LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of detrital rutile and zircon from the Reynolds Range: A window into the Palaeoproterozoic tectonosedimentary evolution of the North Australian Craton

Rösel, Delia; Zack, Thomas; Boger, Steven D.

doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2014.10.006

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“…This results in the first combined data compilation of detrital rutile, using data from six published datasets (Agangi et al, 2020;Flowerdew et al, 2019;Rösel et al, 2018Rösel et al, , 2014 , from different regions and depositional ages, culminating in a dataset of detrital rutile ages ranging from the Permian to the Archean (appendix 2). To complement this dataset, we collected new trace element data from 161 U-Pb concordant detrital rutile grains, from samples collected in NW Scotland.…”

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Detrital rutile tracks the first appearance of subduction zone low T/P paired metamorphism in the Palaeoproterozoic

Pereira

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Darling

et al. 2021

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Earth is unique in the Solar System as the only planet characterised by an active plate tectonic regime. However, there is still no consensus on whether this was fully operational in the Archaean or if it did not develop until the Proterozoic. The metamorphic record offers valuable insight into this debate, since paired, high and low T/P metamorphic conditions are a hallmark of modern plate tectonics. However, much of the metamorphic rock record has either been eroded or overprinted by subsequent tectonothermal events. To address this issue, we examine the detrital rock record and evaluate the potential of rutile, a mineral that forms during subduction and deep-crustal metamorphic processes, as a proxy to track the existence of low T/P and paired metamorphism. At temperatures of 550 ºC, rutile is mostly stable at pressures higher than ca. 13 kbar. We use this relationship and the Zr-in-rutile thermometer to determine peak metamorphic temperatures of detrital rutile grains to track the temporal distribution of low T/P metamorphism. We have compiled a dataset of detrital metamorphic rutile from Archaean to Permian age to trace the occurrence of low and high T/P metamorphism through time. The earliest evidence of low T/P from detrital rutile is at about 2.1 Ga. This agrees with the earliest evidence of eclogite facies conditions from the rock record and it also implies that these conditions must have been more prevalent than the present rock record seems to indicate. Together, our study confirms that subduction zone low T/P metamorphism has been fully operating since at least the late Palaeoproterozoic.

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Detrital rutile tracks the first appearance of subduction zone low T/P paired metamorphism in the Palaeoproterozoic

Pereira

Storey

Darling

et al. 2021

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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“…In addition to thermally-activated volume diffusion, other non-diffusive Pb intragrain transport mechanisms such as recrystallization and secondary growth during metamorphism and the presence of grain boundary fluids of variable chemical composition can affect the U-Pb isotopic system in rutile and other accessory phases including zircon and monazite (e.g., [77,82]). As re-crystallization involves re-ordering of disordered portions of the crystal lattice, it can promote loss of incompatible elements including radiogenic Pb.…”

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“…As re-crystallization involves re-ordering of disordered portions of the crystal lattice, it can promote loss of incompatible elements including radiogenic Pb. Disturbance to the U-Pb isotopic composition of rutile associated with diagenetic processes has also been suggested to occur in rutile (e.g., [82]). Additionally, even in the case of pure Pb diffusive behavior, a mineral enclosed within another phase of limited diffusivity (e.g., garnet) can be subjected to armoring effects limiting or preventing the diffusion of the radiogenic isotopes in response to a thermal event ( [67] and references therein).…”

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Coupled Zircon-Rutile U-Pb Chronology: LA ICP-MS Dating, Geological Significance and Applications to Sediment Provenance in the Eastern Himalayan-Indo-Burman Region

