The 1.23 Ga Fjellhovdane rhyolite, Grøssæ-Totak; a new age within the Telemark supracrustals, southern Norway

Roberts, Nick M.W.; Parrish, Randall R.; Horstwood, Matthew S.A.; Brewer, Tim S.. 2011 The 1.23 Ga Fjellhovdane rhyolite, Grøssæ-Totak; a new age within the Telemark supracrustals, southern Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 91. 239-246.

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Abstract/Summary

The Grøssæ-Totak supracrustal belt is part of the several-kilometre thick Telemark supracrustal sequences that are exposed in southern Norway. Deposition of the Telemark supracrustals spans the period between Telemarkian continental growth at ~1.52-1.48 Ga and Sveconorwegian orogenesis associated with continental collision at ~1.1-0.9 Ga. The timing of deposition is largely constrained by U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons in sedimentary units, and igneous zircons within felsic volcanics. A younger Supergroup that has been referred to as the Sveconorwegian Supergroup comprises depositional ages younger than 1.16 Ga; units of the Grøssae-Totak belt have been mapped as part of this Supergroup. This study presents a new U-Pb age of 1233 ± 29 Ma for the Fjellhovdane rhyolite, one of the lowermost units within the Grøssæ-Totak belt; this age suggests that at least the lower part of this sequence is not part of the Sveconorwegian Supergroup, but formed in an earlier volcano-sedimentary basin that is correlative in age to the Sæsvatn-Valldal and Setesdal supracrustal belts that occur to the west and south respectively. The geochemistry of the Fjellhovdane rhyolite is compatible with crustal melting of previously-formed supra-subduction rocks, as has been advocated for the Sæsvatn-Valldal rhyolites.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2010 > NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	04 Aug 2016 15:53 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514137

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Programmes:

BGS Programmes 2010 > NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory

NORA Subject Terms:

Earth Sciences

Date made live:

04 Aug 2016 15:53 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514137