Supplemental Material: Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the NW Cordilleran margin

South Central ◽

Cordilleran Margin ◽

Supplemental Figure S1. Normalized distribution plot of detrital zircon ages from the Kahiltna assemblage of the central Alaska Range (Hampton et al., 2010), the Wellesly basin (this study), and the Kahiltna assemblage of the northwestern Talkeetna Mountains (Hampton et al., 2010). Note that the detrital zircon age distribution of ages older than 500 Ma has 10× vertical exaggeration.

Supplemental Material: Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the NW Cordilleran margin

10.1130/geos.s.12465950 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

C.R. Fasulo ◽

et al.

Keyword(s):

Detrital Zircon ◽

Isotope Geochemistry ◽

Age Distribution ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Alaska Range ◽

Zircon Age ◽

South Central ◽

Cordilleran Margin ◽

Supplemental Material: Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the NW Cordilleran margin

10.1130/geos.s.12465842.v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

C.R. Fasulo ◽

et al.

Keyword(s):

Sediment Transport ◽

Detrital Zircon ◽

Isotope Geochemistry ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Zircon Geochronology ◽

South Central ◽

Analytical Results ◽

Cordilleran Margin

<div>Supplemental Data. (A) U-Pb analytical results from detrital zircons from the Nutzotin, Wrangell Mountains, and Wellesly basins. (B) Lu-Hf analytical results from detrital zircons from the Nutzotin and Wellesly basins. <br></div>

Supplemental Material: Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the NW Cordilleran margin

10.1130/geos.s.12465842 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

C.R. Fasulo ◽

et al.

Keyword(s):

Sediment Transport ◽

Detrital Zircon ◽

Isotope Geochemistry ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Zircon Geochronology ◽

South Central ◽

Analytical Results ◽

Cordilleran Margin

Detrital zircon geochronology of Neoproterozoic to Permian miogeoclinal strata in British Columbia and Alberta

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e98-071 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 35 (12) ◽

pp. 1380-1401 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

George E Gehrels ◽

Gerald M Ross

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Detrital Zircon ◽

Isotopic Signature ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Salmon River ◽

Western Canada Sedimentary Basin ◽

Cordilleran Margin ◽

Peace River Arch ◽

U-Pb ages have been determined on 250 detrital zircon grains from Neoproterozoic through Permian miogeoclinal strata in British Columbia and Alberta. Most of the grains in these strata are >1.75 Ga and are interpreted to have been derived from nearby basement provinces (although most grains were probably cycled though one or more sedimentary units prior to final deposition). Important exceptions are Ordovician sandstones that contain grains derived from the Peace River arch, and upper Paleozoic strata with detrital zircons derived from the Franklinian orogen, Salmon River arch (northwestern U.S.A.), and (or) Grenville orogen. These provenance changes resulted in average detrital zircon ages that become progressively younger with time, and may also be reflected by previously reported shifts in the Nd isotopic signature of miogeoclinal strata. In addition to the grains that have identifiable sources, grains of ~1030, ~1053, 1750-1774, and 2344-2464 Ma are common in our samples, but igneous rocks of these ages have not been recognized in the western Canadian Shield. We speculate that unrecognized plutons of these ages may be present beneath strata of the western Canada sedimentary basin. Collectively, our data provide a record of the ages of detrital zircons that accumulated along the Canadian Cordilleran margin during much of Paleozoic time. Comparisons between this reference and the ages of detrital zircons in strata of potentially displaced outboard terranes may help reconstruct the paleogeography and accretionary history of the Cordilleran orogen.

