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    Arc–continent collision and the formation of continental crust : a new geochemical and isotopic record from the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Ireland

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    2008-06-23
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    Draut, Amy E.  Concept link
    Clift, Peter D.  Concept link
    Amato, Jeffrey M.  Concept link
    Blusztajn, Jerzy S.  Concept link
    Schouten, Hans A.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2831
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    https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492008-102
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     Subduction; Continental crust; Arc-continent collision; Caledonides, Ireland 
    Abstract
    Collisions between oceanic island-arc terranes and passive continental margins are thought to have been important in the formation of continental crust throughout much of Earth’s history. Magmatic evolution during this stage of the plate-tectonic cycle is evident in several areas of the Ordovician Grampian-Taconic Orogen, as we demonstrate in the first detailed geochemical study of the Tyrone Igneous Complex, Ireland. New U–Pb zircon dating yields ages of 493 ± 2 Ma from a primitive mafic intrusion, indicating intra-oceanic subduction in Tremadoc time, and 475 ± 10 Ma from a light-rare-earth-element (LREE)-enriched tonalite intrusion that incorporated Laurentian continental material by early Arenig time (Early Ordovician, Stage 2) during arc-continent collision. Notably, LREE enrichment in volcanism and silicic intrusions of the Tyrone Igneous Complex exceeds that of average Dalradian (Laurentian) continental material which would have been thrust under the colliding forearc and potentially recycled into arc magmatism. This implies that crystal fractionation, in addition to magmatic mixing and assimilation, was important to the formation of new crust in the Grampian-Taconic Orogeny. Because similar super-enrichment of orogenic melts occurred elsewhere in the Caledonides in the British Isles and Newfoundland, the addition of new, highly enriched melt to this accreted arc terrane was apparently widespread spatially and temporally. Such super-enrichment of magmatism, especially if accompanied by loss of corresponding lower crustal residues, supports the theory that arc-continent collision plays an important role in altering bulk crustal composition toward typical values for ancient continental crust.
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    Author Posting. © Geological Society of London, 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Geological Society of London for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of the Geological Society 166 (2009): 485-500, doi:10.1144/0016-76492008-102.
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    Preprint: Draut, Amy E., Clift, Peter D., Amato, Jeffrey M., Blusztajn, Jerzy S., Schouten, Hans A., "Arc–continent collision and the formation of continental crust : a new geochemical and isotopic record from the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Ireland", 2008-06-23, https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492008-102, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2831
     

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