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    Cooling and exhumation along the curved Albany-Fraser orogen, Western Australia

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    Authors
    Scibiorski, E.
    Tohver, E.
    Jourdan, Fred
    Kirkland, Chris
    Spaggiari, C.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Scibiorski, E. and Tohver, E. and Jourdan, F. and Kirkland, C. and Spaggiari, C. 2016. Cooling and exhumation along the curved Albany-Fraser orogen, Western Australia. Lithosphere. 8 (5): pp. 551-563.
    Source Title
    Lithosphere
    DOI
    10.1130/L561.1
    ISSN
    1941-8264
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    Department of Applied Geology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3073
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    © 2016 Geological Society of America.The Albany-Fraser orogen of Western Australia exhibits a distinct 45° primary (preorogenic) curvature. Consequently, northwest-southeast compression during Mesoproterozoic orogeny was orthogonal to orogenic strike in the east of the orogen, but was oblique in the west. This produced different structural settings in the east and west of the orogen, with a greater component of dextral transpression in the west. We report new 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology from the east Albany-Fraser orogen, and compare these results to the cooling history of the west to examine how cooling varies between the differently striking domains of a curved orogen. The 40Ar/39Ar analyses of hornblende, muscovite, and biotite grains encompass a range of metaigneous and metasedimentary lithologies from two lithotectonic domains. The eastern Biranup Zone yields five hornblende cooling ages at ca. 1190 Ma and seven muscovite and biotite cooling ages between ca. 1171 and 1158 Ma. Hornblende and biotite in the southwestern Fraser Zone record cooling between ca. 1217 and 1205 Ma, and the central Fraser Zone reached 40Ar/39Ar biotite closure temperature at ca. 1157 Ma. Slow 8.2-9.5 °C/m.y. cooling in the eastern Biranup Zone commenced 20 m.y. earlier than 22-33 °C/m.y. cooling in the west Albany-Fraser orogen. The differences in cooling rate are a result of the different structural settings in the east and west. However, similar mica 40Ar/39Ar cooling ages in the east and west record a convergence in cooling history. This suggests that exhumation had become increasingly decoupled from compressional tectonics, instead driven by more passive processes related to isostatic rebound and erosion.

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