Detrital zircon geochronology of modern river sediment in south-central Alaska: Provenance, magmatic, and tectonic insights into the Mesozoic and Cenozoic development of the southern Alaska convergent margin

Geosphere ◽

10.1130/ges02270.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Cooper R. Fasulo ◽

Kenneth D. Ridgway

Keyword(s):

Detrital Zircon ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Convergent Margin ◽

Coast Mountains ◽

South Central ◽

Key Points ◽

Age Trends ◽

Cordilleran Margin ◽

Relationship Of

New and previously published detrital zircon U-Pb ages from sediment in major rivers of south- central Alaska archive several major episodes of magmatism associated with the tectonic growth of this convergent margin. Analysis of detrital zircons from major trunk rivers of the Tanana, Matanuska-Susitna, and Copper River watersheds (N = 40, n = 4870) documents major <250 Ma age populations that are characteristic of the main phases of Mesozoic and Paleogene magmatism in the region as documented from limited U-Pb ages of igneous rocks. Key points from our detrital record include: (1) Major magmatic episodes occurred at 170, 150, 118, 95, 72, 58, and 36 Ma. The overall pattern of these ages suggests that felsic magmatism was episodic with periodicity ranging between ~14 and 32 m.y. with an average of ~22 m.y. (2) Magmatism in south-central Alaska shows similar age trends with both the Coast Mountains batholith and the along-strike Alaska Peninsula forearc basin strata, demonstrating a spatial and temporal relationship of felsic magmatism along the entire northern Cordilleran margin. (3) Topography and zircon fertility appear to influence the presence and/or absence of detrital zircon populations in individual watersheds. Results from this study indicate that regionally integrated detrital zircon populations from modern trunk rivers are faithful recorders of Mesozoic and Paleogene magmatic events along a convergent margin, but there appears to be a lag time for major rivers to record Neogene and ongoing magmatic events.

Exhumation history of the Variscan suture: Constrains on the detrital zircon geochronology from Carboniferous–Permian sandstones (Northern Gemericum; Western Carpathians)

Geologica Carpathica ◽

10.2478/geoca-2019-0030 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 (6) ◽

pp. 512-530

Author(s):

Anna Vozárová ◽

Katarína Šarinová ◽

Dušan Laurinc ◽

Elena Lepekhina ◽

Jozef Vozár ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Detrital Zircon ◽

Tectonic Setting ◽

Age Distribution ◽

Foreland Basin ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Distribution Patterns ◽

Magmatic Zircon ◽

History Of ◽

Depositional Age

Abstract The Late Paleozoic sedimentary basins in the Northern Gemericum evolved gradually in time and space within the collisional tectonic regime of the Western Carpathian Variscan orogenic belt. The detrital zircon age spectra, obtained from the Mississippian, Pennsylvanian and Permian metasediments, have distinctive age distribution patterns that reflect the tectonic setting of the host sediments. An expressive unimodal zircon distribution, with an age peak at 352 Ma, is shown by the basal Mississippian metasediments. These represent a relic of the convergent trench-slope sedimentary basin fill. In comparison, the Pennsylvanian detrital zircon populations display distinct multimodal distributions, with the main age peaks at 351, 450, 565 Ma and smaller peaks at ~2.0 and ~2.7 Ga. This is consistent with derivation of clastic detritus from the collisional suture into the foreland basin. Similarly, the Permian sedimentary formations exhibit the multimodal distribution of zircon ages, with main peaks at 300, 355 and 475 Ma. The main difference, in comparison with the Pennsylvanian detrital zircon assemblages, is the sporadic occurrence of the Kasimovian– Asselian (306–294 Ma), as well as the Artinskian–Kungurian (280–276 Ma) igneous zircons. The youngest magmatic zircon ages nearly correspond to the syn-sedimentary volcanic activity with the depositional age of the Permian host sediments and clearly indicate the extensional, rift-related setting.

Detrital zircon geochronology of quartzite clasts in the Permian Abo Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA

The Mountain Geologist ◽

10.31582/rmag.mg.54.2.53 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 53-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

