Uranium‐lead zircon ages from the Median Tectonic Zone, New Zealand
Uranium‐lead zircon ages from the Median Tectonic Zone, New Zealand
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新西兰中位构造带的铀铅锆石年龄
DOI:
10.1080/00288306.1994.9514630
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发表时间:
1994
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
J. Mattinson
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作者:
D. Kimbrough;A. Tulloch;D. Coombs;C. Landis;M. Johnston;J. Mattinson
Abstract The Median Tectonic Zone (MTZ) of New Zealand is a generally north trending belt of Mesozoic subduction‐related I‐type plutonic, volcanic, and sedimentary rocks in South Island and Stewart Island that separates Permian strata of the Eastern Province Brook Street Terrane from lower to mid‐Paleozoic Gondwana margin assemblages of the Western Province. High‐precision isotope dilution U/Pb ages of zircons from 30 rocks are reported. Pre‐digestion leaching of zircon in hydrofluoric acid yielded significantly more concordant residues by removing common Pb and dissolving more soluble high‐U domains that have been more affected by relatively recent Pb loss. The results show that MTZ magmatism ranges in age from at least Early Triassic to Early Cretaceous (247–131 Ma), with a pronounced gap in the Middle Jurassic. Triassic plutons tend to occur on the eastern side of the MTZ, and they intrude volcanic/sedimentary sequences of the MTZ in Nelson and eastern Fiordland. These sequences are in turn intruded by...