Reconstructing deep‐time histories from integrated thermochronology: An example from southern Baffin Island, Canada

We present a multi‐chronometric approach for reconstructing deep‐time thermal histories using southern Baffin Island as a case study. This continuous thermal history begins with the Palaeoproterozoic Trans‐Hudson Orogeny and is derived from inverse and forward models that integrate thermochronometer...

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Veröffentlicht in:Terra nova (Oxford, England) England), 2019-06, Vol.31 (3), p.189-204
Hauptverfasser: McDannell, Kalin T., Schneider, David A., Zeitler, Peter K., O'Sullivan, Paul B., Issler, Dale R.
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Zusammenfassung:We present a multi‐chronometric approach for reconstructing deep‐time thermal histories using southern Baffin Island as a case study. This continuous thermal history begins with the Palaeoproterozoic Trans‐Hudson Orogeny and is derived from inverse and forward models that integrate thermochronometers spanning some 500°C: new apatite U–Pb ages and K‐feldspar 40Ar/39Ar multi‐diffusion domain data, published (U–Th)/He zircon ages and new multi‐kinetic fission‐track results. Integration of data from a wider temperature range reduces ambiguities in thermal‐history modelling and permits us to constrain the timing of geological processes including, extended post‐orogenic cooling, enhanced later Proterozoic cooling, and then episodic burial and exhumation in the Palaeozoic–Mesozoic.
ISSN:0954-4879
1365-3121
DOI:10.1111/ter.12386