David Malone ◽

John Craddock ◽

Eric Deck ◽

Tenley Banik ◽

Brian Hampton

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Detrital Zircon ◽

Rocky Mountain ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Zircon Age ◽

Sacramento Mountains ◽

Central Texas ◽

Depositional Age ◽

More than 2500 m of Paleozoic strata, ranging in age from Cambrian to Permian occur in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, making these rocks the largest and most complete exposures of Paleozoic strata in North America. The core of the Sacramento Mountains reveals compressional structures associated with the Pennsylvanian-Permian Ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny. The Permian Abo Formation is 120–450 m in thickness, and consists of interbedded sandstone, conglomerate, limestone and shale and rests above the Ancestral Rocky Mountain unconformity. U-Pb analysis of detrital zircons extracted from quartzite clasts in basal conglomerates reveal a maximum depositional age of their protolith to be 1110 ± 15 Ma. Most (∼40%) of the detrital zircon age spectrum is Grenville (1000–1300 Ma) in age, with a peak age of 1209 Ma. Midcontinent Granite-Rhyolite (1300–1500 Ma) ages comprise about 33% of the data, and have a peak age of 1431 Ma. Smaller age populations of Yavapai-Mazatzal (1600–1800 Ma; age peak =1676 Ma), Trans-Hudson (1800–2000 Ma; peak age = 1820 Ma), and Archean (>2.5 Ga, age peak = 2819 Ma) also are present. U-Pb detrital zircon ages from these quartzite clasts indicate that they were likely derived from the Proterozoic Lanoria Formation, which is exposed now in the Franklin Mountains >150 km to the south. The Lanoria is identical to the Abo clasts in terms of maximum depositional age and detrital zircon age peaks. The protolith sandstone of these quartzite clasts and quartzites of the Lanoria were derived from the Grenville high-lands of the Llano region of central Texas, and then transported west to the Rodinian continental margin at ∼1110 Ma, where they were eventually buried and metamorphosed to quartzite. These quartzites were subsequently uplifted and eroded during the Ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny and transported north and west along the Pedernal Uplift to the adjacent Orogrande Basin during the early Permian.

Detrital zircon geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of Mesozoic sedimentary basins in south-central Alaska: Insights into regional sediment transport, basin development, and tectonics along the NW Cordilleran margin

Geosphere ◽

10.1130/ges02221.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (5) ◽

pp. 1125-1152 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cooper R. Fasulo ◽

Kenneth D. Ridgway ◽

Jeffrey M. Trop

Keyword(s):

Detrital Zircon ◽

Lower Cretaceous ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

Upper Jurassic ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Hf Isotope ◽

Published Data ◽

Convergent Margin ◽

South Central ◽

Abstract The Jurassic–Cretaceous Nutzotin, Wrangell Mountains, and Wellesly basins provide an archive of subduction and collisional processes along the southern Alaska convergent margin. This study presents U-Pb ages from each of the three basins, and Hf isotope compositions of detrital zircons from the Nutzotin and Wellesly basins. U-Pb detrital zircon ages from the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Nutzotin Mountains sequence in the Nutzotin basin have unimodal populations between 155 and 133 Ma and primarily juvenile Hf isotope compositions. Detrital zircon ages from the Wrangell Mountains basin document unimodal peak ages between 159 and 152 Ma in Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous strata and multimodal peak ages between 196 and 76 Ma for Upper Cretaceous strata. Detrital zircon ages from the Wellesly basin display multimodal peak ages between 216 and 124 Ma and juvenile to evolved Hf compositions. Detrital zircon data from the Wellesly basin are inconsistent with a previous interpretation that suggested the Wellesly and Nutzotin basins are proximal-to-distal equivalents. Our results suggest that Wellesly basin strata are more akin to the Kahiltna basin, which requires that these basins may have been offset ∼380 km along the Denali fault. Our findings from the Wrangell Mountains and Nutzotin basins are consistent with previous stratigraphic interpretations that suggest the two basins formed as a connected retroarc basin system. Integration of our data with previously published data documents a strong provenance and temporal link between depocenters along the southern Alaska convergent margin. Results of our study also have implications for the ongoing discussion concerning the polarity of subduction along the Mesozoic margin of western North America.

Enigmatic provenance signature of sandstone from the Okwa Group, Botswana

South African Journal of Geology ◽

10.25131/sajg.123.0022 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 123 (3) ◽

pp. 331-342

Author(s):

