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Mole, D. | Bodorkos, S. | Stern, Richard | Waltenberg, K. | Fraser, G. | Evans, Noreen
Abstract
<div>The Australian continent comprises a broad dichotomy of crustal settings; from the Archean–Proterozoic cratonic core in the centre and west, to the accretionary margin of the Tasmanides in the east. These continental blocks meet at the Tasman Line, where successive arc systems built the eastern third of Australia in ca. 250 Myrs. This interface represents one of Australia’s most fundamental crustal boundaries and is marked by the ca. 520–490 Ma Delamerian Orogen in south-eastern Australia. Despite its first-order crustal control on tectonism, magmatism, deformation, and mineral systems in the area, the Delamerian Orogen remains poorly understood. Here, we present new zircon Hf-O isotopic and trace element data on 32 samples across the south-east Tasman Line. This initial dataset, which will grow over the next 12 months as part of Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future program, will be used to constrain the time-space crustal architecture and evolution of Australia’s south-eastern Precambrian cratonic margin. These first samples include Paleoarchean to Devonian felsic magmatic rocks from the eastern Gawler Craton, across the Delamerian Orogen, to the Central Lachlan Orogen, and show that the crust of south-east Australia has a significant pre-history, with crustal reworking a major feature across the region. Delamerian arc magmatism appears to have involved significant reworking of Australia’s south-eastern Precambrian margin, as recorded by sub-chondritic Hf-isotope data. Assuming a significant mantle-component in the initial arc magmas, contamination by the ancient overlying continental rocks, some as old as ca. 3250 Ma, resulted in less juvenile compositions. This observation suggests Australia’s south-eastern Gondwanan margin may have consisted of a west-dipping continental arc, rather than an offshore island arc. The ‘heavy’ supracrustal δ18O of magmatic rocks across the area since the Paleoproterozoic is testament to the long-lived terrestrial nature of this continental margin, and its influence on magmatism across >1 billion years of Earth history. </div> This Abstract was submitted/presented to the 2022 Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology (SGGMP) Conference 7-11 November (https://gsasggmp.wixsite.com/home/biennial-conference-2021)
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- Australia
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- Tasmanides
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- Delamerian
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- Isotope Geochemistry
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Conference abstract for the "Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology" (SGGMP) conference to be held in Yalingup, WA, in November 2022.
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Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology (SGGMP) Conference 7-11 November 2022 Yallingup WA
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<div>These data were collected in July 2022 as part of the Exploring for the Future project and ARF Isotopic Atlas module.</div>
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