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- Be'eri-Shlevin, Yaron, et al.
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Provenance of Neoproterozoic sediments in the Sarv nappes (Middle Allochthon) of the Scandinavian Caledonides : LA-ICP-MS and SIMS U-Pb dating of detrital zircons
- 2011
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In: Precambrian Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-9268 .- 1872-7433. ; 187:1-2, s. 181-200
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present U-Pb age data for detrital zircons from dike-intruded Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Caledonian Middle Allochthon in central Sweden and Norway. Detrital zircons from 11 samples from the Sarv, Saetra and upper Leksdal nappes (informally referred to as the Sarv nappes) are clustered within ca. 0.9-1.75 Ga, but display a bimodal distribution with major ca. 1.45-1.75 Ga and ca. 0.9-1.2 Ga components. An apparent increase of younger (0.9-1.2 Ga) components to the northwest reflects varying source terranes. Detrital zircons from an additional sample from the lower part of the Leksdal Nappe, of uncertain affiliation to the Sarv has a prominent 1.75-1.85 Ga component supporting previous suggestions that this part of the nappe belonged to a more proximal basin. Comparison of the Sarv age probability patterns with data from basement windows and basement slices within the Middle Allochthon in central Sweden and Norway supports the derivation of the sediments from the attenuated Baltican continental crust on which they were presumably deposited. Similar comparisons suggest that derivation from the southern segment of the Fennoscandian Shield or from eastern segments of Laurentia is less likely, mostly because they include also older components. We infer that the ca. 200 km wide belt of attenuated Baltican continental crust included northern extensions of Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic terranes exposed in the southern part of the Fennoscandian Shield and the easternmost part of Laurentia, which at ca. 900 Ma were still adjacent. Pre-1.75 Ga terranes of the Fennoscandian Shield were probably isolated from the Sarv distal basin(s) by intracratonic basins and uplifted margins associated with early development of this extended continental crust. The significantly older ages in the lower part of the Leksdal Nappe and its inferred more proximal position support this model. The proposed northern extension of Mesoproterozoic-early Neoproterozoic terranes can explain in a simpler way the occurrence of such detritus in many Caledonide-Appalachian allochthons exposed at the margins of the North Atlantic, with no need to infer large displacement along the axis of the Caledonide Orogen or to postulate selective transport of Grenville-age material from the south over large distances.One of our Sarv samples located at the Norwegian coast revealed Caledonian reworking at ca. 395 Ma. This age agrees with ages of late-tectonic amphibolite-facies metamorphism and pegmatite intrusion recorded in this part of the Caledonides.
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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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In: Continent Formation Through Time. - London : The Geological Society Publishing House.
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- 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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- Hode Vuorinen, Jaana, 1974-
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The Alnö alkaline and carbonatitic complex, east central Sweden - a petrogenetic study
- 2005
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Alnö complex on the central Swedish east coast is composed of a main composite intrusion (the main intrusion) and four smaller satellite intrusions (Söråker, Sälskär, Långharsholmen and Båräng) distributed around the main intrusion on Alnö Island and on the mainland north of the island. The major rock types exposed within the complex are melilitolite, pyroxenite, ijolite series (melteigite-ijolite-urtite), nepheline syenite, carbonatite and alnöite dykes. Melilitolite is only exposed within the Söråker intrusion. The intrusive sequence is melilitolite → pyroxenite → ijolite series → nepheline syenite → carbonatite → alnöite.Mineralogical, whole rock geochemical and radiogenic isotope (Nd-Sr-Pb) studies of exposed rocks from the Alnö alkaline complex, east central Sweden, were performed in order to investigate the genetic relationships between the diverse rock-types, and to evaluate the contributions from mantle and crustal components in the genesis of the complex. Most analysed samples fall within the depleted quadrant in a eNd-eSr diagram, similar to carbonatites and alkaline silicate rocks from other complexes, indicating derivation of parental magma(s) from a source that had experienced time-integrated depletion in LIL elements. Contamination by local crust is indicated by Sr and Pb isotope data, but is geographically restricted to samples collected from the outer parts of the main intrusion and from satellite intrusions. This localized contamination is attributed to selective hydrothermal element leaching of surrounding bedrock during fenitization. Nd- and Sr-isotope data separates the carbonatites into two groups (group I and II), each related to a specific set of silicate rock types. The overlap of group II carbonatites with ijolite and nepheline syenite could indicate a common origin through liquid immiscibility but this hypothesis cannot be confirmed by trace element data because initial concentrations are obscured by fractionation processes. Interestingly, results from AFC-modelling suggest that production of ijolite residual magma requires addition of a small volume (2.4 %) of carbonatite component to the parental magma, whereas formation of nepheline syenite residuals requires removal of an almost equal amount of carbonatite (1.5 %) to yield a statistically significant result. AFC-modelling further suggests that the various silicate rock types exposed within the complex are related to the same parental olivine-melilitite magma through crystal fractionation of olivine, melilite, clinopyroxene, nepheline, Ti-andradite and minor phases. These results agree with compositional trends exhibited by clinopyroxene and Ti-andradite from the silicate rocks of the main intrusion, which suggests co-genesis of pyroxenite, ijolite series rocks and nepheline syenite. Production of ijolite-like residual liquids can be achieved by <40% fractionation whereas production of nepheline syenite residuals requires >80% fractionation.An investigation of the origin of silicate minerals in carbonatites suggest that most silicate minerals observed in the carbonatites on Alnö Island are derived from surrounding wall-rock and/or produced through corrosive interaction between carbonatite liquid and assimilated phases. This leads to ambiguities when addressing the possible genetic link between carbonatites and associated silicate rocks as occurrences of identical “liquidus” phases in inferred immiscible liquids may not actually be such.
