Occurrence of Tourmaline in Metasedimentary Rocks of the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Greenland: Implications for Ribose Stabilization in Hadean Marine Sediments

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 247-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinpei Mishima ◽  
Yoko Ohtomo ◽  
Takeshi Kakegawa
Keyword(s):  
Marine Sediments ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Supracrustal Belt

scholarly journals Petrography, geochemistry, and Nd isotope systematics of metaconglomerates and matrix-rich metasedimentary rocks: implications for the provenance and tectonic setting of the Labrador Trough, Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 672-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Henrique-Pinto ◽  
C. Guilmette ◽  
C. Bilodeau ◽  
R. Stevenson ◽  
B.B. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Supracrustal Belt ◽  
Geochemical Variations ◽  
Grade One ◽  
Superior Craton ◽  
Isotope Systematics

The New Quebec Orogen consists of a supracrustal belt that was reworked when the Superior Craton collided with the Core Zone terrane during the Paleoproterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogeny. Within the New Quebec Orogen, the Kaniapiskau Supergroup can be divided into four terrigenous lithotypes metamorphosed at low-grade: one set with greater compositional and textural sedimentary maturity classified as quartz arenites and subarkoses, and another set with lower textural maturity classified as feldspathic wackes and mudrocks. In contrast, the Laporte Group includes homogeneous lithotypes represented by feldspathic and lithic wackes with a range of matrix contents metamorphosed at low to medium grade. The Kaniapiskau Supergroup rocks have a wide range of SiO2 and Al2O3 contents (SiO2/Al2O3 = 3.7–51) compared to the restricted compositional range of the Laporte Group rocks (SiO2/Al2O3 = 4.4–6.8). In general, the geochemical variations in both formations of the Laporte Group are within the range of the main clast varieties from basal metaconglomerates, although the Deborah Formation (top unit) records higher TiO2, P2O5, MgO, and Ni contents and high Cr/Th, Co/Ba, Th/U, and Rb/Sr ratios indicating additional mafic sources. Our results support the hypothesis that the Kaniapiskau Supergroup was deposited along an intraplate continental margin with predominantly recycled (εNd(1.87Ga) –12) Paleoarchean sources (TDM 3.2 Ga). In contrast, the Laporte Group marks the transition from a continental forearc (Grand Rosoy Fm.) with a typical juvenile source, including granitic clasts (εNd(1.83Ga) –0.1 to +3.1), to a wedge-top depozone (Deborah Fm.) in the context of a collisional proforeland basin. This syncollisional sedimentary environment is characterized by the presence of old crustal components (εNd(1.83Ga) –4.4 to –9.1).

scholarly journals Zircon geochronology from the Kangaatsiaq– Qasigiannguit region, the northern part of the 1.9–1.8 Ga Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Thrane ◽  
James N. Connelly
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Zircon Geochronology ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Ion Probe ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Supracrustal Belt ◽  
Granitoid Rocks ◽  
Age Patterns

The Kangaatsiaq–Qasigiannguit region in the northern part of the Palaeoproterozoic Nagssugtoqidian orogen of West Greenland consists of poly-deformed orthogneisses and minor occurrences of interleaved, discontinuous supracrustal belts. Laser ablation ICP-MS 207Pb/206Pb analyses of detrital zircons from four metasedimentary rocks (supplemented by ion probe analysis of one sample) and igneous zircons from six granitoid rocks cutting metasedimentary units indicate that the supracrustal rocks in the Kangaatsiaq–Qasigiannguit (Christianshåb) region are predominantly Archaean in age. Four occurrences of metasedimentary rocks are clearly Archaean, two have equivocal ages, and only one metasedimentary unit, from within the Naternaq (Lersletten) supracrustal belt, is demonstrably Palaeoproterozoic and readily defines a large fold complex of this age at Naternaq. The 2.9–2.8 Ga ages of detrital Archaean grains are compatible with derivation from the local basement orthogneisses within the Nagssugtoqidian orogen. The detrital age patterns are similar to those of metasediments within the central Nagssugtoqidian orogen but distinct from age patterns in metasediments of the Rinkian belt to the north, where there is an additional component of pre-2.9 Ga zircons. Synkinematic intrusive granitoid rocks constrain the ages of some Archaean deformation at 2748 ± 19 Ma and some Palaeoproterozoic deformation at 1837 ± 12 Ma.

scholarly journals Petrology and rare earth element geochemistry of clastic metasedimentary rocks from the Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland

1983 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
J.L Boak ◽  
R.F Dymek ◽  
L.P Gromet
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Rare Earth Element ◽  
Earth Element ◽  
Thermal Gradients ◽  
Element Geochemistry ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Sediment Types ◽  
Supracrustal Belt ◽  
Shallow Basin ◽  
Ree Patterns

