Review: secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia

Kranendonk, Martin J. Van; Smithies, R. Hugh; Hickman, Arthur H.; Champion, David C.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00723.x

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“…These putative Isua turbidites are devoid of terrigenous clastic sediments, implying deposition in an oceanic environment in the vicinity of volcanic edifices (Rosing, 1999). Because the Marble Bar Chert Member yields a low-grade metamorphism (Van Kranendonk et al 2007), it preserves a unique set of facies documenting the earliest deep-sea fan on Earth.…”

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“…The 3.53-3.165 Ga East Pilbara Terrane, i.e. the ancient nucleus of the Pilbara Craton, is composed of the Pilbara Supergroup, which consists of four volcanosedimentary groups (Van Kranendonk et al 2007). The lower part of the Pilbara Supergroup is represented by the 3.515-3.427 Ga Warrawoona Group, which recorded prehnite-pumpellyite to greenschist-facies metamorphism (Hickman, 1983;Van Kranendonk et al 2007).…”

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A deep subaqueous fan depositional model for the Palaeoarchaean (3.46 Ga) Marble Bar Cherts, Warrawoona Group, Western Australia

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International audienceThe 3.46 Ga Marble Bar Chert Member of the East Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, is one of the earliest and best-preserved sedimentary successions on Earth. Here, we interpret the finely laminated thin-bedded cherts, mixed conglomeratic beds, chert breccia beds and chert folded beds of the Marble Bar Chert Member as the product of low-density turbidity currents, high-density turbidity currents, mass transport complexes and slumps, respectively. Integrated into a channel-levee depositional model, the Marble Bar Chert Member constitutes the oldest documented deep-sea fan on Earth, with thin-bedded cherts, breccia beds and slumps composing the outer levee facies tracts, and scours and conglomeratic beds representing the channel systems

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A deep subaqueous fan depositional model for the Palaeoarchaean (3.46 Ga) Marble Bar Cherts, Warrawoona Group, Western Australia

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“…The relative exposure area of igneous rocks at Earth's surface has ostensibly varied very little throughout the entire Phanerozoic 104 (the last ~500 million years of Earth's history), despite a cycle of supercontinent assembly and break-up during the late Paleozoic. In addition, recent data place the onset of significant crustal growth, recycling, emergence and surface weathering very early in Earth's history [131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138] . This is perhaps not surprising -the record of sedimentary rocks on Earth extends to ~3.8 billion years ago and is continuous from this point onward, suggesting qualitatively that a surface sedimentary rock cycle existed during Earth's earliest history.…”

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Long-term sedimentary recycling of rare sulphur isotope anomalies

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2013

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Sulphur Isotope Database:An extensive sulphur isotope database was used in the construction of Main Text Figure 1. These data were compiled from primary references 1-37 , although in some cases age constraints for certain units were obtained from other sources [38][39][40][41] or estimated. For Main Text Figure 1b, we calculated the cumulative average ∆ 33 S value for all samples up to each year of publication. The average values reported here thus include some contribution from sulphate minerals. However, the overwhelming majority of the data are sulphide mineral phases, and given that most sulphate data are characterized by negative ∆ 33 S values their inclusion will largely attenuate the pattern emphasized here, rendering our argument conservative. Furthermore, the overall effect of their inclusion is quite small (Fig. S1a,b). We also examined the effect of filtering data from analyses made via secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and analyses of macroscopic pyrite textures, which are not likely to be representative of bulk weathering crust, but again note that the basic pattern remains unchanged (Fig. S1a,b).The mean ∆ 33 S values shown in Fig. 1 are presented as unweighted averages. We consider this approach qualitatively justified, in that the database is composed largely of fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks that are relatively organic carbon and sulphur rich. Such rocks will not only be, on average, the most sulphur-enriched phases of the crust, but they will also likely hold the majority of the weathering sulphur reservoir at Earth's surface. Nonetheless, it is important to consider the possibility that there is a bias related to systematic relationships between the sulphur content of sedimentary rocks and their ∆ 33 S value. For this purpose, we compiled the available sulphur concentration data for the units within the isotope database and performed concentration-weighted statistical analyses.There does not appear to be any systematic relationship between rare sulphur isotope composition and sulphur content within the database (Fig. S2a). In addition, the cumulative unweighted average is nearly indistinguishable from the concentration-weighted average within this subset of the database (Fig. S2a,b). When the evolution of the overall ∆ 33 S value of the database is concentration-weighted, it shows a generally similar pattern through time to that of the overall mean values (Fig. S2b). Indeed, the mean ∆ 33 S value when weighted by concentration is more positive than the unweighted mean for a given population from the database. We stress the caveat that many of the published rare sulphur isotope datasets do not contain sulphur concentration data, so unfortunately this analysis cannot be performed on the entire database. However, the coupled isotope and concentration data represent well over 500 samples that range in sulphur content over three orders of magnitude. These considerations lead us to conclude that the pattern expressed in the overall mean ∆ 33 S values through time is robust and is ...

