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Journal of the Geological Society; 1993; v. 150; issue.2; p. 371-379;
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.150.2.0371
© 1993 Geological Society of London

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Age and tectonothermal record of Laurentian basement, Caledonides of NE Greenland

R. D. TUCKER1, R. D. DALLMEYER2 & R. A. STRACHAN3

1 Department of Geology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2C6
2 Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
3 Department of Geology, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK

Isotope mineral ages provide constraints on the age and tectonothermal record of Laurentian basement in Dronning Louise Land, NE Greenland Caledonides. West of the Caledonian thrust zone, U-Pb dates for detrital zircon grains within late Proterozoic–early Palaeozoic foreland cover sequences define an age range of detritus between 3001 Ma and 1700 Ma. Detrital muscovites record 40Ar/39Ar mineral cooling ages of c. 1700–1600 Ma. A reworked granitic orthogneiss east of the Caledonian thrust zone yields a U-Pb zircon age of 1909+6–5 Ma which is interpreted as dating emplacement of the protolith. A lower concordia intercept of 422+28–25 Ma dates Caledonian reworking. The data indicate that the Pre-cambrian basement in NE Greenland forms part of an early Proterozoic (c. 1900–1700 Ma) mobile belt comprising, in part, reworked Archaean rocks. In contrast to central E Greenland, there is no isotopic evidence for regional tectonothermal activity of late Proterozoic age (c. 1000 Ma).





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