Affiliation:
1. Department of Geology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Apto. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
Abstract
The Ojén nappe, an allochthonous unit that underlies the Ronda peridotites (Betic Cordilleras), is composed of Triassic marbles overlying a metapelitic sequence. In order to carry out an LA-ICP-MS U-Pb age determination and provenance analysis, detrital zircon grains from two quartzites interlayered within marbles and metapelites were extracted. The obtained results yield the youngest zircon population of 254 ± 3 Ma (Late Permian) with a mean Th/U ratio of 0.34 that supports both the Permian–Triassic age of the marble member and the felsic magma nature for zircon-bearing protoliths. The Permian zircons exhibit tight age peaks in three main populations of 292 ± 2 Ma, 278 ± 3 Ma, and 254 ± 3 Ma, in agreement with the main age populations reported from rhyolites and shallow crustal basaltic–andesite subalkaline rocks emplaced in transtensional Permian basins of the Variscan Orogen during the break-up of Pangea. Moreover, the analyzed detrital zircon grains yield age distributions with clear Tonian–Stenian (ca. 950–975 Ma), Ediacaran–Cryogenian (ca. 560–615 Ma), Ordovician (ca. 460–465 Ma), and Cisuralian peaks (ca. 280–290 Ma) and smoothed Mesoproterozoic peaks that point to a weak and residual Cadomian peri-Gondwanan terrane inheritance. The identified Middle Ordovician detrital zircon populations (460–465 Ma) strengthen the hypothesis that the Alborán domain would be located along the southern passive margin of the European Hunic superterrane.
Funder
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad/Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, European Union
Grupos de Investigación, University of the Basque Country
Subject
Geology,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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