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Ulf Söderlund

Ulf Söderlund

Professor

Ulf Söderlund

Trading partners: Tectonic ancestry of southern Africa and western Australia, in Archean supercratons Vaalbara and Zimgarn

Författare

  • Aleksey V. Smirnov
  • David A. D. Evans
  • Richard E. Ernst
  • Ulf Söderlund
  • Zheng-Xiang Li

Summary, in English

Original connections among the world's extant Archean cratons are becoming tractable by the use of integrated paleomagnetic and geochronologic studies on Paleoproterozoic mafic dyke swarms. Here we report new high-quality paleomagnetic data from the similar to 2.41 Ga Widgiemooltha dyke swarm of the Yilgarn craton in western Australia, confirming earlier results from that unit, in which the primary origin of characteristic remanent magnetization is now confirmed by baked-contact tests. The corresponding paleomagnetic pole (10.2 degrees S, 159.2 degrees E, A(95) = 7.5 degrees), in combination with newly available ages on dykes from Zimbabwe, allow for a direct connection between the Zimbabwe and Yilgarn cratons at 2.41 Ga, with implied connections as early as their cratonization intervals at 2.7-2.6 Ga. The proposed "Zimgarn" supercraton was likely distinct from Vaalbara (Kaapvaal plus Pilbara) at 2.4 Ga, but both of those entities independently fragmented at ca. 2.1-2.0 Ga, reassembling into the Kalahari and West Australian cratons by 1.95-1.8 Ga. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Avdelning/ar

  • Berggrundsgeologi

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

11-22

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Precambrian Research

Volym

224

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • Paleomagnetism
  • Paleoproterozoic
  • Yilgarn
  • Pilbara
  • Zimbabve craton
  • Kaapvaal craton

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0301-9268