scholarly journals Shear Zone-Hosted Uranium Deposits of the Bohemian Massif (Central European Variscan Belt)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš René
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Bohemian Massif ◽  
Variscan Belt ◽  
Uranium Deposits ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Central European

The earliest ostracods from the Ordovician of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolína Lajblová ◽  
Petr Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Bohemian Massif ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Prague Basin ◽  
Barrandian Area ◽  
Fossil Assemblages ◽  
European Variscides

Abstract The earliest ostracods from the Bohemian Massif (Central European Variscides) have been recorded from the Middle Ordovician of the Prague Basin (Barrandian area), in the upper Klabava Formation, and became an abundant component of fossil assemblages in the overlying Šarka Formation. Both early ostracod associations consist of eight species in total, representing mainly eridostracans, palaeocopids, and binodicopids. The revision, description, or redescription of all species and their distribution in the basin is provided. Their diversification patterns and palaeogeographical relationships to ostracod assemblages from other regions are discussed.

scholarly journals Uraninite, Coffinite and Ningyoite from Vein-Type Uranium Deposits of the Bohemian Massif (Central European Variscan Belt)

Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš René ◽  
Zdeněk Dolníček ◽  
Jiří Sejkora ◽  
Pavel Škácha ◽  
Vladimír Šrein
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Electron Microprobe ◽  
Bohemian Massif ◽  
Uranium Deposit ◽  
Ore Deposits ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Uranium Deposits ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Vein Type ◽  
Ore District

Uraninite-coffinite vein-type mineralisation with significant predominance of uraninite over coffinite occurs in the Příbram, Jáchymov and Horní Slavkov ore districts and the Potůčky, Zálesí and Předbořice uranium deposits. These uranium deposits are hosted by faults that are mostly developed in low- to high-grade metamorphic rocks of the basement of the Bohemian Massif. Textural features and the chemical composition of uraninite, coffinite and ningyoite were studied using an electron microprobe. Collomorphic uraninite was the only primary uranium mineral in all deposits studied. The uraninites contained variable and elevated concentrations of PbO (1.5 wt %–5.4 wt %), CaO (0.7 wt %–8.3 wt %), and SiO2 (up to 10.0 wt %), whereas the contents of Th, Zr, REE and Y were usually below the detection limits of the electron microprobe. Coffinite usually forms by gradual coffinitization of uraninite in ore deposits and the concentration of CaO was lower than that in uraninites, varying from 0.6 wt % to 6.5 wt %. Coffinite from the Jáchymov ore district was partly enriched in Zr (up to 3.3 wt % ZrO2) and Y (up to 5.5 wt % Y2O3), and from the Potůčky uranium deposit, was distinctly enriched in P (up to 8.8 wt % P2O5), occurring in association with ningyoite. The chemical composition of ningyoite was similar to that from type locality; however, ningyoite from Potůčky was distinctly enriched in REE, containing up to 22.3 wt % REE2O3.

Suture zones and importance of strike-slip faulting for Variscan geodynamic reconstructions of the External Crystalline Massifs of the western Alps

2009 ◽  
Vol 180 (6) ◽  
pp. 483-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Guillot ◽  
Silvia di Paola ◽  
René-Pierre Ménot ◽  
Patrick Ledru ◽  
Maria Iole Spalla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Bohemian Massif ◽  
Western Alps ◽  
Alkaline Magmatism ◽  
Calc Alkaline ◽  
Geodynamic Evolution ◽  
Central European ◽  
Back Arc ◽  
Eastern Domain ◽  
Geodynamic Reconstructions

Abstract This paper reviews the geodynamic evolution of the Belledonne, Grandes Rousses and Oisans massifs in the western Alps from Early Ordovician to Permian times. Three domains are distinguished. The eastern domain, which includes the NE Belledonne massif and the inner Oisans massif, records the subduction of the Central-European ocean along a NW dipping subduction zone. The western domain is marked by Cambro-Ordovician back-arc rifting (Chamrousse ophiolite) initiating the opening of the Rheic ocean. It was followed by Mid-Devonian obduction of the back-arc Chamrousse ophiolite, towards the NW in relation with the SE dipping subduction of the Saxo-Thuringian ocean. The central domain, including the SW part of the Belledonne massif, the Grandes Rousses massif and the outer Oisans massif, records the Devonian to Carboniferous orogenic activity that produced calc-alkaline magmatism, Mg-K granite intrusions and syn-collisional sedimentation related to Visean nappe stacking that we relate to the closure of the Saxo-Thuringian ocean. Based on tectonostratigraphic correlations we propose that these domains initially correspond to the northeastward extension of the Bohemian massif. During the late Carboniferous, the External Crystalline Massifs including Sardinia and Corsica were stretched towards the SW along the > 600 km long dextral External Crystalline Massifs shear zone. Offset of the Saxo-Thuringian and eo-Variscan suture zones from the Bohemian massif to the ECM suggests a possible dextral displacement of about 300 km along the ECM shear zone.

