The detrital zircon record of an Archaean convergent basin in the Southern São Francisco Craton, Brazil.
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2015
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Detrital zircon ages are an importanttoolto study the provenance and evolution of sedimentary rocks, and
currently there is a general lack of such studies in greenstone belt basins. In this paper, we combine field
observations and in situ U–Pb/Lu–Hf detrital zircon analyses to constrain the evolution of a large, ancient
convergent basin in SE Brazil. The Maquiné Group (the uppermost clastic sequence of the Rio das Velhas
Greenstone Belt) was deposited during a fundamental shift in the evolution of the southern São Francisco
Craton that ended with closure ofthe greenstone belt basin and the stabilization ofthe continental crust at
ca. 2730–2700 Ma.We show that detritus accumulated in the Maquiné basin derived from uplifted nearby
source rocks and that sedimentation was marked by drastic upward lithological changes (from flysch to
molasse-type sedimentation). The restricted distributary provenance (marked by a strong uni-modal age
spectra at 2770–2780 Ma) requires that sedimentation was concomitant with exhumation of a proximal
2770–2780 Ma TTG magmatic arc. The entire detrital zircon spectra show that maximum deposition ages
are very close to the timing of deposition, and confirm that deposition occurred during or immediately
after tectonic convergence. Variations in Hf(t) values support the idea that the Archaean crystalline
crust of the craton was built by crust–mantle mixing processes with a successive decrease of values in
zircons crystallized after 3100 Ma. In a regional context, our dataset supports previous interpretations
of a long-lived evolution of the southern São Francisco Craton comprising a succession of magmatic arcs
and Archaean convergent basins.
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Rio das Velhas, Maquiné Group, Detrital zircons, Greenstone belt, Convergent basin
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MOREIRA, H. S; LANA, C. de C. ; NALINI Jr, H. A. The detrital zircon record of an Archaean convergent basin in the Southern São Francisco Craton, Brazil. Precambrian Research, v. 275, p. 84-99, 2016. Disponível em: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926815004003>. Acesso em: 11 jul. 2016.