U-PB ZIRCON AGE OF THE PIRANSHAHR OPHIOLITE IN NW IRAN: ENIGMATIC RELICT OF AN ARC IN NEO-TETHYS BEFORE THE ARABIA AND EURASIA COLLISION

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songjian Ao ◽  
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Morteza Khalatbari Jafari ◽  
Wenjiao Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Zircon Age ◽  
Nw Iran

U-Pb zircon age and geochemistry of the Bl fjellhatten granite, Grong-Olden Culmination, Central Norway

1999 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Roberts ◽  
August L. Nissen ◽  
Nicholas Walker
Keyword(s):  
Zircon Age

Preliminary detrital zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Wasatch Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-266
Author(s):  
Ian Anderson ◽  
David H. Malone ◽  
John Craddock
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Powder River Basin ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
Lower Eocene ◽  
The North ◽  
Mountain Front ◽  
Fluvial Sandstone

The lower Eocene Wasatch Formation is more than 1500 m thick in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. The Wasatch is a Laramide synorgenic deposit that consists of paludal and lacustrine mudstone, fluvial sandstone, and coal. U-Pb geochronologic data on detrital zircons were gathered for a sandstone unit in the middle part of the succession. The Wasatch was collected along Interstate 90 just west of the Powder River, which is about 50 km east of the Bighorn Mountain front. The sandstone is lenticular in geometry and consists of arkosic arenite and wacke. The detrital zircon age spectrum ranged (n=99) from 1433-2957 Ma in age, and consisted of more than 95% Archean age grains, with an age peak of about 2900 Ma. Three populations of Archean ages are evident: 2886.6±10 Ma (24%), 2906.6±8.4 Ma (56%) and 2934.1±6.6 Ma (20%; all results 2 sigma). These ages are consistent with the age of Archean rocks exposed in the northern part of the range. The sparse Proterozoic grains were likely derived from the recycling of Cambrian and Carboniferous strata. These sands were transported to the Powder River Basin through the alluvial fans adjacent to the Piney Creek thrust. Drainage continued to the north through the basin and eventually into the Ancestral Missouri River and Gulf of Mexico. The provenance of the Wasatch is distinct from coeval Tatman and Willwood strata in the Bighorn and Absaroka basins, which were derived from distal source (>500 km) areas in the Sevier Highlands of Idaho and the Laramide Beartooth and Tobacco Root uplifts. Why the Bighorn Mountains shed abundant Eocene strata only to the east and not to the west remains enigmatic, and merits further study.

Episodic tectono-thermal activity in the southern part of the East Greenland Caledonides

2000 ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Graham Leslie ◽  
Allen P. Nutman
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Activity ◽  
Isotopic Data ◽  
Zircon Age ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
Original Series ◽  
Age Determinations

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Leslie, A. G., & Nutman, A. P. (2000). Episodic tectono-thermal activity in the southern part of the East Greenland Caledonides. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 186, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v186.5214 _______________ Isotopic data from the Renland augen granites of the Scoresby Sund region (Figs 1, 2) provided some of the first convincing support for relicts of potentially Grenvillian tectono-thermal activity within the East Greenland Caledonides. In Renland, Chadwick (1975) showed the presence of major bodies of augen granite (Fig. 2) interpreted by Steiger et al. (1979), on the basis of Rb–Sr whole rock and U–Pb zircon age determinations, to have been emplaced about 1000 Ma ago.

A PRECISE U-PB ZIRCON AGE FROM VOLCANIC ASH IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN COPACABANA FORMATION, BOLIVIA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hamilton ◽  
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Gerilyn S. Soreghan ◽  
Carlos P. Carvajal ◽  
Peter E. Isaacson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Ash ◽  
Zircon Age
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