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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Tectonic cycles in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, Arunta Inlier, central Australia: geochronological evidence for exhumation and basin formation between two high-grade metamorphic events |
Author: | Maidment, D. Hand, M. Williams, I. |
Citation: | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2005; 52(2):205-215 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd. |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
ISSN: | 0812-0099 1440-0952 |
Statement of Responsibility: | D. W. Maidment, M. Hand & I. S. Williams |
Abstract: | Deformation, metamorphism and magmatism during the Strangways Orogeny in the eastern Arunta Inlier of central Australia appears to be a result of plate-margin-related tectonism along the southern margin of the North Australian Craton. SHRIMP zircon dating of basement and cover sequences in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex indicates that the Strangways Orogeny consisted of two distinct tectonothermal cycles between ca 1.79 and ca 1.71 Ga. Sedimentary protoliths of the Mt Bleechmore Granulite were deposited after ca 1.8 Ga and probably metamorphosed at ca 1.78 Ga (the Early Strangways Event). These rocks were subsequently exhumed and eroded, forming a basement on which the Ledan Package (Mendip Metamorphics, Ledan Schist and Utopia Quartzite) was deposited after ca 1.77 Ga. Metamorphic zircon overgrowths (1723 ± 9 Ma) and a pegmatite intrusion (1730 ± 4 Ma) in the Mendip Metamorphics record a second phase of deformation and metamorphism (the Late Strangways Event). The arc-like Huckitta and Inkamulla Granodiorites in the eastern Strangways Metamorphic Complex were intruded at 1762 ± 3 Ma and 1773 ± 4 Ma, respectively, suggesting that the Early Strangways Event was associated with subduction along the southern margin of the North Australian Craton. Exhumation and basin formation between the two periods of contraction was possibly a consequence of extension after the Early Strangways Event and related to A-type magmatism at ca 1.74 Ga in the eastern Strangways Metamorphic Complex. Metamorphic zircon overgrowths in the Huckitta Granodiorite have an age of 332 ± 3 Ma and record a phase of relatively high-grade metamorphism towards the end of the Alice Springs Orogeny. |
Keywords: | Arunta Inlier geochronology granulite Huckitta Granodiorite Inkamulla Granodiorite Ledan Schist Mendip Metamorphics metamorphism SHRIMP Strangways Metamorphic Complex uranium - lead dating zircon |
Description: | Copyright © 2005 Geological Society of Australia |
DOI: | 10.1080/08120090500139414 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090500139414 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications Environment Institute publications |
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