg ratios. Analyses of meteoritic hibonites (CaAl12O19) have been rather enigmatic in that despite their high Al/Mg ratios, and their probable early formation in the solar nebula, they have shown a wide range in ...

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1432-0967

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

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Abstract Ion microprobe U-Th-Pb isotopic analyses of zircons from a granodioritic orthogneiss from the Napier Complex, Mount Sones, Enderby Land, Antarctica, have identified an unambiguous example of unsupported radiogenic Pb in a 3,950 Ma-old crystal. At one 40 μm spot on the crystal an unusually large heterogeneity in Pb content was found, the concentration of radiogenic Pb ranging from 5 to 50 percent higher than could have been generated in 3,950 Ma by radioactive decay of the co-existing U and Th. This relative excess of radiogenic Pb is attributed to Pb gain rather than to U and Th loss because first, the Pb content varied by more than the U or Th contents and secondly, changes in the Pb/U, Pb/Th and Pb isotopic composition correlated directly with changes in the Pb concentration. The individual 207Pb/206Pb apparent ages ranged from 4,000 Ma to 4,145 Ma, all greater than the inferred age of the crystal. A correlation between 207Pb/206Pb and Pb/U shows that the Pb excess has not resulted from recent Pb movement. The spot apparently gained radiogenic Pb about 2,500 Ma ago, at the same time as the majority of the other zircons in the rock suffered substantial Pb loss. The Pb movement occurred in response to a discrete geologic event. Reverse discordance is a phenomenon that must be considered when interpreting zircon U-Pb ages, especially 207Pb/206Pb ages of single crystals or portions of crystals.

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