Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia reconstructions

Kinny, P.D.; Strachan, R.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9568-0832; Fowler, M.B.; Bruand, E.; Millar, I.L.; Hand, M.; Clark, C.; Cutts, K.A.. 2025 Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of NE Laurentia and Rodinia reconstructions. Journal of the Geological Society, 182 (1). 10.1144/jgs2024-093

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Abstract/Summary

The tectonic setting of Tonian orogenic events recorded in the present-day circum-North Atlantic region is uncertain. U–Pb zircon geochronology shows that the Yell Sound and Westings groups (Shetland) and metasedimentary rocks of the Naver Nappe (northern mainland Scotland) were deposited between c. 1050 and 960 Ma and intruded by mafic, intermediate and felsic igneous rocks at c. 965–950 Ma. Chemical discrimination diagrams and Hf and Nd isotope data together suggest that the protoliths of the mafic meta-igneous rocks were emplaced as relatively juvenile crustal contributions in an active plate margin. Zircon growth at c. 920 Ma within the Yell Sound Group correlates with high-grade metamorphism documented previously in Shetland. Further zircon growth and Pb loss at c. 470–460 Ma indicates overprinting during the Ordovician Grampian orogenic event. Similar age successions of Ellesmere Island, Svalbard and East Greenland also contain evidence for Tonian magmatism (some calc-alkaline), deformation and metamorphism. The new data favour Rodinia reconstructions that incorporate subduction-related magmatism and associated tectonism along the margin of NE Laurentia during the Tonian. The Yell Sound Group and correlative peri-Laurentian successions were intruded by subduction-related magmas and deformed and metamorphosed during development of the Valhalla exterior accretionary orogen, part of a more extensive peri-Rodinian subduction system.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1144/jgs2024-093
ISSN:	0016-7649
Date made live:	07 Mar 2025 15:04 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539040

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1144/jgs2024-093

ISSN:

0016-7649

Date made live:

07 Mar 2025 15:04 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539040