An investigation of the petrology and rare-earth element (REE) geochemistry of clastic metasedimentary rocks from the ~ 3800 Ma Isua Supracrustal Belt has been carried out to provide constraints on the nature of early Archaean metamorphie regimes and on the sources of their sedimentary protolith. The assemblages garnet + staurolite + biotite and biotite + kyanite (both with qtz + muse + plag + Hm) characterize the Isua metasediments and represent types common in younger metamorphic belts. Secondary chlorite and sericite occur in most samples. Garnet-biotite geothermometry indicates T = 541 ± 43°C for prograde metamorphism and T = 464 ± 39°C for retrograde metamorphism. Suggested metamorphic conditions of T - 550°C and P - 5 Kb imply burial to at least 15 Km with metamorphic thermal gradients < 40°C/Km. These data argue against excessively steep early Archaean crustal thermal gradients. REE patterns for three museovite-biotite gneisses are strongly fractionated (CeN = 40-100; YbN = 2-8) with variable Eu-anomalies (Eu/Eu* = 0.48-0.95), not unlike patterns for Arehaean felsic voicanic rocks in other areas. Garnet-biotite sehists have less-fractionated light REE, and exhibit a slope reversal for the heavy REE (i.e., GdN< YbN. These most plausibly represent a mixed felsic-mafic (- ultramafic?) protolith. Both sediment types could be the erosion produets of a rapidly emergent voicanic structure shedding debris into a shallow basin.

Deformational history of an Archean fold belt, eastern Point Lake area, Slave Structural Province, N.W.T.

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. King ◽  
H. Helmstaedt
Keyword(s):  
Lake Area ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Thermal Peak ◽  
Strain Pattern ◽  
Slave Province ◽  
Deformational History ◽  
Supracrustal Belt ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Granitoid Intrusions

Archean metasedimentary rocks in the eastern Point Lake area of the Slave Structural Province preserve a sequence of Archean structures consisting of two generations of folds (F1 and F2) with little associated penetrative cleavage and two subsequent generations of cleavage (S3 and S4) with little associated folding. Gneissic layering in the high-grade margin of the belt is composed of transposed bedding and the S3 cleavage. Folding occurred prior to the thermal peak of metamorphism, whereas the develoment of subsequent cleavages spanned the thermal peak. The regional orientation of the folds and cleavages appears to be independent of the emplacement of granitoid intrusions, although their orientation is modified adjacent to syn- to late tectonic plutons. The supracrustal belt is interpreted as being part of a pre- to early metamorphic, west-verging fold (thrust?) belt whose strain pattern has been modified by post-folding, synmetamorphic shortening, and syn- to post-tectonic plutons. This deformation sequence is similar to those described in other supracrustal belts of the Slave Province and supports the concept that the Slave Province has undergone regional, horizontally directed compression before and during intrusion of large amounts of granitoids.

The large superpredators’ teeth from Middle Triassic of Poland

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawid Surmik ◽  
Tomasz Brachaniec
Keyword(s):  
Marine Sediments ◽  
Middle Triassic ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Marine Reptiles

ABSTRACT An unusual large teeth, finding from time to time in marine sediments of Muschelkalk, Silesia, Poland indicate the superpredators occurrence. According to size and morphological features the teeth are similar to archosaurs or giant marine reptiles.

Some centric diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from Neogene deposits of the Fisher Massif (Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica)

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 32-49
Author(s):  
R. M. Gogorev ◽  
Z. V. Pushina
Keyword(s):  
Marine Sediments ◽  
East Antarctica ◽  
Benthic Diatoms ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
Planktonic Algae ◽  
Centric Diatoms ◽  
Planktonic Diatom ◽  
Oceanic Species ◽  
Diatom Complexes

The richest diatom complexes have revealed due to the study of glacial-marine sediments sampled in the Fisher Massif (Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica) during 52nd and 53rd Russian Antarctic Expeditions (Polar Marine Geol. Survey Expedition) in 2006/07 and 2007/08. Three diatom complexes are distinguished according to different palaeoecological conditions: the planktonic one is located in the basis of the outcrop, while mixed planktonic-benthic and benthic ones being located above. The planktonic diatom complexes are dominated by two oceanic species Actinocyclus ingens (up to 8%) and Denticulopsis simonseni (up to 80%). There are 15 planktonic algae, e. g. Eucampia аntarctica, Fragilariopsis spp., Rhizosolenia spp., Rouxia antarctica, Podosira antarctica sp. nov., Stellarima microtrias; and also unknown and non-described benthic diatoms Achnanthes sp., Cocconeis spp., Rhabdonema (s. l.) spp. and Synedra (s. l.) spp. Detailed data on morphology and taxonomy of 10 centric diatoms are presented, including 3 newly described species.

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