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“…Imbricated ocean plate stratigraphy is also increasingly recognized in Precambrian orogens; for example, in the 600 Ma Mona Complex of Anglesey, North Wales (Kawai et al 2006(Kawai et al , 2007Maruyama et al in press), the 2.7 Ga Point Lake greenstone belt (Kusky 1991), and possibly the 3.5 Ga chertclastic sequence in the Archaean Pilbara craton (Kato et al 1998;Kato & Nakamura 2003) and the 3.8 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland (Komiya et al 1999). However, the validity of the Pilbara successions as an imbricated ocean-plate has been questioned by Van Kranendonk et al (2007), who favoured a plume-related intracontinental setting. These rocks are interlayered with felsic volcanic rocks, and Williams & Collins (1990) have pointed out that they are commonly intruded by granites of the same age.…”

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Accretionary orogens through Earth history

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Accretionary orogens form at intraoceanic and continental margin convergent plate boundaries. They include the supra-subduction zone forearc, magmatic arc and back-arc components. Accretionary orogens can be grouped into retreating and advancing types, based on their kinematic framework and resulting geological character. Retreating orogens (e.g. modern western Pacific) are undergoing long-term extension in response to the site of subduction of the lower plate retreating with respect to the overriding plate and are characterized by back-arc basins. Advancing orogens (e.g. Andes) develop in an environment in which the overriding plate is advancing towards the downgoing plate, resulting in the development of foreland fold and thrust belts and crustal thickening. Cratonization of accretionary orogens occurs during continuing plate convergence and requires transient coupling across the plate boundary with strain concentrated in zones of mechanical and thermal weakening such as the magmatic arc and back-arc region. Potential driving mechanisms for coupling include accretion of buoyant lithosphere (terrane accretion), flat-slab subduction, and rapid absolute upper plate motion overriding the downgoing plate. Accretionary orogens have been active throughout Earth history, extending back until at least 3.2 Ga, and potentially earlier, and provide an important constraint on the initiation of horizontal motion of lithospheric plates on Earth. They have been responsible for major growth of the continental lithosphere through the addition of juvenile magmatic products but are also major sites of consumption and reworking of continental crust through time, through sediment subduction and subduction erosion. It is probable that the rates of crustal growth and destruction are roughly equal, implying that net growth since the Archaean is effectively zero.Classic models of orogens involve a Wilson cycle of ocean opening and closing with orogenesis related to continent-continent collision. These imply that mountain building occurs at the end of a cycle of ocean opening and closing, and marks the termination of subduction, and that the mountain belt should occupy an internal location within an assembled continent (supercontinent). The modern Alpine -Himalayan chain exemplifies the features of this model, lying between the Eurasian and colliding African and Indian plates (Fig.

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Review: secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia

Cited by 380 publications

References 123 publications

A deep subaqueous fan depositional model for the Palaeoarchaean (3.46 Ga) Marble Bar Cherts, Warrawoona Group, Western Australia

A deep subaqueous fan depositional model for the Palaeoarchaean (3.46 Ga) Marble Bar Cherts, Warrawoona Group, Western Australia

Long-term sedimentary recycling of rare sulphur isotope anomalies

Accretionary orogens through Earth history

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