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Gibson, G.M. | Champion, D. | Doublier, M. | Geological Society of America - GSA
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The 2.1─1.79 Ga Trans-Australian and Canadian Trans-Hudson orogens preserve a common record of Himalayan-scale orogenesis and voluminous Cordilleran-style magmatism behind which turbidite-dominated sedimentary sequences evolved in a back-arc or retro-arc foreland setting. Successive cycles of subduction retreat and advance drove the orogenic process, culminating in continent-continent collision and closure of a shared and formerly contiguous ocean basin – the Paleoproterozoic Diamantina and Manikewan oceans. Cordilleran-style arc magmatism in proto-Australia commenced along the southern reaches of the Diamantina Ocean with emplacement of the 2005-1975 Ma Dalgaringa batholith along the leading edge of the Pilbara Craton (Gascoyne Province) before both it and its host craton docked against the Yilgarn Craton, resulting in the Glenburgh Orogeny. After a brief episode of post-kinematic granite magmatism from 1965─1945 Ma, tectonic activity switched to the opposing margin of the Diamantina Ocean in what is now northern Australia where a further three cycles of upper plate orogenesis and Cordilleran-style magmatism occurred from 1890─1850 Ma, 1840─1810 Ma and 1810─1760 Ma along a convergent continental margin extending from the Kimberley and Pine Creek regions southward through the Mount Isa domain into the eastern Gawler Craton. Batholiths developed along this margin include granites of both low and high Sr/Y composition with the more adakitic varieties interpreted to have been intruded during periods of enhanced asthenospheric upwelling accompanying the opening of one or more slab windows following slab breakoff, tearing and/or subduction of an actively spreading oceanic ridge. Terminal collision between the North and South Australian (Mawson) cratons at ca. 1790 Ma brought this succession of subduction-related events to a close, although neither this event nor the corresponding Trans-Hudson orogen need equate to final assembly of the Nuna supercontinent. Instead, the 1870 Ma peak in global compilations of magmatic and detrital zircon ages may be more simply interpreted as the result of elevated tectonism and magmatism along a Paleoproterozoic Cordilleran-style continental plate margin that was trans-continental in scale and continued uninterrupted from proto-Australia into northern Canada and beyond. <b>Citation:</b> G.M. Gibson, D.C. Champion, M.P. Doublier; The Paleoproterozoic Trans-Australian Orogen: Its magmatic and tectonothermal record, links to northern Laurentia, and implications for supercontinent assembly. GSA Bulletin 2024; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B36255.1
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- GEOCHEMISTRYGEOLOGYEARTH SCIENCES
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- tectonics
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- Canadian Trans-Hudson Orogen
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- Trans-Austarlian Orogen
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- continental margin
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- batholiths
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- magnetic anomalies
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- Pilbara Craton
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- plate tectonics
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- Precambrian
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- Proterozoic
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Manuscript written in 2021 using geochemical and geophysical data from the last 40 years.
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