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Autochthonous inheritance of zircon through Cretaceous partial melting of Carboniferous plutons: the Arthur River Complex, Fiordland, New Zealand

Date

Authors

Tulloch, Andrew

Kimbrough, David L

Griffin, William Lindsay

Ramezani, Jahandar

Ireland, Trevor

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

TIMS and SHRIMP U-Pb analyses of zircons from Milford Orthogneiss metadiorite (P = 1-1.4 GPa; T ≥ 750°C) of the Arthur River Complex of northern Fiordland reveal a bimodal age pattern. Zircons are predominantly either Paleozoic (357.0 ± 4.2 Ma) and pr

Keywords

Keywords: autochthon; Carboniferous; Cretaceous; crystallization; diorite; emplacement; felsic rock; gabbro; geochronology; orthogneiss; Paleozoic; partial melting; pluton; protolith; resetting; SHRIMP dating; uranium-lead dating; zircon; Fiordland; New Zealand; So Fiordland; Gabbro-diorite; Inheritance; Partial melting; Resetting; U-Pb geochronology

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61098

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s00410-010-0539-6

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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