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    Mid-to Late Cambrian docking of the Rı´o de la Plata craton to southwestern Gondwana age constraints from U–Pb SHRIMP detrital zircon ages from Sierrasde Ambato and Velasco (Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina) [查看] SEBASTIA´NO.VERDECCHIACESARCASQUETEDGARDOG.BALDOROBERTJ.PANKHURSTCARLOSW.RAPELAMARKFANNINGCARMENGALINDO
    LA-MC-ICPMS and SHRIMP U–Pb dating of complex zircons from Quaternary tephras from the French Massif Central Magma residence time and geochemical implications [查看] AlainCocherieC.MarkFanningPierreJezequelMiche`leRobert
    Analyses of zircon grains from the Queureuilh Quaternary tephras (pumice) provide new information about their pre-eruptive history. U–Pb dating was performed in situ using two methods: SHRIMP and LA-MC-ICPMS equipped with a multi-ion counting system. Both methods provided reliable 207Pb/206Pb and 206Pb/238U ratios as well as U and Th abundances required for U–Pb Concordia intercept age determination, after initial 230Th disequilibrium correction. The new LA-MC-ICPMS method was validated by dating a reference zircon (61.308B) and zircons from a phonolitic lava dated independently with the two techniques. A time resolution of about 20 kyr for 1 Ma zircon crystals was achieved for both methods.The clear euhedral zircon population from Queureuilh tephras is quite complex from several points of view: (1) some grains are reddish or yellowish while others are colorless; (2) the U and Th composition changes by more than an order of magnitude and Th/U is generally high (1–2); (3) there are three discrete ages recorded at 2.35 ± 0.04, 1.017 ± 0.008 and 0.640 ± 0.010 Ma.From the previously determined 40Ar/39Ar age at 0.571 ± 0.060 Ma [Duffell H. (1999) Contribution ge´ochronologique a` la stratigraphie volcanique du Massif des Monts Dore par la me´thode 40Ar/39Ar. D.E.A. Univ. Clermont-Ferrand, 56 p.], the discontinuous zircon age populations, the color of the grains and their composition, we favor the following model as explanation:The oldest, less numerous group of reddish zircons represents xenocrystic grains resulting from assimilation of the local material during magma ascent. A primitive magma chamber, perhaps deep in crustal level, was formed at 1.0 Ma.The related magma, previously characterized by high Th/U ratio (2.2 ± 1.1), underwent rejuvenation during ascent to a new chamber at shallow depth and/or during injection of more mafic magmas. During this stage, at 0.64 Ma, the colorless zircon grains of lower Th/U ratio (1.3 ± 0.5) crystallized. This last stage defined the magma residence time of 70 kyr prior to eruption dated by the 40Ar/39Ar method. However, if the primitive magma is considered, the magma residence time as a whole from this first stage reached 446 kyr.In the light of the complex history of such magmas, which commonly involves recycling of zircon grains that precipitated tens to hundreds of kyr earlier than eruptions, the use of Zr concentration in geochemical modeling of whole rock compositional data can be problematic.
