Basement architecture from the Pilbara Craton to the Aileron Province: new insights from deep seismic reflection line 18GA-KB1

Doublier, Michael P.; Johnson, Simon P.; Gessner, Klaus; Howard, Hugh; Chopping, Richard; Smithies, R. Hugh; Martin, Des; Kelsey, David E.; Haines, Peter W.; Hitchman, Adrian; Czarnota, K.; Southby, Chris; Champion, David C.; Huston, DL; Calvert, A. J.; Kohanpour, F.; Moro, Polyanna de Sousa; Costello, R.; Fomin, T.; Kennett, B.L.N.

doi:10.11636/134381

2020

DOI: 10.11636/134381

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Basement architecture from the Pilbara Craton to the Aileron Province: new insights from deep seismic reflection line 18GA-KB1

Michael P. Doublier¹,

Simon P. Johnson²,

Klaus Gessner³

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“…S3) that the PLP is structurally and compositionally distinct from the adjacent cratons. For example, the 870-km-long 18GA-KB1 deep seismic reflection line deployed by Geosci-ence Australia, which extends from the eastern Pilbara craton to the Aileron province, imaged a province beneath the Canning Basin with seismic characteristics distinct from those of the WAC and NAC (Doublier et al, 2020). Modeling of passive seismic data acquired along the coastal margin of the Canning Basin (the 900-km-long 19CWAS line, surveyed by Chinese Academy of Sciences, northwest of active line 18GA-KB1) identified a compositionally distinct segment of lithosphere separated from the WAC and NAC by two southeast-trending sutures (Zhao et al, 2022).…”

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Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia

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The Proterozoic assembly of Australia, the understanding of which is critical for reconstructing Proterozoic supercontinents, involved amalgamation of the West Australian (WAC), North Australian (NAC), and South Australian cratons (SAC). However, the basement between these Archean to early Proterozoic lithospheric blocks is mostly buried beneath younger basins; hence, its composition and age and the timing of Proterozoic assembly remain uncertain. In situ zircon U-Pb-O-Hf analyses of igneous rocks from drillholes that intersected basement beneath the northwestern Canning Basin reveal the presence of a substantial domain of juvenile Proterozoic lithosphere, the Percival Lakes province, between the WAC and NAC. Although isotopically distinct from the neighboring WAC and NAC, the Percival Lakes province is strikingly similar to other juvenile Proterozoic tectonic elements between the WAC, NAC, and SAC. Combining isotope and seismic data, we interpret the Percival Lakes province as part of an ~1700 × 400 km Proterozoic lithospheric domain that lacks evidence of Archean provenance but consists mainly of reworked remnants of Mesoproterozoic oceanic crust that survived WAC-NAC-SAC convergence. The apparent absence of Archean lithosphere between the cratons implies they never directly collided or that complete collision was prevented by impingement of three-dimensional promontories in the converging lithospheric blocks. Instead, the Percival Lakes province and other Proterozoic elements between the WAC, NAC, and SAC consist of oceanic lithosphere extracted from Earth’s mantle in the Proterozoic. Our results imply that WAC-NAC convergence was younger than Columbia amalgamation at ca. 1.8 Ga and that Proterozoic Australia formed during the earliest phases of Rodinia assembly at ca. 1.3 Ga.

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Internal structure of the Paleoarchean Mt Edgar dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

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Basement architecture from the Pilbara Craton to the Aileron Province: new insights from deep seismic reflection line 18GA-KB1

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Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia

Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia

Internal structure of the Paleoarchean Mt Edgar dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

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