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- Högdahl, Karin, et al.
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Reactive monazite and robust zircon growth in diatexitesand leucogranites from a hot, slowly cooled orogen : implicationsfor the Palaeoproterozoic tectonic evolution of the central Fennoscandian Shield, Sweden
- 2012
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In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0010-7999 .- 1432-0967. ; 163:1, s. 167-188
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Monazite in melt-producing, poly-metamorphic terranes can grow, dissolve or reprecipitate at different stages during orogenic evolution particularly in hot, slowly cooling orogens such as the Svecofennian. Owing to the high heat flow in such orogens, small variations in pressure, temperature or deformation intensity may promote a mineral reaction. Monazite in diatexites and leucogranites from two Svecofennian domains yields older, coeval and younger U–Pb SIMS and EMP ages than zircon from the same rock. As zircon precipitated during the melt-bearing stage, its U–Pb ages reflect the timing of peak metamorphism, which is associated with partial melting and leucogranite formation. In one of the domains, the Granite and Diatexite Belt, zircon ages range between 1.87 and 1.86 Ga, whereas monazite yields two distinct double peaks at 1.87–1.86 and 1.82–1.80 Ga. The younger double peak is related to monazite growth or reprecipitation during subsolidus conditions associated with deformation along late-orogenic shear zones. Magmatic monazite in leucogranite records systematic variations in composition and age during growth that can be directly linked to Th/U ratios and preferential growth sites of zircon, reflecting the transition from melt to melt crystallisation of the magma. In the adjacent Ljusdal Domain, peak metamorphism in amphibolite facies occurred at 1.83–1.82 Ga as given by both zircon and monazite chronology. Pre-partial melting, 1.85 Ga contact metamorphic monazite is preserved, in spite of the high-grade overprint. By combining structural analysis, petrography and monazite and zircon geochronology, a metamorphic terrane boundary has been identified. It is concluded that the boundary formed by crustal shortening accommodated by major thrusting.
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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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In: BSGF - Earth Science Bulletin. - : EDP Sciences. - 0037-9409 .- 1777-5817. ; 189:2, s. 1-15
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- Kumpulainen, Risto A., et al.
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Sweden to review its geological nomenclature
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In: GFF. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1103-5897 .- 2000-0863. ; 139:1, s. 1-2
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Research review (peer-reviewed)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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- Majka, Jaroslaw, et al.
