40Ar-39Ar isotope constraints on the age of deformation in Charnwood Forest, UK

Carney, John; Alexandre, P.; Pringle, M.S.; Pharaoh, T.C.; Merriman, R.J.; Kemp, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4604-0927. 2008 40Ar-39Ar isotope constraints on the age of deformation in Charnwood Forest, UK. Geological Magazine, 145 (5). 702-713. 10.1017/S0016756808004950

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Abstract/Summary

40Ar–39Ar dating by a combination of spot analysis and step-heating has been carried out on mica fabrics from slaty cleavage and a shear zone in the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian rocks of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. The results indicate that crust adjacent to the eastern margin of the Midlands Microcraton was affected by localized epizonal metamorphism and penetrative deformation between 425 and 416 Ma (Silurian to earliest Devonian), somewhat earlier than the Acadian Phase of the Caledonian orogeny recorded elsewhere in southern Britain. The Charnwood cleavage geometry suggests that the deformation arose within a dextral transpressional regime along the eastern margin of the Midlands Microcraton. This tectonism may have overlapped with pre-Acadian sinistral transtensional movements documented for the Welsh Basin and Lake District areas, to the west and north of the Midlands Microcraton.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1017/S0016756808004950
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2008 > Geology and Landscape England
ISSN:	0016-7568
Additional Keywords:	Argon, Caledonian Orogeny, Leicestershire, Deformation, Metamorphism
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	20 Aug 2008 15:08 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3931

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