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Apparent age of deposition of meta-carbonate rocks from Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica
第2回極域科学シンポジウム/第31回極域地学シンポジウム 11月17日(木) 国立極地研究所 2階大会議
Comparison of chemically estimated depositional ages with zircon SHRIMP ages from metacarbonate rocks in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica
第3回極域科学シンポジウム/第32回極域地学シンポジウム 11月30日(金) 国立極地研究所 3階ラウン
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian granitoids of northern Mozambique and Dronning Maud Land Antarctica.
第2回極域科学シンポジウム/第31回極域地学シンポジウム 11月17日(木) 国立極地研究所 2階大会議
Geology, geochemistry and Sr–Nd constraints of selected metavolcanic rocks from the eastern boundary of the Saharan Metacraton, southern Sudan : a possible revision of the eastern boundary
Neoproterozoic, Pan-African low-grade metavolcanic rocks and associated mafic and ultramafic rocks of
ophiolitic origin have long been identified within the pre-Neoproterozoic Saharan Metacraton (SMC).
These low-grade rocks within generally high-grade (upper amphibolite facies) gneiss and schist have
not yet been fully investigated, and their geological and geotectonic significance have been recognised
only in a very few localities: (1) the Delgo–Atmur ophiolite and low-grade volcano-sedimentary belt,
(2) the Rahib ophiolite and low-grade sedimentary fold and thrust belt, both in northern Sudan along
the eastern boundary of the Saharan Metacraton and (3) the low-grade volcano-sedimentary rocks in
the Central African Republic.
Dismembered and low-grade metamorphosed occurrences of mafic extrusive and intrusive and minor
ultramafic rocks, grouped as the Arid unit, similar to those of the Arabian Nubian Shield (ANS), are
reported here for the first time in the westernmost part of the Nuba Mountains, southeastern Sudan.
These occurrences are interpreted to represent part of an ophiolite sequence with a lower cumulate layer
composed of layered gabbro and minor cumulate hornblendite and a top layer of thick massive gabbro,
pillowed basalt and basaltic andesite. The Arid unit is structurally underlain by basaltic-andesite and
andesite and a metasedimentary sequence identified as turbidite and both grouped as the Abutulu unit.
All of the rocks are slightly sheared, deformed and metamorphosed under low-grade greenschist facies
to epidote amphibolite sub-facies. New geochemical and Sr–Nd isotope data reveal that the low-grade
metavolcanic rocks of the westernmost Nuba Mountains represent a Neoproterozoic oceanic arc/backarc
assemblage. The massive gabbro and pillowed basalt of the Arid unit show the geochemical characteristics
of HFSE-depleted tholeiitic basalt while the co-genetic and more evolved meta-andesite of Abutulu
unit show a calc-alkaline signature. Both units display a REE pattern characterized by LILE enrichment
indicating formation in an arc/back-arc environment. This arc was active at around 778 ± 90 Ma (Sm–
Nd 12 WR isochron) that is similar in age to the arc magmatism in the ANS. The close interval between
the TDM Nd model age (average of 10 metavolcanic samples is 814 Ma) and the crystallization age
(778 ± 90 Ma) is indicative of little or no involvement of older material. The western Nuba Mountains
metavolcanic rocks have eNd values of +5.9 at 778 Ma (average of 12 samples) indicating a depleted mantle
source similar to that of the ANS (published range from +6.5 to +8.4). The eNd values of the metavolcanic
rocks are different from previously published ages of high-grade basement rocks that occupy the
area west of the Kabus suture and east of Abutulu (+2.2 and +3.5 for the Rashad and Abbassyia).
It is proposed that the metavolcanic and associated plutonic mafic rocks represent a unique
Neoproterozoic entity named the Abutulu terrane that developed in a marginal back-arc basin west of
the medium-grade gneiss of the Nuba Mountains. If the Abutulu terrane is included as a part of the
ANS, then the eastern boundary of the SMC is adjacent to the western edge of the ANS along the
Abutulu suture.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/precamres2017-08-31hb2016Geolog
Denudation in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique : indications of the long-term tectonic segmentation of East Africa during Gonwana break-up
The pre-break-up position of Haag Nunataks within Gondwana: possible correlatives in Natal and Donning Maud Land
The nature of the Grenville-age charnockitic A-type magmatism from the Natal, Namaqua and Maud Belts of southern Africa and western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
The nature of the Grenville-age charnockitic A-type magmatism from the Natal, Namaqua and Maud Belts of southern Africa and western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
The ∿1030-1090Ma old, locally charnockitic, intrusions which are exposed from Namaqualand in the west, through Natal, into the Maud Province Antarctica in the east, show A-type, within plate granite characteristics. The major and trace element characteristics from all the intrusions are remarkably similar and consistent and are typical of C-Type charnockites. Two-pyroxene thermometry as well as thermometry utilising calibrations from experimental studies of saturation surfaces using Zr, P and Ti suggest temperatures between ∿850℃ and ∿1100℃. Pressure estimates from aureole assemblages suggest depths of emplacement between 30-10km. Available isotopic data suggest magma sources in Natal and Antarctica were juvenile, probably mantle derived whereas those in Namaqualand suggest a significant crustal contribution
Metamorphic history and U-Pb Zircon (SHRIMP) geochronology of the Glenmore Granite : implications for the tectonic evolution of the Natal Metamorphic Province
A new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age of 1091 ± 9 Ma has been acquired for the gneissic, S-type Glenmore Granite from the Margate Terrane of the Natal Metamorphic Province. The Glenmore Granite contains two foliations and mineral textures indicate it underwent two metamorphic episodes separated by a period of retrogression. The presence of a folded S1 foliation in the Glenmore Granite indicates that it was either pre- or syntectonic relative to D1, thus providing a maximum age constraint of 1091 ± 9 Ma on the D1 event in the Margate Terrane. This is ~60 Ma later than the completion of the main tectonism (D1–3) documented from the Tugela Terrane, suggesting diachronous arc accretion. Syntectonic granitoids with ages of ~1090 Ma have also been documented from the Mzumbe terrane, as well as from Western Dronning Maud Land (east Antarctica), and the Cape Meredith Complex in the Falklands, which on reconstruction of Gondwanaland, lie adjacent to the Natal Metamorphic Provinc