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WANG Yanbin, WANG Hao, REN Liudong, et al., 2021. Zircon U-Pb ages of the mafic gneiss and leucogneiss from the Bailey Peninsula: Constraints on the timing of the tectonothermal events related to the amalgamation of Rodinia in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica. Journal of Geomechanics, 27 (5): 768-782. DOI: 10.12090/j.issn.1006-6616.2021.27.05.063
Citation: WANG Yanbin, WANG Hao, REN Liudong, et al., 2021. Zircon U-Pb ages of the mafic gneiss and leucogneiss from the Bailey Peninsula: Constraints on the timing of the tectonothermal events related to the amalgamation of Rodinia in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica. Journal of Geomechanics, 27 (5): 768-782. DOI: 10.12090/j.issn.1006-6616.2021.27.05.063
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Zircon U-Pb ages of the mafic gneiss and leucogneiss from the Bailey Peninsula: Constraints on the timing of the tectonothermal events related to the amalgamation of Rodinia in the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica

doi: 10.12090/j.issn.1006-6616.2021.27.05.063
  • 1.

    Beijing SHRIMP Center, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China

  • 2.

    State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, Shaanxi, China

  • 3.

    Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

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the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40773042

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 41073014

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 41373052

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 41773049

the Polar Office of the State Oceanic Bureau of China CHINARE-IC201707

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  • Received: 2021-06-28
  • Revised: 2021-08-23
    • Available Online: 2021-12-31
  • Published: 2021-10-28
    Abstract
  • We report new geochronological data of the mafic gneiss and leucogneiss from the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, in order to unravel the tectonothermal events related to the amalgamation of Rodinia. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating from the mafic gneiss (Hbl-Cpx-Opx-Bt-Pl-Qtz-Mag-Zrn) yielded early Mesoproterozoic magmatic ages of 1403±28 Ma from igneous cores, and middle Mesoproterozoic metamorphic ages of 1318±34 Ma from overgrown rims. The leucogneiss (Pl-Kfs-Qtz-Bt-Zrn) in the Bailey Peninsula has intrusive ages of 1257±51 Ma from magmatic origin zircon cores, and metamorphic ages of 1197±26 Ma from overgrown rims and/or structureless grains. The intrusive age of mafic gneiss indicates the existence of a ca.1.40 Ga igneous activity in the Windmill Islands. This is likely the earliest igneous record of the Windmill Islands, possibly relating to the final period of igneous activity of the Mawson Continent. The age of high-grade metamorphism of the mafic gneiss from the Bailey Peninsula can be constrained by the metamorphic zircon overgrowth at 1318±34 Ma, suggesting that the Windmill Islands was possibly involved in the Albany-Fraser-Windmill (East Antarctic) orogeny during the 1375~1151 Ma period. This study further supports the tectonic model in which the Windmill Islands and the Albany-Fraser Orogeny are parallel convergence during the Mesoproterozoic Rodinia amalgamation.

     

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