Lancaster, Penelope Jane

Murphy, J. Brendan

Nance, R. Damian

Neace, Erika Rae

Shail, Robin

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U–Pb LA-ICPMS zircon geochronology of the granites of the Cornubian Batholith, SW England

Erika R. Neace1*, R. Damian Nance1, J. Brendan Murphy2, Penelope J. Lancaster3 and Robin K. Shail4
(1)Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701 (en205911@ohio.edu)
(2)Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, Canada
(3)School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL, United Kingdom
(4)College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn, TR10 9EZ, United Kingdom

Available U–Pb age data for the Cornubian Batholith of SW England is based almost entirely on monazite and xenotime, and very little zircon U–Pb age data has been published. As a result, no zircon inheritance data is available for the batholith, by which the nature of the unexposed basement of the Rhenohercynian Zone in SW England might be constrained.

Zircon LA-ICPMS data for the Cornubian Batholith provides Concordia ages (Bodmin Moor granite: 316 ± 4 Ma, Carnmenellis granite: 313 ± 3 Ma, Dartmoor granite: ~310 Ma, St. Austell granite: 305 ± 5 Ma, and Land’s End granite: 300 ± 5 Ma) that are consistently 20–30 Ma older than previously published emplacement ages for the batholith and unrealistic in terms of geologic relative age relationships. Several of the batholith’s granite plutons contain a component of late-Devonian inheritance that may record rift-related, lower crustal melting or arc-related magmatism associated with subduction of the Rheic Ocean.

In addition, the older granites likely contain Mesoproterozoic inheritance, although the highly discordant nature of the Mesoproterozoic ages precludes their use in assigning an affinity to the Rhenohercynian basement in SW England.



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