Bracciali

2019

Geosciences

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U-Pb dating by LA ICP-MS is one of the most popular and successful isotopic techniques available to the Earth Sciences to constrain timing and rates of geological processes thanks to its high spatial resolution, good precision (absolute U/Pb age resolution of ca. 2%, 2s), rapidity and relative affordability. The significant and continuous improvement of instrumentation and approaches has opened new fields of applications by extending the range of minerals that can be dated by this method. Following the development and distribution to the community of good quality reference materials in the last decade, rutile U-Pb thermochronology (with a precision only slightly worse than zircon) has become a commonly used method to track cooling of deep-seated rocks. Its sensitivity to mid- to low-crustal temperatures (~450 °C to 650 °C) is ideal to constrain exhumation in active and ancient orogens as well as thermal evolution of slow-cooled terranes. Recrystallization and secondary growth during metamorphism and the presence of grain boundary fluids can also affect the U-Pb isotopic system in rutile. A growing body of research focusing on U-Pb dating of rutile by LA ICP-MS is greatly improving our understanding of the behavior of this mineral with regards to retention of radiogenic Pb. This is key to fully exploit its potential as a tracker of geological processes. The latest developments in this field are reviewed in this contribution. The combined application of U-Pb zircon and rutile chronology in provenance studies, particularly when complemented by lower-T thermochronometry data, allows the isotopic characterization of the sources across a wide range of temperatures. The benefits of applying detrital zircon-rutile U-Pb chronology as a coupled provenance proxy are presented here, with a focus on the Eastern Himalayan-Indo-Burman region, where a growing number of successful studies employs such an approach to help constrain river drainage and basin evolution and to infer feedback relationships between erosion, tectonics and climate.

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“…Most of the felsic igneous rocks also plot in volcanic arc field in the Rb/30-Hf-Ta*3 diagram (Figure 1c). Data sources for north Australian craton are the following: Bagas et al (2009Bagas et al ( , 2010, Beyer et al (2012), Black and McCulloch (1984), Carson (2013), Champion (2013), Claoué-Long and Edgoose (2008), , Claoué-Long, , Compston (1994Compston ( , 1995, Cooper and Ding (1997), Crispe et al (2007), Cross and Crispe (2007), Donnellan (2013), Hoatson et al (2005), Hollis et al (2013), Iaccheri and Kemp (2018), Kositcin, Beyer, et al (2013), Kositcin, Carson, et al (2013), Lambeck et al (2008Lambeck et al ( , 2010, Li et al (2013Li et al ( , 2014, Maidment et al (2013), Nazaridehkordi et al (2017), Rösel et al (2014), Sivell and Mcculloch (1991), Smith (2001), Sun et al (1995), Thomas (2012), Wade et al (2008), Whelan, Beyer, et al (2014), Whelan, Woodhead, et al (2014), Windrim and McCulloch (1986), Windrim et al (1984), Zhao (1992Zhao ( , 1994, and Zhao and Mcculloch, (1995). However, compositions of granites essentially depend on the nature of their source rocks rather than the tectonic environment (Förster et al, 1997;…”

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A Fragment of Columbia Supercontinent: Insight for Cathaysia Block Basement From Tectono‐Magmatic Evolution and Mantle Heterogeneity

Xia

2019

Geophysical Research Letters

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The origin of the Cathaysia block and its position in Columbia supercontinent are still enigmatic. Paleoproterozoic magmatisms developed in the Cathaysia block due to two episodes of continental back‐arc extension range in ages of circa 1.88–1.85 and 1.78–1.77 Ga. A long‐lived ultradepleted mantle domain with highly incompatible element depletion related to average depleted mantle once underlaid the Cathaysia block is revealed by the highly depleted Hf‐Nd isotopes of the Paleoproterozoic meta‐mafic rocks. A self‐consistent set of geological, geochronological, and geochemical data indicate that the Cathaysia was assembled and then maintained a position off the southern margin of North Australia Craton from the assembly to the accretion of Columbia supercontinent (circa 1.90 to 1.74 Ga). Given the evidence for Cathaysia block, mantle heterogeneity might provide an alternative approach of supercontinent reconstruction.

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LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of detrital rutile and zircon from the Reynolds Range: A window into the Palaeoproterozoic tectonosedimentary evolution of the North Australian Craton

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References 72 publications

Detrital rutile tracks the first appearance of subduction zone low T/P paired metamorphism in the Palaeoproterozoic

Detrital rutile tracks the first appearance of subduction zone low T/P paired metamorphism in the Palaeoproterozoic

Coupled Zircon-Rutile U-Pb Chronology: LA ICP-MS Dating, Geological Significance and Applications to Sediment Provenance in the Eastern Himalayan-Indo-Burman Region

A Fragment of Columbia Supercontinent: Insight for Cathaysia Block Basement From Tectono‐Magmatic Evolution and Mantle Heterogeneity

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