Eastern Laurentia in Rodinia: constraints from whole-rock Pb and U/Pb geochronology |
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Authors: | Staci L. Loewy James N. Connelly Ian W. D. Dalziel Charles F. Gower |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA;b Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Building 600, 4412 Spicewood Springs Road, Austin, TX 78759, USA;c Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy, P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NF, Canada A1B 4J6 |
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Abstract: | Whole-rock Pb isotopic signatures and U/Pb geochronology refute a Rodinian correlation of northeastern Laurentia and proto-Andean Amazonia. According to this previously proposed model, the Labrador–Scotland–Greenland Promontory (LSGP) of northeastern Laurentia collided with the proto-Andean margin of Amazonia, at the Arica Embayment, during the Grenville/Sunsás Orogeny (ca. 1.0 Ga). Links between the two margins were based upon the correlation of the LSGP with Arequipa-Antofalla Basement (AAB), a Proterozoic block along the proto-Andean margin of Amazonia adjacent to the Arica Embayment. Specifically, similarities in 1.8–1.0 Ga basement rocks in both regions suggested that the AAB was originally a piece of the LSGP. Furthermore, similarities in unique, post-collisional, but pre-rift, glacial sedimentary sequences also supported a link between the AAB and LSGP.Tests of these apparent similarities fail to support correlation of the AAB and the LSGP and, thus, eliminate a direct link between northeastern Laurentia and southwestern Amazonia in Rodinia. However, Pb isotopic compositions and U/Pb geochronology provide the basis for two new correlations, namely, (1) the ca. 1.3–1.0 Ga basement in the central and southern Appalachians may be an allochthonous block that was transferred to Laurentia from Amazonia at ca. 1.0 Ga, and (2) an allochthonous AAB may be a piece of the Kalahari Craton that was transferred to Amazonia at ca. 1.0 Ga. Based on these new correlations and a previously proposed Grenvillian connection between southern Laurentia (Llano) and Kalahari, we propose that Amazonia may have collided with a contiguous southeastern Laurentia/Kalahari margin at ca. 1.0 Ga. |
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Keywords: | Rodinia Amazonia Laurentia Arequipa-Antofalla Basement U/Pb Common lead |
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