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    1.6 Ga crustal thickening along the final Nuna suture

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    Authors
    Pourteau, Amaury
    Smit, M.
    Li, Zheng-Xiang
    Collins, W.
    Nordsvan, A.
    Volante, S.
    Li, J.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Pourteau, A. and Smit, M. and Li, Z. and Collins, W. and Nordsvan, A. and Volante, S. and Li, J. 2018. 1.6 Ga crustal thickening along the final Nuna suture. Geology. 46 (11): pp. 959-962.
    Source Title
    Geology
    DOI
    10.1130/G45198.1
    ISSN
    0091-7613
    School
    School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS)
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FL150100133
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73148
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2018 Geological Society of America. The precise timing and nature of the final assembly of the supercontinent Nuna, marked by the collision of proto-Australia and Laurentia (North America) between 1.65 and 1.50 Ga, has remained elusive. The final Nuna suture has been speculated to be concealed in northeastern Australia, but univocal evidence for crustal thickening across the suture zone has been critically lacking. Here we report new garnet petrological and geochronological results of samples from both sides of the inferred suture. The precise garnet Lu-Hf dates show uniformly synchronous prograde metamorphism between 1606 Ma and 1598 Ma, representing crustal thickening in the Georgetown Inlier and simultaneous basin inversion in the Mount Isa Inlier. Broad-scale orogenesis is further supported by the asymmetrical bivergent thrust wedge imaged by deep seismic reflection in the northeastern Australia continental crust. The precisely dated collision-related processes in northeastern Australia correlate with 1.61-1.59 Ga orogenesis recorded within South Australia and North America, suggesting a large-scale collision of Laurentia with Australia-East Antarctica, and pinpointing the final assembly of the supercontinent Nuna.

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