Zircon grains from nine samples of metavolcanic rocks, gneisses, granitoids and migmatites from the Blekinge Province in southeasternmost Sweden have been dated by U-Pb using ion microprobe. The results suggest that most of the Blekinge bedrock was formed within a narrow time interval of 1.77-1.75 Ga, including the Västanå supracrustal formation and ʻcoastal gneissesʼ previously dated to c. 1.70 Ga. One sample, the 1.81 Ga Nättraby gneissic granite, appears to represent a sliver of slightly older proto-crust. An age of c. 1.75 Ga for an aplitic granite crosscutting the deformed Tving granitoids in eastern Blekinge brackets their deformation to between 1.77 and 1.75 Ga, whereas zircon grains of similar age from a migmatite neosome at Lindö may be inherited, making the result inconclusive. Thin metamorphic zircon overgrowths and resetting of the U-Pb system in titanite indicate a regional tectonothermal event at 1.45 to 1.40 Ga, accompanying the intrusion of the Karlshamn-type granites. The crust of the Blekinge Province thus was formed at 1.77-1.75 Ga from relatively juvenile sources in a subduction-related environment along the southern edge of Fennoscandia. It was deformed and partly uplifted relative to the undeformed TIB-1 granitoids of the Småland block further north, prior to the intrusion of the Karlshamn-type granites at 1.45 Ga.
Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility and structural geology of the ca. 1.45 Ga Karlshamn pluton (southern Sweden) are used to study its emplacement and structural evolution. The Karlshamn pluton is one of the largest metaluminous A-type granitoid intrusions in southern Sweden. It is a multiphase body made up of two suites that differ in composition but which have similar crystallization ages. The magmatic foliation, ductile shear zones and granite-pegmatite filled fractures were mapped as well as the metamorphic foliation and extension lineation in the metamorphic host rocks. The anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility was used to map the magnetite petrofabric of the pluton, providing a larger data set for both the magmatic foliations and lineations, which could not be mapped in the field. The fabrics within the pluton are continuous with the metamorphic fabrics in the country rocks. Both the pluton and the country rock fabrics were folded during ENE-WSW compression, while the pluton was still a magma mush. The stress field orientation during cooling of the pluton is determined on the basis of magmatic, ductile and brittle structures in the Karlshamn pluton that formed successively as the pluton cooled. The compressional event is referred to as the Danopolonian orogeny and therefore the Karlshamn granitoids, and other plutons of similar composition and age in central and southern Sweden, on the Danish Island of Bornholm, and in Lithuania, may be considered as syntectonic intrusions and not as anorogenic, as was previously thought.
To assess the age and origin of the metasedimentary migmatites in southernmost Sweden and their relationships with the Mesoproterozoic granitoid magmatism in the area, we have dated migmatite zircon using the secondary ion mass spectrometry U -Pb method. The studied metasedimentary migmatites, here called the Nöteboda migmatites, occur along the southwestern boundary of the 1442 Ma Tåghusa granitoid intrusion in southeastern Skåne. They contain the mineral assemblage garnet þ biotite^muscovite þ cordierite þ sillimanite þ quartz þ plagioclase þ K-feldspar and were formed during a retrograde evolution from c. 750-7208C and 6 kbar (peak conditions) to c. 6758C and 4 kbar. Zircon is characterized by detrital cores surrounded by U-rich rims and overgrowths. Separate rounded metamorphic grains also exist. The age probability-density distribution peaks for detrital zircon are at c. 1700, 1670, 1650, 1610, 1570 and 1530 Ma. These ages suggest Gothian orogenic rocks in the present west as the most probable principal source. Sedimentation occurred after c. 1530 Ma, the age of the youngest detrital zircon, indicating the existence of a previously unknown period of Mesoproterozoic sedimentation in southernmost Sweden. A homogeneous zircon overgrowth yielded a concordant 207 Pb/ 206 Pb age of 1439^5 Ma, which dates the migmatization and is close to the age of the Tåghusa intrusion. We conclude that the burial of the sediments down to c. 20 km, their metamorphism and progressive migmatization took place concurrently with granitic magmatism, NE-SW compression, folding and shearing of the crust between 1460 and 1440 Ma during the Danopolonian orogeny.
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