U-Pb geochronological constraints on the timing of plutonism, volcanism, and sedimentation, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
Uranium-lead dates for single and small multiple grain zircon separates are presented for the main geological units from Jersey, British Channel Islands. A turbiditic sandstone from the Jersey Shale Formation (Brioverian Supergroup) contains detrital zircons of a variety of ages, ranging from c. 2.6...
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Published in | Journal of the Geological Society Vol. 158; no. 2; pp. 243 - 252 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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London
Geological Society of London
01.03.2001
The Geological Society of London Geological Society Geological Society Publishing House |
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Summary: | Uranium-lead dates for single and small multiple grain zircon separates are presented for the main geological units from Jersey, British Channel Islands. A turbiditic sandstone from the Jersey Shale Formation (Brioverian Supergroup) contains detrital zircons of a variety of ages, ranging from c. 2.6 to 0.6 Ga. The youngest zircons yielded nearly concordant U-Pb dates of 586.7±3.0 Ma and 587.1±2.7 Ma providing a maximum depositional age for the unit. Zircons from overlying volcanic rocks (Anne Port Rhyolite) give an upper intercept date of 582.8+3-2.7 Ma, considered to be the age of eruption. The undeformed SW Jersey granite, which intrudes and locally thermally metamorphoses the folded Jersey Shale Formation, is dated at 580+2.3-1.6 Ma. These dates constrain tightly the timing of deposition of the Jersey Shale Formation and the age of deformation on Jersey, and indicate a dynamic arc environment during the late Neoproterozoic. Zircons from the NW Jersey granite define an upper intercept date of 482.7±1.6 Ma, similar to the previously reported 40Ar/39Ar hornblende date of c. 473 Ma, confirming a renewed pulse of magmatism during the Ordovician in this sector of Cadomia. |
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ISSN: | 0016-7649 2041-479X |
DOI: | 10.1144/jgs.158.2.243 |