The age of the Springdale Group, western Newfoundland, and correlative rocks—evidence for a Llandovery overlap assemblage in the Canadian Appalachians

1987 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Chandler ◽  
R. W. Sullivan ◽  
K. L. Currie
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Temporal Correlation ◽  
Plate Motion ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Iapetus Ocean ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Group A ◽  
Radiometric Ages ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

ABSTRACTA zircon age of 429 + 6, −5 Ma on felsic volcanic rocks of the Springdale Group, a sequence of bimodal volcanic rocks and redbeds, establishes a Llandovery age for this group. Similar sequences from other parts of the Dunnage and Humber zones of Newfoundland also give Llandovery fossil or radiometric ages, demonstrating temporal correlation among lithologically similar sequences in these zones.Distinctive sequences of bimodal, subaerial rhyolite and basalt with associated subaerial to shallow marine sedimentary rocks within the Avalon and Meguma zones of Nova Scotia give fossil or radiometric ages demonstrably or arguably very close to the age of the Springdale Group. These sequences suggest an overlap assemblage fixing the minimum age of accretion of the Avalon and Meguma zones to North America. The age and the magmatic and sedimentary character of the assemblage are compatible with origin on or from continental crust, implying that the Iapetus ocean was closed prior to Early Silurian time. If these considerations are correct, the Devonian Acadian orogeny must involve either thermal and mechanical readjustments subsequent to the closing of the Iapetus ocean, or a completely separate episode of plate motion.

Geochemistry and U–Pb zircon age of comenditic metafelsites of the Tibbit Hill Formation, Quebec Appalachians

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1374-1383 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Stephen Kumarapeli ◽  
Greg R. Dunning ◽  
Hillar Pintson ◽  
Jim Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Triple Junction ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Rift System ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Volcanic Event ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Iapetus Ocean ◽  
Silicic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Sea Floor Spreading

Metafelsites in Waterloo area, Quebec, represent the only known silicic volcanic rocks in the predominantly basaltic Tibbit Hill Formation. Low-grade metamorphism accompanied by hydration and albitization has converted the felsic volcanic rocks mainly to muscovite–quartz–albite schists. The volcanic parent of these metafelsites was formed partly as lava flows and partly as tuffs. The principal compositional type was a comendite. A component of intermediate rocks is also present but its extent is undetermined and probably minor. U–Pb zircon studies of the metafelsites have yielded a reliable age of [Formula: see text]. This Early Cambrian age is probably representative of the age of the Tibbit Hill Formation as a whole.The Tibbit Hill Formation accumulated at one of the clearest examples of a RRR (rift–rift–rift) triple junction–the Sutton Mountains triple junction–of the continental rift system formed as a prelude to the opening of the Iapetus Ocean. Its volcanic rocks are products of the youngest major episode of rift-related volcanism known from the continental margin of Laurentia. The volcanic event may have occurred as a harbinger of the onset of sea-floor spreading at the Sutton Mountains triple junction.

scholarly journals U-Pb geochronology of felsic volcanic rocks hosted in the Gafo Formation, South Portuguese Zone: the relationship with Iberian Pyrite Belt magmatism

2008 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 1103-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. N. Rosa ◽  
A. A. Finch ◽  
T. Andersen ◽  
C. M. C Inverno
Keyword(s):  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Iberian Pyrite Belt ◽  
Classification Problems ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Geochronological Study ◽  
Radiometric Ages ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

AbstractFelsic volcanic rocks exposed in the Frasnian Gafo Formation, in the Azinhalinho area of Portugal, display very similar geochemical signatures to volcanic rocks from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB). located immediately to the south. The similarities include anomalously low high field-strength elements (HFSE) concentrations, possibly caused by low-temperature crustal melting, which translate into classification problems.A geochronological study, using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of zircon grains from these rocks, has provided concordia ages of 356±1.5 Ma and 355±2.5 Ma for two samples of rhyodacite porphyry, and 356±1.4 Ma for a granular rhyodacite. These results show that volcanism at Azinhalinho was broadly contemporaneous with IPB volcanism, widely interpreted as being of Famennian to Visean age. Considering that the host rocks of the Azinhalinho volcanic rocks are Frasnian, and therefore deposited synchronously with the Upper Devonian Phyllite-Quartzite Group sedimentation in the IPB basin, the radiometric ages imply that the Azinhalinho felsic rocks are intrusive and likely represent conduits or feeders to the volcanism of the IPB.

Geochemistry and Isotope Composition of Paleoproterozoic Granites and Felsic Volcanics of the Elash Graben: Evidence of the Heterogeneity of the Early Precambrian Crust

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 1175-1187
Author(s):  
A.D. Nozhkin ◽  
O.M. Turkina ◽  
K.A. Savko
Keyword(s):  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Temporal Association ◽  
Metal Deposit ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Rare Metal Deposit ◽  
Geochronological Study ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

