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U-Pb zircon-titanite-apatite age constraints on basin development and basin inversion in the Kiruna mining district, Sweden
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- Andersson, Joel B.H. (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Geovetenskap och miljöteknik
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- Logan, Leslie, 1992- (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Geovetenskap och miljöteknik
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- Martinsson, Olof (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Geovetenskap och miljöteknik
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- Chew, David (author)
- Department of Geology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Kooijman, Ellen (author)
- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet,Enheten för geovetenskap,Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Kielman-Schmitt, Melanie, 1988- (author)
- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet,Enheten för geovetenskap,Vegacenter,Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Kampmann, Tobias C., 1987- (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Geovetenskap och miljöteknik
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- Bauer, Tobias E., 1982- (author)
- Luleå tekniska universitet,Geovetenskap och miljöteknik
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- Elsevier, 2022
- 2022
- English.
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In: Precambrian Research. - : Elsevier. - 0301-9268 .- 1872-7433. ; 372
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- To constrain the tectonothermal evolution of the type locality for iron oxide-apatite deposits, we have obtained U-Pb zircon, titanite, and apatite age data for the Kiruna mining district in northernmost Sweden. The results indicate that the host basin initiated in an overall extensional regime as indicated by the deposition of alluvial conglomerates and greywackes. A volcanic intercalation in a conglomerate unit northwest of the Luossavaara iron oxide-apatite deposit yields a U-Pb zircon age of 1887 ± 3 Ma representing the timing of the earliest Orosirian volcanism in the central Kiruna mining district coinciding with the onset of basin development. In-situ analysis of titanite on hydrothermally altered fracture planes within a cataclastic fault damage zone (c. 270 m from the fault core system associated to the Luossavaara iron oxide-apatite deposit) yields complex U-Pb data. Applying a strict discordance filter yields a 207Pb/206Pb age of 1889 ± 26 Ma. The age implies that the fault probably has a syn-volcanic origin and that syn-volcanic faults may have played an important role during iron ore emplacement. The mineralized basin was subsequently buried and metamorphosed under upper greenschist-facies conditions and later tectonically exhumed and cooled below the apatite closure temperature at 1805 ± 26 Ma indicated by apatite from the Nukutus iron oxide-apatite deposit. Basin inversion is temporally constrained by syn-tectonic titanite as part of sodic-calcic + Fe + Cl hydrothermal alteration along a brittle-ductile reverse shear zone to the east of the study area. Titanite grains that show sector and oscillatory zoning yield an age of 1812 ± 3 Ma, which we interpret as the onset of basin inversion. Homogeneous (relatively unzoned) titanite in the same sample yields an age of 1802 ± 8 Ma, tentatively indicating that the tectonothermal activity lasted up to c. 20 m.y.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Geologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Geology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Geochronology
- Kiruna
- IOA
- basin development
- basin inversion
- Malmgeologi
- Ore Geology
- Centrumbildning - Centrum för avancerad gruvteknik och metallurgi (CAMM)
- Centre - Centre for Advanced Mining & Metallurgy (CAMM)
- The changing Earth
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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