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- Sundblad, Krister, et al.
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The Precambrian of Gotland, a key for understanding the Proterozoic evolution in southern Fennoscandia
- 2021
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Ingår i: Precambrian Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-9268 .- 1872-7433. ; 363
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gotland is an island in the central part of the Baltic Sea, with up to 800 m Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks on top of a Precambrian basement belonging to the East European Craton. In this contribution, two major ductile deformation zones (Lickershamn - Östergarn and Lilla Karlsö-Ronehamn) are recognized and connected with the Vingåker-Nyköping and Linköping-Loftahammar Deformation Zones in the adjacent Fennoscandian Shield. These deformation zones constitute the borders between three main Precambrian segments that are correlated with crustal units within the Fennoscandian Shield and concealed parts of the East European Craton east of the Baltic Sea.The Fårö-Northern Gotland segment is dominated by continental Jotnian sandstones and Svecofennian metasedimentary rocks, separated from each other by a fault and an associated dolerite dyke. The metasediments show a specific provenance pattern with 3.29 Ga, 2.95–2.63 Ga and 2.11–1.96 Ga sources, devoid of < 1.90 Ga detrital zircons. The Alby granite truncates the metasedimentary rocks of the Fårö-Northern Gotland segment and is part of the 1.58 Ga Riga rapakivi batholith. The Central Gotland segment is dominated by metabasalts and 1.90–1.88 Ga granitoids and is correlated with the Tiveden and Valdemarsvik areas in the Fennoscandian Shield. The amphibolites in the Southern Gotland segment are correlated with 1.87–1.86 Ga metabasalts, intercalated with the Västervik quartzites in the Fennoscandian Shield. They were intruded by TIB 0 granitoids, recognized at Frigsarve and correlated with the Askersund-Loftahammar granitoids in the Fennoscandian Shield. The TIB 0 granitoids on Gotland can also be followed to the east, first to the E6-1 offshore drill hole, 30 km west of the Latvian coast and further east into southwestern Latvia and western Lithuania as a major component in the Mid-Lithuanian Domain. The Kvarne granitoid on southernmost Gotland is correlated with the TIB 1a generation in the Fennoscandian Shield and with granitoids within the Mid-Lithuanian Domain.1.48 Ga small stitching plutons on southern Gotland penetrate the TIB 0 and 1a granitoids and are correlated with the Götemar and Karlshamn plutons in the Fennoscandian Shield and several plutons in western and southern Lithuania.
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- Shumlyanskyy, Leonid, et al.
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Eoarchean rock association in the Dniester-Bouh Domain of the Ukrainian Shield: A suite of LILE-depleted enderbites and mafic granulites
- 2020
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Ingår i: Precambrian Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-9268 .- 1872-7433.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We present the results of a study of an Eoarchean rock assemblage in the Dniester-Bouh Domain of the Ukrainian Shield. This comprises granulite-facies granitoids intercalated with mafic and ultramafic granulites. Zircon U-Pb geochronology indicates enderbite crystallisation at 3786 ± 32 Ma, followed by a subsequent event at ca. 3500 Ma. Several events can be tentatively identified that affected these rocks between ca. 3000 and 2700 Ma. The last zircon growth event took place in response to granulite facies metamorphism and included two separate episodes at ca. 2000 and ca. 1900 Ma. The oldest two zircon populations in enderbites have εHf values around 0, indicating their crystallisation from a protolith with a short crustal residence time. Zircons that crystallised during the 3000–2700 Ma event(s) vary in Hf isotope systematics from εHf ~ 1 at ca. 3000 Ma to εHf ~ −14 at c. 2700 Ma. Paleoproterozoic zircons reveal even more significant variations in εHf value from +6 to –22. Such variations are indicative of juvenile input and mixing with old non-radiogenic Hf.All Eoarchean rocks are depleted in incompatible trace elements and have negative Ta-Nb, P, and Ti anomalies. Compared to the typical TTG associations, enderbites record depletion in felsic components (SiO2, Na2O, K2O, Rb, Th), and enrichment in mafic ones (TiO2, MgO, CaO, V), allowing them to be defined as “mafic” or “depleted” TTG.Geochemical data indicate that mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Dniester-Bouh Domain formed by shallow high-degree melting of the mantle, with the absence of garnet in their source, and the presence of residual Ti-bearing minerals and/or amphibole. In contrast, enderbites were formed from a mixed garnet-bearing amphibolite – eclogite source, i.e. melting over a range of pressures/depths. Our preferred model for the formation of the Eoarchean rock association involves the shallow melting of mantle and formation of basalts and accompanying ultramafic cumulates at a spreading centre, with subsequent underthrusting of one segment of oceanic crust beneath the other, and partial melting of hydrated metamorphosed (eclogitized) mafic rocks in the underthrust plate, leading to the formation of the TTG melts
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- Kornprobst, Jacques, et al.
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Boris Choubert: Unrecognized visionarygeologist, pioneer of the global tectonics.
