| Title | An integrated petrochronological and thermochronological approach for the detrital record |
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| Author | Kellett, D A ;
Weller, O M; Zagorevski, A; Regis, D |
| Source | Goldschmidt 2018, abstracts; 2018 p. 1  Open
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| Links | Online - En ligne (PDF, 144 KB)
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| Year | 2018 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20190224 |
| Publisher | European Association of Geochemistry |
| Meeting | 28th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference; Boston; US; August 12-17, 2018 |
| Document | Web site |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Subjects | tectonics; geochronology; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; tectonic evolution; orogenesis; sutures; accretion; terranes; detritus; sedimentary basins; metamorphism; clasts; eclogites;
thermobarometry; thermal diffusivity; diffusion; modelling; thermal history; Canadian Cordillera; Whitehorse Trough; Yukon-Tanana Terrane; Stikinia Terrane; Methodology; Phanerozoic; Mesozoic; Jurassic; Triassic |
| Program | GEM2: Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Western Cordillera, Yukon Tectonic Evolution - late Mesozoic to Tertiary |
| Released | 2018 08 01 |
| Abstract | Rocks exposed near suture zones can record the timing and style of orogenic accretion events. However, in long-lived accretionary orogens, subsequent orogenesis often obscures original terrane
relationships and suture rocks may not be preserved or exposed. A detrital record of the suture may be captured by adjacent sedimentary basins. This is the case for the long-lived northern Canadian Cordillera, where sutures between terranes accreted
during the early Mesozoic are not generally preserved. The Whitehorse trough synorogenic basin contains an E. Jurassic, ~300 m thick horizon of (ultra-) high pressure metamorphic detritus that includes mm-sized eclogite clasts.
Isolation and study
of heavy mineral fractions, a common approach in basin analysis, results in disaggregation of small lithic clasts, limiting identification of equilibrium assemblages and temporal constraints. Since petrochronology and thermochronology techniques are
performed by microanalysis, it is feasible to apply them to the intact detrital eclogite clasts to examine timing, style and conditions of accretion. We integrated thermobarometry, geochronology, thermochronology and thermal diffusion modeling
methods to demonstrate that the eclogite clasts likely reached peak metamorphic conditions of 2.2-2.9 GPa and greater than or equal to 800 °C, cooled and exhumed during E. Jurassic and were deposited into the basin by earliest Toarcian. Minimum mean
cooling and exhumation rates are ~38 °C/myr and ~4.1 km/myr, respectively. Based on these findings, the most likely source for the clasts is a suture between the Yukon-Tanana and Stikinia terranes, involving a latest Triassic collision, followed by
rapid Early Jurassic exhumation of the lower plate Yukon-Tanana terrane. Our study demonstrates how micro-analytical techniques used for petrochronology can be applied to very small lithic clasts in the sedimentary record towards the tectonic
reconstruction of accretionary orogens. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 321389 |
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