T. Andersen ◽

M.A. Elburg ◽

J. Lehmann

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Detrital Zircon ◽

Sedimentary Rock ◽

Age Distribution ◽

Sedimentary Rocks ◽

Detrital Zircons ◽

Significant Shift ◽

Zircon Age ◽

Three Samples ◽

Isotope Distributions

Abstract Detrital zircon grains from three samples of sandstone from the Tswaane Formation of the Okwa Group of Botswana have been dated by U-Pb and analysed for Hf isotopes by multicollector LA-ICPMS. The detrital zircon age distribution pattern of the detrital zircons is dominated by a mid-Palaeoproterozoic age fraction (2 000 to 2 150 Ma) with minor late Archaean – early Palaeoproterozoic fractions. The 2 000 to 2 150 Ma zircon grains show a range of epsilon Hf from -12 to 0. The observed age and Hf isotope distributions overlap closely with those of sandstones of the Palaeoproterozoic Waterberg Group and Keis Supergroup of South Africa, but are very different from Neoproterozoic deposits in the region, and from the Takatswaane siltstone of the Okwa Group, all of which are dominated by detrital zircon grains younger than 1 950 Ma. The detrital zircon data indicate that the sources of Tswaane Formation sandstones were either Palaeoproterozoic rocks in the basement of the Kaapvaal Craton, or recycled Palaeoproterozoic sedimentary rocks similar to the Waterberg, Elim or Olifantshoek groups of South Africa. This implies a significant shift in provenance regime between the deposition of the Takatswaane and Tswaane formations. However, the detrital zircon data are also compatible with a completely different scenario in which the Tswaane Formation consists of Palaeoproterozoic sedimentary rock in tectonic rather than depositional contact with the other units of the Okwa Group.

The tectonic significance of the Early Cretaceous forearc-metamorphic assemblage in south-central Alaska based on detrital zircon U–Pb dating of sedimentary protoliths

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/cjes-2015-0046 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 52 (12) ◽

pp. 1182-1190 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Amanda Labrado ◽

Terry L. Pavlis ◽

Jeffrey M. Amato ◽

Erik M. Day

Keyword(s):

Early Cretaceous ◽

Detrital Zircon ◽

Early Jurassic ◽

Ductile Deformation ◽

Metamorphic Rocks ◽

Accretionary Complex ◽

Metamorphic Complex ◽

Metasedimentary Rocks ◽

South Central ◽

A complex array of faulted arc rocks and variably metamorphosed forearc accretionary complex rocks form a mappable arc–forearc boundary in southern Alaska known as the Border Ranges fault (BRF). We use detrital U–Pb zircon dating of metasedimentary rocks within the Knik River terrane in the western Chugach Mountains to show that a belt of Early Cretaceous amphibolite-facies metamorphic rocks along the BRF was formed when older mélange rocks of the Chugach accretionary complex were reworked in a sinistral-oblique thrust reactivation of the BRF during a period of forearc plutonism. The metamorphic subterrane of the Knik River terrane has a maximum depositional age (MDA) of 156.5 ± 1.5 Ma and a detrital zircon age spectrum that is indistinguishable from the Potter Creek assemblage of the Chugach accretionary complex, supporting correlation of these units. These ages contrast strongly with new and existing data that show Triassic to earliest Jurassic detrital zircon ages from metamorphic screens in the plutonic subterrane of the Knik River terrane, a fragmented Early Jurassic plutonic assemblage generally interpreted as the basement of the Peninsular terrane. Based on these findings, we propose the following new terminology for the Knik River terrane: (1) “Carpenter Creek metamorphic complex” for the Early Cretaceous “metamorphic subterrane”, (2) “western Chugach trondhjemite suite” for the Early Cretaceous forearc plutons within the belt, (3) “Friday Creek assemblage” for a transitional mélange unit that contains blocks of the Carpenter Creek complex in a chert–argillite matrix, and (4) “Knik River metamorphic complex” in reference to metamorphic rocks engulfed by Early Jurassic plutons of the Peninsular terrane that represent the roots of the Talkeetna arc. The correlation of the Carpenter Creek metamorphic complex with the Chugach mélange indicates that the trace of the BRF lies ∼1–5 km north of the map trace shown on geologic maps, although, like other segments of the BRF, this boundary is blurred by local complexities within the BRF system. Ductile deformation of the mélange is sufficiently intense that few vestiges of its original mélange fabric exist, suggesting the scarcity of rocks described as mélange in the cores of many orogens may result from misidentification of rocks that have been intensely overprinted by younger, ductile deformation.