Orogenic unroofing of the Taltson and Thelon orogens depicted through detrital zircon geochronology of the Sosan Group, Great Slave Lake Supergroup (Northwest Territories, Canada)

IF 3.2 2区地球科学 Q2 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Precambrian Research Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107706

Jade Lockie , Alessandro Ielpi , Rebecca Canam , Morgann G. Perrot , Joshua H.F.L. Davies , Luke Ootes

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Abstract

The investigation of sedimentary successions broadly contemporaneous with supercontinent amalgamation is critical to understand sediment dispersal in response to collisional tectonics. The Paleoproterozoic Great Slave Supergroup of the East Arm basin is one of three sedimentary successions located along the margins of the Archean Slave craton. U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology with chemical-abrasion laser-ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry is employed here to investigate the onset of sedimentation, provenance, and regional correlations of the Sosan Group (the Great Slave Supergroup’s basal succession). Although a detrital age signature of the Slave craton is found in the < 1.97–1.95 Ga Hornby Channel Formation (lowermost Sosan Group) – the dominant component through the strata has a distinct ∼ 2.0–1.97 Ga detrital age population, suggesting that the Sosan Group sediments were derived from the collapsing Thelon-Taltson orogenic topography. Data presented herein support novel correlations in the region, specifically between the East Arm basin and the nearby Kilohigok basin, Coronation margin and Hottah terrane. By these means, this study highlights the importance of stratigraphically complete geochronological analyses to propose regional correlations.

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Precambrian Research 地学-地球科学综合

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7.20

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28.90%

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325

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12 months

期刊介绍： Precambrian Research publishes studies on all aspects of the early stages of the composition, structure and evolution of the Earth and its planetary neighbours. With a focus on process-oriented and comparative studies, it covers, but is not restricted to, subjects such as: (1) Chemical, biological, biochemical and cosmochemical evolution; the origin of life; the evolution of the oceans and atmosphere; the early fossil record; palaeobiology; (2) Geochronology and isotope and elemental geochemistry; (3) Precambrian mineral deposits; (4) Geophysical aspects of the early Earth and Precambrian terrains; (5) Nature, formation and evolution of the Precambrian lithosphere and mantle including magmatic, depositional, metamorphic and tectonic processes. In addition, the editors particularly welcome integrated process-oriented studies that involve a combination of the above fields and comparative studies that demonstrate the effect of Precambrian evolution on Phanerozoic earth system processes. Regional and localised studies of Precambrian phenomena are considered appropriate only when the detail and quality allow illustration of a wider process, or when significant gaps in basic knowledge of a particular area can be filled.