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1 Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244, USA
2 Crustal Dynamics Research Group, BMS, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK (e-mail: rsd'lemos{at}brookes.ac.uk)
3 Present address: Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Scientific editing by Randall Parrish.
Uranium–lead dates for single and small multiple grain zircon separates are presented for the main geological units from Jersey, British Channel Islands. A turbiditic sandstone from the Jersey Shale Formation (Brioverian Supergroup) contains detrital zircons of a variety of ages, ranging from c. 2.6 to 0.6 Ga. The youngest zircons yielded nearly concordant U–Pb dates of 586.7±3.0 Ma and 587.1±2.7 Ma providing a maximum depositional age for the unit. Zircons from overlying volcanic rocks (Anne Port Rhyolite) give an upper intercept date of 582.8+3–2.7 Ma, considered to be the age of eruption. The undeformed SW Jersey granite, which intrudes and locally thermally metamorphoses the folded Jersey Shale Formation, is dated at 580+2.3–1.6 Ma. These dates constrain tightly the timing of deposition of the Jersey Shale Formation and the age of deformation on Jersey, and indicate a dynamic arc environment during the late Neoproterozoic. Zircons from the NW Jersey granite define an upper intercept date of 482.7±1.6 Ma, similar to the previously reported 40Ar/39Ar hornblende date of c. 473 Ma, confirming a renewed pulse of magmatism during the Ordovician in this sector of Cadomia.
Keywords: Cadomian Orogeny, U–Pb, absolute age, Channel Islands, Jersey.
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