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dc.contributor.authorDownes, P.
dc.contributor.authorDunkley, D.
dc.contributor.authorFletcher, I.
dc.contributor.authorMcNaughton, Neal
dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, B.
dc.contributor.authorJaques, A.
dc.contributor.authorVerrall, M.
dc.contributor.authorSweetapple, M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:26:30Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:26:30Z
dc.date.created2016-01-19T20:00:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationDownes, P. and Dunkley, D. and Fletcher, I. and McNaughton, N. and Rasmussen, B. and Jaques, A. and Verrall, M. et al. 2016. Zirconolite, zircon and monazite-(Ce) U-Th-Pb age constraints on the emplacement, deformation and alteration history of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, Halls Creek Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology. 110 (2): pp. 199-222.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38831
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00710-015-0418-y
dc.description.abstract

In situ SHRIMP U-Pb dating of zirconolite in clinopyroxenite from the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, situated in the southern Halls Creek Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia, has provided a reliable 207Pb/206Pb age of emplacement of 1009 ± 16 Ma. Variably metamict and recrystallised zircons from co-magmatic carbonatites, including a megacryst ~1.5 cm long, gave a range of ages from ~1043–998 Ma, reflecting partial isotopic resetting during post-emplacement deformation and alteration. Monazite-(Ce) in a strongly foliated dolomite carbonatite produced U-Th-Pb dates ranging from ~900–590 Ma. Although the monazite-(Ce) data cannot give any definitive ages, they clearly reflect a long history of hydrothermal alteration/recrystallisation, over at least 300 million years. This is consistent with the apparent resetting of the Rb-Sr and K-Ar isotopic systems by a post-emplacement thermal event at ~900 Ma during the intracratonic Yampi Orogeny. The emplacement of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex probably resulted from the reactivation of a deep crustal structure within the Halls Creek Orogen during the amalgamation of Proterozoic Australia with Rodinia over the period ~1000–950 Ma. This may have allowed an alkaline carbonated silicate magma that was parental to the Cummins Range carbonatites, and generated by redox and/or decompression partial melting of the asthenospheric mantle, to ascend from the base of the continental lithosphere along the lithospheric discontinuity constituted by the southern edge of the Halls Creek Orogen. There is no evidence of a link between the emplacement of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex and mafic large igneous province magmatism indicative of mantle plume activity. Rather, patterns of Proterozoic alkaline magmatism in the Kimberley Craton may have been controlled by changing plate motions during the Nuna–Rodinia supercontinent cycles (~1200–800 Ma).

dc.titleZirconolite, zircon and monazite-(Ce) U-Th-Pb age constraints on the emplacement, deformation and alteration history of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, Halls Creek Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage24
dcterms.source.issn0930-0708
dcterms.source.titleMineralogy and Petrology
curtin.departmentJohn de Laeter CoE in Mass Spectrometry
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