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Provenance and post-depositional low-temperature evolution of the James Ross Basin sedimentary rocks (Antarctic Peninsula) based on fission track analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Martin Svojtka ,
Daniel Nývlt ,
Masaki Murakami ,
Jitka Vávrová ,
Jiří Filip  and
Petr Mixa
Martin Svojtka*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Rozvojová 269, 16500 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Daniel Nývlt
Affiliation:
Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, 118 21 Praha, Czech Republic
Masaki Murakami
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Rozvojová 269, 16500 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Jitka Vávrová
Affiliation:
Institute of Geochemistry, Charles University, Albertov 6, 12843 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Jiří Filip
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Rozvojová 269, 16500 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Petr Mixa
Affiliation:
Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, 118 21 Praha, Czech Republic
*
svojtka@gli.cas.cz
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Abstract

Zircon and apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology was applied to the James Ross Basin sedimentary rocks from James Ross and Seymour islands. The probable sources of these sediments were generated in Carboniferous to Early Paleogene times (∼315 to 60 Ma). The total depths of individual James Ross Basin formations are discussed. The AFT data were modelled, and the thermal history model was reconstructed for samples from Seymour Island. The first stage after a period of total thermal annealing (when the samples were above 120°C) involved Late Triassic cooling (∼230 to 200 Ma) and is followed by a period of steady cooling through the whole apatite partial annealing zone (PAZ, 60–120°C) to minimum temperature in Paleocene/Early Eocene. The next stage was the maximum burial of sedimentary rocks in the Eocene (∼35 Ma, 1.1–1.8 km) and the final cooling and uplift of Seymour Island sedimentary rocks at ∼35 to 20 Ma.

Keywords

James Ross IslandSeymour IslandCretaceous–Palaeogene successionfission track datingzirconapatite
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Earth Sciences
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Antarctic Science , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 2009 , pp. 593 - 607
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Copyright © Antarctic Science Ltd 2009

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