Isotope (Sr, C) and U–Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology of marble-bearing sedimentary series in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. Constraining the SW Gondwana margin in Ediacaran to early Cambrian times

Murra, Juan A.; Casquet, Cesar; Locati, Francisco; Galindo, Carmen; Baldo, Edgardo G.; Pankhurst, Robert J.; Rapela, Carlos W.. 2016 Isotope (Sr, C) and U–Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology of marble-bearing sedimentary series in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina. Constraining the SW Gondwana margin in Ediacaran to early Cambrian times. Precambrian Research, 281. 602-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.06.012

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.06.012

Abstract/Summary

The Sierras de Córdoba Metasedimentary Series consists of marbles and metasiliciclastic rocks of Ediacaran to early Cambrian age (ca. 630 and 540 Ma) that underwent high-grade metamorphism during the collisional Pampean orogeny in the early Cambrian. The ages of the marbles were determined from the Sr-isotope composition (blind dating) of screened samples of almost pure calcite marble and were further constrained with C- and O-isotope data and U–Pb SHRIMP detrital zircon ages of an interbedded paragneiss. Two groups of samples are recognised with Sr-isotope composition ca. 0.7075 and 0.7085 that are considered stratigraphically significant. The first is inferred early Ediacaran, the second late Ediacaran to early Cambrian. The Sierras de Córdoba Metasedimentary Series is correlated for the first time with marble-bearing metasedimentary series in several sierras to the west and north of Sierras de Córdoba (e.g., the Difunta Correa Sedimentary Sequence and the Ancaján Series), implying that all were probably parts of an originally extensive sedimentary cover. These series bear evidence of sedimentary sources in the Mesoproterozoic (and Paleoproterozoic) basement of the Western Sierras Pampeanas (part of the large MARA continental block) and farther west (Laurentia?). In terms of the age of limestones/marbles and detrital zircon patterns, the Sierras de Córdoba Metasedimentary Series differs strongly from the older section of late Ediacaran to early Cambrian Puncoviscana Formation of northwestern Argentina, which mostly outcrops in northern Sierra Chica and Sierra Norte, with sedimentary input from western Gondwana sources.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.06.012
ISSN:	03019268
Date made live:	05 Dec 2016 11:47 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515337

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.06.012

ISSN:

03019268

Date made live:

05 Dec 2016 11:47 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515337