The Eisenhower Range, Transantarctic Mountains: Evaluation of qualitative interpretation concepts of thermochronological data
The Eisenhower Range, Transantarctic Mountains: Evaluation of qualitative interpretation concepts of thermochronological data
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艾森豪威尔山脉、横贯南极山脉:热年代学数据定性解释概念的评估
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10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.005
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2013
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3.9
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Spiegel
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作者:
Prenzel;Lisker;Balestrieri;Läufer;Spiegel
The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) were one of the first regions where apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology was applied routinely to study exhumation processes and long term landscape evolution. Pioneering publications from the region introduced or refined interpretation concepts of thermochronological data such as thebreak in slopein vertical age profiles as qualitative marker for the onset of accelerated rock cooling.New AFT data were compiled from vertical profiles in the Eisenhower Range, northern TAM, and compared with published data. Samples originally examined by the population technique were re-analyzed via the external detector technique. AFT ages increase from 32 ± 2 Ma at an elevation of 220 m to 175 ± 14 Ma at 2380 m. Geological evidence and thermal history modeling of the AFT data require Jurassic to Late Eocene reheating of the samples and an onset of cooling at ~ 35–30 Ma. This requires the deposition of an ~ 3 to 3.5 km thick sedimentary sequence on the granitic basement subsequent to Jurassic Ferrar magmatism at ~ 180 Ma. The regression of paleotemperatures against sample altitudes infers a high Jurassic geothermal gradient of ~ 60 °C/km related to rifting processes and Ferrar magmatism, and a moderate Cretaceous/Eocene geothermal gradient of ~ 30 °C/km.Comparison of ages generated with population and external detector technique shows the importance of determining single-grain ages for each sample, even from granitic rocks of the same intrusion, and thus strongly supports previous cases made for the determination of annealing kinetics and grain-age evaluation. Age comparison additionally illustrates that samples above abreak in sloperecord larger deviations between population and external detector ages than samples below abreak in slope.We demonstrate that the position and shape of abreak in sloperesult from various factors, such as the thermal history prior to final cooling, maximum paleotemperatures, cooling rate, and geothermal gradient. Abreak in slopedoes not straightly date the onset of final cooling and cannot substitute thermal history modeling. Therefore, earlier studies from the TAM and similar settings elsewhere need to be validated by combining thermal history modeling of thermochronological data and supplementary geological information.
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