Abstract —The paper presents results of a petrogeochemical and isotope–geochronological study of the granite–leucogranite association of the Pavlov massif and felsic volcanics from the Elash graben (Biryusa block, southwest of the Siberian craton). A characteristic feature of the granite–leucogranites is their spatial and temporal association with vein aplites and pegmatites of the East Sayan rare-metal province. The U–Pb age of zircon from granites of the Pavlov massif (1852 ± 5 Ma) is close to the age of the pegmatites of the Vishnyakovskoe rare-metal deposit (1838 ± 3 Ma). The predominant biotite porphyritic granites and leucogranites of the Pavlov massif show variable alkali ratios (K2O/Na2O = 1.1–2.3) and ferroan (Fe*) index and a peraluminous composition; they are comparable with S-granites. The studied rhyolites of the Tagul River (SiO2 = 71–76%) show a low ferroan index, a high K2O/Na2O ratio (1.6–4.0), low (La/Yb)n values (4.3–10.5), and a clear Eu minimum (Eu/Eu* = 0.3–0.5); they are similar to highly fractionated I-granites. All coeval late Paleoproterozoic (1.88–1.85 Ga) granites and felsic volcanics of the Elash graben have distinct differences in composition, especially in the ferroan index and HREE contents, owing to variations in the source composition and melting conditions during their formation at postcollisions extension. The wide range of the isotope parameters of granites and felsic volcanic rocks (εNd from +2.0 to –3.7) and zircons (εHf from +3.0 to +0.8, granites of the Toporok massif) indicates the heterogeneity of the crustal basement of the Elash graben, which formed both in the Archean and in the Paleoproterozoic.

The Duck Pond and Boundary Cu–Zn deposits, Newfoundland: new insights into the ages of host rocks and the timing of VHMS mineralization

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1481-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki McNicoll ◽  
Gerry Squires ◽  
Andrew Kerr ◽  
Paul Moore
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Isotopic Data ◽  
Sulphide Ores ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Host Rocks ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

The Duck Pond Cu–Zn–Pb–Ag–Au deposit in Newfoundland is hosted by volcanic rocks of the Cambrian Tally Pond group in the Victoria Lake supergroup. In conjunction with the nearby Boundary deposit, it contains 4.1 million tonnes of ore at 3.3% Cu, 5.7% Zn, 0.9% Pb, 59 g/t Ag, and 0.9 g/t Au. The deposits are hosted by altered felsic flows, tuffs, and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, and the sulphide ores formed in part by pervasive replacement of unconsolidated host rocks. U–Pb geochronological studies confirm a long-suspected correlation between the Duck Pond and Boundary deposits, which appear to be structurally displaced portions of a much larger mineralizing system developed at 509 ± 3 Ma. Altered aphyric flows in the immediate footwall of the Duck Pond deposit contained no zircon for dating, but footwall stringer-style and disseminated mineralization affects rocks as old as 514 ± 3 Ma at greater depths below the ore sequence. Unaltered mafic to felsic volcanic rocks that occur structurally above the orebodies were dated at 514 ± 2 Ma, and hypabyssal intrusive rocks that cut these were dated at 512 ± 2 Ma. Some felsic samples contain inherited (xenocrystic) zircons with ages of ca. 563 Ma. In conjunction with Sm–Nd isotopic data, these results suggest that the Tally Pond group was developed upon older continental or thickened arc crust, rather than in the ensimatic (oceanic) setting suggested by previous studies.

Post-collisional ca. 800 Ma A-type felsic volcanic rocks in the eastern Jiangnan orogen, South China

2020 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 104567
Author(s):  
Ji-Biao Zhang ◽  
Yan-Xue Liu ◽  
Xiao-Zhong Ding ◽  
Heng Zhang ◽  
Chuan-Heng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

scholarly journals Permian felsic volcanic rocks in the Pannonian Basin (Hungary): new petrographic, geochemical, and geochronological results

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máté Szemerédi ◽  
Réka Lukács ◽  
Andrea Varga ◽  
István Dunkl ◽  
Sándor Józsa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pannonian Basin ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Significant Similarity ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Extensional Setting

AbstractTwo distinct Permian volcanic epochs were revealed in the Pannonian Basin (eastern Central Europe) by U–Pb zircon geochronology: an older one (~ 281 Ma, Cisuralian) in the ALCAPA Mega-unit (Central Transdanubia, Hungary) and a younger volcanic episode (~ 267–260 Ma, Guadalupian) in the Tisza Mega-unit (Southern Transdanubia and the eastern Pannonian Basin, Hungary). The former is represented by dacitic subvolcanic rocks (dykes) and lavas, while the latter is dominantly by crystal-rich rhyolitic–rhyodacitic/dacitic ignimbrites and subordinate rhyodacitic/dacitic lavas. Whole-rock (major and trace element) geochemical data and zircon U–Pb ages suggest close relationship between the samples of Central Transdanubia and volcanic rocks of the Northern Veporic Unit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia), both being part of the ALCAPA Mega-unit. Such correlation was also revealed between the Permian felsic volcanic rocks of the Apuseni Mts (Romania) and the observed samples of Southern Transdanubia and the eastern Pannonian Basin that are parts of the Tisza Mega-unit. The older volcanic rocks (~ 281–265 Ma) could be linked to post-orogenic tectonic movements, however, the youngest samples (~ 260 Ma, eastern Pannonian Basin, Tisza Mega-unit) could be formed in the extensional setting succeeding the post-collisional environment. On the whole, the observed Permian magmatic rocks show significant similarity with those of the Western Carpathians.

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