    First U-Pb SHRIMP age of the Hauterivian stage,Neuque´n Basin, Argentina [查看] M.BeatrizAguirre-UrretaPabloJ.PazosDarı´oG.LazoC.MarkFanningVanesaD.Litvak
    Miocene to Holocene landscape evolution of the western Snake River Plain region Idaho Using the SHRIMP detrital zircon provenance record to track eastward migration of the Yellowstone hotspot [查看] LukeP.BeranekPaulKarlLinkC.MarkFanning
    We report new U-Pb detrital zircon sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) age data (702 grains) from 13 samples collected from Miocene to Holocene sedimentary deposits in the western Snake River Plain region. These samples effectively show that modern stream sediments of the Snake River system reliably and repeatedly record the detrital zircon age populations that are present as sources in their drainage basins across the Cordilleran thrust belt and Basin and Range Province. We use this framework and the provenance of Neogene sedimentary rocks in the region to test the effect of the migrating Yellowstone hotspot on regional drainage patterns in southern Idaho since the middle Miocene. Our results indicate that Neogene paleodrainages were fi rst directed radially away from the tumescent Yellowstone highland, then subsequently reversed their fl ow toward the subsiding Snake River Plain basin. This occurred in east-progressing time-constrained intervals starting at 16 Ma.In northern Nevada, the drainage divide is represented by a northeast-trending, southeast-migrating crest of high topography.Specifi cally, middle to late Miocene (16–10 Ma) sedimentary deposits of the western Snake River Plain and Oregon-Idaho graben contain early to middle Eocene (52–42 Ma) detrital zircon populations sourced in Challis magmatic rocks north of the Snake River Plain. Middle Jurassic (160 Ma) and middle to late Eocene (42–35 Ma) detrital zircons,sourced from rocks in northern Nevada, are not present. Late Eocene detrital zircons from Nevada are present in two younger than 7 Ma sedimentary units of the Idaho Group along the Oregon-Idaho border.This indicates that by the late Miocene,southeastward headward erosion of the paleo–Owyhee River into the Owyhee Plateau had captured drainage from north-central Nevada and directed it northwestward toward the subsiding western Snake River Plain. The modern Owyhee Plateau is still a topographic high, in contrast to the modern Snake River Plain, suggesting that lowering of the regional Snake River Plain base level,rather than crustal subsidence, drove stream capture. By the late Pliocene (3 Ma), Middle Jurassic detrital zircons are recorded in the Glenns Ferry Formation and Tuana Gravel of the central Snake River Plain, suggesting that surface subsidence reversed the flow direction of paleo–Salmon Falls Creek from southward into Nevada to northward toward Idaho.Miocene strata of the western Snake River Plain lack recycled Proterozoic detrital zircons that are ubiquitous in sedimentary rocks of the central and southeast Idaho thrust belts. Such detrital zircons appear on the central and western Snake River Plain in early Pliocene to Holocene (4–0Ma) deposits. This records capture of drainage from the eastern Snake River Plain. The Yellowstone hotspot controlled the east-migrating continental divide, in the wake of which formed the western-draining, and progressively eastward-collecting, Snake River system.
    Deciphering igneous and metamorphic events in high-grade rocks of the Wilmington Complex, Delaware Morphology, cathodoluminescence and backscattered electron zoning, and SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of zircon and monaz [查看] JohnN.AleinikoffWilliamS.SchenckMargaretO.PlankLeeAnnSrogiC.MarkFanningSandraL.KamoHowellBosbyshell
    High-grade rocks of the Wilmington Complex,northern Delaware and adjacent Maryland and Pennsylvania, contain morphologically complex zircons that formed through both igneous and metamorphic processes during the development of an island-arc complex and suturing of the arc to Laurentia.The arc complex has been divided into several members, the protoliths of which include both intrusive and extrusive rocks. Metasedimentary rocks are interlayered with the complex and are believed to be the infrastructure upon which the arc was built.In the Wilmington Complex rocks, both igneous and metamorphic zircons occur as elongate and equant forms. Chemical zoning,shown by cathodoluminescence (CL),includes both concentric, oscillatory patterns,indicative of igneous origin, and patchwork and sector patterns, suggestive of metamorphic growth. Metamorphic monazites are chemically homogeneous, or show oscillatory or spotted chemical zoning in backscattered electron images. U-Pb geochronology by sensitive high resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) was used to date complexly zoned zircon and monazite. All but one member of the Wilmington Complex crystallized in the Ordovician between ca. 475 and 485 Ma; these rocks were intruded by a suite of gabbro-to-granite plutonic rocks at 434 ± 5 Ma. Detrital zircons in metavolcanic and metasedimentary units were derived predominantly from 0.9 to 1.4 Ga (Grenvillian) basement, presumably of Laurentian origin. Amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphism of the Wilmington Complex, recorded by ages of metamorphic zircon (428 ± 4 and 432 ± 6 Ma) and monazite (429 ± 2 and 426 ± 3 Ma), occurred contemporaneously with emplacement of the younger plutonic rocks. On the basis of varying CL zoning patterns and external morphologies,metamorphic zircons formed by different processes (presumably controlled by rock chemistry) at slightly different times and temperatures during prograde metamorphism. In addition, at least three other thermal episodes are recorded by monazite growth at 447 ± 4, 411 ± 3, and 398 ± 3 Ma.
    copper deposit new evidence for an Early Cretaceous porphyry-related metallogenic epoch in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile [查看] VictorMaksaevFranciscoMunizagaMarkFanningCarlosPalaciosJoséTapia
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