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Multiple monazite growth in the Areskutan migmatite: evidence for a polymetamorphic Late Ordovician to Late Silurian evolution in the Seve Nappe Complex of west-central Jamtland, Sweden
- 2012
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In: Journal of Geosciences. - : Czech Geological Society. - 1802-6222 .- 1803-1943. ; 57:1, s. 3-23
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Monazite from granulite-facies rocks of the angstrom reskutan Nappe in the Scandinavian Caledonides (Seve Nappe Complex, Sweden) was dated using in-situ U-Th-total Pb chemical geochronology (CHIME). Multi-spot analyses of a non-sheared migmatite neosome yielded an age of 439 +/- 3 Ma, whereas a sheared migmatite gave 433 +/- 3 Ma (2 sigma). Although the obtained dates are rather similar, a continuous array of single dates from c. 400 Ma to c. 500 Ma suggests possibly a more complex monazite age pattern in the studied rocks. The grouping and recalculation of the obtained results in respect to Y-Th-U systematics and microtextural context allowed distinguishing several different populations of monazite grains/growth zones. In the migmatite neosome, low-Th and low-Y domains dated at 455 +/- 11 Ma are considered to have grown under high-grade sub-solidus conditions, most likely during a progressive burial metamorphic event. The monazites with higher Th and lower Y yielded an age of 439 +/- 4 Ma marking the subsequent partial melting event caused by decompression. The youngest (423 +/- 13 Ma) Y-enriched monazite reveals features of fluid-assisted growth and is interpreted to date the emplacement of the Areskutan onto the Lower Seve Nappe. In the sheared migmatite, the high-Th and low-U (high Th/U) monazite with variable Y contents yielded an age of 438 +/- 4 Ma, which is interpreted to date the partial melting event. Relatively U-rich rims on some of the monazite grains again reveal features of fluid-assisted growth, and thus their age of 424 +/- 6 Ma is interpreted as timing of the nappes emplacement. These results call, however, for further more precise, isotopic (preferably ion microprobe) dating of monazite in the studied rocks.
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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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In: 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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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- 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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In: Precambrian Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-9268 .- 1872-7433.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- Singh, S., et al.
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2.0 Ga Granite of the Lower Package of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines, Maglad Khad, Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh
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In: Journal of the Geological Society of India. - 0016-7622 .- 0974-6889. ; 67:3, s. 295-300
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Along the Sutlej valley, the lower package of the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (HHC) exposes a small concordant to discordant intrusive grey granite-The Maglad Khad Granite, within garnet mica schist/banded gneiss of the Jeori Formation. This body is fine grained and foliated along the margins, whereas the central part is relatively undeformed. This body along with aplites and pegmatites intrudes the country rock during early to syn-D-1 deformation. This is later affected by the most pervasive D-2-deformation producing gneissosity within the granite. U-Pb dating of zircons by conventional isotopic dilution technique yield an upper intercept age of 2068 +/- 5 Ma (2 sigma) from 6 zircon-fractions with MSWD=0.93, constraining the age of crystallization in the basal parts of the HHC during Early Proterozoic as well as the constraining pre-Himalayan fabric development.
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- Sultan, Lena, et al.
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Proterozoic and Archaean ages of detrital zircon from the Palaeoproterozoic Västervik Basin, SE Sweden: Implications for provenance and timing of deposition
- 2005
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In: Gff. - 1103-5897. ; 127:Part 1, s. 17-24
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Ages of detrital zircons, derived from Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks from Finland and Sweden are poorly represented in the presently exposed crust in the Baltic Shield. This study reports U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from the Svecofennian Vastervik Basin. 41 spots from 31 zircon crystals were dated using U-Pb geochronology at the NORDSIM ion microprobe in Stockholm. Most analyses are concordant and the zircon grains commonly display well-developed magmatic oscillatory zoning. The ages documented are: &SIM; 3.64 Ga, 3.03-2.95 Ga, 2.72-2.69 Ga, 2.12-1.87 Ga and 1.84 Ga. 75% of the grains are Palaeoproterozoic and 25% are Archaean. Ages gained from Proterozoic metasediments in Sweden, Finland, Svalbard, Greenland and Great Britain also report a large proportion of &SIM; 2.1-1.9 Ga and a smaller proportion of Archaean zircons with ages around 2.7 and 3 Ga. These age groups probably represent major crust forming events. The here presented results provide an estimate of the time of deposition in the Vastervik Basin for the time interval of 1882-1850 Ma, constrained by two concordant zircon analyses of 1872 &PLUSMN; 24 and 1870 &PLUSMN; 12 Ma, and the newly presented 1859 &PLUSMN; 9 Ma age for the Loftahammar granite that intrudes the metasedimentary succession in the north. The young detrital zircon age of 1837 &PLUSMN; 22 Ma might suggest that parts of the basin may be younger. As input of detrital grains may occur from several sources simultaneously (e.g. by rivers and by tidal currents from a marine source), the detrital grains were sampled from different depositional environments. Main fluvial sediment transport in the Vastervik Basin was from present north whereas the tidal sediment transport was from the present south. The age groups documented in the Vastervik Basin are poorly represented in the presently exposed crust in the Baltic Shield, but are represented in Sarmatia.
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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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In: Precambrian Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-9268 .- 1872-7433. ; 363
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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