scholarly journals Coupling RSCM paleothermometry with 40Ar/39Ar analysis in the south Variscan belt (Cévennes, France): new constraints on the late-orogenic metamorphic gradient in an orogen outer domain.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clément Montmartin ◽  
Michel Faure ◽  
Stéphane Scaillet ◽  
Hugues Raimbourg
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Crustal Thickening ◽  
Early Event ◽  
Variscan Belt ◽  
French Massif Central ◽  
Raman Spectrometry ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
Temperature Jumps ◽  
Outer Domain ◽  
The One

<p>In the SE part of the Variscan French Massif Central, the Cévennes area belongs to the para-autochthonous unit of the southern Variscan belt. This area underwent three metamorphic events (Faure et al., 2001).  I) A green schist to low amphibolite facies one (500°C, 4.5Kb Arnaud, 1997) developed in micaschists and quartzites. These rocks were stacked as south-directed nappes during the final stage of the Variscan crustal thickening dated at ca 340 Ma by <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar on biotite (Caron, 1994). This early event was responsible for the flat-lying foliation, the N-S striking stretching lineation, and intrafolial foliation. II) A high temperature event (680°C, 4.5kb Rakib, 1996) dated at ca 325 Ma (<sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar on two biotites, Najoui et al, 2000) overprinted the early one. On the basis of the mineral assemblages of this event, a NE-ward increase of the T conditions was interpreted as a remote effect of the Velay Dome (Rakib, 1996). III) Finally, the M<sup>t</sup>-Lozère and Aigoual-S<sup>t</sup>-Guiral-Liron monzogranitic plutons intruded the Cévennes para-autochthonous unit. Monazite and biotite yield U-Pb, and <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar ages at 315-303Ma and 306 Ma , respectively (Brichaud et al. 2008). The pluton emplacement conditions are determined at 695°C, 1.5Kb (Najoui et al, 2000).</p><p>We report Raman Spectrometry of Carbonaceous Matter (RSCM) paleotemperature data acquired on more than 100 samples throughout the entire Cévennes area. These show a regional homogeneous thermal distribution with a 535 ± 50 °C mean temperature without any geometric correlation with the nappes structure, nor the granitic intrusions. Moreover, no thermal increase towards the NE can be documented. SW of the Aigoual-S<sup>t</sup>-Guiral-Liron massif, our RSCM data document a temperature jumps between the overlying Cévennes micaschists and the underlying epimetamorphic rocks belonging the the Fold-and-Thust belt unit of the French Massif Central.</p><p>In order to constrain the age of this regional thermal event, we <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar dated 25 new regionally-distributed syn- and post-folial muscovites by step heating along two N-S cross sections within the Cévennes micaschists series. In areas distant from the plutons, the muscovite yields a ca 325 Ma age interpreted as the one of the HT event recorded by the RSCM measurements. However, young muscovite ages at ca 305Ma are observed around the plutons. We assume that the heat supplied by the plutons reset these muscovites at around 400°C while the organic matter cannot record the contact metamorphic peak lower than the regional one. Moreover, <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar in-situ analyses carried out on 5 mm-sized post folial (but deformed) biotites in the central part of the micaschist series provide ages around 320Ma. The presence of a hidden dome, underneath the Cévennes micaschists, similar to the pre-Velay migmatites exposed in the northern part of the Cévennes area (Faure et al., 2001, Be et al., 2006) is discussed.</p>

scholarly journals A new specimen of Araucaria fricii from the early Coniacian of the Bohemian Massif, Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-286
Author(s):  
Jiří Kvaček
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Bohemian Massif ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Massif Central ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
Bohemian Cretaceous Basin ◽  
Cone Scale

A specimen of Araucaria fricii is described from the upper part of the Teplice Formation in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. It extends the first occurrence of A. fricii from the mid-Coniacian back to the early Coniacian. Found in the Radovesice locality near Kučlín in the northern part of the Czech Republic, it is characterised by a deltoid cone scale complex with a centrally placed seed. It is compared to the type material of A. fricii from the mid-Coniacian Březno Formation and other European Cretaceous species of Araucaria. The taphonomy and palaeoecology of A. fricii is briefly discussed.

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