Evidence for Late Triassic provenance areas and Early Jurassic sediment supply turnover in the Barents Sea Basin of northern Pangea

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L556.1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L556.1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L556.1" target="_blank" >10.1130/L556.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evidence for Late Triassic provenance areas and Early Jurassic sediment supply turnover in the Barents Sea Basin of northern Pangea

Original language description

We used detrital zircon fractions from the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic sedimentary succession in the Norwegian Barents Sea to constrain the role of eastern provenance areas in the basin infill history of the Northern Pangea Boreal basin. Geochronological data from sedimentary rocks in this succession reveal detrital zircon ages that are very close to the biostratigraphically defined maximum depositional age of the two lowermost intervals: The Norian to Rhaetian Fruholmen Formation show U-Pb minimum ages of 208.3 +/- 4.2 Ma (discordant by - 0.58) and 213.8 +/- 5 Ma (discordant by 0.8), and the Rhaetian to Sinemurian Tubaen Formation is 200.6 +/- 4.9 Ma (discordant by -3.99) at its minimum. These are the youngest ages thus far documented in the Norwegian Barents Sea, and they demonstrate that a provenance area was magmatically active while, or shortly before, these formations were being deposited. Such protolith ages have not been documented close to the study area, but based on the regional tectonic setting and paleogeography, we argue that the Novaya Zemlya protrusion of the northern Uralian orogen was the most likely provenance area in the region. The Sinemurian to Pliensbachian Nordmela Formation samples yielded, with an exception of a single detrital zircon age of 211 +/- 4.3 Ma, a consistent 240-237 Ma minimum detrital zircon age, which suggests that either the magmatic activity or the sediment supply had come to an end by Sinemurian times. This turnover can be explained by a change in the hinterland drainage pattern. This study documents that eastern provenance areas were actively supplying sediments into the Norwegian Barents Sea Basin later than previously assumed, and our data offer age constraints for tectonic activity in the basin and its hinterland inferred from the changes in sediment supply to the basin.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Lithosphere

ISSN

1941-8264

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

14-28

UT code for WoS article

000396821700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85013379847