- 2018
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Ingår i: BSGF - Earth Science Bulletin. - : EDP Sciences. - 0037-9409 .- 1777-5817. ; 189:2, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This work is a review of Boris Choubert’s paper (1935), which was published in French under the rather devalorizing title: “Research on the Genesis of Palaeozoic and Precambrian Belts.” Despite its innovative content, this article had no impact either at the time of its publication or even later. It begins with the construction of a remarkable fit of the circum-Atlantic continents. This was based on the 1.000 meters isobath instead of the shoreline. Thirty years before Bullard et al. (1965), it demonstrated in an indisputable way the reality of the continents motion on the surface of the Earth. Therefore, Choubert designated Wegener’s “continental drift” as the main cause of tectonics. Even going beyond Wegener’s theory, he argued that this mechanism was efficient well before the formation of the Triassic Pangæa, during the whole Palaeozoic to result in the building of the Caledonian and Hercynian mountains. Although he was still encumbered by the vocabulary of the time regarding geosynclines, Boris Choubert described tectonics based on the horizontal mobility of the Precambrian continental blocks. Oddly enough, he did not apply this model to the Precambrian structures, which he attributed to the effects of the Earth’s rotation on the continental crust during its solidification. At the time of its publication, this paper was a very important step towards understanding global tectonics. Unfortunately, Choubert’s contemporaries did not generally recognize its significance.
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- Palkopoulou, Eleftheria, et al.
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A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants
- 2018
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : NATL ACAD SCIENCES. - 0027-8424 .- 1091-6490. ; 115:11, s. E2566-E2574
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Elephantids are the world's most iconic megafaunal family, yet there is no comprehensive genomic assessment of their relationships. We report a total of 14 genomes, including 2 from the American mastodon, which is an extinct elephantid relative, and 12 spanning all three extant and three extinct elephantid species including an similar to 120,000-y-old straight-tusked elephant, a Columbian mammoth, and woolly mammoths. Earlier genetic studies modeled elephantid evolution via simple bifurcating trees, but here we show that interspecies hybridization has been a recurrent feature of elephantid evolution. We found that the genetic makeup of the straight-tusked elephant, previously placed as a sister group to African forest elephants based on lower coverage data, in fact comprises three major components. Most of the straight-tusked elephant's ancestry derives from a lineage related to the ancestor of African elephants while its remaining ancestry consists of a large contribution from a lineage related to forest elephants and another related to mammoths. Columbian and woolly mammoths also showed evidence of interbreeding, likely following a latitudinal cline across North America. While hybridization events have shaped elephantid history in profound ways, isolation also appears to have played an important role. Our data reveal nearly complete isolation between the ancestors of the African forest and savanna elephants for similar to 500,000 y, providing compelling justification for the conservation of forest and savanna elephants as separate species.
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- Kumpulainen, Risto A., et al.
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Sweden to review its geological nomenclature
- 2017
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Ingår i: GFF. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1103-5897 .- 2000-0863. ; 139:1, s. 1-2
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- All geoscientists working with the geology of Sweden are invited to join a common effort to review Swedish geological nomenclature and the naming of geological units and other features. A new guide, the Guide for geological nomenclature in Sweden, provides advice for this review process. The Geological Survey of Sweden will set up a new open and freely accessible database for geological names, and a dedicated name committee with mandate to formally approve proposed names will supervise the naming process. The success of this vital long-term commitment will depend on active participation of the geoscientific community at large.
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- Claesson, Stefan, 1950-, et al.
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The oldest crust in the Ukrainian Shield - Eoarchaean U-Pb ages and Hf-Nd constraints from enderbites and metasediments
- 2014
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Ingår i: Continent Formation Through Time. - London : The Geological Society Publishing House.
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- The oldest crust in the Ukrainian Shield occurs in the Podolian and Azov domains which both include Eoarchaeanarchaean components. U-Pb age data for Dniestr-Bug enderbites, Podolian Domain, indicate these are ca. 3.75 Ga old, and Lu-Hf isotope date indicate extraction from chondritic to mildly isotopically depleted sources with εHf up to ca. +2. Nd model ages support their Eoarchaeanarchaean age, while model ages for Dniestr-Bug metasedimentary gneisses indicate that these also include younger crustal material. Most of the Hf-age data for metasedimentary zircon from the Soroki greenstone belt, Azov Domain, reflects Eoarchaeanarchaean primary crustal sources with chondritic to mildly depleted Hf isotope signatures at 3.75 Ga. A minor portion is derived from Mesoarchaeanarchaean crust with a depleted εHf signature of ca. +4 at 3.1 Ga. U-Pb zircon ages from Fedorivka greenstone belt metasediments are consistent with the Soroki age data, but also include a 2.7‒2.9 Ga component. Nd whole rock model ages provide support for a younger crustal component in the latter. Both domains have been subject to Neoarchaeanarchaean, ca. 2.8 Ga, and Palaeoproterozoic, ca. 2.0 Ga metamorphism. The spatial distribution indicates that the Podolian and Azov domains have evolved independently of each other before the amalgamation of the Ukrainian Shield.
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