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DOI | 10.1130/B35160.1 |
Accelerating exhumation in the Eocene North American Cordilleran hinterland: Implications from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating | |
Canada, Andrew S.1; Cassel, Elizabeth J.1; Stockli, Daniel F.2; Smith, M. Elliot3; Jicha, Brian R.4; Singer, Brad S.4 | |
2020 | |
发表期刊 | GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN |
ISSN | 0016-7606 |
EISSN | 1943-2674 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 132期号:1-2页码:198-214 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Basins in orogenic hinterlands are directly coupled to crustal thickening and extension through landscape processes and preserve records of deformation that are unavailable in footwall rocks. Following prolonged late Mesozoic-early Cenozoic crustal thickening and plateau construction, the hinterland of the Sevier orogen of western North America underwent late Cenozoic extension and formation of metamorphic core complexes. While the North American Cordillera is one of Earth's best-studied orogens, estimates for the spatial and temporal patterns of initial extensional faulting differ greatly and thus limit understanding of potential drivers for deformation. We employed (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating of detrital zircon and (U-Th)/He thermo-chronology of detrital apatite from precisely dated Paleogene terrestrial strata to quantify the timing and magnitude of exhumation and explore the linkages between tectonic unroofing and basin evolution in north-eastern Nevada. We determined sediment provenance and lag time evolution (i.e., the time between cooling and deposition, which is a measure of upper-crustal exhumation) during an 8 m.y. time span of deposition within the Eocene Elko Basin. Fluvial strata deposited between 49 and 45 Ma yielded Precambrian (U-Th)/He zircon cooling ages (ZHe) with 105-740 m.y. lag times dominated by unreset detrital ages, suggesting limited exhumation and Proterozoic through early Eocene sediment burial (<4-6 km) across the region. Minimum nonvolcanic detrital ZHe lag times decreased to <100 m.y. in 45-43 Ma strata and to <10 m.y. in 43-41 Ma strata, illustrating progressive and rapid hinterland unroofing in Eocene time. Detrital apatite (U-Th)/He ages present in ca. 44 and 39 Ma strata record Eocene cooling ages with 1-20 m.y. lag times. These data reflect acceleration of basement exhumation rates by >1 km/m.y., indicative of rapid, large-magnitude extensional faulting and metamorphic core complex formation. Contemporaneous with this acceleration of hinterland exhumation, syntectonic freshwater lakes developed in the hanging wall of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex at ca. 43 Ma. Volcanism driven by Farallon slab removal migrated southward across northeastern Nevada, resulting in voluminous rhyolitic eruptions at 41.5 and 40.1 Ma, and marking the abrupt end of fluvial and lacustrine deposition across much of the Elko Basin. Thermal and rheologic weakening of the lithosphere and/or partial slab removal likely initiated extensional deformation, rapidly unroofing deeper crustal levels. We attribute the observed acceleration in exhumation, expansion of sedimentary basins, and migrating volcanism across the middle Eocene to record the thermal and isostatic effects of Farallon slab rollback and subsequent removal of the lowermost mantle lithosphere. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000505809800010 |
WOS关键词 | EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE ; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX ; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY ; ASH-FLOW TUFFS ; LATE CRETACEOUS EXTENSION ; HF ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY ; APATITE FISSION-TRACK ; SEVIER HINTERLAND ; RUBY MOUNTAINS ; SLAB-ROLLBACK |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/279402 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Idaho, Dept Geol Sci, Moscow, ID 83844 USA; 2.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Geol Sci, Austin, TX 78712 USA; 3.No Arizona Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Environm Sustainabil, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA; 4.Univ Wisconsin, Dept Geosci, Madison, WI 53706 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Canada, Andrew S.,Cassel, Elizabeth J.,Stockli, Daniel F.,et al. Accelerating exhumation in the Eocene North American Cordilleran hinterland: Implications from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating[J]. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN,2020,132(1-2):198-214. |
APA | Canada, Andrew S.,Cassel, Elizabeth J.,Stockli, Daniel F.,Smith, M. Elliot,Jicha, Brian R.,&Singer, Brad S..(2020).Accelerating exhumation in the Eocene North American Cordilleran hinterland: Implications from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating.GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN,132(1-2),198-214. |
MLA | Canada, Andrew S.,et al."Accelerating exhumation in the Eocene North American Cordilleran hinterland: Implications from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) double dating".GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 132.1-2(2020):198-214. |
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